Side Quest 003: {Aku no Hana 05} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Truth. That is the keyword for episode 10 of Aku no Hana

I surprisingly enjoyed this episode, it showed a lot of emotion yet confusion on what goes on on his mind. But a truth has been told and we have some clarity to what goes into his mind and some clue to why he acts the way he does in the previous episodes.

Nothing really bad in this episode, nothing was dragged out like some other episodes.. It was actually really interesting progress.

Side Quest 003: {Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

I just finished watching this anime, I just couldn't stop watching it, I even gave up sleep just to watch it (I like to watch anime late at night, especially if it's a dark theme).

But I should tell you what the anime is about. To be honest, it's quite difficult to explain without spoiling the anime, even the description, so I'll just explain from what you'll learn from the Anime.

This isn't some badass Anime where assassins just kill everything (this is a Seinen Anime not a typical shounen), it has deeper meaning, I guess it's rediscovery of oneself. Rediscovery? Yes, the main character loses his memories of the past and is turned to an assassin.

But in this Anime, the main character not only attempts to rediscover himself, but also we learn in a surprisingly realistic way of what the life of a assassin would look like. Not only that, but due to many various events, you could expect anything to happen.

This Anime made me feel a whole bunch of emotions, happy, sad, angry, confused. I guess this is why I like Seinen Anime, they have more mature stories which creates many emotions, and is not bounded by typical Anime norms.

Recommendation

This Anime reminded me a lot of Gungrave and Darker than Black, and are similar in many ways. Although it is unique to other Anime of this type.

Ideas and Inspiration

This is another Anime which I could reference to for a deeper meaningful story and of one way of how assassins come to be. I also haven't seen many games that showed how the learnt how to use a gun, and they're just simply born with it. Also since I'm planning on having masked people in a future game I'm planning it helps a lot more.

I give it a personal bias 10/10, the Anime itself I probably give it a 9/10 due to some unexplained stuff.

Side Quest 003: {Aku no Hana 01} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Aku no Hana

A strange anime with a different from usual art style.

Where do I start.. probably on what most people would hate about the anime - the art style of the animation.
Why would people hate this Anime's art style? Well it is a more realistic style of art where they main characters are based on real people with realistic resemblance and detail, including freckles. The animation is also very realistic in regards to facial expressions and body expressions.

The reason I believe they chose to use this art style was to enhance the feeling of how realistically possible that the situations shown in the Anime.

The theme of the Anime is a dark, depressing and psychological.

The Anime as of yet has no unrealistic scenes and I believe it will not.

The Anime's name translated to English is apparently: Flowers of Evil

Now you might have an idea on how it visually seems to be, but let me attempt to explain the story in a non spoiler fashion.

The story is of a male student in a school who reads a book about sins and evil etc. But it's somewhat poetic or something. One day he gets into a situation where he impulsively does something which happens to change his school life. Another female student witnessed this act of impulsiveness and takes advantage of the situation. Simply put, she's the one who makes it psychological.

From the first few episodes, I personally found this Anime quite weird, yet I'm curious on what is going to happen next, despite how weird it is.

If this Anime's art style was created in the typical way, it would not have felt as psychological as it is and the story might of seemed stupid.
Also the OST of this anime is very eerie. Especially that ED...

What Ideas could you or I get from this Anime?

Well since this Anime is very different from most Anime, we could learn how simple mistakes or events could be shown in such a serious way that it turns from stupid to psychological.

In short, ideas might bloom from this flower for a Horror/Psychological Game