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Books like those? Here I am talking about the manga, not the Baudelaire’s collection

>> No.13431650

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

>> No.13431655

>>13431565
Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire

>> No.13431892

bump for interest

>> No.13432025

>>13431565
>>13431655
Is there a copy of Baudelaire's poems that have a cover like the one used in the manga?

>> No.13432043

>>13431565
Definitely my favorite manga. I won't get into it here but I feel like the ending betrayed the manga's early narrative and themes.

>> No.13432071

>>13432025
If you want to see many different cover I'd try searching for it on Abebooks and see what comes up. Make sure to try both the English and French titles.

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>>13432043
It is a betrayal only if you are an irredeemable hikki who would rather have the characters die than face the horror and uncomfortable thoughts about adapting to life, reforming yourself as a person and rejoining society. I didn't like the ending either, but I do think it is the best ending there could have been. Some people move on, others are incapable of relating to others or cling to the past and fumble around alone in the dark waiting for death.
I don't think it would have had the same impact if it had ended at pic related and I honestly see no other reasonable alternative.

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>>13432358
I don't want to argue it here but what i believed should have happened was that Kasuga should have continued to chase after Nakamura after reuniting, continuing on the themes a of stagnation and deterioration as Aku No Hana was essentially a reverse teen angst story where instead of personal growth and growing together, the main characters devolved and became further isolated. Kasuga and Nakamura where too flawed to be given a happy ending or even a tragic one like suicide. Instead they would be doomed for bitter sweet misery together.