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AWESOME! :D I'm midway to hell >3>......still got about a week or two til hell break loose >:U

Man~ :P Seems like you're really busy ain't cha :D

It's just a weird ass funny for no reason emoticons that i came up with that's all :P

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I used to be very active on this anime website called Crunchyroll and back then it was quite a common thing for people to come up with all sort of emoticons just for the heck of it :X It's really just for the sake of cuteness really :P

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Well.......*cough cough*.....there is over 1 billion of us (chinese) and if u include taiwanese and other mini part of asian countries...welll i guess that amounted to a big group of them ;x

:P I was joking too~ I always go with the flow owo

Though one thing that i should clear up the misunderstanding about- Chinese also have many different types of language such as Mandarin (which is commonly refer to as chinese as it is the national language of China) and there's cantonese (commonly spoken by Hong Kongnese, Guandong and in other part of asia) in additional to a few more. So i speak mandarin and cantonese. You can say, chinese is the generalization of the languages that are used in china. It's not just a matter of regional dialect since all the words/characters in Chinese are pronounced differently in each language even though it is written exactly the same way and even the grammar. OwO

Lmfao! Creepy? Now that's probably the first time i ever heard of people saying chinese is creepy. Well, it's my mother's tongue so i already gotten the hang of it. Though, i actually know and understand more about english than chinese mainly because i moved to Australia when i was really young. So obviously during that time when i arrived in Australia, i was capable of thinking for myself (meaning old enough to understand things, around 10-12) thus i became more accustomed to english quite quickly and easily on an advance level than what i have learnt about chinese when i was in primary school (very basic level). As a result, my english level is more superior than my chiense. owo

LOL That compliment is too much :P I'm still pretty noob in terms of conveying my thoughts and opinions really. I actually have very hard time trying to explain my thoughts on Aku no Hana since it's so complex T_T It's like one of those story that can appeared very differently depending on the individual's perspective. If you actually read some of the reviews of Aku no Hana on MAL, i was kind of shocked to see how they see things in a very negatively as opposed to what i think of the story as a whole. They pointed out the flaws in the story which i could understand where they're coming from but at the same time i just can't help but wandering that you can't judge the series like you normally would to other ones since Aku no Hana is rather poetic on a literature level. You know how poems doesn't make sense most of the time, right? Yeah, well i thought Aku no Hana was a perfect example of those kind of story. It sounded stupid or even weird on the surface but maybe it contains some underlying value or message if we tried to look at it more from a different perspective and deep into it. Though, I won't deny that Aku no Hana is not flawless. Some people have pointed out that the pacing of the anime was pretty slow and bad since not much is happening and the character's actions was rather illogical and unrelatable half of the time. (LOL that's why i dun give a damn about pacing, look at all those people complaining about slow plot progression in Snk, lmfao) D:< Henceforth, the reason why i think sometime there are series that you can't judge in the same way especially one that is of a very poetic level. :X

I actually read too many manga where the anime adaptions was just shit or not to the standard. Examples are Code Breaker, Skip Beat, Vampire Knight, Negima, etc. I probably had more but i can't remember all of them at once. As far as i recalled, none of the manga to anime adaptions were impressive. Code breaker was such a train wreck. ;U I love the manga but how could they make that into shit OTL

Another similarities there! :D English is my third language too! My prime is actually cantonese and chinese :P

Aku no hana isn't a bad series at all though i must admit the art style of the anime really throws off people but i can understand why the director did it this way. It's a pretty artistic way of depicting the series and it reflected on the ugliness of the world they live in. If the anime follow the manga's artstyle, it probably wouldn't leave any impression on anyone at all and the story wouldn't be able to convey the same feelings/atmosphere that the author wants us to feel. In this sense, it kinda does makes me think that it's a literature because poems uses such simple language yet convey a very important and interesting message O_0 This story feel very poetic with all the flowers of evil.

I read the manga before the anime even came out and it was a weird-read for me at first but i found it extremely entertaining even though all the characters in the story was a nut-case. In the sense of art, it's your below average art that you see back in the early 2000s and late 1990s and it wasn't really unique or good either so i didn't mind it that much when they did rotoscoping in the anime. However, it's not a series for everyone and i can understand why. Most people read manga/anime because it's fictional and they can imagine as the main character within the story doing cool thing being an idealistic hero. *I actually talked to a few people in the past that reading is like escapism for people and to live/relate to the character within the imaginary world of the story.

However, story like Aku no hana doesn't do quite well for them since it's pretty dark and the characters aren't exactly likable which i'm sure it was intentional. The way the author depict the world that the characters live in is pretty either- it's dull, it's ugly, it's boring which is like the world that we all live in and i thought the anime reflect that pretty well. Not to mention, it also reflect on the way in which the character view the world. The protagonist Takao may seem like your average weak-willed character both emotionally and mentally (almost like shinji ikari from EVA) but he has some depth as a character that is almost relatable to some people in the real world.

Aku no Hana is almost like a coming-of-age ceremony kind of story- you can see Takao's struggle and growth as the series progresses. Except what makes this differ from other kind of story is that it wasn't depicted in a pretty way, quite dark and dull actually. What started this whole story of Aku no Hana is due to Takao's sudden impulse for his desire for Saki and stole her gym clothes whom he have a crush on and regarded as a muse. Takao worshiped like she was a goddess (she's untouchable, she's pure, she's kind etc) and such a person was out of his league since he whole-heartedly believe a person like himself could never approach her and taint her pureness. However, he couldn't control his impulse and could only express his affections secretly by stealing her gym clothing. It sounds perverted indeed but i can understand why it happened o_o! Even after that, he felt very guilty and regret deeply what he has done. Perhaps, it was from that moment on, the flower of evil seeds begin to sprout. o_o

Unfortunately, that action alone causes his downfall as he was seen by the crazy and a bit psychopathic Nakamura-san. Talk about bad luck! o_O The series then took a very weird turn and we as the audience was being exposed by the perverted things that Nakamura forced Takao to do. She seemed like she was a sadist and a really psychopathic pervert. Of course, that was what we thought of her until we see that what Nakamura really wants is to expose Takao and show his bare self (his wall/his skin) in which Nakamura regarded him as a 'deviant'. I thought this sort of development was pretty intriguing and i begin to understand a little about Nakamura as the story slowly progresses. Initially, she was depicted a psychopathic and sadist girl but what she really wants is to see the true self of other people without faking any mask and persona that people put on. I'm sure you probably know this and we see that she was fed up with seeing people faking themselves (people acting nice, nice words but empty feelings, etc) which i thought it reflected on our society pretty well. Everyone in this world fake themselves in one way or another in order to lead a much easier lifestyle or to get what they want.

As the story progresses, Takao' seed of flowers of evil seems to be growing larger and larger and possibly began to occupy by the way he he thinks and act in which i am assuming that every time Takao takes down a wall that he shielded himself from, his sin would becomes bigger as a result before it begins to bloom. Pretty poetic i thought. I have never read the poem "The flower of evil" but i making an assumptions that the story provides lot of references to it and in some way another has a connection with that it was said in there. What i found really interesting is that despite Takao being your average weak character, he actually looks down on everyone around him in which he partially admitted in the story that he read the book The flower of evil because it makes him seem different and special from the rest of the people in town. Takao never actually understand what the message in the book was but he was really intrigued by it for some odd reason.

He spoke of the world (the town) being dull and boring and it's rusting away which i thought perhaps he felt like he was caged. To escape from this unwanted reality, he indulges himself into reading and became awfully obsessed with Aku no Hana. Perhaps he wanted to feel special and build his worth when he's probably just like any other people in his age but he looks down on them. But it maybe because there was never truly a person who understand Takao even though he has friends and perhaps he felt like he was alone. He wasn't like how other people in the town were and he doesn't seem to like the way they lead their life and he wasn't satisfied with living like that either. However, when strange psychopathic Nakamura entered his life- he began to change but whether he changes for the better or worst is hard to determine. It wasn't exactly something that can be seen as just black and white and i feel they don't exactly think of the world this way either. For them, the world is just dull, not exactly beautiful and it wasn't hell.

Perhaps, it was one of the reason why they don't seem to view their actions as being bad or good. Even though Takao probably knew he shouldn't be doing it, he still do them because of Nakamura. Nakamura was also alone all the time because she's so introverted- she doesn't have friends, she doesn't exactly have a loving relationship with her family and to make it worst, she deliberately excluded herself from the other people which probably because she think they don't worth her time. Nothing seemed interesting to her and being alive or dead probably won't make much of a difference to her which would probably explain how she could feel so comfortable and unnerved when performing all sorts of criminal acts. It's probably because of this, Takao couldn't leave her alone even after Nakamura said she'll break off the contract. Perhaps he felt like Nakamura was just like him (they felt like they were connected, etc) who viewed the world in the same way and are always alone. (Kind of like the feeling you got when you see another person who felt the way you do or in the same situation, you can't help but feel like being on their side) No one other than themselves can understand them better than anyone. I thought it was really interesting, I meant i never seen people being depicted in such psychopathic way before. :P

It's a complex topic and story in my opinion. The characters are somewhat a bit hard and complicated to put into words but at the same time i can somewhat relate to them even though their actions really do surprise me a whole dead. This series certainly do have more things going on in them than what it seemed above the surface. I probably would even enjoy it even more or even understand the depth of the series even more if i understand the poem itself. But literature aren't exactly my forte and i can't understand classics that well either :U But Aku no Hana i's really intriguing to me because dark and twisted series appeals to me the most. I'm a weird person. I like all sort of genre, so i can almost read anything without thinking "This isn't my cup of tea" so it's a great thing for me xD

Totally agree with yah! :) Sometime it's pretty funny and entertaining to see people acting like an idiot~! Ahaha whenever i am on the internet, i like my role as the bystander and watching everything goes on XD Especially in a flame war, i just found myself enjoying the hater and the fan at times. That's the reason why i decided to come back to MAL! I hadn't been into any anime for 2 years now but when i heard Shingeki no Kyojin was going to have an anime i just couldn't resist wondering how they will adapted. (Mind you, i totally expect it to be shit :P ) But the anime blew off my doubts and expectations that i had so from then on i became invested into the anime. Not long afterward, i begin to wander about what other people think of the series so then i stumbled upon MAL and read through the forums just for the heck of it (I guess it's coz i was wandering whether there was any interesting topic that might be going on) :) I still remember during the time that Snk was prettttyyyyy high at episode 5, it was really funny to see people's reaction and the haters wanted the score to drop but ended up crying in tears because it just keep on rising X'D (I'm going to admit it, it's my guilty pleasure to read the hater's comment about the series). I guess what makes it even more fun is the fact i actually read the manga so it was really funny for me to see other people who doesn't know about it and react so dramatically :) Remember episode 5 when eren got chomped? I knew what was coming and it still came to me as a shock because of the way the director executed. But I wasn't as stunned and as shocked as other people were XD It was from that moment on, i became obsessed with finding reaction videos and watching reviews from people. I actually got to thank Snk for it. If it wasn't because of it, i wouldn't have know reading reviews and joining in discussion isn't all so bad sometime :) Before all of this happened, i never gave a shit about reviews or the critics because i was watching for my whole enjoyment and nothing else. I was really passionately about anime/manga still then but I rarely had any discussion about it with anyone seriously because there are just not much people who have the time nor the effort to do so. :x

Ahaha LOL XD Is it funny to say that I also think the same way? I am not a native english speaker either :) Thanxx to you i think my english is improving slowly :P You see, i tend to have lot of typos and grammar error whenever i type too fast ;( So i really need to get a hang of getting my words across appropriately >.<

And wow wow wow! What do you know? You're probably the first person on MAL that i have spoken to for so long XD Sorry for giving u long paragraph to read :X