One of the top ten manga in Japan today comes to the US. From the editors of Love Hina and Negima Neo, comes a new age romance comedy of rural teens and classic french poetry. Recognized as one of the most engaging series in the world of shonen manga (stories with male protagonists), Flowers of Evil shuns the genre's otherworldly conventions to telldown-to-earth stories of the trials of young people as they stumble into love and sometimes back out again. This new-style romance comedy of rural teens centers onthelonely, bookishTakao'ssearchfor his own identity, under the influence ofCharles Baudelaire's poetry classic Lesfleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil). Bound by emotion and circumstance tothe beautiful Nanako, the girl he desires,and the scheming Nakamura, the girl whose torments put him on the path to adulthood, Takao is also challenged tosettle his differences with his parents.Flowers of Evil creator Shuzo Oshimi was recognized as one of the most gifted of the young generation of manga artists, and in 2001 received the Tetsuya Chiba award.