On August 9, it was revealed in the September issue of Bessatsu Shonen Magazine that Oshimi Shuzo�s unique manga �Aku no Hana�, which was nominated for the �Manga Taishou 2012�, will be adapted into an anime in 2013.

Director Nagahama Hiroshi, who directed the anime adaptations of �Mushishi� and �Detroit Metal City�, will direct the anime. Details are expected to follow in later issues of the magazine.

�Aku no Hana� began as a serial manga in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 2009, and volumes 1 � 6 of the comic have collectively sold 800,000 copies. The manga revolves around a boy, Kasuka Takao, who is caught stealing the gym clothes of a girl he likes by Nakamura Sawa, a girl disliked by everyone. In exchange for her silence, he enters into a �contract� and takes on unreasonable demands that cannot be understood through common sense. Initially, Takao thinks the contract is agonizing, but he begins to develop different feelings.

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