Shuzo Oshimi’s manga series The Flowers of Evil will spout a new adaptation next year with the release of a live-action drama for TV Tokyo and Disney+. The official X (formerly Twitter) officially launched today following a tease last week with the announcement of The Flowers of Evil live-action series and the first look (above) at the two leads. Fuku Suzuki, best known as Ziin in Kamen Rider Geats and as a performer on the children’s show Inai Inai Baa! , will play the male lead Takao Kasuga. Ano, who played Mem-cho in the live-action [Oshi no Ko] series and sang the seventh ending song “Chu, Tayosei” for Chainsaw Man , will play Sawa Nakamura. RELATED: Ano's Chainsaw Man Anime Episode 7 Ending Theme Surpasses 100 Million Streams The Flowers of Evil manga by Shuzo Oshimi was published in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine from September 2009 to May 2014. An anime adaptation was released in April 2013, followed by a live-action film in September 2019. Noboru Iguchi, who directed the film, is also directing the live-action drama series alongside Paul Young, with Keita Meguro and Shuho Takase writing the scripts. The series is set to premiere in April 2026 on TV Tokyo and stream on Disney+. Kodansha USA releases an English edition of the manga, describing the first volume as such: Takao Kasuga is a bookworm. And his favorite book right now is Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. While the young man may often be seen lost in thought as he rabidly consumes page after page, Takao is not much of a student. Actually when we are first introduced to the middle school teen, we find him sneaking some reading as he receives an F on a recent language exam. Nakagawa is known as the class bully. When she is not receiving zeros she is usually muttering profanities to those around her. While she doesn't care for books or their readers, she does have a thing for troublemakers. Takao may not be one, but having read over his shoulder a few times, she knows he is not very innocent. If anything he is bored and aware of it. Together, by chance, they shake up their entire rural community as Takao tries to break out of his shell in a random moment of passion and affection…not directed towards Nakamura. And contrary to Takao's predictions, the girl he was falling for, Nanako Saeki, responds by eventually accepting the bibliophile for who he is. Or at least, who she thinks he is. And therein lies the conflict. Takao is not a hero. He is not a troublemaker, either. He is a regular teen who through equal moments of cowardice and chivalry takes a long step towards adulthood as he desperately tries to cover up a dark secret. Takao Kusuga has stolen an item precious to someone he is attracted to, and if he doesn't form a "contract" with his new best friend, she is going to tell. Source: Comic Natalie
