Set for release on July 8th, 2014, Sentai Filmworks has reveled the updated cover artwork for one of the more controversial series of 2013 with Flowers of Evil. The series is getting a DVD and Blu-ray release for the thirteen episode run but it will be in Japanese language with English subtitles only. The cover art is very different from what the originally solicited pieces were, which you can see below. The Blu-ray is priced at $59.98 while the DVD is priced at $49.98 for the entire season.
Plot concept: Darkness lurks everywhere, in every human heart, and sometimes it takes just a second of weakness for it to take root. For Takao Kasuga, that germination begins when his obsession with his beautiful classmate Nanako meets the opportunity to “borrow” her used gym clothes. Unfortunately, his loathsome act of laundry theft is witnessed by Nakamura, the strange girl who sits behind him in class. Soon, Nakamura’s own dark obsessions begin to hook their twisted tendrils into Takao’s miserable existence. Blackmailed into a “contract” under the threat of having his guilt revealed to his entire class, the former bookworm who could spend hours reading Beaudelaire’s “The Flowers of Evil” now finds himself entwined in Nakamura’s growing fantasies as she leads him down the garden path to damnation. As their blossoming relationship becomes ever darker, even the seemingly innocent Nanako is pulled into the nightmare. Just what are Nakumura’s ultimate plans, and will the increasingly trapped Takao really be willing to carry them out? What you sow, you must ultimately reap, and there’s certain to be a harrowing harvest ahead in FLOWERS OF EVIL!
The original artwork:
