The Flowers of Evil (2026)

The story is set in Hikari City, Gunma Prefecture. Surrounded by mountains, second-year middle school student Kasuga Takao lives each day feeling a deep sense of suffocation and stagnation. What saves his heart is Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil). One evening, when Kasuga returns to his classroom to retrieve something he forgot, he finds the gym unifor…