The Flowers of Evil (2026) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
1
[Rising music playing]
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL - BAUDELAIRE
FOR ALL THE BOYS AND GIRLS
STRUGGLING THROUGH ADOLESCENCE
AND FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS WE ONCE WERE
[bird trilling]
[boy] Ah, dear Baudelaire
I am confined.
I am confined in this town
surrounded by mountains.
[indistinct chatter]
Empty alleyways.
[student 1] Let's go to the arcade.
[boy] Closed shutter doors.
[student 2] Did you catch GLAY's new song?
[boy] The boring route to school.
[student 3] Can I burn it onto my MD?
[boy] Why is all the metal
in this town rusted?
Why does this town
suffocate me so badly?
In the confinement of this town,
literature is the only thing
that teaches me anything real.
And my only source of hope?
That is
[laughter]
[Soft music playing]
an angel.
[coach] On your marks.
SAEKI
- [blows whistle]
- [girls] Go, go!
[boy] There's the angel,
spreading her wings to soar,
at this very moment.
Your smile is a ray of sun in the spring.
You run and a gentle breeze follows.
[sighs deeply]
[teacher] Saeki,
- 98 points!
- [students exclaiming]
[teacher] You did a great job.
Thank you very much.
[girl] That's amazing!
Best grade in multiple subjects?
You're in your own league, Nanako.
[chuckles] It's nothing special.
- See? Look at mine.
- Really?
[boy] You are special!
Your intelligence is
like a beautiful pearl
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
- Hey!
- Hey, stop!
52 points?
Come on, you gotta do better than that.
All that reading, for what? [Laughs]
What is this weird book anyway?
The Flowers of Evil!
It's Baudelaire!
As if you'd understand its excellence!
You're looking down on me, aren't you?
[teacher] Nakamura.
Nakamura!
Answer me. Respond! [Bangs table]
[Sawa] Yeah, I'm here.
Nakamura, you got
the worst grade in class.
Zero points.
Explain yourself.
Why did you leave all the answers blank?
Say something! [Bangs table]
Once you're in the real world,
you won't get
Shut up,
you shit bug.
[Dramatic rock music playing]
You are speaking to your teacher.
How dare you call me "shit bug"!
Come to the faculty room
after school. Understood?
All right.
Next Muraoka!
Come on. Hurry up!
[friend 1] Nakamura's insane!
Like, you don't know what she's thinking.
- [friend 2] She gives me the creeps.
- Right?
[boy] Honestly, it was a bit refreshing.
Seeing Shimoyama shaking and all.
Man, I'd never want to date
a girl like that.
- [chuckling] Agreed.
- What?
Why are you acting superior?
- No one would want to date you.
- [chuckling] Good point.
How dare you. You're no better than me!
What? No, that's not true!
I I read books!
You think you can understand literature?
Reading books doesn't
make you special or anything!
Besides, no one has even noticed!
Wait
I forgot my book.
I'm gonna go get it.
- Hey, are you running away?
- No!
- I really forgot it!
- [friend 1] Hey, you wimp!
[friend 2] He totally ran away.
I suppose
Saeki hasn't noticed
that I'm reading a book like this.
[clattering]
SAEKI
[gasps softly]
Her gym clothes
[breathing heavily]
[breath trembling]
[thumping sound]
[gulps]
[thumping stops]
Idiot! What am I thinking!
My feelings for Saeki are honorable.
They're pure.
I don't have any sinful thoughts
at all.
Not a bit.
There's no way.
I don't have any immoral desires.
I definitely
Definitely
Definitely
[bright music playing]
Kasuga.
[chuckles]
[thumping sound]
- [music ends]
- [sniffs deeply]
[breath trembling]
It smells like
shampoo
[clang]
- [gasps]
[gasping] It's not like that!
[pants, screams]
[breathing heavily]
- Takao?
- [gasps]
It's not like that!
What are you talking about?
Those books in your room!
You'd better clean them up!
[Takao gasping] No, no, no.
It was just a coincidence.
This was an unintentional accident.
[thumping sound]
Like The Flowers of Evil,
for real
[opening theme music playing]
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
EPISODE 1
[sniffles]
[bang on table]
Saeki's gym clothes were missing
when she got to school this morning.
[students murmuring]
Does anyone know anything about this?
It's a pervert! Right, guys? Right?
[teacher] If you know something,
make sure you come and tell me!
Understood?
[Takao] I am a sinner.
I want to go somewhere far away.
Somewhere far away.
But
In this confined town,
there's nowhere I can run to.
111.8 MILES TO THE SEA
Saeki
I'm sorry.
I will atone for this sin
for the rest of my life.
Even when I'm an old man.
[screams]
[Nakamura] What are you doing?
Huh?
[stuttering]
[chuckles weakly]
[Nakamura] By the way,
you're always reading a book, aren't you?
What?
How do you know that?
Because I sit behind you.
[Takao] Oh.
On top of that,
it's a weird book that nobody would know.
Why is that?
Well
I bet normal people
can't understand, but
Wait. What?
What?
Give me a ride.
To the other side of that mountain.
What?
But, well, I mean
[chuckling nervously] Why?
Why?
'Cause I want to go there.
What? Like
You know, I have to go now, so [gasps]
Huh?
Kasuga.
The thing is
I saw you.
I saw you
steal
Saeki's gym clothes.
[sniffs deeply]
It smells like
shampoo
What?
What?
If you don't want me to tell everyone,
you'd better get going.
[screaming]
He ran away.
YOUNG BOY TURNS TO CRIME
[reporter on TV] In recent years,
we've seen an increase
in heinous incidents by teenagers
LONELINESS
INNER DEMONS
as juvenile crimes intensify.
Why are boys with no record
of delinquency committing such of fences?
Takao.
What's wrong?
What? No, nothing.
I'll turn myself in.
Before Nakamura exposes me
I'll confess my sins
to Saeki herself.
All right, then, some announcements.
As I always say, you guys,
don't cause trouble.
[Takao] Baudelaire
[bells chiming]
bestow strength
upon me!
Sir.
What is it, Kasuga?
Saeki.
It's about your gym clothes.
I'm the one who took them.
I'm sorry!
Kasuga
You've told me the truth
Thank you.
[teacher clapping]
Kasuga
you're a true man of virtue.
All right, that's all.
[groans in frustration] It's impossible!
How could I turn myself in?
COME TO THE LIBRARY AFTER SCHOOL
DON'T RUN AWAY TODAY
LIBRARY
[Sawa] Why did you run away yesterday?
That must mean you don't mind
if I tell everyone, right?
No, it doesn't!
You spineless coward.
Filthy rat!
[shudders]
[stuttering] I wasn't trying to steal it!
I just ended up taking it home,
- I meant to give it back and apologize
- [Nanako] Kasuga?
What? [Gasps]
You wanted to talk?
What?
Well I
[Sawa] Kasuga,
don't you have
something important to tell her?
What?
By any chance,
do you know something
about my gym clothes?
No! Well, you see
[Takao exclaims]
[exclaims]
[gasps, exclaims] Sorry!
Way to go, Kasuga.
You went dead center.
What?
[breath trembling]
I'm ruined
Why would you do that?
Tell me,
how do you feel right now?
Write me an essay
about how you feel right now.
An an essay?
What the heck do you mean?
By tomorrow.
See you after school.
No way I'd ever write that
[ticking]
[sniffles quietly]
[groans in frustration] How?
How did I end up in this situation?
[screams in frustration]
SECOND YEAR, CLASS ONE
[indistinct chatter]
- Maeda.
- Maeda.
Muraoka.
Hey, everybody!
Teach is gonna get the police involved
about Saeki's gym clothes!
It's a serious case now! How crazy!
Hey, cut it out, Yamada!
I'm sorry, Nanako.
Ignore him.
Yeah.
[breath trembling]
[students vocalizing in distance]
Come on, show me the essay.
You don't have it?
What's that?
A book of poems by Baudelaire.
The Flowers of Evil.
It's the book I love the most.
What?
Dark emotions billow throughout this book.
It's philosophy that people
in this town could never understand.
Baudelaire took the malice
all of us secretly harbor
and spelled it all out in this book!
This is who I am.
This is my ess
Shut it, shit bug.
I was expecting
[yelling] a messy,
and gushy
exhibition of your true self, Kasuga.
I wanted you to spill out
everything in this essay!
You buried your face in Saeki's boobs,
sniffed her gym clothes over and over,
and rubbed them
all over your body, didn't you?
You know that you're a total,
utter pervert, Kasuga!
[grunts] What the heck?
This doesn't make any sense!
What's wrong with you, Nakamura?
[breathing heavily] I I'm not.
I didn't rub them all over my body!
Saeki is my goddess!
She's my muse, my femme fatale,
my Mary, and my Venus.
She will be, forever!
I'll burn this damned thing
in the incinerator!
[gasps]
[grunts]
[groans]
What the!
By the way, that thing we talked about
my big brother has one.
- [Saeki] Hey guys
- Seriously?
[Nanako] Do you know where Kasuga is?
- Oh Kasuga?
- Yeah.
No clue.
Okay. Thanks. Bye. [Chuckles]
What? Hey, wait! What?
Stop it!
What?
Wait, stop!
[grunts]
[Soft music playing]
Ah!
[groans]
Ah! No! Somebody!
Ah!
Do you want people to see this?
[shudders]
LIBRARY - CLOSED
[Takao struggling]
Hey, wait! [Groaning]
Wait! [Screams]
[Takao groaning, gasping]
Hey, wait! Stop! [Screams]
[gasps]
[panting]
This
is your true self. Isn't it, Kasuga?
Fine.
I won't tell anyone.
Because, Kasuga,
you're special.
Special?
In return
I want you
to make a contract with me.
What?
A contract?
[Music peaks, fades]
TO BE CONTINUED
[closing theme music playing]
ON THE NEXT EPISODE
[narrator] Kasuga agrees
to a mysterious contract.
Through a twist of fate,
he manages to score
a date with Saeki, but
Next time, on episode two.
The contract with Nakamura
weighs heavily on Kasuga.
[Rising music playing]
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL - BAUDELAIRE
FOR ALL THE BOYS AND GIRLS
STRUGGLING THROUGH ADOLESCENCE
AND FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS WE ONCE WERE
[bird trilling]
[boy] Ah, dear Baudelaire
I am confined.
I am confined in this town
surrounded by mountains.
[indistinct chatter]
Empty alleyways.
[student 1] Let's go to the arcade.
[boy] Closed shutter doors.
[student 2] Did you catch GLAY's new song?
[boy] The boring route to school.
[student 3] Can I burn it onto my MD?
[boy] Why is all the metal
in this town rusted?
Why does this town
suffocate me so badly?
In the confinement of this town,
literature is the only thing
that teaches me anything real.
And my only source of hope?
That is
[laughter]
[Soft music playing]
an angel.
[coach] On your marks.
SAEKI
- [blows whistle]
- [girls] Go, go!
[boy] There's the angel,
spreading her wings to soar,
at this very moment.
Your smile is a ray of sun in the spring.
You run and a gentle breeze follows.
[sighs deeply]
[teacher] Saeki,
- 98 points!
- [students exclaiming]
[teacher] You did a great job.
Thank you very much.
[girl] That's amazing!
Best grade in multiple subjects?
You're in your own league, Nanako.
[chuckles] It's nothing special.
- See? Look at mine.
- Really?
[boy] You are special!
Your intelligence is
like a beautiful pearl
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
- Hey!
- Hey, stop!
52 points?
Come on, you gotta do better than that.
All that reading, for what? [Laughs]
What is this weird book anyway?
The Flowers of Evil!
It's Baudelaire!
As if you'd understand its excellence!
You're looking down on me, aren't you?
[teacher] Nakamura.
Nakamura!
Answer me. Respond! [Bangs table]
[Sawa] Yeah, I'm here.
Nakamura, you got
the worst grade in class.
Zero points.
Explain yourself.
Why did you leave all the answers blank?
Say something! [Bangs table]
Once you're in the real world,
you won't get
Shut up,
you shit bug.
[Dramatic rock music playing]
You are speaking to your teacher.
How dare you call me "shit bug"!
Come to the faculty room
after school. Understood?
All right.
Next Muraoka!
Come on. Hurry up!
[friend 1] Nakamura's insane!
Like, you don't know what she's thinking.
- [friend 2] She gives me the creeps.
- Right?
[boy] Honestly, it was a bit refreshing.
Seeing Shimoyama shaking and all.
Man, I'd never want to date
a girl like that.
- [chuckling] Agreed.
- What?
Why are you acting superior?
- No one would want to date you.
- [chuckling] Good point.
How dare you. You're no better than me!
What? No, that's not true!
I I read books!
You think you can understand literature?
Reading books doesn't
make you special or anything!
Besides, no one has even noticed!
Wait
I forgot my book.
I'm gonna go get it.
- Hey, are you running away?
- No!
- I really forgot it!
- [friend 1] Hey, you wimp!
[friend 2] He totally ran away.
I suppose
Saeki hasn't noticed
that I'm reading a book like this.
[clattering]
SAEKI
[gasps softly]
Her gym clothes
[breathing heavily]
[breath trembling]
[thumping sound]
[gulps]
[thumping stops]
Idiot! What am I thinking!
My feelings for Saeki are honorable.
They're pure.
I don't have any sinful thoughts
at all.
Not a bit.
There's no way.
I don't have any immoral desires.
I definitely
Definitely
Definitely
[bright music playing]
Kasuga.
[chuckles]
[thumping sound]
- [music ends]
- [sniffs deeply]
[breath trembling]
It smells like
shampoo
[clang]
- [gasps]
[gasping] It's not like that!
[pants, screams]
[breathing heavily]
- Takao?
- [gasps]
It's not like that!
What are you talking about?
Those books in your room!
You'd better clean them up!
[Takao gasping] No, no, no.
It was just a coincidence.
This was an unintentional accident.
[thumping sound]
Like The Flowers of Evil,
for real
[opening theme music playing]
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
EPISODE 1
[sniffles]
[bang on table]
Saeki's gym clothes were missing
when she got to school this morning.
[students murmuring]
Does anyone know anything about this?
It's a pervert! Right, guys? Right?
[teacher] If you know something,
make sure you come and tell me!
Understood?
[Takao] I am a sinner.
I want to go somewhere far away.
Somewhere far away.
But
In this confined town,
there's nowhere I can run to.
111.8 MILES TO THE SEA
Saeki
I'm sorry.
I will atone for this sin
for the rest of my life.
Even when I'm an old man.
[screams]
[Nakamura] What are you doing?
Huh?
[stuttering]
[chuckles weakly]
[Nakamura] By the way,
you're always reading a book, aren't you?
What?
How do you know that?
Because I sit behind you.
[Takao] Oh.
On top of that,
it's a weird book that nobody would know.
Why is that?
Well
I bet normal people
can't understand, but
Wait. What?
What?
Give me a ride.
To the other side of that mountain.
What?
But, well, I mean
[chuckling nervously] Why?
Why?
'Cause I want to go there.
What? Like
You know, I have to go now, so [gasps]
Huh?
Kasuga.
The thing is
I saw you.
I saw you
steal
Saeki's gym clothes.
[sniffs deeply]
It smells like
shampoo
What?
What?
If you don't want me to tell everyone,
you'd better get going.
[screaming]
He ran away.
YOUNG BOY TURNS TO CRIME
[reporter on TV] In recent years,
we've seen an increase
in heinous incidents by teenagers
LONELINESS
INNER DEMONS
as juvenile crimes intensify.
Why are boys with no record
of delinquency committing such of fences?
Takao.
What's wrong?
What? No, nothing.
I'll turn myself in.
Before Nakamura exposes me
I'll confess my sins
to Saeki herself.
All right, then, some announcements.
As I always say, you guys,
don't cause trouble.
[Takao] Baudelaire
[bells chiming]
bestow strength
upon me!
Sir.
What is it, Kasuga?
Saeki.
It's about your gym clothes.
I'm the one who took them.
I'm sorry!
Kasuga
You've told me the truth
Thank you.
[teacher clapping]
Kasuga
you're a true man of virtue.
All right, that's all.
[groans in frustration] It's impossible!
How could I turn myself in?
COME TO THE LIBRARY AFTER SCHOOL
DON'T RUN AWAY TODAY
LIBRARY
[Sawa] Why did you run away yesterday?
That must mean you don't mind
if I tell everyone, right?
No, it doesn't!
You spineless coward.
Filthy rat!
[shudders]
[stuttering] I wasn't trying to steal it!
I just ended up taking it home,
- I meant to give it back and apologize
- [Nanako] Kasuga?
What? [Gasps]
You wanted to talk?
What?
Well I
[Sawa] Kasuga,
don't you have
something important to tell her?
What?
By any chance,
do you know something
about my gym clothes?
No! Well, you see
[Takao exclaims]
[exclaims]
[gasps, exclaims] Sorry!
Way to go, Kasuga.
You went dead center.
What?
[breath trembling]
I'm ruined
Why would you do that?
Tell me,
how do you feel right now?
Write me an essay
about how you feel right now.
An an essay?
What the heck do you mean?
By tomorrow.
See you after school.
No way I'd ever write that
[ticking]
[sniffles quietly]
[groans in frustration] How?
How did I end up in this situation?
[screams in frustration]
SECOND YEAR, CLASS ONE
[indistinct chatter]
- Maeda.
- Maeda.
Muraoka.
Hey, everybody!
Teach is gonna get the police involved
about Saeki's gym clothes!
It's a serious case now! How crazy!
Hey, cut it out, Yamada!
I'm sorry, Nanako.
Ignore him.
Yeah.
[breath trembling]
[students vocalizing in distance]
Come on, show me the essay.
You don't have it?
What's that?
A book of poems by Baudelaire.
The Flowers of Evil.
It's the book I love the most.
What?
Dark emotions billow throughout this book.
It's philosophy that people
in this town could never understand.
Baudelaire took the malice
all of us secretly harbor
and spelled it all out in this book!
This is who I am.
This is my ess
Shut it, shit bug.
I was expecting
[yelling] a messy,
and gushy
exhibition of your true self, Kasuga.
I wanted you to spill out
everything in this essay!
You buried your face in Saeki's boobs,
sniffed her gym clothes over and over,
and rubbed them
all over your body, didn't you?
You know that you're a total,
utter pervert, Kasuga!
[grunts] What the heck?
This doesn't make any sense!
What's wrong with you, Nakamura?
[breathing heavily] I I'm not.
I didn't rub them all over my body!
Saeki is my goddess!
She's my muse, my femme fatale,
my Mary, and my Venus.
She will be, forever!
I'll burn this damned thing
in the incinerator!
[gasps]
[grunts]
[groans]
What the!
By the way, that thing we talked about
my big brother has one.
- [Saeki] Hey guys
- Seriously?
[Nanako] Do you know where Kasuga is?
- Oh Kasuga?
- Yeah.
No clue.
Okay. Thanks. Bye. [Chuckles]
What? Hey, wait! What?
Stop it!
What?
Wait, stop!
[grunts]
[Soft music playing]
Ah!
[groans]
Ah! No! Somebody!
Ah!
Do you want people to see this?
[shudders]
LIBRARY - CLOSED
[Takao struggling]
Hey, wait! [Groaning]
Wait! [Screams]
[Takao groaning, gasping]
Hey, wait! Stop! [Screams]
[gasps]
[panting]
This
is your true self. Isn't it, Kasuga?
Fine.
I won't tell anyone.
Because, Kasuga,
you're special.
Special?
In return
I want you
to make a contract with me.
What?
A contract?
[Music peaks, fades]
TO BE CONTINUED
[closing theme music playing]
ON THE NEXT EPISODE
[narrator] Kasuga agrees
to a mysterious contract.
Through a twist of fate,
he manages to score
a date with Saeki, but
Next time, on episode two.
The contract with Nakamura
weighs heavily on Kasuga.