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Shelf Life - Flowers For Baudelaire

a broken and unhappy interior, and that can invoke feelings of protection.

The whole Flowers of Evil thing is one of the more ironic things I've ever seen in anime. The MC is a guy obsessed with a book because he thinks it makes him smarter and better than everyone else, but in the end he realizes he's no better, and actually probably even worse, than all the other people in the world and just a tool, a fake, a typical teenager who wanted to be different and stand out.

A lot of fanbase seems to do with the show the same thing Takao did with Baudelaire. Saying they don't get how everyone else can't be into it, not seeing the brilliance of the crude, ugly art. Saying all its shortcomings are intentional and done on purpose to take the viewer out of their comfort zone. To go against the grain, which implies a grain exists and is worth going against for the sake of going against. That they're better fans or more cultured for being able to appreciate it compared to the majority of anime fans who have short attention spans or whatever other reasoning people have used to justify why nobody but their small clique likes it

The parallels between Takao and those kinds of fans is amusing and has been the best part of the anime for me. It brought out the Takao in a lot of people.

The downside is that the series could've been delightfully casted—I would've loved to see Brina Palencia flex her wings as Sawa Nakamura.