AKU NO HANA AND BAUDELAIRE’S MASTERPIECE
What does being immoral mean? What if the tendency to perversion, destruction and recklessness would be the most essential part of being human? Aku No Hana is an anime that deals with these questions in a very realistic and unique way. It got its title from Charles Baudelaire’s „The Flowers of Evil“ which is a collection of poems and one of the most important works of modern poetry…
CASTLE IN THE SKY – THE ORIGIN OF THE STORY
The myth of the flying island or kingdom is one that has been used in literature, movies and games over and over and over and over again. One of the most known stories is Castle in the Sky, a 1986 Ghibli Movie, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is about the adventure of two kids discovering a flying island that was believed to be only a legend…