The AnimeJapan 2025 stage event for the anime adaptation of Saka Mikami’s The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity announced it will premiere in July 2025. The anime’s main staff and cast were announced with a new promotional video and key visual on the official website.
The cast of The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity includes:
- Yoshinori Nakayama as Rintarō Tsumugi
- Honoka Inoue as Kaoroko Waguri
- Kikunosuke Toya as Shōhei Usami
- Kōki Uchiyama as Saku Natsusawa
- Hiiro Ishibashi as Ayato Yorita
- Aya Yamane as Subaru Hoshina
Kuroki directs the new anime at CloverWorks, with Satoshi Yamaguchi as the associate director. Rino Yamazaki is in charge of series scripts, Haruka Tsuzuki is the series technical director, and Kōhei Tokuoka is the character designer and chief animation director. Moeki Harada is the music composer.
Mikami launched the manga series in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket website in October 2021. Kodansha will publish the manga’s 16th compiled book volume on April 9. Kodansha USA published the fifth volume in English on February 4.
Here’s an overview of the manga’s story, via Kodansha USA:
Chidori High is a boys’ school that takes in the dregs of society with the lowest grades. Next door stands Kikyo Girls’ High, where the wealthy, high-class families send their precious daughters. Chidori second-year Rintaro, who has a fierce face but a gentle heart, is helping at his family’s patisserie when he meets a girl named Kaoruko. The two hit it off right away…but this blissful peace is quickly disturbed when Rintaro discovers that Kaoruko is actually a student at Kikyo. Worse, she doesn’t seem to realize what a huge problem this really is! Will these two be able to forge a path for themselves, and sidestep the traps (metaphorical and literal) laid by their classmates?
