A new trailer for the anime adaptation of Saka Mikami’s The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity was released, confirming that the anime will premiere on July 5. The anime’s official website also confirms that Tatsuya Kitani performs the opening theme song “Manazashi wa Hikari (The Gaze is a Light),” and UshioReira performs the ending theme song “Hare no Hi ni (On This Sunny Day).”
The cast 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 The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity 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. Lastly, 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?
