The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (薫る花は凛と咲く, Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Saka Mikami. It began serialization on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga website and app in October 2021.
| The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity | |
 Cover art of the first volume | |
| 薫る花は凛と咲く (Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romantic comedy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Saka Mikami |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Shōnen Magazine Comics |
| Magazine | Magazine Pocket |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | October 20, 2021 – present |
| Volumes | 12 |
Publication
Written and illustrated by Saka Mikami, The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity began serialization on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket website and app on October 20, 2021. The series has been collected in twelve volumes as of April 2024.[2]
Kodansha publishes the series in English on their K Manga service.[3] At Anime Expo 2023, Kodansha USA announced that the series will be published in print starting in Q2 2024.[4]
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 9, 2022[5] | 978-4-06-526609-0 | June 4, 2024[6] | 979-8-88-877138-9 |
| 2 | May 9, 2022[7] | 978-4-06-527851-2 | August 6, 2024[8] | 979-8-88-877139-6 |
| 3 | July 8, 2022[9] | 978-4-06-528386-8 | October 1, 2024[10] | 979-8-88-877140-2 |
| 4 | September 9, 2022[11] | 978-4-06-529144-3 | December 3, 2024[12] | 979-8-88-877141-9 |
| 5 | November 9, 2022[13] | 978-4-06-529641-7 | — | — |
| 6 | January 6, 2023[14] | 978-4-06-530334-4 | — | — |
| 7 | March 9, 2023[15] | 978-4-06-530959-9 | — | — |
| 8 | May 9, 2023[16] | 978-4-06-531601-6 | — | — |
| 9 | August 8, 2023[17] | 978-4-06-532607-7 | — | — |
| 10 | November 9, 2023[18] | 978-4-06-533508-6 | — | — |
| 11 | January 9, 2024[19] | 978-4-06-534168-1 | — | — |
| 12 | April 9, 2024[2] | 978-4-06-535156-7 | — | — |
| 13 | July 9, 2024[20] | 978-4-06-536120-7 | — | — |
Reception
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity was nominated for the 2022 Next Manga Awards in the web category and was ranked sixth out of fifty nominees.[21] The series was also nominated for the Tsutaya Comic Awards and ranked second.[22] It ranked seventh in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2023.[23] The series was nominated for the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2023;[24] it was also nominated in the same category for the 48th edition in 2024.[25]
The series has over 1 million copies in circulation by March 2023.[26]
References
External links
- Official manga website at Magazine Pocket (in Japanese)
- The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia