The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity (manga, chapters, English) Add a review

The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (Japanese: 薫る花は凛と咲く, Hepburn: 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, with its chapters collected in 20 tankōbon volumes as of October 2025. It follows the story of a young boy living in Tokyo's Minato Ward attending a publicly funded high school full of delinquents who meets a young girl of small stature attending an all-female elite private academy for noble families.

An anime television series adaptation produced by CloverWorks aired from July to September 2025. Both the manga and the anime adaptation have been met with widespread critical acclaim for the writing, characters, art style, voice acting and emotional depth.

By September 2025, the series had over 7.5 million copies in circulation.