The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity

The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (薫る花は凛と咲く) 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.

Characters

 * Rintarō Tsumugi (紬 凛太郎)
 * Kaoruko Waguri (和栗 薫子)
 * Usami Shōhei (翔平 宇佐美)
 * Saku Natsusawa (夏沢 朔)
 * Ayato Yorita (依田 絢斗)
 * Subaru Hoshina (保科 昴)
 * Kyōko Tsumugi (紬 杏子)

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 thirteen volumes as of July 2024.

Kodansha publishes the series in English on their K Manga service. At Anime Expo 2023, Kodansha USA announced that the series would be published in print starting in Q2 2024.

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. The series was also nominated for the Tsutaya Comic Awards and ranked second. It ranked seventh in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2023. The series was nominated for the 47th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2023; it was also nominated in the same category for the 48th edition in 2024.

The series has over 1 million copies in circulation by March 2023.