The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku) unveiled a new trailer, and the main cast Anime Japan 2025. The anime had previously teased an announcement for the event. The main cast includes:
- Honoka Inoue as Kaoruko Waguri
- Yoshinori Nakayama as Rintaro Tsumugi
- Kikunosuke Toya as Shohei Usami
- Koki Uchiyama as Saku Natsusawa
- Hiiro Ishibashi as Ayato Yorita
- Aya Yamane as Subaru Hoshina
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All the announced cast can be heard on the latest trailer:
Studio CloverWorks is animating the series. Miyuki Kuroki is directing with Satoshi Yamaguchi associate director. Rino Yamazaki is writing the series composition, Koheu Tokuka is designing the characters and chief animation director, and Moeki Harada is composing the music.
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku) is a manga series written and illustrated by Saka Mikami. It began serialization on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket manga website and app in October 2021. Kodansha is publishing the manga in print with 2 volumes currently available and they describe the first volume as follows:
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?
Source: The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Official Website, Anime Japan 2025
© Saka Mikami / Kodansha / The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Production Committee
