The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity Releases First Main Trailer

On June 6, 2025, the first trailer for The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity has been released.

The trailer begins with Kaworu Waguri, the female lead, saying that she never once thought Rintaro Tsumigi’s face was scary.

Rintaro, being a delinquent in his school with the delinquent blonde hair, was surprised by how she said this without hesitation.

We see how the two met in the Tsumigi Bakeshop as Kaoroku enjoyed her cake.

However, Kaoroku is from Kikyo Private Academy, an all-girl school on the opposite side of Chidori Public High School, and its shown well as Rintaro closed the curtains on the large window showing Waguri’s classroom, whose curtains are always closed due to the school’s intolerance for the other side.

As the opening theme plays, we also meet Rintaro’s friends: Saku Natsusawa, Shohei Usami, and Ayato Yorita.

In spite of their differences, Rintaro and Kaoroku still meet, much to the concern of the latter’s friend, Subaru Hoshina but here, she shows her curiosity, which tells the audience of the possibility she is willing to open up quickly.

As the ending theme plays, Kaoroku declares her intention to get to know Rintaro, not caring about where they go to school and eagerly smiling as they meet in front of Kikyo’s gates.

Along with the trailer, we also received a new key visual showing the main leads.

The opening theme is by Tatsuya Kitani (Jujutsu Kaisen Opening 3: “Where Our Blue Is”, Bleach: TYBW Opening 1: “Scar”) with the title “Manazashi wa Hikari”, translated as “The Gaze is Light”.

The ending theme is by Reira Ushio with the title, “Hare no Hi ni”, translated as “On This Sunny Day”.

The anime will be released on July 6, 2025 on Netflix and other platforms.

Cast List:

Kaoruko Waguri: Honoka Inoue

Rintarō Tsumugi: Yoshinori Nakayama 

Subaru Hoshina: Aya Yamane

Ayato Yorita: Hiiro Ishibashi 

Shōhei Usami: Kikunosuke Toya

Saku Natsusawa: Kōki Uchiyama 

Staff List:

Studio: Cloverworks

Director: Miyuki Kuroki

Assistant Director: Satoshi Yamaguchi

Series Composition: Rino Yamazaki

Series Director: Haruka Tsuzuki

Character Design & Chief Animation Director: Kouhei Tokuoka

Sub-Character Design & Costume Design: Manami Umeshita

Cake Design: Yasuho Tamura

Prop Design: Yuuko Yoshida

Art Director: Asuka Kouki

Art Setting: Yoshinori Shiozawa

Color Design: Asuka Yokota

Photography Director: Yukiko Nagase

3D Director: Keita Watanabe (Sublimation)

Editing: Kazuhiro Nii

Music: Moeki Harada

Sound Director: Takatoshi Hamano

Sound Production: Magic Capsule

The series will be produced at Cloverworks, which is known for its myriad of romcom and varied anime, including Horimiya, My Dress-Up Darling and Spy x Family (together with WIT).

The director of this series, Miyuki Kuroki, has plenty of experience in the anime industry, featured as a key animator in Fairy Tail and Haikyu, as well as directing episodes for Your Lie in April, DARLING in the FRANXX, and Spy X Family.

She has, however, directed her own series, “The Idolm@ster SideM” (2017) and one movie, the  “Her Blue Sky” (2019).

With such a repertoire, the adaptation is in quite good hands, especially with the variety of series she has handled over two decades.

Haruka Tsuzuki takes on their role as series director and while mostly as a key animator in many series, such as Black Butler and The Promised Neverland, has also been an episode director in Spx x Family.

Assistant director Satoshi Yamaguchi debuts in this role as he is a veteran animator director for multiple series such as Gurren Lagann and Kill La Kill.

Character design and chief animation director Kouhei Tokuoka has much experience in the field due to his work on The Ancient Magus Bride and has handled sub-design for Sword Art Online: Alicization.

Speaking of sub-design, Manami Umeshita, the sub-character designer and costume designer, was the character designer for Skip and Loafer and a costume designer for Spy x Family Season 2.

Doing their first work in cake design, Yasuho Tamura has been spotted as a key animator for many series, particularly the first three seasons of Attack on Titan, notably as one of the animators for the fourth opening, Red Swan.

An experienced prop designer, Yuuko Yoshida has handled the modeling for the Ajin series, which is done in 3D, and is the prop design for “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?” and Shadow’s House.

On their first time as the art director, Asuka Kouki has had experience handling background art for Cloverworks’ other anime, Horimiya and Spy x Family.

Yoshinori Shiozawa is a veteran with nearly 30 years of experience in art setting for other series, such as DARLING in the FRANXX and Serial Experiments Lain, and has even been involved in making background art for The End of Evangelion film.

Yukiko Nagise has worked with Cloverworks as photography director in Spy x Family, Fate/Grand Order -Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, and Wind Breaker.

Keita Watanabe is Wind Breaker’s 3dCG Director and was Live2D Development Engineer for the Belle film.

Kazuhiro Nii was in the editing team for One Punch Man Season 1 and Tokyo Ghoul: Root A and :re.

The composer, Moeki Harada, will produce the score in his debut as composer for an anime TV show.

Asuka Yokota has done color design for Wind Breaker, Black Butler and the Promised Neverland Season 2, which are all from Cloverworks.

Meanwhile, Takatoshi Hamano has been sound director for many anime projects, including Oreimo and Goblin Slayer.

Magic Capsule has handled sound production for multiple major anime such as Fire Force, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, The Dangers in my Heart and many more.

About The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity

The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity is a Japanese romance manga written and illustrated by Saka Mikami serialized at Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket manga website and app since October 2021.

As of June 24, 2025, there have been 17 volumes published, a total of 152 chapters out, and has sold over 5.2 million copies.

The story focuses on Rintaro and Kaoruku as they fall in love in spite of coming from opposing school backgrounds.

Rintaro comes from a “bad school” with mostly delinquent boys while Kaoruku is from a “prep school” mostly populated by girls.

The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity will be released on July 5, 2025.

Source: Twitter

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