Kodansha House Hosts The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity Creator Saka Mikami in NYC

Kodansha USA Publishing announced on Thursday that it will host manga creator Saka Mikami ( The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity ) at its Kodansha House pop-up event in New York City on October 10 and October 11. The event will return from October 9 to October 18 at 508 West 37th Street. ( New York Comic Con will run from October 8 to October 11 at the Javits Center two blocks away.)

The event will host a Q&A and signing with Mikami on October 10 and an additional signing on October 11. The pop-up will allocate tickers for both through a random drawing on kodanshahouse.com. Applications for the drawing will be open from September 3 to September 10 until 6:00 p.m. EDT.

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity manga in English, and it describes the story:

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 Rintarō , 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 Rintarō 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?

Mikami launched the manga on Kodansha 's Magazine Pocket website in October 2021. Kodansha published the manga's 23rd compiled book volume on June 9.

Kodansha USA published the 14th English volume on August 11, and will ship the 15th volume on October 13.

A television anime adaptation premiered on Tokyo MX , Tochigi TV , Gunma TV , and BS11 in July 2025. The anime streamed on Netflix in Japan beginning on July 6, 2025 and in Southeast Asia on July 13, 2025. The series began streaming outside Japan and Southeast Asia on Netflix on September 7, 2025.

Kodansha hosted Blue Lock manga creators Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura and Witch Hat Atelier creator Kamome Shirahama at the West Coast debut of the Kodansha House pop-up in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles on July 2-12.

Last October, Kodansha House hosted Atsushi Ohkubo ( Fire Force , Soul Eater ), Fujita ( Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku ), and Suu Morishita ( A Sign of Affection ) in New York City.

Source: Email correspondence