The comic “Fragrant Flowers Bloom Boldly” is being released for an unprecedented three consecutive months! Special bookmarks are being distributed and public transport advertisements are also being displayed!
Kodansha Co., Ltd. Press release: September 9, 2025 “Fragrant Flowers Bloom Bravely” is now on sale for an unprecedented three consecutive months! Special bookmarks are being distributed and public transport advertisements are also being put up! To celebrate the three consecutive months of comic book releases, large-scale transportation advertisements will be displayed in Osaka and Shibuya from September 8th to September 14th! Additionally, starting September 9th, special bookmarks featuring the “Flower Language of Youth” and a floral scent will be distributed to everyone who purchases a comic!
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https://www.kodansha.co.jp/comic/products/0000418204 Special bookmarks featuring the “Flower Language of Youth” and floral scent are now available!
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/1719/7651/1719-7651-3410d1c323cc9b11fbe8e6c6bb700b15-1000×696.jpg There are six special bookmarks in total, each featuring a flower associated with the six main characters, including Kaoruko and Rintaro, and a flower’s meaning related to youth. When you rub the flower illustration, you can release a scent! Kaoruko: Lily of the valley, Rintaro: Aloysia… Other scents include jasmine, lemongrass, cypress, and La France pear… Details of which scents correspond to which characters, as well as the bookmark designs, will be released sequentially on the official “Fragrant Flowers Bloom Boldly” X-account! Official X-Account for “Kaoru Hana wa Bai to Saku” Click here for a list of bookstores distributing this book Large-scale transportation advertisements will be displayed in Osaka and Shibuya from September 8th to 14th, 2025!
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/1719/7651/1719-7651-76eb4258033b7371d667a0e6539e18bf-1000×585.jpg *Top (Shibuya) / Middle (Osaka (Osaka Metro Namba Station Concourse B Area)) / Bottom (Osaka (Osaka Metro Namba Station Concourse A area) (bottom)) ◆Shibuya (Den-en-toshi Line Shibuya Station Underground Passage) (Top) Length: 14.56 meters, Height: 20.6 meters ◆Osaka (Osaka Metro Namba Station Concourse B Area) (Center) Length: 8.736 meters, Height: 2.06 meters ◆Osaka (Osaka Metro Namba Station Concourse A Area) (Lower) Total length: 11.648 meters, height: 2.06 meters Bookstore staff across the country are creating heartwarming, handmade shelves! We held a bookstore shelf decoration contest from Friday, June 13th to Thursday, July 31st, 2025. Although there were no general reader entries this time, 139 bookstores across the country
participated! The results will be announced at the same time as the prizes are shipped. We appreciate your patience. Click here for the special site
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/1719/7651/1719-7651-60e588fd91135dc9feea4d70fd5e865b-480×640.jpg Tsutaya Bookstore Ueda Oya Branch, Nagano Prefecture
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“Fragrant Flowers Bloom Bravely” (Currently serialized on Magapoke! Updated every Thursday) Mikami Saka In a certain place, there are two adjacent high schools. Chidori High School, a low-ranking boys’ school where idiots gather, and Kikyo Girls’ School, a prestigious girls’ school. Tsumugi Rintaro, a stern and quiet second-year student at Chidori High School, meets a young girl named Waguri Kaoruko while helping out at his family’s cake shop. Rintaro feels comfortable spending time with Kaoruko, but despite being neighbors, she is a student at Kikyo Girls’ High School and completely dislikes
Chidori…!? A youthful school tale woven by these two “close yet far” people!! https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/title/01524/episode/329599 For more information about this release