It was announced on Getsuku that the total number of copies of the manga "Kaoru Hana wa Brin to Saku" ( The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity), by Saka Mikami, currently being serialized on Kodansha's web manga app "Magazine Pocket (Magapoke)," has surpassed 8 million. The TV anime adaptation of the series, which aired from July to September, has also been a hot topic, with sales increasing by approximately 2 million copies in the two months since its broadcast began. Furthermore, the three consecutive monthly comic book releases since August have also helped boost sales, with sales increasing by approximately 500,000 copies in the past month, bringing the total to over 8 million copies. The latest volume, volume 20, was released on Getsuku, marking the third month of the three-month consecutive comic book releases.
An advertisement expressing gratitude for the TV anime's final episode airing on September 27th was published in the Asahi Shimbun morning edition on October Getsuku. The design varies by prefecture, and features scenes and characters that match the prefectural flower and its meaning in the area where the advertisement is distributed. The advertisement uses illustrations added by the author, Mikami, and allows viewers to enjoy depictions of clothing and hair that were not shown in the manga.
A special video using the line "Thank you," which appears over 250 times in the series, was also released on YouTube. It features Nakayama Yoshinori, who plays Tsumugi Rintaro, and Honoka Inoue, who plays Waguri Kaoruko, and depicts the dialogue between the two characters.
The work is a youth school story about two characters who are "close yet far apart," the protagonist Tsumugi Rintaro, who attends a low-ranking boys' school, and Waguri Kaoruko, who attends an elite girls' school.
