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Saka Mikami Calls The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity a Shonen Romance
Saka Mikami says she treats The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity as a shonen series, even though many online read it as shojo.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Why it matters
The genre label that decides where Mikami's manga sits on shelves and in readers' hands is something she has spoken to directly, which matters for a title that readers place almost entirely by tone.
Key Facts
- Saka Mikami says The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity is a shonen series.
- Mikami named Attack on Titan, Shugo Chara! and The Quintessential Quintuplets as influences.
- Mikami worked as an assistant to Wind Breaker mangaka Satoru Nii.
- The CloverWorks anime adaptation streams on Netflix.
- Mikami spoke ahead of an appearance at Kodansha House during New York Comic Con Weekend.
Speaking before a Kodansha House appearance at New York Comic Con Weekend, Mikami named Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan, Peach-Pit's Shugo Chara! and Negi Haruba's The Quintessential Quintuplets as the Kodansha works that influenced her. The CloverWorks anime is streaming on Netflix.
Mikami's own reading of the genre differs from how readers online file the title. She has done time behind the scenes as well: before The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, she drew drama and romance one-shots and worked as an assistant to Satoru Nii, the mangaka of Wind Breaker. From that stint she credits the workflow of producing a manga, not only the drawing of it. The CloverWorks adaptation follows Kaoruko Waguri and Rintaro Tsumugi, whose schools sit across from each other, one a private all-girls academy and the other an all-boys school with a rougher reputation.
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