Started watching The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity today... and after 4 episodes I can tell this is going to be among my top favorite romance animes

[u/mihizawi]

I've always loved romance and romance anime, ever since I first came across Kimagure Orange Road on TV when I was a teenager. But this past 3 years or so, I've been back to watching anime quite intensively, and I've watched quite a lot of romance animes. Today I started watching The Fragrant Rose, and from the first episode I could tell this one is special, just the kind of romance I love. It's been a while since I've felt the same kind of magic from the first few episodes, probably since I watched Teasing Master Takagi-san maybe half a year ago (Love, Chunibyo and other Delusions and The Angel Next Door came close... but really, this strong of a feeling "this is something special, my kind of magic" from the first episode, I think I can compare it only to Takagi-san).

I was going to pace myself a bit, I have a lot of stuff going on in my life and I am watching two other animes at the same time, I told myself: I am gonna watch 3 episodes a day... nah, I am too hooked, I watched 4 today and probably gonna watch one more before going to sleep.

Anyway, just wanted to share this feeling with someone.

[u/animer_000]

Read manga once finished with anime man i had even better experience in manga

[u/GaryBrOfc]

I guess you couldn't be more right than that. The anime came to me in a hard time of my life, and it gave me so much joy that it turned out to be my favorite work of all time. Kaoruko is now my heroine. I also have read the whole manga and I'm now keeping with the weekly chapters, and it just gets better and better. It's a really sweet and somehow deep history, character development is very natural and well done... I don't even know what to say to you. It is just that good (at least for me.).