Hana wa Saku ka (Does the Flower Blossom?)

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Synonyms: Hana wa Sakuka, Does the Flower Bloom?

Japanese: 花は咲くか

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 5

Chapters: 35

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 22, 2006 to Jan 22, 2015

Genres: Boys Love, Drama, Romance, Erotica

Serialization: RuTile

Authors: Hidaka, Shoko (Story & Art)

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Ranked: N/A²

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Popularity: #2279

Members: 8,875

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On a train ride home one night, corporate slave Kazuaki Sakurai has an unpleasant encounter with another passenger, ruining Sakurai's outfit and documents from work. When the apathetic passenger—Youichi Minagawa—invites him to his residence to make amends for the incident, Sakurai goes without protest.

Aside from being a college student, Youichi turns out to own a huge house, which is something unusual for his age. While it piques Sakurai's interest, their unexpected connection does not last long after the compromise was made, and Sakurai returns to his recurring dull life. However, fate seems to have other plans for Sakurai.

Despite not intending to return, he often finds himself back in Youichi's house, and the occurrences that follow draw them closer to each other. In turn, Sakurai starts to take a deeper interest in the young man, while Youichi begins to display a rare side of himself ever since the office worker's appearance.

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Hana wa Saku ka has been published in English as Does the Flower Blossom? by DMP since January 27, 2015 and in Polish as Nim rozkwitną kwiaty by Yumegari since February 3, 2015.

The manga received a Japanese live-action movie adaptation which was released on February 14, 2018.

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Minagawa, Youichi

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Sakurai, Kazuaki

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Minagawa, Shouta

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Nov 11, 2015

Keishini01

Recommended

I LOVED THIS MANGA. I have always been rather reluctant to try Shounen-Ai as i pictured it to be terribly frivolous and fluffy and something i would never be emotionally invested in. HOWEVER, this went against every expectation i had with its compelling leads and original concept.

Sakurai Kazuaki aka Sakurai-san aka The sexy seme, is a 38 year old workoholic with no life really. He wants to try gardening in an attempt to spruce his dull life up but that fails due to his lack of skill but manages to be the medium through which he meets Minagawa Youichi. This happens as he ...

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Apr 2, 2021

Nigmatillium

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There is one thing I would like to change about this manga and that is for me to read the manga before I watch the film, because I did it the other way around and that was not a good idea.

The plot developed very nicely with a little bit more revealed every chapter. There are significant differences between the manga and the film in which the film is nowhere even close to how great the manga is and leaves out a lot of details, so I was glad to have the manga shed some light on some of the relationships and histories of the ...

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Feb 12, 2013

acajou

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Preliminary (20/35 eps)

"You're friendly to everybody.
But the truth is you're not interested in anyone."

Sakurai Kazuaki is 37 years old and addicted to work. It would, however, be wrong to say he is a workaholic since that might imply he actually enjoys what he does. The truth is that he spends fourteen hours at the office each day for no other reason than feeling compelled to. Almost needless to say, his relationships don't last very long. And as much as he'd like to take up gardening as a hobby, he's painfully aware that he lacks not only the necessary leisure, but is also not exactly blessed with a ... green thumb. All in all, he's just another "salaryman" stuck in a rut without the motivation or know-how to get un-stuck.

One day he crashes into a younger guy at the train station, causing a cherished copy of a long sold out photography magazine - he works for an ad agency - to become stained. He is irritated, but as fate would have it, the guy is an art student who just happens to own another copy of the issue. And if he trades his copy with Sakurai's, he won't have anything to complain about - or will he?

From there, the relationship between these two moves forward at a pace that will endlessly madden and frustrate anyone who is just is just looking for the kind of manga in which two guys are all over each other from the moment they meet. This largely owes to the fact that neither Sakurai nor Minegawa Youichi, the art student, comply with the standardized character types of the genre. Whereas average titles rarely present more than just archetypes to the reader - the cold, aloof, comically self-assured seme and the uke who is either a hyper kid very much in touch with his feminine side or a feisty tsundere -, Hana wa Saku ka paints interesting psychological portrays of its characters with ease.

As a result, they feel rounded and refreshingly authentic, making it easy for the reader to empathize with their struggles. And what they both struggle with above all else is the ability to express themselves. Especially Youichi turns out to be a rather peculiar fellow. Unusually plain-spoken for a Japanese person, his blunted affect and seeming lack of interest in other people would probably cause him to fall high on the schizoid or autistic spectrum if he were to see a psychiatrist. Still, there is also an almost child-like and unassuming aura to him. Sakurai, on the other hand, presents himself as a kind person in the presence of his underlings and co-workers but upon meeting Youchi must face the fact that his social relationships are not genuine.

Naturally, things are bound to get a little awkward once they realize they're interested in each other, and the art conveys this really well. It frequently includes panels with no dialogue that capture the tension of the moment, and the characters' facial expressions give away at least as much as their written thoughts. A frequent depiction of natural scenes and the recurrent flower motif, albeit a bit cliché, make for an overall atmosphere that is rather calm and mellow. And as if their personality traits wouldn't cause enough problems for Sakurai and Youchi already, the former also struggles with both his sexual orientation and their significant difference in age as well as experience. Both aspects are handled in a fairly realistic manner.

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