When the Chameleon Flowers Bloom


When the Chameleon Flowers Bloom is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shiho Kido. It has been serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since November 2023.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Shiho Kido, When the Chameleon Flowers Bloom was first posted on Twitter on October 25, 2022, where it was well received by readers and won the grand prize of the Afternoon Four Seasons Award Autumn 2022. It started serialization in Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Afternoon on November 25, 2023. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual volumes, with the first one released on May 22, 2024. As of December 23, 2025, four volumes have been released.
In February 2025, Kodansha began publishing the series in English on its K Manga digital service.

Volumes

Reception

The manga ranked second at the 3rd Late Night Manga Awards in 2024 hosted by Bungeishunjū's Crea magazine. The manga ranked third on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga of 2025 for male readers. It was nominated for the 18th Manga Taishō in 2025 and ranked fifth with 51 points. It received the 29th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's New Creator Prize in 2025.