Overview
Sweet Blue Flowers (青い花, 'Aoi Hana') is a manga work created by Takako Shimura and a TV animation series based on it.
It was serialised in the bimonthly magazine Manga Erotics F (Ohta Publishing) from November 2004 to July 2013. The book series was published in 8 volumes.
The work depicts friendship and romance between women, centred on the two main characters Akira Okudaira and Fumi Manjōme, who attend different girls' high schools.
It is a 'Yuri' work focusing on relationships and romance between women, and in addition, it also depicts male-female romance.
The story is set in Kamakura and its surroundings, including along the Enoden railway line.
The story is based on a modern setting, but also includes elements reminiscent of the somewhat old-fashioned world in which there is a girls' school, such as a young lady from an old family and her betrothed. Although there is a calm atmosphere throughout the work, serious and graphic descriptions can be found, and physical relationships are also depicted.
Plot
Fumi Manjōme enters Matsuoka Girls' High School, a girls' high school along the Enoden line, and on the day of the entrance ceremony she is reunited with her childhood friend Akira Okudaira, who also entered Fujigaya Jogakuin, a girls' school along the Enoden line, after 10 years, and the two start going to school together.
At the time, Fumi was depressed because her cousin Chizu Hanashiro, with whom she was dating, had got married, but in the literature club room she meets an upperclassman, Yasuko Sugimoto, and they start dating.
Characters
Matsuoka Girls' High School (松岡女子高等学校)
- Fumi Manjōme (万城目ふみ)
Voiced by: Ai Takabe
- Yasuko Sugimoto (杉本恭己)
Voiced by: Chiemi Ishimatsu
- Yōko Hon'atsugi (本厚木洋子)
Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi
- Miwa Motegi (茂木美和)
Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki
- Misako Yasuda (安田美沙子)
Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi
Fujigaya Jogakuin Senior High School (藤が谷女学院高等部)
- Akira Okudaira (奥平あきら)
Voiced by: Yūko Gibu
- Kyōko Ikumi (井汲京子)
Voiced by: Yui Horie
Anime
The TV anime was broadcast on Fuji Television from July to September 2009 under the title "Aoi Hana: Sweet Blue Flowers" (青い花 Sweet Blue Flowers) for a total of 11 episodes.
Episode List
| No. | Episode Titles | Original Subtitles |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Flower's Tale | 花物語 |
| 2 | Spring Storm | 春の嵐 |
| 3 | When I Wake in the Morning | 朝目覚めては |
| 4 | Youth is Beautiful | 青春は美わし |
| 5 | Wuthering Heights (part 1) | 嵐が丘（前編） |
| 6 | Wuthering Heights (part 2) | 嵐が丘（後編） |
| 7 | When the New Leaves Grow | 若葉のころ |
| 8 | Love is Blind | 恋は盲目 |
| 9 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 夏の夜の夢 |
| 10 | The Prince of Happiness | 幸福の王子 |
| 11 | Winter's Fireworks | 冬の花火 |
Related Illustrations
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Enoden (Enoshima Electric Railway) ...As the story takes place along the Enoden line, collaborations and events were held with the railway.
Wandering Son ...A manga work by the same author.
External Link
TV Anime official website (Japanese)
