Sweet Blue Flowers
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Native: | 青い花 |
| Romaji: | Aoi Hana |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Jul 2, 2009 [15 years 6 months ago] |
| Ended: | Sep 10, 2009 [15 years 4 months ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | MAL ANIDB ANN ANILIST |
* Shimura Takako's Aoi Hana yuri manga has been running in Ohta Books' Manga Erotics F magazine since 2004, and three volumes have been compiled and published. Fumi and Akira were close childhood friends until Fumi had to move away. Ten years after losing touch with each other, the two girls meet again as high school freshmen. The two struggle to reconnect after so much has changed, and both deal with the trials and tribulations of high school — sometimes independently and sometimes with each other's help.
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Episode 1: Flower's Tale
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-07-02
Kamakura all-girl high school's newest student is this little crybaby Fumi Manjoume. In the morning of the school's welcome ceremony while on the train in a chance encounter she meets a girl from a different high school, named Akira Okudaira. As it just so happens, these two girls were childhood friends who had not seen each other for 10 years until now. This meeting at the station on the way to school, brought tears to Fumi's eyes. Akira saying that Fumi hasn't changed much since they were kids softly handed her a handkerchief to wipe away the tears...
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Episode 2: Springtime's Storm
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-07-09
Through this chance reunion between these 2 childhood friends, both Akira and Fumi make a promise to go to school together despite the fact that they attend 2 different schools, while still making other friends along the way. Almost as if they were making up for lost time, the intimacy between the two starts to deepen. Entering school and overcome with excitement, Akira and fellow classmate - Kyoko Ikumi - decide to join the drama club. Respectively, Fumi decides to join the literary club and along the way mistakens Yasuko - the cool, boyish upper classman who is part of the basketball club - as part of the literary club. Yasuko later decides to make a guest appearance at Akira and Kyoko's club...
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Episode 3: When I Wake Up in the Morning
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-07-16
Planning to back out of joining the basketball club, Fumi is asked out on a date by her senpai - Sugimoto. While thrown off guard and a bit flustered, she is surprisingly happy on the inside. However, Akira is invited to a mixer by her classmate Kyoko, whose fiance Sawanoi Ko, will be attending. For some reason, maybe the anticipation of meeting Ko, Akira left her home nervous and on edge. Meanwhile on that very day, Fumi and her senpai had a surprisingly quiet and pleasant time together. As the distance between them began to shorten at the library, they leaned in for their first kiss...
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Episode 4: Youth Is Beautiful
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-07-23
After being asked by Sugimoto to accompany her to school, Fumi worries about who to walk to school with: her childhood friend or girl who she likes. When revealing her predicament to Akira, she laughs and they come up with a solution to her problem. In the meantime, Kyoko starts to inquire about Sugimoto...
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Episode 5: Wuthering Heights (Part One)
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-07-30
Preparations for the school production and upper classmen's musical number are in full swing. With Sugimoto making a guest appearance as the protagonist, Heathcliff, many of her fans have gatheredin great excitement to see her performance. However, there's only on person on her mind: Fumi. Kyoko approaches Sugimoto and carefully acknowledges that she knows about her and Fumi, which brings about some uneasiness to Fumi. This causes her to ask Sugimoto a question about her first love...
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Episode 6: Wuthering Heights (Part Two)
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-08-06
Finally the day of the Fujigaya's performance has arrived.
The first years start off with a performance of "Le Petit Prince," followed by the second year's "Little Women." Finally the upper classmen begin their performance of "Wurthering Heights." Fumi heart skips a beat at the sight of Sugimoto's performance on stage. At the end of the performance, Fumi is taken aback as her senpai starts to cry....
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Episode 7: When the New Leaves Grow
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-08-13
The day after Fujigaya's theatrical festival, Akira and Fumi head off to Yokohama for a day to play. On that day, Fumi decided to stay over at Akira's place, making Sugimoto a bit uneasy as she expressed her thoughts to Akira. After hearing Akira's thoughts on the matter, Sugimoto decided to let it go. However, she later decides to invite Fumi to her home...
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Episode 8: Love Is Blind
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-08-20
Fujigaya's school newspaper announces that Kagami Sensei is getting married. Kagami states that he had no prior knowledge of Yasuko's prior experience, after being cross examined by Kyoko. With all this going on, Yasuko has been giving Fumi the cold shoulder, and, unwilling to take any more of this, Akira confronts Yasuko on behalf of Fumi...
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Episode 9: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-08-27
Summer vacation arrives, and Kyoko starts inviting people to a summer trip, even to Ko Sawanoi. It seems like everyone's invited except, Akira and Fumi. However, they are plenty busy with other plans for the summer holiday. However on Kyoko's camping trip during a "test of courage" activity, Ko debates whether or not to reveal a huge secret...
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Episode 10: The Prince of Happiness
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-09-03
As the new semester begins, Sugimoto and Kagami Sensei's wedding day is finally here. Akira, Kyoko and the theater members attend the ceremony. And while everyone is excited to meet the family, all Kyoko can do is look at Sugimoto. While many emotions and thoughts fill the air, the bride and groom are greeted mostly with blessing for their wedding. After the ceremony, Fumi and Akira meet up at Enoshima to hang out, but to their surprise another unexpected guest appears...
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Episode 11: Winter's Fireworks
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 2009-09-10
In the blink of an eye, summer has past and fall has sunken in. Yasuko's basketball team has begun to excel pushing them into the national tournament. However, a rumor about Yasuko going to study in England after graduation begins to spread, which comes as a shock to Kyoko. In the meantime, Fumi runs into Yasuko at the train station, and looking at each other together...
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