Series synopsis
Sweet Blue Flowers, also known as 青い花 is a Japanese animation drama television series that premiered on Fuji TV on July 2, 2009. It ended on September 10, 2009. It stars Ai Takabe, Yuko Gibu, Chiemi Ishimatsu and Yui Horie.
Fumi Manjoume enters Kamakura's accelerated high school - Matsuoka All-Girls High School. While waiting at the Kamakura station on the day of her entrance ceremony, she runs into an old childhood friend whom she had not seen in 10 years: Akira Okudaira. As their friendship is rekindled and they start falling back into the rhythm of friends again, it starts a delicate love story...
Premise
Fumi Manjoume enters Kamakura's accelerated high school - Matsuoka All-Girls High School. While waiting at the Kamakura station on the day of her entrance ceremony, she runs into an old childhood friend whom she had not seen in 10 years: Akira Okudaira. As their friendship is rekindled and they start falling back into the rhythm of friends again, it starts a delicate love story...
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Ai Takabe as Fumi Manjoume (voice)
- Yuko Gibu as Akira Okudaira (voice)
- Chiemi Ishimatsu as Yasuko Sugimoto (voice)
- Yui Horie as Kyouko Ikumi (voice)
- Sayuri Yahagi as Youko Hon'atsugi (voice)
- Yuka Iguchi as Misako Yasuda (voice)
- Aki Toyosaki as Miwa Motegi (voice)
- Kenji Hamada as Mr. Kagami (voice)
Guest cast
- Kiyoko Miyazawa as Fumi's Grandmother (voice)
- Kanae Oki as Kaori Ueno (voice)
- Izumi Kitta as Waitress (voice)
- Yukari Fukui as Kazusa Sugimoto (voice)
- Kana Hanazawa as Little Prince (voice)
- MAKO as Flower (voice)
- Nobuaki Kanemitsu as Ogina (voice)
- Showko Tsuda as Chie Sugimoto (voice)
- Mai Nakahara as Kuri Sugimoto (voice)
- Mamiko Noto as Shinako Sugimoto (voice)
- Sachiko Kojima as Kou's Aunt (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 11 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 11 | July 2, 2009 | September 10, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Flower Tale 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... |
July 2, 2009 |
| 2 |
Spring Storm Through this chance reunion between these two childhood friends, both Akira and Fumi make a promise to go to school together despite the fact that they attend two 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 - Kyouko 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 Kyouko's club. |
July 9, 2009 |
| 3 |
Rise and Shine Planning to back out of joining the basketball club, Fumi is asked out on a date by her senpai - Yasuko 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 Kyouko, whose fiance Kou Sawanoi, will be attending. For some reason, maybe the anticipation of meeting Kou, 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... |
July 16, 2009 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Fuji TV |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 2, 2009 |
| Last aired | September 10, 2009 |
| Runtime | 22 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Thursday at 14:10:00 |