Damn. Best episode of the series so far. That screenshot says it all — Sugimoto got told by Fumi. But saying that, I must also add that I really appreciate how understated everything is in this episode. There are no overblown dramatics at Kazusa’s wedding. Sugimoto’s flashback about how she fell for the drama teacher is [...]
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Sugimoto’s sister’s wedding takes place. Impressions: This episode was alright, but until the end it didn’t actually seem like it amounted to much. Sure the wedding is kind of a big event, but it’s really with some characters that didn’t seem to affect Acchan or Fumi. It kind of progresses along Sugimoto’s story, but even with her [...]
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I hate that Sugimoto treats Izumi like crap and breaks Manjome’s heart. But you’ve got to remember, I’m 32 and way past my teens. Things that people did back then really were cruel, unthoughtful and immature and to an old guy, anyone who behaves that way is simply unacceptable. Though I suspect we can all [...]
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        This episode begins on the Sunday of Yasuko’s sister’s wedding with Akira being driven to the ceremony by her brother. While Akira is heading to the wedding, we see that she never told Fumi about it, so after Fumi tries to call Akira she heads off for a walk.         While this is going on, [...]
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Oh snap, crackle and pop.  All this time I’ve been worried that Fumi would have a usual “Fumi-chan’s so quick to cry” moment and run back into Sugimoto’s arms the second she decided to come back.  Instead she gave Sugimoto an emotional ass-whooping that couldn’t have sliced deeper.  You could tell that Sugimoto never expected [...]
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            Episode 10 proved to be subtlety dramariffic.    Things didn’t really get interesting until Sugimoto decided to accompany Akira to hang out with Fumi. I don’t know what exactly she hoped to accomplish with this, seriously. It seemed to me like a really bitchy move. Then comes the point where Fumi proved something shocking about herself.   Of [...]
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Summary: It’s Kazusa x Masanori’s big day. Kazusa bribes Yasuko with a delicious secret in order to get her to smile and to congratulate her. Yasuko promptly rubs Kuri’s face with the revelation that she now knows that she loved the same man; apparently Masanori never received her love letter though. Akira and Kyouko [...] Related posts:Aoi Hana 4Aoi Hana 6-8Aoi Hana 2-3
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The day of Kazusa and Kagami’s wedding has arrived, while Kazusa’s father is visibly feeling melancholic, both Yasuko and Kuri cannot hide the regret and pain that shows through in their gaze. While she’s talking to Kazusa, it becomes obvious that Yasuko has a hard time with seeing her sister marry Kagami, but the kind [...]
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Oh, what a powerful episode this was. It was entirely quiet: no overblown or forced drama, nor an overemphasis on angst whatsoever. I believe that this episode was the most subtle of the entire series, and with Aoi Hana, that has to say something. The first half showed the wedding between Yasuko’s sister and teacher: [...]
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It’s Sweet Blue Flowers episode 10 and it’s time for Yasuko’s love interest to get married.  Just not to her.  Not content to be miserable by herself, Yasuko then decides to tag along with Akira and Fumi for the rest of the day. It’s time for Kagami-sensei and Kazusa’s wedding, but Yasuko is being all [...]
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