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Sweet Blue Flowers (TV)

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[ adapted from Aoi Hana (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Aoi Hana (Japanese)
青い花 (Japanese)
Genres: drama, romance
Plot Summary: Fumi Manjoume, an introverted, bookish teenage girl, is beginning her first year of high school at Matsuoka Girls' High School. She enters the school year with her heart broken by a previous relationship. At about the same time, she reconnects with her best friend from ten years ago, Akira Okudaira, who is now attending Fujigatani Girls' Academy as a first-year high school student. As they reconnect, they both deal with their own respective romantic problems, and help each other get through them.
User Ratings: 165 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 11 votes (sub:11)
 Excellent: 47 votes (sub:44, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Very good: 48 votes (sub:46, Kor.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 33 votes (sub:33)
 Decent: 16 votes (sub:14, Ger.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 304 users, rank: #1436
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.800 (Very good-.2), std. dev.: 1.4236, rank: #627
Weighted mean: 7.784 (Very good-.21), rank: #543 (seen all: 7.84 / seen some: 7.70 / won't finish: 4.13)
Bayesian estimate: 7.768 (Very good-.23), rank: #376
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 11
Episode titles: We have 11
Vintage: 2009-07-01 to 2009-09-09
Opening Theme:
"Aoi Hana (青い花)" by Kukikodan
Ending Theme:
"Centifolia (センティフォリア)" by Ceui
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 4
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kenichi Kasai

Series Composition: Fumihiko Takayama

Script:
Fumihiko Takayama (eps 1-4, 6, 11)
Seishi Minakami (eps 7-9)
Yuniko Ayana (eps 5-6, 10)

Storyboard:
Kai Uzumaki (eps 5-6, 11)
Katsushi Sakurami (ep 4)
Kazu Yokota (ep 9)
Kenichi Kasai (eps 1, 3, 11)
Kouichi Takada (eps 3, 10)
Kunihiko Ikuhara (OP)
Saya Aoi (ep 7)
Tatsuyuki Nagai (ep 2)
Youhei Suzuki (ep 8)

Episode Director:
Katsushi Sakurami (ep 4)
Kazu Yokota (ep 9)
Kenichi Kasai (ep 1)
Kentarō Suzuki (ep 5)
Saya Aoi (ep 7)
Tatsuyuki Nagai (ep 2)
Tomoyuki Kawamura (eps 6, 11)
Toshikazu Hashimoto (eps 3, 10)
Youhei Suzuki (ep 8)

Music: Takefumi Haketa

Original creator: Takako Shimura

Character Design: Masayuki Onchi

Art director: Shichiro Kobayashi

Chief Animation Director:
Kazunori Iwakura (assistant)
Masayuki Onchi

Animation director:
Akiko Kumata (ep 7)
Akiko Matsuo (ep 7)
Fusako Nomura (eps 5, 10)
Hiromitsu Hagiwara (ep 5)
Hiroshi Tomioka (eps 3, 8)
Hiroshi Yakou (eps 2, 7)
Kazunori Iwakura (eps 3, 8)
Kazuyuki Ueda (eps 4, 10)
Mika Saitou (ep 9)
Shigeki Kimoto (eps 1, 6, 11)
Yukiyo Komito (ep 9)

Sound director: Jin Aketagawa

Director of Photography: Yoshio Ookouchi

2nd Key Animation:
Akiko Kumata (ep 7)
Akiko Matsuo (ep 7)
Asuka Shimizu (ep 1)
Atsushi Oba (5 episodes

eps 1, 4, 7-8, 10
)
Ayako Satou (ep 6)
Emiko Kobayashi (ep 10)
Ena Nishikawa (eps 1, 5, 7, 11)
Hayato Hashiguchi (ep 1)
Hidenori Hasaka (ep 4)
Hideo Kawaguchi (ep 9)
Hiroko Oohata (eps 1, 8)
Hiroshi Tomioka (ep 2)
Kaori Yamada (eps 1, 5, 11)
Kazuyuki Yamayoshi (eps 2, 8)
Keita Nagasaka (ep 5)
Kenji Shibata (eps 7-8)
Kurea Narumi (eps 3-4)
Masami Yamashita (ep 9)
Mayumi Ueda (eps 6-8)
Miho Sekimoto (ep 8)
Mika Hironaka (eps 3, 11)
Naoko Koyama (eps 6, 8-9)
Nobuhiro Arai (ep 10)
Risako Yoshida (ep 9)
Ryota Itoh (ep 9)
Ryūtarō Minagawa (ep 2)
Sachiko Oniwa (ep 7)
Satomi Kawashima (ep 9)
Sayuri Tanaka (eps 8-9)
Shintaro Tsubota (ep 3)
Takahito Suzuki (eps 1-2, 8, 11)
Takeo Ōhira (ep 2)
Tomoko Kawauchi (ep 6)
Toshiyuki Sato (eps 4, 8)
Yoko Ito (8 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-7, 9, 11
)

Yoshihiro Ono (6 episodes
eps 1-2, 6-7, 9-10
)

Yu Murakami (eps 5, 9, 11)
Yūki Kōrai (ep 9)
Yuu Kaneshiro (eps 7-9)

Animation Check:
Arisa Matsuo
Hiroki Okamoto
Kaori Yamada
Kaoru Hattori
Mayumi Yamamoto
Nobuko Ogino
Risa Takai
Takako Kawano
Tomoko Kameyama
Yu Murakami
Yūki Kōrai

Assistant Animation Director: Shigeki Kimoto (ep 2)

Background Art:
Ayae Kanbe
Ayumi Kugawa
Kiyoshi Shimada
Sanae Morooka
Satomi Nagasawa
Tomotaka Kubo
Yoshio Ito

Color design: Miyuki Ishida

Color Key:
Asami Saito
Junko Suenaga
Maya Muranaga
Rika Nishio
Tomomi Andou

Composite:
Atsushi Sato
Hatsune Tomidokoro
Minori Kimura
Noriko Akutagawa
Tomokazu Nakanishi
Yoshio Ōkawachi

Digital Paint:
Akiko Uchida
Asuka Hino
Kyousuke Ishikawa
Mami Hirai
Miho Kimura

Editing: Masahiro Goto

Finish Check:
Junko Suenaga
Maya Muranaga
Miyuki Ishida
Tomomi Andou

In-Between Animation:
Asami Endo
Atsumi Sakai
Chisa Shibata
Eri Uchiyama
Haruka Sano
Hiromi Takada
Konomi Umemura
Makiko Inoue
Masanobu Uchida
Masayuki Nonaka
Mayumi Yamamoto
Mitsutaka Koshigo
Nana Mori
Risa Takai
Ruka Sawano
Satomi Nakai
Takae Yamaguchi
Tetsuya Sakamoto
Yasuna Kobayashi
Yu Suzuki

Key Animation:
Akihide Miya (eps 3, 8)
Akiko Kumata (ep 1)
Akiko Matsuo (ep 5)
Akio Kitahara (ep 9)
Akiori Kozue (ep 2)
Aya Kanou (eps 4, 10)
Aya Nagumo (eps 5-6)
Ayako Satou (ep 2)
Daiki Harada (ep 1)
Daisuke Tsumagari (ep 9)
Emi Tezuka (eps 2, 6)
Eriko Uchiyama (ep 2)
Fujio Suzuki (ep 5)
Fumiko Kon (eps 1, 7)
Fusako Nomura (eps 1, 5, 10)
Hayato Hashiguchi (eps 2, 6-7, 10)
Hidekazu Yamana (ep 2)
Hideo Nakamura (ep 9)
Hiroki Tanaka (eps 1-8, 10-11)
Hiroko Oohata (eps 6-7)
Hiroko Tanaka (ep 9)
Hiromi Ariga (ep 9)
Hiromi Ogata (ep 5)
Hiromitsu Hagiwara (eps 5, 10)
Hiroshi Tomioka (eps 3, 8)
Hiroshi Yakou (eps 2, 7)
Hirotaka Nii (eps 3, 8)
Hitomi Fujii (eps 3, 8)
Ikuko Satou (ep 10)
Ikuma Fujibe (eps 1, 7, 11)
Izumi Seguchi (ep 1)
Kaori Itou (eps 5, 7, 11)
Kaoru Maehara (ep 9)
Kazunari Niigaki (ep 3)
Kazuyuki Ueda (ep 10)
Kazuyuki Yamayoshi (eps 4, 10)
Kenji Matsuoka (ep 4)
Kensuke Matsuoka (ep 3)
Koichi Takai (ep 2)
Kouta Michishita (ep 6)
Kumiko Ozawa (ep 4)
Kurea Narumi (ep 10)
Kyouhei Tezuka (ep 7)
Mai Matsuura (ep 5)
Mai Toda (eps 1, 7, 11)
Makoto Sawazaki (eps 2, 6, 11)
Mari Asada (ep 9)
Mari Tominaga (eps 3, 8)
Masaaki Kitahara (eps 1, 7, 11)
Masafumi Sato (eps 2, 6)
Masato Onoda (eps 2, 5)
Masaya Yasutome (eps 3, 8)
Mayumi Ueda (eps 5, 11)
Michihiko Ozawa (eps 3, 8)
Mika Saitou (ep 2)
Mika Takazawa (eps 2, 6)
Mineko Ueda (ep 5)
Minoru Watanabe (eps 4, 10)
Mitsuhiro Okumura (ep 9)
Miyuki Goto (ep 5)
Nao Higa (ep 10)
Naoko Yoshimori (eps 1-2, 6)
Naoya Takahashi (eps 4, 10)
Nobuhiro Arai (ep 8)
Nobuhiro Okazaki (ep 9)
Rai Takemi (eps 4, 6)
Rika Kanetaka (ep 9)
Risako Yoshida (eps 2, 6)
Ryō Iwasaki (ep 6)
Ryota Itoh (ep 4)
Ryou Kodama (eps 1, 7, 11)
Shigeki Kimoto (eps 1, 6, 11)
Shigeru Chiba (eps 3, 7)
Shingo Nakamura (eps 2, 6)
Shinichi Toda (ep 9)
Shogo Morishita (ep 5)
Sono Kato (ep 5)
Takahiro Sasaki (eps 2, 6)
Takahito Suzuki (ep 7)
Takeo Ōhira (eps 4, 7, 10)
Takeshi Otani (eps 3, 8)
Takushi Ueno (ep 10)
Tanehiko Ōta (eps 4, 6)
Tenkichi Maekawa (ep 8)
Tomoe Sato (ep 8)
Tomohiro Shinoda (ep 7)
Tomohito Taira (ep 6)
Tomoyuki Oshita (ep 9)
Toshiya Washida
Tsubasa Ito (ep 4)
Yasuhisa Kai (ep 3)
Yasuhito Murakami (ep 4)
Yoko Ito (eps 4, 10)
Yoshiisa Kanezaki (ep 3)
Yoshio Ameno (eps 3, 8)
Yoshiyuki Takayanagi (eps 2, 7)
Yosuke Sotoyama (ep 4)
Yousuke Kobuchi (eps 1, 6, 11)
Yousuke Okuda (eps 1, 3)
Yu Murakami (eps 3-4, 6, 10)
Yukako Tsuzuki (ep 6)
Yuki Imoto (ep 5)
Yukie Hiyamizu (eps 1, 8, 11)
Yukiko Aikei (ep 8)
Yukiko Matsumoto (ep 3)
Yūko Hineno (ep 9)
Yumiko Komiyama (ep 8)
Yūto Shindō (eps 4, 6, 10)
Yuuko Yoshida (ep 5)

Production Advancement:
Emi Kashimura
Hiromi Chikamatsu
Kazuhiro Nishinosono
Koji Okada (chief)
Masato Sasaki
Naoya Gotō
Yū Hashimoto
Yūto Sasaki

Prop Design: Yukie Hiyamizu

Special Effects: Atsushi Sato

Theme Song Performance:
Ceui (ED)
Kukikodan (OP)

 

Ai Takabe as Fumi Manjoume

Yuko Gibu as Akira Okudaira

Aki Toyosaki as Miwa Motegi

Chiemi Ishimatsu as Yasuko Sugimoto

Fuyuka Oura as Chizu Hanashiro

Kenji Hamada as Masanori Kakumu

Mai Nakahara as Kori Sugimoto

Mamiko Noto as Shinako Sugimoto

Ryoko Ono as Kawasaki Sempai

Sayuri Yahagi as Yoko Hon'atsugi

Shinji Kawada as Shinobu Okudaira

Shintaro Asanuma as Yasushi Kawanoi

Yui Horie as Kyouko Ikumi

Yuka Iguchi as Misako Yasuda

Yukari Fukui as Kazusa Sugimoto

Japanese companies 

2nd Key Animation:
Bee Train
Ekura Animal
Jinbun
Last House
Studio Liberty
TNK
TYO Animations
Wao World

Animation Production: J.C. Staff

Backgrounds: Kobayashi Production

Broadcaster:
BS Fuji
Fuji TV (2009-07-01)

Digital Paint:
Atelier Rabbit
Jinbun
Nendai Animation
Studio Core

In-Between Animation:
Atelier Rabbit
Jinbun
Nendai Animation
Studio Core
Triple A

Key Animation:
FAI
Jinbun
Nendai Animation

Production Assistance: Artland (ep 9)

English staff 
English companies 
(none)
 

Subtitles: MX Media LLC

Translation: MX Media LLC

English cast 
(none)
 
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