1. "Yooh! You're the first one here."
3. "H-"
4. "Hello."
5. "You can have my last pocky* as a reward for getting here early."
6. "Then get to practice."
7. "I'm not."
8. "If you're free, sugimoto, go make us some tea."
9. * A Japanese snack food—a biscuit stick with a sweet-flavored coating.
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1. "I'll make us some tea."
2. "Oh. We moved the cans of tea over there."
3. "Yeah, you do that."
4. "I'm going."
5. "I'll have the tea with the blue bear on it."
6. "Okaaaay!"
7. "I'll have the one with the orange cat on it."
1. * A highland resort located in Yamanashi Prefecture.
2. "Woooooow! Where, where?!"
3. "Kiyosato*. It's nothing to get excited about, though."
4. "I just thought it would be fun if you came along."
5. "Oh, no, I didn't mean anything weird by it!"
6. "Oh."
7. "Kou-chan..."
8. "I go with kou-chan's family every year. Would you like to come, okudaira-san?"
1. "Manjoume-san too, if you want."
2. "Um,"
3. "... And,"
4. "Oh, pon-chan and the others?"
5. "You know, the perky ones."
6. "If it bothers you that kou-chan'll be there, then invite those other girls too..."
7. "Huh? That came out of nowhere."
8. "... You're a good person, ikumi-san."
9. "Fumi-chan broke up with sempai."
10. "Argh! Why can't I just keep my big mouth shut?"
11. "Well, you're a girl. We're all like that."
12. "I shouldn't tell you this, but I'm going to anyway."
1. "Yeah, you shouldn't have told me that..."
2. "Gurk"
3. "Well, that's all the more reason seeing me might make manjoume-san uncomfortable."
4. "Uhhh...m, couldn't hurt to ask her, though. I'll ask anyway."
5. "Okay, bye!"
6. "See you tomorrow!"
1. "How are you doing, sugimoto-kun?"
2. "It's because we're going for the nationals..."
3. "You're still as popular as ever."
5. "Wow. Here,"
6. "I ran into someone on my way here who asked me to give this to you."
7. "Couldn't be better."
8. "C'mooon, let's goooo!"
9. "Oh, nooo!"
10. "Hey, don't say anything to lower morale."
11. "Since when is our school that good?"
12. "Well, it's just a bunch of little girls fooling around with balls, right?"
2. "Just ten more minutes. Then we can go."
3. "I'll be waiting for you at the gates!"
4. "You suck."
1. "Good-byeeee!"
2. "Yeah, good-byeee!"
3. "Su-"
4. "Gi-"
5. "Mo-"
6. "To-"
7. "Saaan!"
8. Ah-chan again?
9. "You're really going down the wrong path."
10. "You should join Takara-zuka Takara-zuka!"
11. "That girl's definitely waiting for you."
12. "Oh?"
13. "The little princess from fujigaya*."
14. "What?"
15. "You won the lottery or some-thing?"
16. * Though we used "Fujigatani" for the school name before, a fellow Sweet Blue Flowers fan recently informed us that "Fujigaya" is the more likely reading (though both are plausible).
1. "I'll just be a minute. Wait for me?"
2. "Take your time..."
3. "See you at the station."
4. "Split up..."
5. "I heard you and manjoume-san"
6. "Well, um..."
7. "What is it?"
8. "Yes."
9. "Long time no see."
1. That little shrimp doesn't know how to keep her mouth shut.
2. "Who told you..."
3. "So?"
4. "Oh, ah-chan, huh?"
5. "Did you think you'd be next in line?"
6. "Forget I said that. Bye."
7. "Sorry."
8. "Juuust kidding."
9. "No,"
10. "Actually,"
11. "I think"
12. "You were right."
1. "Hunh."
2. "In fact,"
3. "... You were right!"
4. "Spare me."
5. "You can come, but I won't have anything to do with it."
6. "Would it... Be all right with you if I came over for art lessons?"
7. "About summer vacation...!"
8. "Sempai."
9. "Hm?"
1. "I think you're not an honest person, sempai."
2. "Are you in love with kagami-sensei?"
3. "Is that so?"
4. "You keep changing the subject. I can't keep up."
5. "Don't make me hit you."
6. "Nobody likes pushy women."
7. ""Nobody" meaning you, too, sempai?"
8. "But I'm in love with you anyway..."
9. "I'm sorry."
10. "I won't bring it up again."
11. "Anyway, it's just a nuisance for me when you expect me to act in certain ways."
12. "No, it's not my thing either."
13. "Unrequited love might be your thing, but I--"
1. "Well, I'll pass your message on to my sister."
2. "Huh."
3. "I really will come this time!"
4. "...oh!"
5. "Kyouko-chan."
6. "Kyouko-chan..."
1. "That's it!"
2. "She came here for art lessons."
3. "I remember now."
4. "But what was her family name?"
5. "Ikumi."
6. "Maybe my teaching technique wasn't good?"
7. "But she stopped coming after just one lesson."
8. "No, it was because I turned her down."
9. "Oh. That poor dear."
10. "So she stopped coming because she didn't like you anymore, yacchan?"
11. "Whaaat?"
12. "Kyouko only came here to see me."
1. "I can't help but sit with my legs open when I do it."
2. "You know, kazusa-chan, you're kind of masculine when you paint."
3. "And your clothes, too..."
4. "Thanks for the compliment."
5. "You look cool like that."
1. "It's awesome."
2. "I know, right?"
3. "Wow."
4. "A summer home...?"
5. "Well, I'll still go even if you don't..."
6. "But you want to go, don't you, ah-chan?"
7. "You can say no if you don't want to go. You do know that?"
1. "I can just go somewhere else with you next time."
2. "So don't worry about it."
3. "How cold!"
4. "Don't say that! It could happen for real!!"
5. "Hey, heeey!"
6. "Like to visit your aunt in yokohama?"
7. "We won't!"
8. "You two better not make a sugimoto-sempai lovers association or anything..."
9. "That's kind of pathetic..."
10. "I'm not..."
11. "You shouldn't force yourself to go..."
12. "To my aunt's place?"
13. "I'll go."
14. "To ikumi-san's place."
1. "There you go putting up a tough front..."
2. "My feelings for sempai have dimmed now. Really."
3. "Yeah..."
4. "Agh!"
5. "I'm so excited about summer break!"
6. "What should I do?"
7. "'niiight!"
8. "'night."
1. But, thanks to Ah-chan, I'm determined to get over this.
2. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't care about Sempai anymore.
4. "I am putting up a tough front."
3. Honatsugi-san and the others are thrilled...
4. They're practically bouncing off the walls.
5. "Oh, good."
6. "Okudaira-san's a meddler, isn't she?"
7. "See you in a few."
8. "Um, I'm going to go use the restroom..."
1. "Are you still in love with sempai?"
2. "Huh?"
3. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you."
4. "Not at all..."
5. "Maybe I'm just a sucker for unrequited love..."
6. "That's not..."
7. "I'm still in love with her, though. I'm such an idiot."
8. "It's bad enough she turned me down, but she hates me now, too."
1. Oh, no.
2. "That's not..."
3. I was going to smile and tell her that everything would be all right,
4. "That's not true..."
5. but she's thrown me off balance with just a few words.
6. Oh, God. What do I do now...?
4. The Kamakura Literature Museum was originally the Maeda family's summer home, and this was their main home. It's huge, it's spacious... it's utterly wonderful!
5. Komaba Park, the Former Maeda Estate, located in the Meguro ward of Tokyo.
6. "but actually, there's another too:"
7. The Kamakura Literature Museum is the model for the outside of Fujigaya Girls' Academy.
8. "I recommend you pay this one a visit, too!"
9. "I used the staircase here to draw the one in chapter 11 where Ah-chan is getting yelled at by the nun."
10. Anyway, whenever I saw something wonderful, I went nuts taking pictures of it. Afterwards, I pieced together the scattered pictures I took and used them as references for this volume.
11. I used it as the model for Sugimoto-sempai's house.
12. There's a large Japanese-style residence on the property, too...
13. "We were able to get some later, and it was a moving experience."
14. By the way, the curry we missed out on eating in the first volume was at a restaurant called Sangoshou, located in Shichirigahama.
15. "Eating curry while looking at the ocean."
16. "What a great location!"
17. "It's good."
18. "Shimura and U-mura-joshi getting all excited at Kokkyo University."
19. "S-so there are people out there... who have an adolescence like this."
20. "Wish this was mine..."
21. "Shimura-san, there's a chapel over here!"
22. "*And a lovely garden!"
23. "Darn fat cats!"
24. Shinako-san (the eldest daughter) back when she was a student at Fujigaya.
25. I've been wanting to draw brief episodes in the lives of the people who appear in Sweet Blue Flowers, to tell the stories of some of the minor characters, so up next is an end-of-book manga about maidens.
27. "I hope we'll meet again in the third volume..."
1. * Fun fact: This is the name of one of the editors of the book.
4. "Eek!"
5. "You startled me..."
6. "A letter?"
7. "Are you giving someone"
8. "Everyone admires her..."
9. "It's for shinako-sempai... Right?"
1. "Penny for your thoughts?"
2. "Orie-san!"
3. "It was just brought home to me how things in life can be beyond our control."
4. "Oh, dear!"
5. "That's an awfully old-fashioned expression."
6. "Is there someone who has captured your affections, hinako-san?"
7. "Is it shinako-onee-sama for you, too?"
1. "The one I like"
2. "Actually,"
3. "Is my friend orie-san."
4. Now that it's convenient, I'm completely forgetting about the object of my affections.
5. "It sure is true that things in life can be beyond our control."
6. I'm so bad.
7. It's only a matter of time before I fall for Hinako-san instead.
8. Is that selfish?
1. First appeared in
2. Manga Erotics F 2006 vol.37 ~ 2006 vol.42
5. "D-... do you have any girl-girl love stories...?"
6. "Excuse me..."
7. "Geeeez!"
8. "That's the adult section. Don't go in theeeeeere!"
9. "Eeeek! Whoaaa! What's thiiis?"
13. Sweet blue flowers 2 is on sale now. It's got the drama festival, and a bit of this and that, plus an extra manga at the end!
14. "Do you have any tragic teacher-student love stories?"
15. "Just get back to wooooork!"
16. "Excuse me-"
17. "Oh, my-! You know sooo much about them, Fumi-san!"
18. "Some really good ones."
19. "R-... right over here."
20. "whistle- whistle-"
21. "Yes! We do!"
22. "W-w-w-"
23. "Oh, love at first sight!"
25. "Please just leave me be."
26. "You buy too much yuri manga, Manjoume-san!"
29. Hello to all of you here at Tora no Ana--both those who are new to my work and those who aren't--I'm Shimura Takako. Volume 1 came out in December 2005. Now the second volume is going on sale, exactly one year after the first. Yaaay!!! There's still lots more to come: a confusing mixture of love and friendship between girls, plus plenty of heart-warming and heart-racing moments. I'll be doing my best whilst trying to remain sound in body and mind. I hope to see you again in about a year, healthy and hale...! December 2006 Shimura Takako
30. "I'm sorry, Mook-sama..."
31. * Mook draws a promotional manga for Tora no Ana called Miko-chan in Tora no Ana.