1. "Oh, no!"
2. "I'm going to just die when ah-chan comes on."
3. "Remember her high school entrance exam?"
4. "But I just know she's got to be beside herself with nerves."
5. "Don't be pathetic."
6. "Shh!"
7. "Look, it's starting."
8. "Enough, you two!"
9. "What did you just say?"
10. "I'm not expecting too much from your daughter, shou-chan. Calm down."
1. "It is so hard to climb up a staircase in a dress like this!*"
2. *note: All text from The Deer Cry Pavilion (The Rokumeikan) is quoted from Hiroaki Sato's English translation, which can be found in My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima.
1. I'm used to that because of the kimono with trailing hems that I wear.
2. No, it isn't that my feet get tangled.
4. Climbing up a staircase in a dress like this,
5. I feel naked.
1. The high school play, The Deer Cry Pavilion, has finally begun.
2. Kyouko, beautifully acting the part of Countess Kageyama, the lead...
3. Akira, trembling with nerves, but mustering her courage and stepping onstage...
4. Fumi, her feelings for Akira tucked away in her heart, watching over Akira as she performs...
5. The girls' feelings mingle.
2. A "girl meets girl" story that will set your heart aflutter.
6. The TV anime is now airing on Fuji TV's "Noise"! (And BS Fuji.) Sweet Blue Flowers volumes 1-4 and The Sweet Blue Flowers Primer are selling to rave reviews.
1. "Isn't Lady Asako late?"
2. "She's deliberately late."
3. * A voiceless shout.
4. "She's on!"
1. "Oh, how brave they look!"
2. "The cavalry march has started."
3. "Why don't you take a look?"
4. "Akiko,"
5. "your sad face does not become this view."
6. "But, mother, isn't it the case that only a sad person is qualified to look at a beautiful landscape?"
7. "Move it, wardrobe! Hurry!"
1. "I'm going to raise your obi* a bit more."
2. "Okay."
4. "Ikumi-san knows how to put on a kimono."
5. "Oh, that was a lot faster than I expected."
6. "What's all this fuss?"
7. "Ma'am. Ma'am!"
8. "All right."
9. "It's nearly time now."
10. "Good luck!"
1. "Here she comes; here she comes,"
2. "walking up the path by the spring water."
3. "until I bring it up."
4. "Be patient."
5. "You understand?"
6. "Welcome, everyone."
1. "Welcome, everyone."
2. "I do not know how to apologize for having kept you waiting for such a long time."
3. "...but it's only the ladies talking here."
4. "Huh?"
5. "Me?"
6. "Kou-chan, read the next line."
7. "C'mon, let me stay over tonight."
8. "Hee hee!"
9. ""No need for stiff formalities.""
10. "That part?"
1. "Want me to come spend the night at your place, then?"
2. "No."
3. "You just won't drop that, huh?"
4. "I don't want to go home."
5. "I don't want to be in my house at all."
6. "You have school tomorrow, so we'll need to pick up your uniform."
7. "So I can stay?"
1. "I'm sorry."
2. "Once you've got an idea in your head, it's impossible to get through to you."
3. "Kou-chan."
4. "Hm?"
5. "Why not?"
6. "Don't call off our engagement."
7. "Marry me."
1. "If I marry you, I can join your family."
2. "There you go again."
3. "Sorry, but I'm not that accommodating."
4. "Because you want to leave yours?"
5. You must be joking.
1. I want my daughter to live the new age fully,
2. I am such an old-fashioned woman. I can't possibly go to such a fashionable place.
3. live the kind of life I could not.
4. In that sense her love affair is mine as well.
1. "She's such an innocent child and you say she's in love?"
2. "She is."
3. "Well..."
4. "It was at the end of summer."
5. "Cholera was still raging..."
1. Wow! Ah-chan's amazing.
2. She's so good.
3. He said we might not be able to see each other again in this world.
4. Last night he came to say farewell.
5. But I could see that he was doing something
6. that might-
7. might...
1. "...Yes."
2. "Just so."
3. "Something that might cost him his life, you mean to say?"
4. Asako
5. meets with Hisao, the son she hasn't seen since he was a baby,
6. and his father, Kiyohara.
7. "Phew! Kyouko,"
8. "Nice save!"
9. "Is hisao ready to go on?"
10. "Yes!"
1. He's coming!
2. Kusano,
3. what a shameless thing I have done-
4. as if bringing in a paramour!
5. "You're on now!"
6. "Okay!"
7. This is no time to be saying such a thing.
8. You are on the verge of saving the lives of three people: Mr. Kiyohara, Mr. Hisao, and Miss Akiko.
1. Oh, my heart is pounding like a girl's.
2. "Kyouko-chan sure is good."
3. "But she's even better than her, isn't she?"
4. "She said she joined because she admired sugimoto-sempai,"
1. "I have not seen you for a long time."
2. "You certainly"
3. "have not changed at all..."
1. "Did you expect to see a man bent down?"
2. "...No."
3. "No!"
4. "He has something about him that is truly attractive."
5. "If he were a woman, he would be someone like you."
6. Was the woman my father loved someone like Asako?
1. "A little."
2. "But I have you, mom."
3. "Are you lonely, kyouko?"
4. "Wow!"
5. Mom knew just what I was thinking.
6. "But you have me, so you're not that lonely. Right?"
7. Her god is a little different from the one I know.
8. I didn't find out until later that she was praying with a bunch of people I didn't know.
9. I liked going out with my mother.
1. "I don't want to go today. I have a headache."
2. "Are you ready to go, kyouko-chan?"
3. "I see."
4. "I'll be out late tonight. Can you watch the house for me?"
5. I hate him. I hate Mom, too.
6. It's Dad's fault. I can't stop him either.
7. I can't stop Mom from breaking.
1. "Even as I have grown old, an incorrigible child continues to inhabit me."
2. "You must treasure that child."
1. "I break my own rule for the first time in my life and go to the ball, what would you do?"
2. "suppose"
3. "Mr. Kiyohara,"
4. "suppose,"
5. "Suppose I do, would you despise me?"
6. "You, to the ball?"
7. My whole family is a disgrace.
1. "Please do not talk about love and human beings any more."
2. "Those words are unclean."
3. "When they come out of your mouth, they become repellent."
4. "I'm sorry."
5. "Oh!"
6. "What's wrong?"
1. "You are clean as ice only when you totally isolate yourself"
2. "from human emotions."
3. "Listen,"
4. "I heard a pistol shot."
1. ""An incorrigible child continues to inhabit me,""
2. "Huh?"
2. "You guys were so good!"
3. "It was amazing!"
4. "I wasn't that good!"
5. "Geez, you really gotta come join the club!"
6. "I can't believe ueda-san's really never acted before!"
7. "You're amazing."
8. "Seriously, can we ask the head of the library aides to let you come join our club instead?"
9. "Thank you."
10. "You're only a second-year student."
11. "It's truly amazing that you were able to pull off a major role."
12. "Huuuh?"
1. "The girl who won herself a best actress award with her performance today!!"
2. "She's here!"
3. "I think I'm still flying high."
4. "What should I do?"
5. "You were too cool! You gave me chills!!"
6. "Of course you are."
7. "Th-"
8. "Thanks."
9. "Your acting was so passionate."
1. "If there's anything we can do to help you out in return, please don't hesitate to ask."
2. "We were no help at all."
3. "Oh, no! We should be the ones thanking you."
4. "We're truly grateful to you guys from matsuoka, too."
5. "Hehehe!"
6. "It's more like you gave us an experience we'll always remember."
7. "You don't have to do that."
8. "Oh!"
9. "S-"
10. "Same to you!"
11. "Good work."
1. "Hah hahahaha!"
2. "But she was able to just laugh it off."
3. "This one here skipped over a whole page once."
4. "That's right!"
5. "It was just that one little bit. Don't sweat it."
6. "I'm sorry I missed my line!"
7. "So were you."
8. "You were magnificent..."
9. "We're going to start the meeting now!"
10. "You stay too, please, sensei!"
1. "I'm home!"
3. "Welcome home."
4. She was absolutely incredible...!
5. "How did ah-chan do?"
6. "...yeah."
7. "She may be just a little thing,"
8. "But she's always been able to do anything she put her mind to."
9. "Oh, before I forget-"
10. "We'll have to do something special to congratulate her next time she's over."
1. "Chizu-chan is coming to visit."
2. "You know they had a baby."
3. "Her mother-in-law has been helping her look after it, so..."
4. "Well,"
5. "...oh."