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9. ...... 165> 11. ¹ The name of a well-known short story collection (Japanese title: Hana Monogatari) by Yoshiya Nobuko, a lesbian novelist. Written in the early 20th century. 12. ² English translation of the Japanese title for Hermann Hesse's Gertrud. 13. ³ English translation of the Japanese title of a poem by Heinrich Heine. 14. ⁴ English translation of the Japanese title for Hermann Hesse's Schön ist die Jugend. 15. This manga's Japanese title, Aoi Hana ("(The) Blue Flower"), is also the Japanese title of Novalis's unfinished work Heinrich von Ofterdingen, whose central image, a blue flower, later became a symbol of longing among Romantics. Novalis's life inspired an English novel by the title The Blue Flower, written by Penelope Fitzgerald. For more information on the symbolism of the Blue Flower, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Flower

2. A senior at Matsuoka Girls' High School. A cool upperclassman, and the captain of the basketball team. Popular. 4. In 10th grade at Matsuoka Girls' High School. Was friends with Okudaira Akira-san when she was young. A crybaby. 7. In 10th grade at the high school division of Fujigatani Girls' Academy. Currently in the throes of a painful unrequited love. 11. In 10th grade at the high school division of Fujigatani Girls' Academy. Was friends with Manjoume Fumi-san when she was young. Has a good head on her shoulders. 12. A cheerful, energetic group of girls.

1. "Wake uuuup, ah-chan!"

1. "Ah-chan, school starts today..." 2. "Come on, ah-chan. Wake up!" 3. "Owwww" 4. "I've told you a hundred times--don't crawl into your sister's futon!"

1. "Mooorn-I-ng!" 2. "Good morning." 3. "Oooh, a sailor uniform."

1. "I'll drive ya." 2. "Forget anything-?" 3. "Nope." 4. "I'll take you all the way to school." 5. "Just take me to the station. You're embarrassing." 6. "Drop me off at the station." 7. "You're only cute when you're asleep."

1. "Shaddup." 2. "Watch out for perverts--!" 3. "It's your fault for not waking up." 4. "Don't get in my bed without asking anymore!" 5. That idiot. 6. "Oh."

1. "You dropped your pass..." 2. "Um..." 3. "Thank you very much!" 4. "Oh!" 5. "Oh?!" 6. "Oh, no!" 7. "Ack!" 8. "Get going to school." 9. "Wh- what're you doin'? Don't come over here." 10. "Stupid!"

1. The train to fujisawa will be arriving shortly. 3. "I finally get to take the train to school! I've dreamed of doing this..."

2. "Aah!" 3. "Even onii-chan's* better than this!" 4. ... It feels like 5. He's coming too close to me. 6. It's creeping me out. 7. "I'm sorry to have disturbed you again!" 8. "Kamakura-. Kamakura-." 9. I'll just stick close to her. 10. She's so taaaall! 11. "It's no prob- lem..."

1. "It's so wonderful-!" 2. "It..." 3. I'm one of those "Proper young women" who go to fujigatani, after all-. 4. They probably think we make easy targets. 5. Again~?! 6. Geez~!

7. "A pervert?"

1. "Ouch!" 2. "Th-" 3. "Thank you." 4. "We were both unlucky today, huh?" 5. That's so cute. 6. She's so tall, and yet she was crying. 7. "See you ..."

1. "It" lies at the end of a long, long uphill road.

1. * "Onee-sama" is used to respectfully address an older girl in this case, and "gata" means there's more than one of them. 2. "Good morning, onee-sama-gata*!" 3. "'Morning." 4. "Good morning." 5. "G- good morning." 6. I'm a high-schooler starting today. 8. "Yes, good morning." 9. "Good morning, Sister!" 10. Elementary-schoolers. So cute~!

1. As of today, I'm one of the "proper young women" of Fujigatani. 3. Self-introductions 4. "Yes. Next, please."

1. "Oh! I'm sorry." 2. "It's you. Hey, it's you!" 3. "Huh?" 4. "Next-?" 5. "I came here from mikasa junior high. My name is manjoume fumi." 6. I really... Made a mistake... 7. This morning... 8. Sigh... 9. "I'm honatsugi youko." 10. "Nice to meet you." 11. "Same here."

1. "You know, what school club." 2. "Have you decided what club you're going to join?" 3. "We all have to join some sort of club--!" 4. "Wrong answer--!" 5. "I'm not interested in joining one." 6. "Want to join the drama club?" 7. "Um," 8. What's with this girl? 9. "Sorry... Please don't be mad." 10. "Oh! Your face looks all scary now." 11. What the heck was that?

1. "Has a certain air to her, doesn't she?" 2. "Manjoume-san" 3. "What," 4. "Nobody wants to join the drama club?" 5. "Well, guess it'll be just the three of us again this year." 6. "But I'm going to go try and patch things up." 7. "I think she doesn't like me much after what just happened." 8. "She's so tall!" 9. "Oh-! She might be the sort of girl who enriches the atmosphere of an all-girl school!"

1. "Man-joume-saaan!" 2. "I invited her to come have tea with us after school, and she said okay." 3. "What'd she say?" 4. ... I've done it again.

1. Why is it that I can never say no? 2. "They're so friendly..." 3. "Don't be mad... C'mon!" 4. "You always cry at the drop of a hat, fumi-chan... "

1. "'kay..." 3. "Okudaira akira-san." 4. "..." 5. "I'm ikumi kyouko." 6. "Nice to meet you." 7. "That's a wonderful name." 8. "Yeah..."

1. "That sounds juuust like a girls' school!" 3. "Nobody did that I saw, but the little girls called us "Onee-sama."" 4. "Does everyone greet each other with "Good day"?" 5. "Bring home a nice girl-friend some-time." 6. "Whoa-!" 7. "Oh!" 8. But this girl ikumi-san I met was really attractive... 9. "Okudaira speaking." 10. "I'm coming!"

1. "Oh, is that so?" 2. "When did you move back here?" 3. "Oh my-! Is it really you?" 4. "It can't be... Man-joume-san?!" 5. "Man-joume..." 6. "Man-joume..." 7. "That's perfect!" 8. "Ah-!" 9. "Ah-chan, do you remember fumi-chan?" 10. "Who's manjoume?"

1. to the bathroom...! 2. ... I gotta go 3. Bathroom... Bathroom... Bathroom... 4. Bathroom... 5. Bathroom... 7. "Stand!" 8. "Bow!"

1. "Ah-chan, fumi-chan's in trouble!" 3. "Go get ah-chan, right now!" 4. "Fumi-chan peed her pants-!" 5. "Wah-!"

1. "C'mon, fumi-chan!" 2. "Ah-!" 3. "Oh my! Oh dear!" 4. "Let's change your underwear-" 6. "Let's go, fumi-chan-" 7. "'kay-" 8. "Thank you-" 9. "Everything's fine now. I've washed and dried them, so they'll be nice and dry for you when you go to leave."

1. Fumi-chan made a big fuss when she had to transfer schools. 2. "I will-" 3. "So stop crying now, okay?" 4. "I'm gonna write you." 5. "I swear I'm gonna write you," 6. "So you write me too, 'kay, ah-chan?" 7. I didn't get any letters from her either. 8. I didn't write her.

1. "I wonder what sort of girl ah-chan has grown up to be?" 2. "Well, we were just kids back then." 3. "And the two of you were so close! How cold of you." 4. "You were always following her around, sticking to her like glue..."

1. "Coming-!"

1. "Well, mine just follows every passing fad!" 2. "It was my dream that she go to fujigatani, though." 3. "Wow, matsuoka girls' school!" 4. "There aren't many of you in that one, fumi-chan," 5. "But there are in this one."

1. "It's just that... You don't seem like the fumi-chan I remember." 2. "Wh-what?" 3. "You don't have much of a chest, though, do you?" 4. "Oh!" 5. "That's a scary face." 6. "You're so much taller than me!"

1. "Ahaha." 2. "She told me I didn't have much of a chest." 3. "So how was your short reunion?" 4. "Geez." 5. "Your breasts are small, but they're shaped well." 6. "You're always saying stuff like that..."

1. "You can stay over tonight, right?" 2. "Yeaah, I have tomorrow off from work." 3. "Yeeees?" 4. "Chizu-chaaan!" 5. "Just one day?" 6. "Unfortunately." 7. "But there's nothing we can do about it now." 8. "I wish we'd never moved back here." 9. "I didn't want to be away from you, chizu-chan..." 10. "Yeah. I wish you hadn't, too."

2. "Oh-!" 3. "You did this for me-?" 4. "Bring your husband too next time you come visit." 5. "Oh! Come on, fumi-chan, have some, have some!"

1. I'm sorry I didn't tell you.

1. "Oh." 2. "'mooorning!" 3. She really does stand out. 4. "It's fumi-chan." 5. Did someone do something weird to her again...? 6. "...fumi-chan?"

1. And she's getting married, so... 2. And she's a girl... 3. She's my cousin ... 4. "Oh-" 5. "My..." 6. "You always cry at the drop of a hat, fumi-chan..."

1. Those words 2. leapt across the ten-year gap in time, so easily.