Aoi hana
Tags: psychedelic, romantic

Plot synopsis:
At the start of Sweet Blue Flowers, Akira Okudaira, who is an entering high school student into Fujigaya Girls Academy, becomes reacquainted with her childhood friend Fumi Manjōme whom she has not seen for ten years. Fumi is attending Matsuoka Girl's High School where she quickly becomes friends with a handsome third-year student named Yasuko Sugimoto. Akira joins her school's drama club with her friend and classmate Kyōko Ikumi, who is in love with Yasuko, though Yasuko turns her down. Akira meets Kyōko's fiance (in name only) Kō Sawanoi. Yasuko and Fumi become a couple, and Fumi comes out to Akira who is at first unsure on how to act, but still tries to support Fumi's new relationship.
Akira's drama club does an adaptation of Wuthering Heights for a drama festival; Fumi helps out with her friends Yōko Honatsugi, Misako Yasuda, and Miwa Motegi. Yasuko breaks up with Fumi, who learns that Yasuko's older sister Kazusa is marrying a teacher at Fujigaya named Masanori Kagami whom Yasuko had fallen in love with. Time passes after the wedding, and Yasuko decides to study abroad in London after graduating. Miwa and Akira's older brother Shinobu start going out, and Fumi tells Akira that she was her first love, much to Akira's embarrassment.
When Akira and her friends enter their second year of high school, an energetic first-year student named Haruka Ōno joins the Fujigaya drama club. Akira and Kyōko are split into different classrooms, and Akira meets a tall girl in her new class named Ryōko Ueda. The high school division of Fujigaya does the play Rokumeikan with Akira, Kyōko and Ryōko playing lead roles, though Ryōko only agrees to act because Akira also agrees to act alongside her. Fumi and Haruka become friends, and Haruka confides in Fumi that she suspects her older sister Orie may like women. Not knowing how to respond, Fumi seeks advice from Akira, but ends up confessing her love for her instead. Kyōko does not want Kō to break off the engagement, but he ends up finally breaking up with her. The play goes well and everyone praises the actress' performances. Over summer vacation, Akira suggests to Fumi that they go out together after thinking deeply about it.

Review: Aoi Hana: A wonderful lesbian romance anime. Normally, i'm not the kind of girl who likes romance movies / animes. But this series showed me just how much potential in this genre lies."Aoi Hana" is about a lesbian romantic relationship in an all-girl high school. I don't want to spoiler anything, so i'll just say that the story is quite good and it could surprise me more than one time.Just a note: there are no erotic scenes.The visuals are quite appealing and contribute to the overall experience. I watched it in HD 720p and can only recommend to watch it in 720p, if possible.I watched it with the original Japanese sound and the voices are really good. Since the voices affect the atmosphere of the anime i heavily recommend to watch with the Japanese audio and subtitles of your choice.When i searched for negative aspects i found only one: The series is rather short with 11 episodes.All in all "Aoi Hana" left me with a nice, warm feeling. It is a beautiful composition of visuals, story and characters and i can recommend it to EVERYONE.. Boring.. Maybe this show gets more interesting over time, but its a romance so that's doubtful. The animation is nice, nothing too special. The music and overall tone just seems to be designed for the whole thing to come off as boring as possible.. Felt dissapointed watching this. This is my first Yuri film and I always was an anime fan which of course there would be some animes that would disappoint me. Unfortunately, this is one of them. I just felt that the main characters were a bit similar in personality as well as the way they look. Also, I feel the writers are considering girls weak as having one of the main characters always crying. I look at Yaoi anime and feel that its way ahead of Yuri which it doesn't need to be because there are a lot of different personalities in women as well as men too . There should also be more involvement in pushing lesbian anime as well with gay anime to success!Maybe I'm overeacting here but I'm just heavily dissapointed with this series and its storyline. I would like to have liked it but it just didn't turn right for me personally which is such a pity ; (