This episode begins with Fumi and Akira running into each other, and they sit down and talk about their schools and other stuff. Akira says that since they keep running into each other and basically have the same commute why don’t they just agree to commute back and forth to school, Fumi agrees to commute with Akira.
Later, when Fumi gets home, her mother asks her if she can remember what Akira’s favorite food was? Was it red beans and rice? Up in her room, Fumi struggles to remember what Akira’s favorite food was, and in the process of trying to remember, Fumi is brought to tears thinking about her cousin. The next day, Fumi and Akira begin their joint commute, and they spent time talking about their childhood days. At school both Akira and Fumi have to think about what club they want to join, Akira wants a club that will make her refined, and Fumi decides to join the literary club before she gets pressured into the drama club because she talked to a tall cute girl from that club.
After school, Akira is hanging out in Fumi’s room where they talk about cellphones and school when Fumi’s cousin Chizu and her future husband stop for a visit. Fumi’s mother calls up to the girls, she tells Fumi to come greet Chizu and her future husband, and that she’ll get Akira’s futon ready for her. Fumi starts to cry, saying that Chizu is cold, and Akira rushes to Fumi’s side to comfort her. When Akira and Fumi are getting ready to sleep, Fumi asks Akira to join her, and Akira agrees telling her that she’s really spoiled. While Akira is joining Fumi in her bed we see a flashback of Fumi and Chizu being a lot more friendly than cousins normally are, and we hear Chizu tell Fumi that she can’t be the one. Well, while Chizu told Fumi that she can’t be the one its looked like she was the one for Fumi, at least for a little while. Akira notices that Fumi is starting to cry and she takes her hand and tells her that night is for sleeping, as Fumi is drifting off to sleep Akira wonders if Fumi cared for her cousin that much?
The next day at their schools, we see what clubs the girls decide to join, Akira and her new friend (Kyoto) decide to join the drama club, and Fumi changes her mind about the literature club and she instead joins the basketball club because the girl she thought was in the drama club was instead a member of the basketball club. When the day of Chizu’s wedding ceremony arrives, Fumi tells her parents that she’s ill and must stay in bed to recover. As soon as Fumi’s parents leave, the phone rings and it’s Akira asking if Fumi’s free to hang out? Fumi quickly accepts, and joins Akira downtown for cake and conversation. Akira tells her about joining the drama club, and Fumi tells her about changing to the basketball club. Later, Fumi thinks that Akira is becoming happy and refined by joining a club she likes, and that she needs to back out of the basketball club.
The next day at school, Fumi begins the process of backing out of the basketball club and joining the drama club instead. At Akira’s school, Kyoko and Akira find a love letter in Kyoko’s locker, Kyoko says that she already likes someone, and Akira asks if the someone could be her and Kyoko says it could be! Later, Akira wonders how she was able to guess that Kyoto likes girls?
When Yasuko Sugimoto sees the drama club flier that Fumi got from Akira she takes Fumi and the three other girls from Fumi’s class for a visit to Fujigaya’s drama club (Akira’s club), Yasuko used to attend Fujigaya as a student so she still has friends there. When Yasuko introduces them to the other drama club, Akira sees her friend Fumi and rushes to greet her. It turns out that Yasuko also knows Akira’s friend Kyoko, and it also seems that Kyoko is in love with Yasuko, it seems that Yasuko cares for Kyoko but not in a romantic way. As Fumi watches the other girls get along so well, she says that Fujigaya is perfect, it has gardens, chapels, tea parties, and places for secret meetings (secret dangerous lesbian liaisons). As Fumi watches the other girls run off together she sees that Kyoko is in tears from her meeting with Yasuko, Fumi and Kyoko share glances with each other. Well, that’s all for this episode.
Well, After watching the second episode Aoi Hana I see that we’re getting the heart of the matter and the heart of the plot. It’s quite obvious that Fumi is a lesbian and she had her heart broken by her cousin Chizu with whom she mostlikely shared her first lesbian sexual experience with. From the flashback scene we saw Chizu clearly telling Fumi that she can’t be the one/ or at least she shouldn’t be the one that Fumi loves but we also clearly saw that Chizu and Fumi shared a sexual relationship even after that warning. Now, I’m not going to put all the blame on Chizu but Chizu gets more of the blame for this mess that Fumi does because for one thing Chizu was many years older than Fumi, and maybe the worst thing about their relationship is that they were cousins.
Now, many watchers may say the whole thing is too unbelievable to happen but I saw something like this happen in real life. I know a woman who only had girlfriends for many years but one day meet a guy she liked and she dumped her current girlfriend. Now five years later, they’re married and have two children, and when I asks her about the situation she told me that her time with women were great but she always knew that she wanted her own biological children and a husband someday. So, I find the whole Chizu/Fumi relationship very believable but tragic for our young lesbian Fumi.
Now, I like how the plot is progressing so far, it’s clear that Fumi, Kyoto, and Yasuko (and maybe even Akira, but I don’t she’s really a lesbian) will form a lesbian triangle that will be made up of desire, yearning, longing, and frustration. Ahhhhh, young love, it burns with a passion fueled by the energy of youth, hearts are quickly given and just as quickly broken, but you heal a lot faster when your young. Overall, I’m really enjoying this series, and I eagerly await the next instalment of my lesbian highschool soap opera.
July 14, 2009 at 5:53 pm
“we hear Chizu tell Fumi that she can’t be the one. Well, while Chizu told Fumi that she can’t be the one its looked like she was the one for Fumi, at least for a little while.”
You misunderstood. Chizu here is just flirting with Fumi while in bed (this is the first time Chizu and Fumi had sex). Since Fumi was really nervous, Chizu teased her a bit asking her “am I no good? Do I scare you?”.
Anyway, the translation from Koharubi isn’t quite as accurate as it should be, so it can be a bit misleading. Unfortunately, all the other groups working on this series seem to be taking their sweet time.
July 14, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Thanks for letting me know about the translation looseness, but my opinion on Chizu’s and Fumi’s relationship doesn’t really change. If Chizu was being playful with Fumi while having sex with her for the first time it would be the same equivalent as a 19-20 year old guy having sex with his 14-15 year old female cousin while knowing he’s really gay and will dump her as soon as he meets the right guy. While adults can agree to have a friends with benefits sexual relationship I doubt that someone of Fumi’s age can fully understand the emotional impact of these actions even if she agreed to that type of relationship.
July 15, 2009 at 10:41 am
Pretty much. Where I live, what Chizu did would constitute as statutory rape. It’s no wonder Fumi is as skittish and needy as she is.
July 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Ah, don’t get me wrong. My opinion of Chizu is pretty much like yours. And yes, the fact that they did have sex makes it even worst. I just wanted you to see the extent of what Chizu did, as it adds more depth to Fumi’s emotional state and behavior.
July 15, 2009 at 8:39 pm
kaei-from what I saw in the first two episodes Fumi has always been a very sensitive and emotional girl. Chizu being Fumi’s cousin means that she most likely knew how fragile Fumi was so she needed to take extra care in her forbidden relationship with Fumi.
Cris-it’s not so much the issues of Chizu’s sex with Fumi that bothered me, it was how it was handled by Chizu, she needed to be up front with Fumi that she was not going to be Fumi’s lasting love, and that she (Chizu) would consider marriage to a guy if the right one came along.
But, generally my opinion on the Chizu/Fumi relationship is that Chizu must have realized that Fumi was a lesbian, and that Fumi was attracted to her in a sexual way. That being said, Chizu had to understand that their relationship had four strikes against it #1-the age difference (I find this the smallest problem here), #2-they’re related (I don’t think that first cousin love-in would have went over well), 3-lesbianism (I don’t care how liberal an area you live in, lesbianism is still considered out of the mainstream), #4-Chizu knew that their relationship wouldn’t be long term.
With all those problems going against Chizu’s and Fumi’s relationship, if Chizu determined that Fumi still wanted to take the relationship to the sexual stage it was Chizu’s responsibility to make sure that Fumi at least came out of relationship in a good emotional condition, and with a greater understanding and comfort level with her sexuality. I guess learning from Chizu was much better for Fumi than Fumi finding or being found by the wrong person for her first time.