Aoi Hana

Sweet Blue Flowers
Cover of volume 1 of Sweet Blue Flowers, published by Ohta Publishing, showing Akira (left) and Fumi.
青い花 (Aoi Hana)
Genre	Drama, Romance, Yuri
Manga
Written by	Takako Shimura
Published by	Ohta Publishing
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Magazine	Manga Erotics F
Original run	November 17, 2004 – July 6, 2013
Volumes	8 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Ken'ichi Kasai
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	NA Right Stuf Inc.
Original network	Fuji TV (Noise)
Original run	July 2, 2009 – September 10, 2009
Episodes	11 (List of episodes)

Sweet Blue Flowers (青い花, Aoi Hana^?, lit. Blue Flower) is a Japanese yuri manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It was serialized between November 2004 and July 2013 in Ohta Publishing's Manga Erotics F manga magazine and is licensed in English by Viz Media. Eight volumes were published between December 2005 and September 2013. The story focuses on Fumi Manjōme, a lesbian high school girl, and her close childhood friend Akira Okudaira, who tries to keep her friends happy through difficult times.

An 11-episode anime television series produced by J.C.Staff and directed by Ken'ichi Kasai aired in Japan between July and September 2009 on Fuji TV. An Internet radio show to promote the anime was produced between June and October 2009 on HiBiKi Radio Station hosted by Ai Takabe and Yūko Gibu, who voiced Fumi and Akira in the anime, respectively. The anime has been licensed by Right Stuf Inc..

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.