COMING OF AGE YURI DRAMA AOIHANA EPISODE THREE LAUNCHES ON CRUNCHYROLL

The Number One Online Destination for Anime and Asian Entertainment Brings
Takako Shimura's Manga Based Television Series to a World Wide Audience

San Francisco, CA (July 15, 2009) -- Best friends reunite and deal with
issues with teen romance and love as Takako Shimura's "coming of age" yuri
manga AOIHANA arrives  via simulcast on the number one online destination
for Anime and Asian Entertainment-Crunchyroll,   More information can be
found at http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Aoihana

The first debut episode (7/1/09) of AOIHANA is available to all users and
members and future episodes will be available to premium Crunchyroll Anime
Members via simulcast every Wednesday at noon PDT and will be available to
all members one week thereafter.

This title will is available in the United States, America Samoa, United
States Minor Outlying Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, Canada,
Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand.

Title Synopsis:

AOIHANA
Fumi Manjoume enters Kamakura's accelerated high school - Matsuoka All-Girls
High School. While waiting at the Kamakura station on the day of her
entrance ceremony, she runs into an old childhood friend whom she had not
seen in 10 years: Akira Okudaira. As their friendship is rekindled and they
start falling back into the rhythm of friends again, it starts a delicate
love story...

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