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Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Knew What She's Saying
First tankōbon volume cover
沖縄で好きになった子が方言すぎてツラすぎる
(Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hōgen Sugite Tsurasugiru)
GenreRomantic comedy[1]
Manga
Written byEgumi Sora
Published byShinchosha
ImprintBunch Comics
MagazineKurage Bunch
DemographicSeinen
Original runJanuary 10, 2020 – present
Volumes9
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Shin Itagaki (chief)
  • Shingo Tanabe
Written by
  • Shin Itagaki
  • Shingo Tanabe
Music by
  • Tomohisa Ishikawa
  • Yoshimi Katayama
  • Ayano Kinjō
StudioMillepensee
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTokyo MX, BS11, AT-X, GYT, OTV, RBC, QAB
Original run January 5, 2025 – present
Episodes5
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Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Knew What She's Saying[a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Egumi Sora. It began serialization on Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch website in January 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by Millepensee premiered in January 2025.

Characters

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Teruaki Nakamura (中村 照秋, Nakamura Teruaki)
Voiced by: Takeo Ōtsuka[2]
A transfer student who moves in to Okinawa from Tokyo. He has a crush on Hina, but doesn't understand her Okinawan dialect.
Hina Kyan (喜屋武 飛夏, Kyan Hina)
Voiced by: Akari Kitō (PV, anime)[3][2]
A girl who speaks with an Okinawan dialect. She's also proficient with the Okinawan language.
Kana Higa (比嘉 夏菜, Higa Kana)
Voiced by: Fairouz Ai (PV, anime)[3][2]
A friend of Hina and classmate of Teruaki. She helps translate Hina's Okinawan dialect to Teruaki. She appears to be in love with Teruaki, and often feels jealous when he only shows affection to Hina and not her; Teruaki is completely oblivious to this.
Yae Agena (安慶名八重, Agena Yae)
Voiced by: Shino Shimoji[4]
A friend of Hana and Kana, and she could tell Kana has a crush on Teruaki, just as Teruaki has a crush on Hana.
Tensuke Uema (上間 天介, Uema Tensuke)
Voiced by: Shugo Nakamura[4]
Isao Shimoji (下地 勲, Shimoji Isao)
Voiced by: Kentarō Kumagai[4]
Oki Memo Shisha (沖メモシーサー)
Voiced by: Etsuko Kozakura[5]
A shisa who would come out and point out the intricacies of Okinawan culture.
Tetsu Higa (比嘉 鉄, Higa Tetsu)
Voiced by: Yamato Kinjo[6]
Suzu Higa (比嘉 すず, Higa Suzu)
Voiced by: Miyuri Shimabukuro[6]
Kana's younger sister. She and her brother first met Teruaki by the seaside, which led to him meeting Kana.
Naoya Higa (比嘉 なおや, Higa Naoya)
Voiced by: Risa Tsumugi[6]
Kana's younger brother. He and Suzu first met Teruaki by the seaside, which led to him meeting Kana.
Sachiko Kyan (喜屋武 幸子, Kyan Sachiko)
Voiced by: Yūko Gibu[6]

Media

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Manga

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Written and illustrated by Egumi Sora, Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hōgen Sugite Tsurasugiru began serialization in Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch manga website on January 10, 2020.[7] The first volume was released on July 9, 2020.[8] It has been collected in nine tankōbon volumes as of January 8, 2025.[9]

No. Release date ISBN
1 July 9, 2020[10]978-4-10-772296-6
2 February 9, 2021[11]978-4-10-772359-8
3 August 6, 2021[12]978-4-10-772410-6
4 January 8, 2022[13]978-4-10-772460-1
5 June 9, 2022[14]978-4-10-772506-6
6 January 7, 2023[15]978-4-10-772559-2
7 July 7, 2023[16]978-4-10-772617-9
8 February 8, 2024[17]978-4-10-772682-7
9 January 8, 2025[9]978-4-10-772784-8

Anime

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An anime television series adaptation was announced on July 3, 2023.[1][18] It is produced by Millepensee and written and directed by Shingo Tanabe (with Shin Itagaki serving as chief director), with Tomohiro Yoshida designing the characters, Tomohisa Ishikawa, Yoshimi Katayama, and Ayano Kinjō composing the music, Hodaka Fukumura serving as dialect coach,[2] and narration by Tarusuke Shingaki. The series premiered on January 5, 2025, on Tokyo MX and other networks.[5][19][b] Crunchyroll streams the series outside of Japan.[20] Okinawan VTuber Ui Nema served as a public relations ambassador for the anime adaptation.[21]

The opening theme song is "Dai Dai Daisuki" (大大大好き, I Really, Really Love You), performed by Okinawan band HY,[22] while each episode features a different ending theme song which are covers related to Okinawa, all performed by Akari Kitō and Fairouz Ai as their respective characters Hina and Kana.[23]

Episodes

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No.Title [24][25]Directed by [24]Written by [24]Storyboarded by [24]Ending theme song [c]Original release date [26][b]
1"The Girl I Like Speaks in Uchinaaguchi"
Transliteration: "Suki na Hito wa Uchinā-guchi" (Japanese: 好きな人はうちなーぐち)		Shingo TanabeShingo TanabeShingo Tanabe
& Shin Itagaki		"Shimanchu nu Takara"[27]January 5, 2025 (2025-01-05)

Nakamura Teruaki is a boy from Tokyo who gets transferred to Okinawa as a student. Here he meets, and develops a crush on, his new classmate, Kyan Hina. Trouble is, he has problems talking to her because she speaks in high-level Okinawan (Uchinaaguchi). He would not understand her at all if not for another classmate of his, Hina's friend Higa Kana, who translates for him. Unbeknownst to Teruaki, Kana has a crush on him, and has been translating for him as an excuse to get near him.

During his first days in Okinawa, Teruaki discovers a few things. First, he finds out that almost everyone in Okinawa has the "Higa" surname. He tried calling Kana in a crowd from afar with the usual "Higa-san", only for him to see everyone around him asking if he's referring to them. As per Hana's suggestion of using the person's first name to call their attention, He tried calling Kana in a crowd with an honorific, only to end up embarrassing for Kana as, as he found out from an old lady, it sounded like "kana-SAn", which is "I Love You" in Okinawan.

Second, when he encounters a crying lost kid, Hana calmed him down with a chant called "Mabuigumi" while hugging him. It is said that when someone gets surprised, their "mabui" ("soul") falls out, causing the person to lose their strength. It can be restored by a "yuta" (Okinawan shaman) with the chant while patting them in the back. Teruaki, who later gets surprised by a bull being unloaded, finds it the hard way that the method is different for older people, where they are only patted in a rough, harder way. He also finds out how Okinawans say "goodbye".

Third is the deal with the "Kamee Kamee Attack", a thing about guests being served food to the maximum, coming from their love of their home and their desire to be welcoming. When he mentioned about never having sata andagi yet, everyone in his class (including Hana and Kana) went into a frenzy and, the next day, everyone gives him batches of the treat. However, that spread like wildfire to the other classes and even other schools, resulting in a boatload of sata andagi coming his way. Despite the hilarity, Teruaki thanks them all, and is happy to be in Okinawa.
2"A Beach Party Is Just a Social Gathering?!"
Transliteration: "Bīchipāti de Shinboku-kai!?" (Japanese: ビーチパーティで親睦会！？)		Shingo TanabeShingo TanabeShingo Tanabe
Shin Itagaki		"Anata ni [ja]"January 12, 2025 (2025-01-12)

When Teeruu sees Hana staring at someone while mentioning about "ojisan" to Kana, he thought she has a thing for older men, and made worse when Kana also talks about "kisu" being delicious. He later finds out that these two words refer to fish. What Teeruu thought was staring was just Hana being quiet so as not to scare away the "ojisan".

Teeruu later finds out about other Okinawan things, namely Uchiinaa Time and the fact that beach parties in Okinawa are social gatherings and do not involve any swimming at all, as "the sea is for watching;" not to mention, as Kana put it, it feels "muchamucha" ("sticky") to swim in the water. There they find out that some words they think are standard Japanese are, in fact, not, making everyone in the class quiet as they head for home.

After school, Teeruu tries asking Kana to go somewhere when a sudden downpour happened, leading him to learn another Okinawan thing: the "katabui", or the extremely localized thunderstorm. He even finds out that everyone never uses an umbrella and likes to walk in the rain, namely for many reasons. However, with the rain becoming particularly stronger, Hana rushed home embarrassed as her clothes got really soaked, away from Teeruu.

Later, Teeruu meets Kana at the same bench where he first met her during spring break, waiting for Hana and her siblings while they frolic in the beach. Here he also remembers how they first met—when two kids, who were Hana's siblings, gushed over the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine he bought before leaving for Okinawa—a publication that comes a day late in Okinawa—thinking he is from the future. Kana developed a crush on him when Teeruu rushed to the waters to save her hat that got blown away by the strong breeze. Kana wondered when she will see him again, and was surprised when she finds out he is in the same class as her. She did not have the courage to talk to him until Hana talked to him first, until she finds out he has difficulty understanding Hana's Okinawan.
3"Shiisaa and Eisaa"
Transliteration: "Shīsā to Eisā" (Japanese: シーサーとエイサー)		Shingo Tanabe
Shin Itagaki		Fuji SasaShingo Tanabe
Shin Itagaki		"Anata ni"January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)

Teeruu finds out that, even if he finds shisa statues as cute, it is not the case for Hana and Kana, as shisa-faces are, in reality, considered "unattractive". He also learns about the intricacies of shisa figures installed infront of houses—the male shisa's mouth being open to catch the "majimun" and prevents it from going inside the house, while the female shisa's mouth is closed to prevent blessings from escaping.

During lunch break at school, Teeruu is surprised to see everyone in class dancing the "kachaashi" to the tune of a folk song called the "Tooshin Dooi" and it is a dance every Okinawan knows how to dance. Hana asks Kana to teach Teeruu how to dance the "kachaashii" so that there will be something he can teach his future grandsons, but she feels it is not the right time, as she imagines her teaching him to dance it only if they get married.

After school, Teeruu also learns about the "parlors", small shacks selling Okinawan food and other treats. Kana considers it "naughty", since they do not want the teachers knowing that they're buying snacks after school hours. Hana ordered some "zenzai" which is technically shaved ice. Kana tried translating for Teeru, not knowing that classmates are around. Yae and their other friends catch on with what's going on between Kana, Hana, and Teeruu, putting Kana in an embarrassing situation.

Festival season comes and Teeruu watches his classmates do the eisaa dance. Of interest to him is Hana dancing weirdly. Suzu, Kana's younger sister, explains that she is the "chondaraa". Not only is she making the festival look more fun, but she is practically the event's floormaster, keeping the lines tidy, wiping the sweat on the performers, keeps the rhythm for the instruments, help the performers pick up any dropped instruments, and is in charge of hydrating the performers. After their performance, Teeruu mustered his guts to talk more earnestly to Kana about how he feels about her.
4"Blow Your Finger Whistle at the Beautiful Sea!"
Transliteration: "Yubifue Narasou Churaumi de!" (Japanese: 指笛鳴らそう美ら海（ちゅらうみ）で！)		Noriko HattaSasa FujiNoriko Hatta
Shin Itagaki		"Best Friend" [ja]January 26, 2025 (2025-01-26)

At the finale of the festival, a communal kachaashii, Kana notices Teeruu not dancing. Kana seized the opportunity to talk to him, and she reveals she likes to talk and be with him, practically telling him that she likes him. It ends up with her getting flustered and a bit dismayed as she thought she wants to learn more about her and do things hands-on, only to find out it is about learning the culture. Kana ends up teaching Teeruu how to dance the kachaashii, anyway, much to the delight of their classmates who were in the festival.

A few days later, Teeruu learns about the aspect of "fiifii", or whistling, which islanders would do during occasions to accompany the sound of the sanshin, when Hana invites him over to the beach to teach him how to do it. It is kind of significant for Teeruu, as it is the same beach where Hana and Kana learned how to do it. Unlike ordinary whistling, the sound of the fiifii appears to reach distances of up to 1.3 kilometres (0.81 miles). It ends up with Kana teaching Teeruu (and Suzu) how to do it, as Hana is terrible at teaching it, and through Suzu's flailing/blackmailing that she would tell everyone what Kana says while sleep-talking. Yae, one of their classmates who tagged along, is stifling her laughter as Kana is teaching him and the kids. Kana's teaching is significant, as she remembers how she learned to do the fiifii, that she almost gave up on how to learn it, even strengthening her friendship with Hana, continuing it even when they grow old, and proving her bully Haruhito (Haaruu) wrong, even getting impressed and even getting taught by the girls on how to do it.
5"Kariyushi Wear By Mistake!"
Transliteration: "Kanchigai de Kariyushiu~ea!" (Japanese: 勘違いでかりゆしウェア！)		Chinatsu HasegawaChinatsu Hasegawa & Shin ItagakiChinatsu Hasegawa"Shimanchu nu Takara"February 2, 2025 (2025-02-02)

It is been four months since Teeruu first arrived in Okinawa, yet there are things he still is not used to, like, for instance, the word "Let's" means "I," and not really meaning you should go with or do something with another person.

Teeru also gets to learn the word "Kusukeehyaa", which is technically the Okinawan equivalent of saying "Bless you" when sneezing, only that, since it is believed that demons (called "Majimun") would make someone sneeze to cause your soul to leave their body, someone tells those demons to "get out of the person". Kana blurted it when Teeruu sneezed, causing her to get flustered, as the term is a curse word, much to Yae's amusement.

Speaking of the Majimun, Teeru learns from Hana about the many ways to rid of them, including the shisaa, the "suijigai" (another decoration that scares the majimun), and the "hinpun" and the "ishigantoo" (structures meant to stop any charging majimun). Believing in them is because people have something that is important to them, they are scared. Hana gave Teeruu a "san", a knotted blade of susuki grass meant as an amulet to keep evil away, placed on food or stuck on gates or even in the fields. A "san" is usually given to someone the giver cares about.

Summer break arrives, and Kana is bored, but she cannot muster the courage to invite Teeruu over. She did meet Teeruu on the way to shopping, which leads Teeruu to learn that buses in Okinawa are late, since the bus arrived on time. However, a misunderstanding happened when Kana says "Let's go shopping," and Teeru did come along. This flusters Kana to no end.

At the mall, Teeru gets to try "Kariyushi wear", which looks like a Hawaiian shirt but is actually Okinawan formal wear. Hew even learned its intricacies, including how to distinguish the really formal ones from the fancy ones. Kana gets flustered when the salesman asks if Teeruu "wants a matching one for his girlfriend." Teeruu eventually learns about the misunderstanding, but thanks Kana anyway because he gets to hang out with her.

At the community center, where they are doing radio calisthenics, he notices that kids say "Hmm" while interacting with the kids, as a means of indicating that they're listening, confirming something, or while thinking of what to say next. It is here that he gets to meet Hana's grandmother, who's even more proficient in the Okinawan dialect. The calisthenics, in the dialect, is done with an incentive of earning stamps towards getting a sata andagi snack. Teeruu is interested as it is made by "Kyan-san." He later knew that it was Hana's grandmother who made them.

Notes

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  1. ^ Japanese: 沖縄で好きになった子が方言すぎてツラすぎる, Hepburn: Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hōgen Sugite Tsurasugiru, lit. ''The Dialect of the Girl I Fell in Love with in Okinawa Is Too Difficult to Deal With''
  2. ^ a b Tokyo MX and BS11 lists the series premiere on January 4, 2025, at 25:00, which is effectively January 5 at 1:00 a.m. JST.
  3. ^ Each ending theme is taken from the ending credits

References

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