Title: 高嶺の花 Takane no Hana
English Title:
- Born to Be a Flower
- Flower that's Out of Reach
Episode 01
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: It seems like it helps if you talk to strangers; like in telephone helplines.
Tsukishima Momo: Animal males have the instinct to kill babies that aren't their own. Like lions or cats.
Tsukishima Momo: Being divorced doesn't mean you can't love anymore, but how will a strange male cope with a small child?
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: Some people say they love and hate a person, but that can never happen. If you love someone, you don't hate them; you can't hate them.
Kazama Setsuko: 'A skilled hawk hides its talons.'
Kazama Setsuko: Any dream can become reality... You have the power to realize dreams...
Episode 02
Tsukishima Momo: 'You reap what you sow.'
Tsukishima Momo: Responsibility is heavier than love.
Tsukishima Momo: 'There's no such thing as free lunch.'
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: Usually, after your heart is broken, you look for someone better to help you forget. That's what women do, right?
Kazama Setsuko: If a woman suddenly starts crying, even though you haven't done anything... Listen. She's still thinking about another man.
Episode 03
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: I see. A story is responsibility.
Tsukishima Momo: I've always liked the number one, ever since I was a child.
Episode 04
Imamura Kayoko: You know, married couples are just strangers to start with but as you live with them, they become family. You get shameless, or you lose your sense of delicacy.
Harada Taro: You each show your honest self. Even with close friends, you start to forget courtesies.
Tsukishima Momo: Does it get easy between couples? What makes it go wrong?
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Imamura Kayoko: There usually is something.
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: Is cheating so common?
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Harada Taro: It really is common.
Tamura Kohei: But cheating is a matter of definition.
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: I wouldn't do it.
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Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: But, I wouldn't want it to happen to me. How could I do something I wouldn't want my partner to do? How could I, if I love her?
Tsukishima Momo: Men think they want to be the first.
Tsukishima Momo: Women think they want to be the last.
Episode 05
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: Cesare Lombroso said, "you can tell a criminal by their looks". It was concluded that the scientific evidence was lacking, though.
Imamura Kayoko: Whether someone is suitable or not is none of your business.
Tsukishima Momo: I hear good wives don't question too much.
Kazama Setsuko: Women are only ever in a good mood in the morning, when their husbands have held them for the first time in a while. I'm saying that a little bad mood is just right to set your mind at ease.
Kazama Setsuko: If she hasn't been held, then you really need to watch out. A good mood without reason or for scoring points means she'll be asking for something later.
Episode 06
Tsukishima Ruriko: Women can be ruthless, once they've changed loyalties...
Tamura Kohei: However, when you think about it...
Harada Taro: It's like "casting pearls before swine".
Episode 07
Kazama Setsuko: Listen. Women can't explain each and every action they take. They'll get defiant and say, "God only knows".
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Kazama Setsuko: She may just want to see you, but when she sees you, the words that fall from her lips are perverse.
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Tsukishima Momo: A better woman will turn up for you, Pooh; someone less messed up than me.
Kazama Setsuko: They hurt as they speak these words...
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: Thank you very much. Please don't worry about me.
Kazama Setsuko: They're sad to hear it.
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: If results were everything, life would be empty. All the more so, if the means are the best.
Kazama Setsuko: But when she's alone, she cries.
Episode 08
Jingu Hyoma: Everything that lives is devoted to its desires in order to live.
Harada Taro: "When one door shuts, another one opens."
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: "Pick up the bean at your feet rather than envy the flower out of reach."
Kazama Naoto, also known as Pooh: All women are artists full of mystery.
Tsukishima Ichimatsu: If you do that, it has to be overwhelming. In the competition, you shouldn't have let her (opponent) get even one flower (point).
Tsukishima Ichimatsu: Pride comes before the fall.
Episode 09
Jingu Hyoma: The peak of a summit is burdened by nothing and supports nothing.
Tsukishima Momo: Flowers are beautiful just the way they are. If you can't make them prettier, you have no right to even touch them.
Episode 10
Tsukishima Ichimatsu: Without the gift, there's a limit to what one can do.
