Okitsura

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 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 Uchinaaguchi.

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.

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 didn't have the courage to talk to him until Hana talked to him first, until she finds out he has difficulty understanding Hana's Uchinaaguchi.