Umi, a schoolgirl who works as a cook for a family that lives by the port... or something... She raises and lowers a couple of flags every day in order to send a message of some sort...
Then she meets this guy, Shun, at her school, who is in the school newspaper club. He makes himself popular by jumping out of a building as a demonstration to protest their old clubhouse being demolished for the sake of the olympics... later Umi and her sister go to this clubhouse... It's very untidy and full of weird stuff... It looks really amazing... and then for some reason Umi starts helping Shun with the newspaper and being really friendly with him... She keeps spending more time with him and being late for her work...
Now the school is having a political debate on whether or not to demolish the clubhouse.. Shun's side is losing...
Umi invites him over... and she explains the story behind her raising the signal flags... Her dad is a sailor, and she used to raise those flags on her balcony every day, to help him find his way home.. but one day her dad's ship sank during the Korean war...
Later, a bunch of students are helping clean up the clubhouse for the first time in forever, to help convince the others that it's worth keeping...
Yawn... there's a bit of interesting stuff here but most of it is boring. at least the background art is nice and some of the girl characters have really cute facial expressions. Umi's sister is really cute.
It starts getting interesting again when Shun finds out that he has the same dad as Umi... He starts acting cold to her... Then Umi has a really emotional dream where her parents came back...
Shun and Umi and some other guy go to the mayor, and convince him to take a look at the clubhouse and reconsider...
Umi starts talking to Shun like a friend again... They talk about the flags she was always raising up, and that he always saw them when he was out sailing with his dad... Umi finally tells him that she believes these flags were a message from her dad to get her and Shun back together... and she confesses to him... Shun says he feels the same way..
Later, Umi's mom gets back home, and Umi asks her about her dad and Shun... She finds out that her and Shun are half-siblings... A really emotional scene here..
When the mayor comes to the clubhouse, and the students all manage to convince him not to demolish it.. At that point Shun gets a call from his dad, saying that the sailor who knew his real dad is at the harbor, and is leaving soon, and this is his only chance to talk to him... Shun grabs Umi and they rush over to the ship where their dad's friend is... There's a really touching scene where the dad's friend felt like he was having a reunion when he met these two kids...
That was pretty decent... at the beginning Umi didn't know why she raised the signal flags every day... but now she does... those flags have a power that allows her family members to find each other again...
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