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.

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.

[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.

[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.

Second, when he encounters a crying lost kid, Hana calmed him down with a chant called "Mabuigumi" while hugging him.

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.

After school, Teeruu also learns about the "parlors", small shacks selling Okinawan food and other treats.

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.

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.

Kana tells him, "Hizamazuki shite" (get on his knees), which is a local term meaning "assuming the seiza sitting position."

Hana reminds him to not underestimate the hot weather, as Okinawa's UV index is twice as that of Sapporo, as the waters act as mirrors concentrating the sunlight, which might cause actual burns (and not the usual sunburn).