OMG yes!!! I love those covers, they're just gorgeous

https://csbs.shogakukan.co.jp/book?book_group_id=2704

This link will let you see at least a couple dozen more pages legally in Japanese than the link I posted earlier. I'll try to translate as much of the text as I can from that point on:
He looks a little like him...?
My Mr. Lick-Lick...
Why is he...
Looking at me like that...?
He seemed to have such kind eyes
My Mr. Lick-Lick...
I'm home
It's my aunt!
Auntie, welcome home
Auntie, I have made your favorite tomato spaghetti
You sit down too
Let's talk
Scary...
This smile
Auntie, I have been thinking but...
I like wearing the pink school uniform
Because of that...
You can wear it
The professors have permitted it as a special case
Huh...
This time your aunt is going to Holland
The city of Houou, Japan is sister cities with Amsterdam
Utena, I want to take you with me to Amsterdam too
Transfer schools...
Go to a foreign county before summer vacation...?
Yeah
It's a wonderful chance
Utena, you don't want to go?
It's not that but...
A different message every year...
On the back are photographs...
Seven of them...
Huh...?
This
This is...
You have found proof that my aunt had sent the letters?
That's right
Because I went to the library and investigated it
Yeah...
What do you know in the city of Houou?
What?
That is proof?
And this is type from a word processor...
It's the same typeface as the New Year's card I received from you, Utena
Just as I thought, your aunt must have sent these letters
For your sake, Utena, being without both of your parents, your aunt made up a Santa Claus of the rose season
Every year she must have sent you messages to cheer you up
Absolutely...
So stop chasing after an illusion like that
Reality is right before your eyes
Utena?
A dream from when I was a child that I must wake up from
The Rose Seal
I must forget...
I'm home
Welcome home, Auntie
There's a strong breeze outside, Utena
Hey, I have brought a guest with me
You may come in, Wakaouji
This is my niece, Utena
She's a first-year junior high school student
This is the university student who comes to my office to work part-time
Mr. Aoi Wakaouji
We had met there by chance
Because I will go change my clothes
Roses...
You like them, don't you?
Oh...
You remembered?
Well
But it's not only that
Utena is a strange name, isn't it
You know very well
Thank you
The same as mine...
A ring with the Rose Seal...
Why does this person...
It's a good name
It's noble
My Mr. Lick-Lick actually exists...
Perhaps he's this person...?
I saw him when I was six years old...
I had thought he was a person in a dream
But the letter with the Rose Seal came
Finally...
He has come to meet me in person...?
This person has been waiting for me...
Perhaps he's my Mr. Lick-Lick...!?
Miss Yurika...
Oh...
I have often heard gossip about you, Utena, from your aunt
For example, the story of the pink school uniform
Oh...
That...
You are your aunt are alike
I love strong women
"I love..."
"Love..."
Um...
Hmm...?
The truth is...
There was another reason, wasn't there?
Just as I thought, this person is...
My Mr. Lick-Lick?
I know that ring with the rose symbol
Every year...
Letters have been sent to my place
The design is the same as the rose seal
I...
I have always wanted to know!!
Who is the one sending me those letters...
Mr. Wakaouji
Because the wind is strong
Right now, on the veranda...
The sound of something cracking...
Oh...
Auntie...?
But Mr. Wakaouji just brought it earlier as a gift...
Look at it
The poor thing
Auntie Yurika
The scent of this rose...
It's the same
As the rose seal on the letters...
It'll be all right, Yurika
With my Mr. Lick-Lick...
Because it's not a cut flower
If we are able to replant properly, it'll be OK
Is that so...?
I wonder if you will help me?
Let's replant it together, Utena
It's him...
It's unmistakable
Utena, your Mr. Lick-Lick has appeared?
Yeah!
His name is Mr. Wakaouji
He's a university student who assists my aunt
He wears a ring the same as the one I was given
He appeared with roses with the same scent
That's a lie
Such a dream-like story is...
You don't believe in dreams, do you
You poor guy, Kaidou
Let me meet that guy, Utena
He isn't a pervert, is he?
He has the ring from his school days
Because it was something given at the school to especially excellent students
For the sake of my aunt, who likes roses, he went out of his way to bring them to her to make her happy
He's so kind
"I have come to meet you"
Has he said that?
That is...
Definitely...
He said something like he wanted to meet me before I go to Amsterdam
Amsterdam?
Why are you going to a foreign country
Utena!!
There's nothing I can do about it, is there
Because of circumstances with my aunt's job
Because she has a big project
Tenjou Design Office
Look, the office is already beginning to move
When...must you go?
In the middle of June...
I think we'll be gone for about two years...?
Like that?
Yeah
Oh
Miss Utena
It's been a long time since you came to visit the office
Hello
Um...
Has Mr. Wakaouji, the part-time employee, came?
He is in
He's putting shelves in order with Miss Yurika
Yes
We're going back
Kaidou, didn't you come because you said you wanted to meet Mr. Wakaouji
Me too...
Please take me to Amsterdam with you as your assistant!
Because Yurika, I want to learn the business from you
But...
It's not only that
I am...
"I love...strong women"
That meant my aunt...
Utena...!?
Utena
This...
You pervert...
Are you OK?
Mr. Wakaouji
I didn't know about the two of them...
Why am I crying?
Utena
Both of them...
If the two of them have fallen in love
But...
I'm sad...
Dammit...
Where has she gone
Utena, you chick
Because her feet are so quick, I can't catch up with her
She received a shock
Where is she...
The bridge where I had met Mr. Lick-Lick six years ago...
I haven't even grown
I haven't changed since then
From when Papa and Mama had died
Mama...
Mama...
Where are you?
A lost child...?
The same as me, long ago...
What's the matter?
Let's search for her together
Don't run away, it's all right
That's no good
Don't go there
There's an open hole, it's dangerous...
Utena...?
Bring that hand up more...
Oh...oh...
Do your best
A little more...
Utena..
Utena...?
It's nothing...
That can't be...
That can't be...
Utena's with the little girl who should have fallen...?
Utena...!?
Hey...
Answer me
Utena?
Utena...
Huh...?
That can't be...
You
Hmm...
What am I doing in a place like this...
Kaidou...?
You don't remember?
After that...
The little girl was able to safely return to her Mama
That can't be...
Because he had told me that I have the courage and power to live strongly
So I...
Utena...
Mr. Wakaouji is different from the one you call Mr. Lick-Lick
Your Mr. Lick-Lick does actually exist
He was probably the person who had rescued you earlier, Utena
It wasn't Mr. Wakaouji
Kaidou...?
The rain has just stopped and the sky had cleared up
He was blindingly bright, but I didn't know his face well
But because I had come, that person right away had gone away...
From that person's body
He had the same scent as the letters with the rose seal
He was somehow different from normal people...
He had a mysterious feeling about him
Mysterious, huh...
It seemed like a dream?
One more time that person has...
He had rescued me
I don't understand why but...
My Mr. Lick-Lick was always watching over me
Hey, Utena
That is...
It's fine
I'm going
Because, Auntie, I love both you and Mr. Wakaouji
Mr. Lick-Lick truly exists
I want to see him again too
I will find him
But where is he?
You still don't know?
Where Mr. Lick-Lick is
Kaidou
You want to meet him?
Do you know...?
Before this, Utena, I had lied to you on purpose
Huh?
I will tell you the truth
All of the cards
On the front are messages, and on the back are postcard-type photographs
But...
The important thing isn't the messages
The photographs mean more than the words
I had thought they were only scenes of a foreign country
When these are arranged like a puzzle, a place comes out
The Private Ohtori Academy
It's Mr. Wakaouji's alma mater
This...
The more important thing is the seventh one, this year's card
In the seventh one, white roses are pictured
The same white roses Mr. Wakaouji had brought
And on the plate with the name of the flowers under the flowers is...
I can't read it
Something must be written there
I investigated it
In the Latin language...
It means "I wait for you here"
"I wait for you here..."
I'm not going to Amsterdam
I will transfer schools to Ohtori Academy
Kaidou...
Utena...?
Thank you
Kaidou, I have given you too the power I was given by Mr. Lick-Lick
I will go to search for that person alone
I don't know what is waiting for me there
But surely...
This is a prologue to tomorrow
The End (The Rose Seal)

Last edited by Kae-Leah (01-30-2016 12:44:53 AM)

This is awesome - thank you so much for posting this!

I see quite a few complete sets on ebay, ranging from $20-  $40, depending on if the movie manga is included.

I have the complete set from years ago - half the set from an older publishing with flipped artwork and the other half the right-to-left manga we're used to nowadays. I'm not that crazy about the manga, I think the anime version if far superior, however I really enjoy the movie manga. The artwork is simply gorgeous.