![]() The series achieved popularity with teenagers and young women who strongly identified with Futaba's personal growth. Ao Haru Ride was also one of the best-selling manga series in 20.įutaba Yoshioka is a 16-year-old high school student who attempts to fit in with her female friends by acting "unfeminine", due to a history her female classmates ostracizing her out of jealousy. As a result, she feels her life is uninteresting. One day, she reunites with Kou Tanaka, her first love who had previously moved to Nagasaki in middle school. Kou, who now uses the surname "Mabuchi", has become a completely different person than she knew back then, as he is now cold and indifferent. When the new school year starts, Futaba decides to make a positive change for herself and volunteers to become the class representative. She is joined by Kou and her classmates, Yuri Makita, Shuko Murao, and Aya Kominato, who all form a bond together.įutaba learns that Kou's mother had died after he moved away, and as she helps him process his grief, she falls in love with him again. However, just when Kou is about to move on from his past, Yui Narumi, his friend from Nagasaki, moves to his town, and he stays with her to help her through her father's death. ![]() When Futaba realizes that she cannot change Kou, she decides to move on. When she begins a relationship with Toma Kikuchi, Kou realizes that his relationship with Yui is holding him back and preventing him from accepting positive changes in his life. After he removes himself for good, he begins actively pursuing Futaba. Futaba's lingering feelings for him complicates her relationship with Toma, and they amicably break up.ĭuring Christmas, Futaba agrees to meet Kou in the same place where they promised to meet years before until his transfer, but it is cut short when Kou is involved in a minor accident. At the hospital, Futaba and Kou admit to each other that they are in love. At the end of the series, the two, along with their friends, move on with their lives as they establish new relationships and accept new changes within each other. ![]() Kou changes his surname back to Tanaka, and Futaba believes that something interesting has finally started for her.Ĭharacters Futaba Yoshioka ( 吉岡 双葉, Yoshioka Futaba) Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (anime) portrayed by: Tsubasa Honda (film) Futaba was an outcast in middle school because the girls were jealous of her popularity with boys. Determined to have friends in high school, she forces herself to be unattractive as possible for her classmates' approval. After reuniting with Kou, she decides to be true to herself. Eventually, Futaba falls in love with Kou again and constantly worries that whether she is clinging to her past. ![]() Kou Mabuchi ( 馬渕 洸, Mabuchi Kō) Voiced by: Yūki Kaji (anime) portrayed by: Masahiro Higashide (film) Kou attended the same middle school as Futaba, where he later moved to Nagasaki and changed his name from Kou Tanaka ( 田中 洸, Tanaka Kō). After reappearing at Futaba's high school, he has become more pessimistic after his mother's death, and later distances himself from Futaba to take care of Yui. As Kou becomes more honest with others including himself, he finally realizes that he doesn't need to hide his feelings anymore and decides to finally pursue Futaba. He and Futaba later on reconcile and start dating. In the last chapter, he changed his family name back to Tanaka. Yuri Makita ( 槙田 悠里, Makita Yūri) Voiced by: Ai Kayano (anime) portrayed by: Izumi Fujimoto (film) Yuri is Futaba's classmate who is ostracized by the girls in class, who feel threatened by her popularity with the boys. However, unlike Futaba, Yuri doesn't hide who she truly is, and the two eventually become best friends.
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