Ai Yori Aoshi
| Ai Yori Aoshi | |
Cover of Ai Yori Aoshi volume 1 as published by Hakusensha
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| 藍より青し | |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy, Drama, Harem |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kou Fumizuki |
| Published by | Hakusensha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young Animal |
| Original run | 1998 – 2005 |
| Volumes | 17 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masami Shimoda |
| Music by | Toshio Masuda (composer) |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | April 11, 2002 – September 26, 2002 |
| Episodes | 24 |
| Anime television series | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi: Enishi | |
| Directed by | Masami Shimoda |
| Music by | Toshio Masuda (composer) |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | UHF Stations |
| Original run | October 12, 2003 – December 28, 2003 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Anime television film | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi X-mas Special | |
| Directed by | Masami Shimoda |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Released | December 31, 2003 |
| Game | |
| Memories of a Summer and Winter Vacation | |
| Developer | KID |
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| Genre | Visual novel |
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| Game | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi shunka | |
| Publisher | J.C.Staff |
| Genre | Visual novel |
| Platform | Windows 98 |
| Released | May 20, 2004 |
| Game | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi shuutou | |
| Publisher | J.C.Staff |
| Genre | Visual novel |
| Platform | Windows 98 |
| Released | June 24, 2004 |
| Game | |
| SuperLite 2000 adventure Ai Yori Aoshi | |
| Developer | KID |
| Publisher | SUCCESS Corporation |
| Genre | Visual novel |
| Platform | PlayStation 2 |
| Released | June 23, 2005 |
Ai Yori Aoshi (藍より青し?) is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Kou Fumizuki and serialized from 1998 to 2005 in Hakusensha's Young Animal. It is a love story between two characters who have not seen each other in years but were once childhood friends. Literally translated, the title means "Bluer Than Indigo".
Ai Yori Aoshi anime was directed by Masami Shimoda and animated by J.C.Staff. The series was made into an anime in 2002, with a 2003 sequel, Ai Yori Aoshi: Enishi (藍より青し ～縁～?), set two years later. There are 37 episodes total, counting an alternate-continuity Christmas special. The anime was released in North America by Geneon, and the manga was released in English by Tokyopop. Four visual novels were also released for the PlayStation 2, and for Windows 98.
Kaoru Hanabishi, a university student, is the eldest son of Yūji Hanabishi, the head of the Hanabishi Zaibatsu, and was set to take over the zaibatsu after his father retired. His mother, Kumi Honjō, and his father never married, making life difficult for both him and his mother. Kaoru's father died when he was five years old. Since then, Yūji's father, Gen'ichiro Hanabishi, took Kaoru under his wing and began educating him for the eventual succession. Yet Kaoru never felt at home in the Hanabishi family and went into self-imposed exile after his mother's death. Day by day he felt alone, thinking that he was living life with no reason pushing him on.
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