Ao Haru Ride
| Blue Spring Ride | |
Cover of the first volume, featuring one of the main protagonists, Futaba Yoshioka
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アオハライド (Aoharaido) |
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| Genre | Comedy-drama, Romance |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Io Sakisaka |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Bessatsu Margaret |
| Original run | 13 January 2011 – 13 February 2015 |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Akiko Abe |
| Illustrated by | Io Sakisaka |
| Published by | Cobalt |
| Imprint | Cobalt Series |
| Original run | 27 December 2011 – 2 June 2015 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Ai Yoshimura |
| Written by | Tomoko Konparu |
| Music by | Hiroaki Tsutsumi Keiko Osaki Shota Hashimoto |
| Studio | Production I.G |
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| Original network | Tokyo MX, MBS, BS11, TUT, Anime Network |
| Original run | 7 July 2014 – 22 September 2014 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Takahiro Miki |
| Written by | Tomoko Yoshida |
| Music by | Yuki Hayashi |
| Released | 13 December 2014 |
| Runtime | 122 minutes |
Blue Spring Ride (Japanese: アオハライド Hepburn: Aoharaido?, written Ao Haru Ride within Japan) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Io Sakisaka. It began serialization in the February 2011 issue of Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret and ended in February 2015. An anime television series, produced by Production I.G and directed by Ai Yoshimura, premiered in Japan at midnight on 7 July 2014. A live-action film adaptation was released in December 2014. A drama CD has been released as a tie-in with the 10th volume of the manga. An OAD has been released as a tie-in with the 11th volume of the manga. Translations of manga volumes have been released in Germany, France, Italy, Taiwan, Poland, and Mexico.
Futaba Yoshioka is a 17-year-old high school student who has an inferiority complex, as she has the need to fit with her female friends by acting brash towards the male students, due to a history of attracting the latter which made other girls jealous and ostracize her, as a result causing her to feel that her life is nothing interesting. She finally abandons her facade when she befriends fellow outcast Yuri Makita, who is adamant in keeping her "cutesy" personality in exchange for being ostracized. At the same time, Futaba is surprised when she reunites with Kou Tanaka, whom she befriended during middle school and with whom she had mutual love until he abruptly moved away to Nagasaki to live with his late mother. She is disappointed, however, as the new Kou is going with his mother's surname "Mabuchi" and seems to be a completely different person than she knew back then, as he is now a rude, cold, and sneaky individual. Kou enrolls in the school under supervision of his brother, Yoichi Tanaka, who teaches at the school.
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