Ao Haru Ride: Love hurts

Futaba Yoshioka has a few reasons why she wants to “reset” her image and life as a new high school student. Because she’s cute, she was ostracized by her female friends in junior high, and because of a misunderstanding, she couldn’t get her feeling across to the only boy she has ever liked, Tanaka-kun.

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Now in high school, she is determined to be as unladylike as possible so that her friends won’t be jealous of her. While living her life this way contentedly, she meets Tanaka-kun again, but he now goes under the name of Kou Mabuchi. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but now that is the thing of the past. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?

We want the ones we can’t have and ignore the ones that want us but then, we end up with none in the end. -Kou Mabuchi

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If you lose something big, that nothing can replace it… Then it’s okay if you have more than one, right? Even if the number is small, whether it’s 10 or 100, if you gather them up then you will have a reason to go on! -Yoshioka Futaba

Caring for things brings a lot of trouble. -Kou Mabuchi

Circumstance change, things change, people change. But, sometimes feelings don’t. This is what the series is teaching us. We cannot fake some things especially if they come out from us naturally. We just need to be true to ourselves and to others.

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