Ao Haru Ride

Futaba Yoshioka enters high school determined to leave her middle school self behind. After being ostracized for a past relationship with Kou Tanaka, she adopts a new persona and seeks a quiet life away from attention. Her plans change when she discovers that the popular boy named Kou in her class is actually the same person she knew as Fujimoto, a shy outcast in their previous school.

Io Sakisaka published this series in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine starting in February 2011 and concluded the story in February 2015. The narrative spans seventeen collected volumes released by the Margaret Comics imprint. Readers followed Futaba as she navigated complex feelings of regret and the difficulty of reconnecting with someone who knows her true history.

The work achieved significant commercial success during its run, ranking among the top selling manga in Japan for both 2013 and 2014. Critics frequently highlighted the realistic portrayal of teenage anxiety and social pressure within the story. The franchise expanded into an anime television series produced by Production I.G in 2014, followed by a live-action film adaptation later that year starring Kanna Hashimoto. [edit]