Ao Haru Ride

Futaba Yoshioka deliberately acts loud and unfeminine in high school, determined not to repeat middle school, when other girls ostracized her for receiving too much attention from boys. One memory remains precious, however: the brief closeness she shared with Kou Tanaka before he suddenly disappeared from school. When he returns years later under the name Kou Mabuchi, Futaba expects old feelings to resume where they stopped. Instead, she finds a colder, more burdened person than the boy she remembers. As she tries to build honest friendships and understand Kou again, Futaba must confront how much both of them have changed and whether their unfinished feelings can survive it.