Ao Haru Ride Index

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At the end of her first year of high school, Futaba Yoshioka has a reunion of fate. She meets Kou Mabuchi, her first love from middle school, who suddenly disappeared but actually changed schools. The Kou she meets appears before Futaba for the first time in three years. She realizes he has changed his surname to "Mabuchi" and has become a different person, with a cold personality.
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With memories from middle school, Futaba has continued to be socially superficial with her friends in high school. One day, Futaba encounters her classmate Yuuri Makita who is eating lunch alone and realizes that she is just "playing at friendship", like Kou told her.
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Mr. Tanaka is revealed to be the brother of Kou. Futaba hears some of their family story and learns why Kou did not come to the meeting place before the summer festival in middle school. As they enter their second year, Futaba is determined to try to start from scratch again in her new class. Kou, who was supposed to be in a special advanced class, for some reason appears in her class.
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Futaba and Kou become class representatives but must participate in leader camp, along with event representatives Makita Yuuri, Murao Shuuko and Kominato Aya. Troubles are evident from the first morning and there is tension among the team.
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Futaba starts to care about Kou again. Yuuri finds out by chance that Shuuko has feelings for Tanaka Yoichi, the teacher and Kou's brother. While confused about their feelings, the team begins their training. During the orienteering activity, they get hopelessly lost in the forest.
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Yuri confesses that she has fallen in love with Kou to Futaba. Futaba does not want to hurt Yuri but cannot reconcile that feeling with her own love for Kou, and is unable to decide what to do about her own feelings.
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Futaba comes to realize that she also loves Kou. Although he is different than from middle school, she has feelings for this new Kou as well. Yuuri also begins to realize the full difficulty of being friends with someone who loves the same person she does. Futaba meets an old friend from middle school, Yumi, and knows that she must tell Yuuri how she feels about Kou.
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Futaba finally is able to work up the courage to tell Yuuri and Shuuko how she feels about Kou; in turn, Shuuko admits she is in love with their teacher, Mr. Tanaka. On the way home, Futaba encounters Kou and follows him downtown to see him meet up with a group of teenagers.
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Futaba becomes worried about Kou after he says that caring for things is a lot of trouble. As she tells Yuri about his words, Shuuko comes up and tells them that Kou has failed his midterms. Worried about Kou's future, Futaba, along with Yuuri, Shuuko, and Aya Kominato, invades Kou's home and prepares a study session so he will not fail finals as well.
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Futaba realizes that there is tension between Yuuri and Kou during the study session. Trying to figure out why, she questions both Yuuri and Kou; in reply, Kou guides her to the room where he keeps a shrine for his mother. Futaba begins crying and tells him that she wants "to know the Kou". Kou's brother walks in while they appear to have a moment.
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It is revealed that when Kou disappeared in middle school, it was because his parents divorced and he moved with his mother to Nagasaki. However, his mother was terminally ill, leaving Kou to feel helpless and alone. Futaba learns that Kou is suffering even now because he blames himself for being powerless. She wishes Kou had told her earlier and she wants to break open the door to his heart.
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Kou shows his weak side to Futaba for the first time and she finds it to be docile and cute. That evening during dinner, Kou joins his brother, Tanaka, and his father to eat together for the first time since his mother's death years ago. He confesses that he never hated them, but that he was always confused whether or not he should get to enjoy the things that his mother will never experience again. The next day, at school, Kou surprised his friends by suggesting to do a study group, ultimately scoring higher than all of them on the finals. In the final scene, when they are deciding where to go for the summer vacation, Futaba reminisces about the past but also looks forward to create more memories with Kou, Yuuri, Shuuko, and Kominato.
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Episode about Futaba and Kou in middle school.

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Futaba, Kou, Shuuko, Yuuri and Aya go to the firework festival.