Yoshioka Futaba and Tanaka Kou once had a blooming romance in junior high. However Futaba is self-conscious about her image to her fellow girls and one statement Kou overheard one day turned him away from her. Kou and Futaba planned to meet at a summer festival but he never showed up. Now that Futaba is in high school, she's more determined to change her image so she won't be left out and bullied by girls jealous of the attention she used to get from the boys. But as fate would have it, she meets Tanaka-kun again, who now goes by the name of Mabuchi Kou and tells her he felt the same way years before, but claims it is no longer possible to be lovers. This only adds fuel to her curiosity and soon she feels that the new Kou, cold and cruel, is as attractive as the gentle and timid Kou from years before. Kou and Futaba in one of their encounters in junior high Futaba and Kou Ao Haru Ride is not without similarities to most romance series --- the settin...
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