Ao Haru Ride Volume 1
With the anime adaptation of Ao Haru Ride hitting this year as well as a live action movie, tie-ins to the original manga work is pretty much a given. With the tenth volume of the series landing this month, the reveal has come down that the eleventh volume due out later this year will include some bundled anime material. With a lot of manga series making the leap to anime, additional episodes are often commissioned in order to draw folks back to the original work. No details are available when this volume will come and whether it’s adapting a later story more relevant to the manga fans or sticking to the TV series continuity are available yet.
North American fans are getting a taste of Io Sakisaka’s work with Strobe Edge from Viz Media these days. Ao Haru Ride began back in 2011 and is getting close to releasing the tenth volume of the manga later this year, which will include a drama CD that will utilize the same cast as the anime. The property has done very well since beginning 2011 as it’s sold over 4.42 million copies since getting underway.
Plot concept: Yoshioka Futaba has a few reasons why she wants to “reset” her image & 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 one boy she has ever liked, Tanaka-kun.
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 Mabuchi Kou. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but now things can never be the same again. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?
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