Blue Spring Ride

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Blue Spring Ride
Original title ア オ ハ ラ イ ド
transcription Aoharaido
genre Romance, shōjo
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Io Sakisaka
publishing company Shueisha
magazine Bessatsu Margaret
First publication January 13, 2011 - February 13, 2015
expenditure 13
Anime television series
title Ao Haru Ride
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2014
Studio Production IG
length 25 minutes
Episodes 12 + 2 bonus episodes
Director Ai Yoshimura
music Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Keiko Ōsaki, Shōta Hashimoto
First broadcast July 9 - September 24, 2014 on Tokyo MX
synchronization

Blue Spring Ride ( Japanese ア オ ハ ラ イ ド , Aoharaido or Ao Haru Ride ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Io Sakisaka , which was published in Japan from 2011 to 2015. It has over 2000 pages and was commercially successful in Japan and was adapted as an anime television series and real film in 2014 .

content

The student Futaba Yoshioka ( 吉岡 双 葉 ) comes to high school and wants to change her character here. In middle school she was a lovely, sweet girl who many were jealous of and who was therefore excluded. Therefore, she now wants to behave less “girlish” in high school. She could never confess her love to her classmate Tanaka from middle school, with whom she fell in love. But Futaba meets again at the new school Tanaka, who is now called Kō Mabuchi ( 馬 渕 洸 ). She learns from him that he used to love her as well, but no longer.

publication

The manga was published from January 13, 2011 (issue 2/2011) to February 13, 2015 (issue 3/2015) in individual chapters in the magazine Bessatsu Margaret of the Shueisha publishing house in Japan. The collected chapters were also summarized in 13 anthologies ( Tankōbon ). The volumes sold over 400,000 copies each, making them one of the 100 best-selling manga volumes in Japan in 2012. By January 2014, a total of 4.4 million copies had appeared. The anthologies 11 and 12 also came in limited versions, each with an anime sequence on DVD.

In Tokyopop all 13 volumes were published in German translation from November 2012 to December 2015.

Adaptations

novel

Akiko Abe made an adaptation as a novel for Shūeisha. 5 volumes have been published since November 27, 2011 (as of January 2015).

Anime

In January 2014, the adaptation as an anime television series was also announced. This was created at Studio Production IG under the direction of Ai Yoshimura and the character design by Rena Igawa.

The 12 episodes were premiered on Tokyo MX from July 9 to September 24, 2014 at midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) , two hours later on MBS and one day later nationwide via satellite via BS11 . An English subtitled version is streamed as a simulcast on Crunchyroll in North America, while Sentai Filmworks acquired the DVD and Blu-ray rights.

The limited version of the 11th Manga volume from August 25, 2014 and the 12th volume from December 12, 2014 each included a DVD with a bonus episode - the former a prequel episode about Futaba and Ko's high school days and the latter a final episode 13.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Futaba Yoshioka Maaya Uchida
Ko Mabuchi Yūki Kaji

music

The background music for the series was composed by Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Keiko Ōsaki and Shōta Hashimoto. The opening title Sekai wa Koi ni Ochiteiru ( 世界 は 恋 に 落 ち て い る ) comes from CHiCO with HoneyWorks and the closing title Blue ( ブ ル ー , Burū ) is sung by Fujifabric .

Motion picture

A live action film adaptation was released in Japanese cinemas on December 13, 2014. Directed by Takahiro Miki and the main characters Futaba and Kō were played by Tsubasa Honda and Masahiro Higashide . It was seen by 210,000 visitors in 295 cinemas on the opening weekend and was the most successful film over these two days, with grossing 243 million yen (€ 1.6 million).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Top-Selling Manga in Japan by Volume, # 50- # 100: 2012. Anime News Network , December 2, 2012, accessed December 15, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b Ao Haru Ride Shōjo Manga Gets TV Anime. In: Anime News Network. January 6, 2014, accessed January 10, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Crunchyroll Announces "Akame ga Kill!", "Blue Spring Ride", "DRAMAtical Murder", Lots More at Anime Expo. In: Crunchyroll. July 5, 2014, accessed July 13, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Sentai Filmworks Licenses Chaika The Coffin Princess, 7 Summer Anime Titles. In: Anime News Network. July 4, 2014, accessed July 13, 2014 .
  5. ↑ 本田 翼 ＆ 東 出 昌 大 『ア オ ハ ラ イ ド』 テ ィ ー ン か ら の 絶大 な 支持 で 1 位！ 【映 画 週末 興 行 成績】 . In: Cinematoday.jp. December 16, 2014, accessed January 9, 2015 (Japanese).

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