Blue Spring Ride

Alt title: Ao Haru Ride

TV (12 eps)
4.007 out of 5 from 22,651 votes
Rank #965

At the end of her first year of high school, the main heroine, Futaba suddenly has a chance encounter with her first love, Tanaka Kou. Three years ago, he transferred schools before she was able to say how she felt about him. After meeting each other again, Futaba realizes that he has gone through many changes. He acts more cool and even had his last name changed to Mabuchi. Gradually the two rekindle their love while piecing together what had happened in the time that they were apart.

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thegirlontheclouds
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I don't even know why it took me so long to finally express how much I despise this anime. I absolutely hated it. Now, I really don't even know why it's so famous and popular amongst romance fans, because Blue Spring Ride was literally the most boring, annoying, generic, mundane and mediocre romance anime I've ever seen, and worst part is you can't even justify its predictable plot by saying other anme were based off of it because it's fairly new. Well, let's start by explaining my former statement. Blue Spring Ride has everything your average romance anime would have: the bubbly, clumsy and naïve female lead and the tsundere male lead. When you take to consideration one of the actual masterpiece of a romance anime that Fruits Basket was, which did pretty well even though it had similiar characteristics you start to wonder how did BSR even manage to fail so miserably? The answer is simple: the plot is everything but romance. Not quite right if you put it that way, but romance is pushed so much to the side that you barely even notice it's there; that's why I'm so surprised when I see people considering this one of the best romance anime out there. I don't really want to get into detail of the plot because just remembering it makes me want to die; but BSR (tries to) explore more of why the male lead has become so cold, it (again, tries to) explore coming-of-age and psychological themes more than romance and that's probably why it was so infuriating; because even then it lacks depth; so much so that I couldn't bear watching all the episodes without speeding them to 2x. The plot is so predictable, the characters are all very annoying and even at the one and only thing it should be good at (romance) it completely fails; we spend 12 episodes (which translate to roughly about 5 hours) waiting for the main characters' relationship to develop only for them to hug at the end- you heard me right - just hug. And the worst part? The male lead still acts as if he's not just some child with family and abandonment issues who just needs the female lead's love.  This anime was sincerely such a piece of garbage that it made me review all the other romance anime I had on my Want to Watch list (and that's pretty clear because this is probably the longest review I've ever written) It almost made me hate one of the most beloved genres to me since I was a child; it was such a bad anime that it honestly traumatized me so much that it took me a while to pick up another romance anime again (I swear to God I get PTSD every time I'm about to click on another romance anime) Blue Spring Ride was the biggest, most horrendous disappointment, excuse of a show that seriously should have never even existed. If I could give it a zero- no, a -10 (or even less at that matter) I would, but that's not possible so I give it a 0.1 (WHICH IS STILL TOO DAMN MUCH FOR THIS PIECE OF SHIT AGHHHH)

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