Ao Haru Ride

Futaba Yoshioka & Kou Mabuchi

Blue Spring Ride (japanese: アオハライド hepburn: Aoharaido, written Ao Haru Ride within Japan) is a Japanese shojo mangaseries written and illustrated bylo sakisaka It began serialization in the February 2011 issue of shueisha s besatsu margaret and ended in February 2015. An anime  television series, produced by production  and directed by Ai Yoshimura, premiered in Japan at midnight on 7 July 2014. A live action film adaptation was released in December 2014. A drama CD has been released as a tie-in with the 10th volume of the manga. An original video animation has been released as a tie-in with the 11th volume of the manga. Translations of manga volumes have been released in Germany, France, Italy, Taiwan and Poland.

Kou Mabuchi (馬渕 洸, Mabuchi Kou) is the male protagonist of the Ao Haru Ride series. He is a 2nd year High School student whose first love is Futaba 

Futaba Yoshioka (吉岡 双葉, Yoshioka Futaba) is the female protagonist of the Ao Haru Ride series. She is a 2nd year high school student whose first love is Tanaka Kou (Tanaka-kun), who is now known as Kou.