![]() His personal drama and personality change is done very, very well and is the biggest highlight of the show. Kou is the best character in the series, surprisingly because he acts as a pseudo-plot device for Futaba. There's nothing special about her, but she is the one that moves the story forward entirely by herself. Futaba is not a great character by herself, as she is rather simple and two dimensional at most, but the best part about her is that she makes some great character interactions with Kou and the rest of the squad. Futaba is a rather curious and gentle girl who has a crush on Kou but starts questioning her feelings after meeting him, after she got supposedly dumped by him several years ago, and circles around Kou to find out more about his changed personality. Tanaka-sensei, Kou's brother, is an important character in Kou's personal drama and life and manages to have some good characterization in relatively short screen time.Īnd here we have our main duo, with the main protagonist Futaba going first. She has some sort of characterization and personality though, so she's not a bad character per se, but really underwhelming going against the main duo. Yuuri is a shy but sweet girl who is a piece of the main love triangle, but it feels like she is just a plot device thrown in to escalate the plot. Kominato himself is just a friendly and energetic guy, nothing else to say about him, he's not relevant at all. She is bland and uninteresting, but is a main piece of the second love triangle, as Kominato has a crush on her, and she has a crush on Kou's brother, Tanaka-sensei. Starting from the worst, we have Murao, a silent and self-centered girl that later is not like that, for some reasons hardly mentioned. The story follows a group of 5 teenagers. However, for an anime that is entirely character-driven, plot shortcomings aren't as important as in other shows. It is extremely predictable from the very start and not engaging. The plot devices the anime introduce to kickstart an event are quickly forgotten. The main love triangle feels very artificial and is only there to make some progress, and the secondary love triangle isn't explored at all. There is just nothing driving the romance forward and it uses cheap gimmicks in an attempt to move it further but it is really an uninteresting story once you get familiar with the characters. It is your average shoujo romance with a double unrelated love triangle introduced later on. The premise screams vanilla and generic all over the place, and it is just as it looks. Shocked to find his personality completely changed, she starts testing her feelings for him, all in attempt to find out what happened to his old self. She stumbles across her middle school crush, Kou Tanaka, who has changed his name to Kou Mabuchi. ![]() It has "generic" and Kimi ni Todoke written all over it just from looking at the cover, and going deeper, it further proves this statement.įutaba Yoshioka is your average 1st year in high school, who wishes to change herself and find new friends. It follows a story of a curious high-schooler girl wishing to find out what happened to her crush from three years ago and why did he change. Would you like to pre-order a vanilla pudding with vanilla toppings from our vanilla menu?Īo Haru Ride is a shoujo romance slice of life manga adaptation of the same name. But still, her world is soon turned upside down when the only boy she ever liked unexpectedly comes into her life once again-except he goes by the name of Kou Mabuchi now, and it is not his name alone that has gone through a sea change. Determined to become a class favorite this time, she avoids all unwanted attention and, instead of acting cute and feminine, only stands out through her tomboyish behavior and disheveled look. Now in high school, Futaba is not your typical adolescent girl. She even succeeded at making plans to meet with the quiet and innocent boy at the summer festival, but a simple misunderstanding, and Tanaka's subsequent disappearance, left her walking the halls of her school friendless. Nevertheless, she was able to brush all that off, because the only opinion that truly mattered to her was that of Kou Tanaka, a classmate with whom she shared a shelter from rain once, followed by quite a few other precious and significant memories. Futaba Yoshioka used to be an attractive and popular middle-schooler-well liked by the opposite sex, but ostracized by the girls. ![]()
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