Ao Haru Ride

At the end of her first year of high school, Yoshioka Futaba has a fateful reunion. That person is Tanaka Kou, her first love who disappeared suddenly after transferring in middle school. When she finds out he has returned – albeit this time with a different last name – she can already feel the butterflies in her stomach at the prospect of seeing him once more. However, Kou’s once kind personality has turned cold, and in the three years he was missing from Futaba’s life, he has clearly changed. As the three years of Kou’s life that Futaba didn’t know are gradually revealed, she begins to admire Kou once again..

This new drama remake will be broadcast and distributed in two parts from Fall 2023.

Yoshioka Futaba and Mabuchi Kou were once classmates in middle school. After reuniting in high school, the two begin to draw close to one another again. The situation complicates with the appearance of Narumi Yui, Kou’s junior-high school classmate from Nagasaki. And things are shaken further yet by the actions of Kikuchi Toma, who suddenly approaches Futaba.