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What a cute show.  I immediately knew I was dealing with one of those standard awkward shoujo romance shows.  From jump, all the tells were there, and the set-up seemed really familiar.  Girl and guy [...]
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Barf. I hate shoujo romances. And Ao Haru Ride is no different. Why does the girl always fall in love with an asshole? Why do they have the dumbest misunderstandings? Ao Haru Ride’s misunderstanding [...]
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「PAGE.1」 Whether you've experienced it to not, first loves leave a deep imprint in your heart that never truly goes away. The post Ao Haru Ride – 01 appeared first on Random Curiosity.
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Well – it was no “Let’s Fall in Love”…If Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun was the series that blurs all the demographic lines, Ao Haru Ride is the opposite.  This is a show that wears its shoujo proudly, [...]
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(12 episodes) What’s it about ? Adaptation of a romance shoujo manga. Characters Futaba, our heroine. She used to be quite cute and shy ; unfortunately, that brought on her the scorn and jealousy of [...]
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Futaba and Tanaka were both quiet, shy, unassuming middle school students. Then Futaba assumed that Tanaka would show up for their date after she yelled “I hate all guys!” in the hallway. He didn’t, [...]
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High school girls are monsters in real life, or so Ao Haru Ride tells me. Literally, Blue Spring Ride, this shoujo anime rounds out a varied line-up of weekly reviews. There are zombies, satellite [...]
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Futaba keeps going on and on about how Kou has changed, but I’m like, “Hey, I like his new personality!” Okay, maybe I wouldn’t have come right out and call Futaba’s relationship with her friends [...]
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