Blue Spring Ride

Blue Spring Ride is a TV anime produced by Production I.G, adapted from the manga by Io Sakisaka. Directed by Ai Yoshimura with series composition by Tomoko Konparu, the series follows Futaba Yoshioka as she unexpectedly reunites with her first love, Kou Mabuchi, in high school — only to find him changed in ways she never expected. Blending heartfelt drama, slow-burn romance, and authentic slice-of-life storytelling, Blue Spring Ride captures the bittersweet complexity of young love with emotional depth and stunning animation craftsmanship from one of anime's most respected studios.

Set against the backdrop of a Japanese high school, this story follows Futaba Yoshioka, a girl whose cute appearance once made her the target of jealousy and exclusion among her female peers in middle school. Scarred by those experiences, she enters high school with a firm resolution: to reinvent herself by deliberately acting unrefined and tomboyish, hoping to fly under the radar and finally enjoy a drama-free social life. Her carefully constructed new persona seems to be working—until a chance encounter turns her world upside down. A boy from her past, someone connected to a bittersweet memory she has never quite let go of, reappears in her life under a different name: Kou Mabuchi. Yet the person standing before her feels like a stranger compared to who she once knew. With the weight of unspoken feelings and three years of distance between them, Futaba must navigate the messy, uncertain territory of first love all over again.