Blue Spring Ride (Season 1)

Blue Spring Ride (アオハライド, 2014) is a 13-episode anime series you can watch online on iFILM, produced by Production I.G and adapted from Io Sakisaka's manga. Futaba Yoshioka liked Kou Tanaka in middle school, never told him, and then he was gone — transferred before she had the chance.

In high school, Futaba has rebuilt herself into someone deliberately unfeminine, low-key, easy to ignore. It keeps the jealous girls away and the boys at arm's length. It works fine until Kou turns up again — now going by Mabuchi, quieter, noticeably colder. Three years changed him in ways he won't discuss. Futaba can feel the pull of what they used to be, but she can't quite tell if that person still exists.

Directed by Takatoshi Suzuki, the show handles the awkwardness of teenage feeling with more honesty than most entries in the genre — less about grand confessions, more about what doesn't get said. Stream all episodes of Blue Spring Ride online on iFILM.