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Blue Spring Ride

★ 7.5 8K votes 2014–2014 1 season · 13 episodes Ended Tokyo MX
Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 9/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 9/10School & campusSchools and universities as the primary world.This show: 8/10Coming of ageGrowing up as the central arc.This show: 8/10Young adultTeen protagonists with teen-first appeal.This show: 7/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Maaya UchidaYûki KajiDaisuke HirakawaAi KayanoTsubasa HondaMasahiro Higashide
Written by
Io Sakisaka
Starring
Maaya UchidaYûki KajiDaisuke HirakawaAi KayanoTsubasa HondaMasahiro Higashide
Written by
Io Sakisaka
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
063125188250

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About

"A tender study of first-love regret and reinvention"

A girl who scared away her own middle-school crush by acting tough now finds him back in her life in high school, older, colder, and going by a different name. What follows is a quiet, aching drama about regret, miscommunication, and the slow work of being honest with people you love. It's soft-spoken and unhurried, carried by internal monologue and small gestures rather than big incidents, with just enough warmth and humor to keep the melancholy from curdling into misery.

Watch it for

the quiet, believable ache of two people relearning how to be honest with each other.

Maybe skip if

you need plot momentum rather than slow emotional unpacking between characters.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 12014
7.32K135h 12m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Page 17.0
21724 min
2Page 27.4
18024 min
3Page 37.3
17224 min
4Page 47.3
16724 min
5Page 56.9
16524 min
6Page 67.5
16824 min
7Page 76.9
15824 min
8Page 87.3
16024 min
9Page 97.0
15724 min
10Page 107.4
16124 min
11Page 118.2
20224 min
12Page 127.5
18024 min
13OVA: Page 137.2
13524 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Maaya Uchida Futaba Yoshioka
Yûki Kaji Ko
Daisuke Hirakawa Yoichi Tanaka
Ai Kayano Yuri Makita
Tsubasa Honda Futaba Yoshioka
Masahiro Higashide Ko
Mikako Komatsu Shuko Murao
KENN Aya Kominato
Yua Shinkawa Shuko Murao
Ryô Yoshizawa Aya Kominato

Crew

Io Sakisaka

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