“I dislike boys, more and more
after middle school started. I mean they’re violent, and noisy, and uncivilized
in the general. But, in their midst… is Tanaka-kun, from the neighboring class.
He’s different somehow. He has a small build and his voice, rather than low and
rough, is clearer and smooth, like a girl’s. I guess that’s why… I’m okay with
him.”
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
“We can no longer go back though,
I’m totally different from that person in the past, you too. That was just a
brief reminiscing of our past, that’s all.”
~Mabuchi
Kou (Ao Haru Ride)~
“It is for that reason that your
relationship with friends is LOOSE. Those people are just pretending to be
friends with you. How foolish.”
~Mabuchi
Kou (Ao Haru Ride)~
“I know very well that I always
appear to be acting all cutesy in front of guys…! Even when I’ve annoyed
everyone… I just end up becoming pretentious because I’m extremely nervous with
them.”
~Yuuri
Makita (Ao Haru Ride)~
“Even when everyone else is
dollying up, and trying to look good on others. How is that different from me
acting cute at all?”
~Yuuri
Makita (Ao Haru Ride)~
“Different people have different
perspective. So, I won’t deny the fact that some people are annoyed with the
way I am. In exchange for those negative feelings, I just want to be the person
that I am in love with the most.”
~Yuuri
Makita (Ao Haru Ride)~
“You don’t have to say that she’s
scheming, aren’t we the same as well? We also want guys to think that we are
adorable. So, we can’t say that she’s acting cutesy and stuff when we’re also
like that, right?
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
“It would have been better if we
just leave her alone. Then we wouldn’t be feeling somewhat envious of her. If
you keep bad-mouthing someone, you might feel like as if you are on a higher
position than that person. But in fact, it’s completely wrong to do that!”
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
“Even if she doesn’t want to be
alone, she could just head towards those guys, and then when she’s surrounded
with all the guys, she’ll be fine.”
“I was too bent on fulfilling my
objectives… I failed to see things from a larger perspective. I failed to build
up a good relationship with them.”
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
“I know that it didn’t matter if
I liked him before you, or not. Then I just reasonably, started to be really
annoyed by you. Even though I knew that you’d be completely if I left you.”
Yumi
(Ao Haru Ride)
“Unreasonably and totally feeling
hatred… I thought I had decided already but I’m not prepared at all… but my
feelings for Kou won’t change anymore. If it’s like this, I can only tell her.”
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
“When you said that we were
scary, that means deep down, you had started to care about us! The thought of
losing someone again… That’s the scary part, right?”
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
“If you lose something big, that
nothing can replace it… Then it’s okay if you have more than one, right? Even
if the number is small, whether it’s 10 or 100, if you gather them up then you
will have a reason to go on!”
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
“Even if Kou gets hooked on
something or if you smile from your heart, no one can blame you. And if there
is such a person… I will knock them down!”
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
“Ah, I see… If something were to
move my heart… If I were to laugh from deep in my heart and if my everyday life
has a meaning… It’s all okay.”
~Mabuchi
Kou (Ao Haru Ride)~
“In the end, I went to be
rejected, to be able to move forward. What am I supposed to do? Even though I
thought my heart would become free if I got rejected, it’s not free at all. In
the end, even now I’m even attached to Kou like an idiot.”
~Futaba
Yoshioka (Ao Haru Ride)~
