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Blue Spring Ride: Season 1

12 episodes Premiered Jul 8, 2014 Updated Jul 21, 2026
Season 1 Episodes

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Season 1: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S1·E1 Mytharc

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Jul 8, 2014 · 24 min

At the end of her first year of high school, Futaba has a fateful reuion. Tanaka Kou, her first love -- who transferred without warning and disappeared from her life in middle scho

S1·E2 Core

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Jul 15, 2014 · 24 min

Motivated by painful memories of middle school, Futaba has taken on superficial friendships in high school. Kou refers to them as "friends-in-name-only." One day, Futaba encounters

S1·E3 Core

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Jul 22, 2014 · 24 min

Futaba asks about Kou's family when she learns that Tanaka-sensei is actually Kou's older brother. She also learns the real reason Kou didn't meet her for the summer festival back

S1·E4 Core

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Jul 29, 2014 · 24 min

Futaba has volunteered to be class representative for her new class, and so has Kou. They're all set to participate in an overnight leadership workshop with event representatives Y

S1·E5 Core

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Aug 5, 2014 · 24 min

Futaba has begun to develop feelings for Kou, and Yuuri happens to learn about Shuuko's pining over Tanaka-sensei. As they bear under the weight of their emotions, the team slowly

S1·E6 Mytharc

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Aug 12, 2014 · 24 min

Yuuri reveals to Futaba that she's in love with Kou. Futaba's feelings about her long-awaited friendship struggle against her budding feelings of love. Futaba decides to suppress h

S1·E7 Core

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Aug 19, 2014 · 24 min

Futaba realizes that she likes Kou, and makes up her mind to tell Yuuri about it. But a chance encounter with an old friend from middle school makes her realize that it can be hard

S1·E8 Core

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Aug 26, 2014 · 24 min

Futaba resolves to tell Yuuri about her feelings for Kou. After class, she tells Yuuri and Shuuko how she feels. On the way back, Futaba happens to run into Kou, who's out late at

S1·E9 Core

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Sep 2, 2014 · 24 min

Futaba tells Yuuri and Shuuko about Kou's words: "Caring for things brings a lot of trouble." Futaba and Yuuri's worries about Kou deepen when they learn that his grades at school

S1·E10 Core

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Sep 9, 2014 · 24 min

Futaba notices a change in the vibe between Kou and Yuuri during the study meeting. She really wants to ask Kou about it, but ends up skirting the issue. Instead, she tells Kou tha

S1·E11 Mytharc

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Sep 16, 2014 · 24 min

While Kou was going to middle school in Nagasaki, he lost his mother to an illness. Futaba finally realizes the pain Kou feels over that sense of powerlessness. Hoping to open Kou'

S1·E12 Mytharc

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Sep 23, 2014 · 24 min

Futaba sees Kou's vulnerability for the first time, then sends him home to where his brother and father are waiting. As the three of them sit around the dinner table, Kou finally t