
He attends college and lives in a bit of a run-down apartment complex during the evenings, where he does his homework and lives on instant food. Kaoru also seems to be a fairly typical twenty-something at first. Or, at least, that's the impression you get at first. She has been bred for a single purpose, and that training colors everything she does and says.
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In fact, most of Aoi's life has been spent in preparation for her marriage to Kaoru, which means hard training in how to tend a husband properly according to Japanese traditions.

Yes, Ai Yori Aoshi has a very traditional view on gender roles, at least for Kaoru and Aoi, and in more ways than one.Īoi and Kaoru both come from very well-to-do families.

It's also easy to assume that any man would like the "perfect wife" - one who cleans the house, does the laundry and the shopping, and cooks the meal for the working man when he returns home.Īnd, in Ai Yori Aoshi, that's pretty much what you get, and then some. It's easy to assume that all men really wants is a pretty girl with a big chest and/or large eyes. After all, most people are different, and have different expectations of what they desire in a potential partner. Romantic ideals can often be hard to understand. But starting a relationship, much less keeping it alive, proves to be far more difficult than the two envisioned. But Kaoru, as it turned out, ran away from the family after years of abuse and doesn't want to have anything to do with the Hanabishi anymore.Īoi's heart is still set on Kaoru, though, so the two starts taking faltering steps towards their new life together. Aoi is searching for her childhood friend, whom she once was supposed to marry. Notes: Based on the manga by Fumizuki Kou, once serialized in Young Animal.Ī chance meeting on the local train station turns the lives of Kaoru Hanabishi and Aoi Sakuraba completely around. Related Series: Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ (sequel)Īlso Recommended: Maison Ikkoku, Marmalade Boy, Please Teacher, Ah! My Goddess, Chobits, Clannad. They continue to live their normal lives with their usual friends in their house.Length: Television series, 24 episodes, 23 minutes eachĭistributor: R1 DVD/Blu-Ray from FUNimation Geneon release out of printĬontent Rating: 13+ (brief nudity, fan service, adult themes, some violence) Two years has passed since Aoi and Kaoru were freed from the bonds of their families. Kaoru now in grad school and the tenants being as rowdy as ever what will become of Aoi and Kaoru's love. Two years after meeting Aoi, Kaoru and gang are still up to their normal habits. Her revelation was not only surprising but also reminded the deepest part of Kaoru's memory for why he left the Hanabishi family in the first place. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancee who came all the way to Tokyo to marry him. She supplied him with a photo of two children whom Kauru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. Not knowing what to do next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for any additional clues to her destination.

He volunteered to guide her way to the address she was looking for, which happened to be in his neighborhood, but turned out to be an empty lot. Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but bewildered girl dressed in a kimono at a train station.
