A review by gluvsbooks
Ao Haru Ride, Vol. 5 by Io Sakisaka

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing

4.0

when I say I’m slowly becoming obsessed with this series I mean exactly that!

Kou becomes distant. When the gang comes back from vacation Futaba realises that Kou is going through something. 

She then leans that one of his friends from his old town had just lost a parent and he’s there trying to support them because he knows how it feels and doesn’t want to abandon them. But while he’s doing that he’s also becoming less involved with him current friends at school… and Futaba. 

So Futaba tries to make sure that Kou knows his friends are there for him too. 

It is also discovered that Kou may still has feeling for Futaba—when a friend finds an old notebook of his where he had written Futaba’s name in junior high—as he didn’t deny it when asked. 

At the end of the volume, we find out that this friend—who Kou has been helping—is actually a girl when she turns up at an event. You can can that Futaba instantly becomes worried.