WOWOW has a new promotional video for the live-action TV drama adaptation of Io Sakisaka's Blue Spring Ride (Ao Haru Ride) manga, which reveals additional cast and the drama's theme song.
The theme song titled, "Kono Ame ga Yandara" (When the Rain Stops) will be performed by Kana Adachi feat. Yuito Takeuchi.
The series will have two seasons. The first season will have 8 episodes, with Season 2 premiering later.
Natsuki Deguchi stars as Futaba Yoshioka, while Kaito Sakurai stars as Kō Mabuchi.
After meeting each other again, Futaba realizes that he has gone through many changes. He acts more cool and even had his last name changed to Mabuchi. Gradually the two rekindle their love while piecing together what had happened in the time that they were apart.
The series will have two seasons. The first season will have 8 episodes, with Season 2 premiering later.
Natsuki Deguchi stars as Futaba Yoshioka, while Kaito Sakurai stars as Kō Mabuchi.
The first season of the Blue Spring Ride TV drama is set to premiere on WOWOW on September 22.
Masato Kimura is directing all of the show's episodes except the fifth and seventh episodes, which Yūsuke Matsuda will direct.
NEW PV:
🍀#アオハライド Season1🍀
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📣足立佳奈 feat.竹内唯人による新曲
「この雨がやんだら」が主題歌に決定🎶
主題歌入りの本予告映像も解禁🎥✨
📌ドラマオリジナルPVも公開中
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NEW CAST ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Manami Higa as Kaori Ichijō / Keisuke Watanabe as Yūdai Kodama / Mio Kudō as Asumi Nitō /
Toru Nomaguchi as Toshio Hasebe /
Keiko Horiuchi as Akari Mabuchi /
Itsuji Itao as Yoshimasa Kajiwara /
Satoshi Jimbo as Takanori Kuroda
The cast includes:
Natsuki Deguchi as Futaba Yoshioka
Kaito Sakurai as Kō Mabuchi
Sara Shida as Shūko Murao
Daiki Kanechika as Yōichi Tanaka
Sol Miyazato as Haruhiko Uchimiya
Riko as Yūri Makita
Taisuke Niihara as Aya Kominato
Ryōsuke Sota as Tōma Kikuchi
Kaito Sakurai as Kō Mabuchi
Sara Shida as Shūko Murao
Daiki Kanechika as Yōichi Tanaka
Sol Miyazato as Haruhiko Uchimiya
Riko as Yūri Makita
Taisuke Niihara as Aya Kominato
Ryōsuke Sota as Tōma Kikuchi
TEASER VISUAL:
At the end of her first year of high school, the main heroine, Futaba suddenly has a chance encounter with her first love, Tanaka Kou. Three years ago, he transferred schools before she was able to say how she felt about him.
After meeting each other again, Futaba realizes that he has gone through many changes. He acts more cool and even had his last name changed to Mabuchi. Gradually the two rekindle their love while piecing together what had happened in the time that they were apart.


