Ai Yori Aoshi
Posted on August 8, 2007
This anime is about a very sweet romance story where the stage begins smack dab right in the middle of Tokyo. It’s an anime about how a growing love can overcome many and all of the obstacles that can be thought of in this very modern time. This anime reflects reality yet at the same time, it’s truly an unrealistic anime. Why? Well then, you’ll just have to let me continue.
The main and leading male character here is named Hanabishi Kaoru who comes from the well-known and rich Hanabishi family line. However, being a family member of the rich and famous isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be. And due to reasons of his own, Kaoru decides to cut family ties with the Hanabishi family and live on his own.
One day, the leading female character, Sakuraba Aoi, a girl who is a descendant of the famous and well-known Sakuraba family in Japan decided to pay him a visit. Her status when meeting Kaoru was as a fiancee as in the plot, they mentioned that they were, since young, engaged to be married. However, when Kaoru left the Hanabishi family line, the engagement was canceled. However, this cancellation does not cover the fact that Aoi is truly in love with “Kaoru-sama” and wanted very much to be his wife.
Alone, Aoi travels through Tokyo holding only onto her little purse and a piece of paper where Kaoru’s address was written on for she wanted to meet him. As she was changing trains in the subway, unfamiliar with the Tokyo scene, she became confused as to how to get pass the ticket machine to get to the trains. At this time, a young man around her age decides to help her seeing as that she looked lost trying to get around. Coincidentally, this young man turns out to be Kaoru himself. They only recognized each other after Aoi procures a picture of their young selves.
After not having seen each other for years, Aoi decides that she wanted to start over again. She wants to be able to live with Kaoru, to get to know him better, to begin a new relationship built on love and not of family arrangements.
However, with Aoi connected with a rich and famous family, it seems that their relationship would be a easy one as their relationship was denied by the Sakuraba family. Will their love conquer all their problems? Are they able to stand against all the odds to beat the outside force that was interfering with their bond? How would their relationship survive?
Sakuraba Aoi, the main female character, was described as a perfect girl in the way she expressed her love and care. Hanabishi Kaoru, the main male character, is only an ordinary man at the beginning. Nothing special about his character. But later in the series, we will see that he really deserve a perfect girl like Aoi.
This anime is also another sweet one. It’s not very like my style of anime but it’s really nice, the plot, where at the beginning sees that the plot revolves around the both of them, suddenly becoming where they lived in a mansion with many other female characters being added into the scene making the mansion to be very harem-like where Kaoru is the only male in the house.
So you can only imagine what kind of anime this would be like. Imagine that you, a guy, is live with 5 beautiful women under one roof where out f the five, four is in love with you! If I were that guy, I’d be in heaven, but I’m not, and the fact remains that I am 100% female 
I really liked this anime because as the plot unfolds, not only were there tears and sorrow, there was also tons of hilarity and partying going on and that’s what makes this a overall sweet, romantic anime.
Rating : 8/10
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you’re on a roll with these anime aren’t you? what happened to the bloody violent anime you like so much? If you’re in a “sweetness” phase (and haven’t already seen it) try watching Honey & Clover (I & II)… sometimes you cry from laughing and sometimes from plain pain and sadness or something touching. It’s a great mood balancer I think. If you haven’t already seen Honey & Clover, it might just be what you need.
Yea I am, these are just a few of the animes I have been watching last month itself. And as a anime lover, I’d like to pass the joy around
I’m actually going by alphabetical order and coincidentally, these two, with few or no violence and gore at all was the first on my list of animes that I’ve watched. So just wait, in a few days time, the action ones would appear xP
And I’ve seen Honey & Clover but one way or another the animation just didn’t call out to me so I only watched it once in a while when it broadcast on Animax, Astro channel 25.
All anime are unrealistic but the storyline often touches the soul of the watchers. Hehe.. I’m one anime lover and I often watch action-based anime such as Naruto, Bleach and One Piece. I’ll try to find Ai Yori Aoshi soon! =)
Not all anime are unrealistic. Some portray real life in a very detailed anime where you start to wonder whether it’s actually the artist’s real life scenario.
That I think would be very nice. However, at the moment, I’m into unrealistic anime
for they have much more plots as well as well made up humor 