Futaba Yoshioka

Futaba Yoshioka is the main female protagonist of the Ao Haru Ride series. She is a 2nd year high school student whose first love is Kou Tanaka (who is now known as Kou Mabuchi). Futaba is a considerably beautiful young girl with upper back-length brown hair that has bangs swept to the right side and big golden-brown eyes. She tends to not see herself as very "girly", but she sometimes tries to wear makeup and gets irritated whenever Kou Mabuchi tells her "It doesn't suit her", which she sort of agrees with. Due to this, she doesn't really believe Toma Kikuchi when he is trying to tell her how feminine she is. Later on, she decides to wear makeup, lose weight, and sometimes puts her hair behind her ear for a cuter look (disregarding Kou's opinion). Futaba is usually seen wearing her school uniform consisting of a white shirt, stripped tie, a black sweater tied around her waist, and a skirt with knee-length black socks and black shoes. Outside school she usually wears casual clothing, but prefers wearing cute clothes, such as skirts, pink t-shirts and t-shirts with lots of hearts printed on them. In high school, Futaba's character has drastically taken a turn. No longer feminine nor cute, she tries to make herself appear as unattractive as possible - walking in a not so feminine manner, eating lots of food and not caring about her physical look. The reason for this is that she had been outcasted in middle school by all of the girls due to favoritism from the boys. Determined to have friends in high school, she sacrifices her true, girly self for her classmates approval, even being best friends with girls who didn't really care about their friendship in the first place. After befriending Kou once again, along with Yuri Makita, Shuko Murao and Aya Kominato, Futaba learned to live for herself and faces the world honestly. Futaba is strong-willed, stubborn, yet passionate and caring. Futaba can be a little indecisive when it comes to what she should do about her feelings for Kou. She gets sort of irritated easily when she can't figure out how Kou feels or thinks. Despite Futaba's kindness, she can become uneasy either when Yuri is trying to become very close with Kou, but mostly Kou and Yui Narumi's relationship.Nonetheless Futaba has a great understanding of both people and situations including herself and a need to understand both things.In short, she is great at figuring people out. Being able to correctly analyse both Youri and her classmates feelings, Understanding that if she acts or doesn't act in certain situations the result would be bad as well as quickly coming to terms with the fact that Kou is still kind and sweet just more bitter from his recent experiences.She therefore becomes frustrated when she fails to understand a person or situation.