

published a PlayStation 2 video game based on the series in 2003, and was released in English for Windows PCs by Hirameki International. Day by day he felt alone, thinking that he was living life with no reason pushing him on.

Yet Kaoru never felt at home in the Hanabishi family and left to live alone in self-imposed exile after his mother died. Since then, Yuji's grandfather, Gen'ichiro Hanabishi, took Kaoru under his wing and began educating him for the eventual succession. Kaoru's father died when he was five years old. His mother, Kumi Honjo, and his father never married, making life difficult for both him and his mother. Kaoru Hanabishi appears to be an average university student, but in reality, he's the eldest son of Yuji Hanabishi, the head of the Hanabishi Zaibatsu, and was set to take over the zaibatsu after his father retired. Four visual novels were also released for the PlayStation 2, and for Windows 98. The anime was released in North America by Geneon, and the manga was released in English by Tokyopop. There are 37 episodes total, counting an alternate-continuity Christmas special. The series was made into an anime in 2002, with a 2003 sequel, Ai Yori Aoshi: Enishi, set two years later. Literally translated, the title means "Bluer Than Indigo".Īi Yori Aoshi anime was directed by Masami Shimoda and animated by J.C.Staff. It is a love story between two characters who have not seen each other in years but were once childhood friends. Ai Yori Aoshi is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Kou Fumizuki and serialized from 1998 to 2005 in Hakusensha's Young Animal.
