A literal translation of the title is "Bluer Than Indigo", still a title occurs as play in words, in which a word "Ai" means love possibly though a kanji utilized for "Ai" doesn't. So, a title is likewise translated when "True Blue Love".

Ai Yori Aoshi was manufactured into an anime on 2002 and a computer game was freed for PlayStation 2. the title is taken from either a Xun Zi's quote, Ao ha Ai yori Idete Ai yori Aoshi (青は藍より出でて藍より青し). A anime is around its 2nd year under a title Ai Yori Aoshi -Enishi- (藍より青し ～縁～). A anime was freed inside North America by Geneon and in Singapore by Odex. A manga was freed around English by TokyoPop.

the series is for instance known as the midway point between a harem anime and a magical girlfriend story.

Story

Kaoru Hanabishi appears to become an typical college student however he is really a firstborn boy of Yuji Hanabishi, a head of Hanabishi Zaibatsu, & is to require across a zaibatsu when his father retires. His mother, Hisami Honjo & his father never married & this experienced processed a life hard for two him & his mother. Kaoru's father died whilst Kaoru was 5 years old. Since so, Yuji's father, a grandpa to Kaoru, took Kaoru under his wing & began educating him for the eventual succession. However Kaoru never was home in the Hanabishi personal & left to survive by himself when his mother died.

There exists, even so, mortal world health organization loved Kaoru such that she would run whatever necessary to exist as using him.

Her title is Aoi Sakuraba. Aoi is the exclusively girl of the creator of Sakuraba Kimono Store (late renamed to Sakuraba Department Store). Kaoru's personal & Sakuraba's personal experienced agreed for Kaoru to wed Aoi however when Kaoru walked out, a marriage got been cancelled. Two families got a friendship & Aoi experienced been soft on by having Kaoru from either the run, which Kaoru never knew. A Sakuraba personal experienced already been searching out for somebody suitable however Aoi unwilling to marry somebody else & walked out, chasing Kaoru.

Each were dislodged from either their families affair however did non understand training make their residing. Miyabi Kagurazaki, world health organization got been shopping out for Aoi, offered them how else. Aoi & Miyabi would survive together within the gr& american style summertime home of Sakurabthe personal and Kaoru would sleep in a home for servants next to that. This would halt a scandal, good deal such as the of these that experienced processed Kaoru's life hard, when ii would become residing on an individual basis. However before long, Kaoru's friends world health organization good happen to become attractive females, took home in the home & it quickly became the dormitory. Super shortly, Aoi became the landlady of the dormitory.

Characters and Seiyu
List come around American sequentially, by owning a given title prior to a family name. Kaoru Hanabishi (花菱薫 Hanabishi Kaoru) by Soichiro Hoshi A independent male protagonist of the series. He occurs as fairly typical individual & he doesn't healthy a mould of the stereotypic male hero around virtually all serail animes. Largely, he is shown to become the fairly serious student, & is non prone to emotional outbursts unlike more leading males around seraglio anime. He is usually swell liked & occurs as member of the photography club at his college. He harbours the deep dislike for the Hanabishi kindred due to their coarse of action of himself & his mother. His backed is scarred from either either whenever he was beaten by owning the bamboo cane for trying to halt his grandad from burning souvenir of his dead mother. Aoi Sakuraba (桜庭葵 Sakuraba Aoi) by Ayako Kawasumi A independent female protagonist of the series. She is usually super shy & coy. She is nearly universally portrayed wearing the kimono and specifically, a blue kimono. Because she occurs as an expert cook & keeps her home within the super do state, she is seen as a traditional Japanese beauty. Unlike more female leads inside serail anime, she is non prone to jealousy. She is very devoted to Kaoru, nonetheless, & might run beat her power to check existence separated from either him. Whilst Kaoru enter a Sakuraba summertime home, she was appointed to exist as a landlord by Miyabi. Aoi has the quiet however hard fractiousness. Several viewers mistake this for even meekness or subservience due to her modest temperment. Tina Stephen collins foster (ティナ・フォスター) by Satsuki Yukino Tina was natural in the United States, but spent a majority of her life inside Hakata, a ward in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She attends the equivalent school when Kaoru, & was a a single for him to join a photography club, which she is besides a member of. She get inside the servant home that Kaoru is staying in because she experienced there are no place to stay when giving to Japan from either a hike about the world. She has the habit of grabbing & rubbing female's breasts, which virtually all population buy super coarse. She is aloud & outspoken & super hard of Kaoru whilst it comes to Mayu. She is too super fond of ingesting. She has the whiten preferred ferret, known as Uzume, which virtually all of the cast finds super cute, except for Miyabi.

Inside numbers of respects, Tina is one of a supplementary deeply developed characters of the indicate, despite her ditzy behavior. Existence an U.s., & eventually with been raised witharound Japan, she is constantly haunted per fact that she potty never truly accord in either united states. After she left Japan to attend senior high school around United states, she explained that she was unable to concord there because she was unfeeling Japanese. However she besides understands that she may never truly harmonise Japan either, because of her apprearance. Tina wishes that she got been natural Japanese, therefore that mayhap she would have a better risk at winning Kaoru's heart.
Tina is very deeply gaga using Kaoru, however pains her heart by owning efforts to hide her feelings, because she thinks that he can never sense a equivalent way just about her.

Miyabi Kagurazaki (神楽崎雅 Kagurazaki Miyabi) by Akiko Hiramatsu Aoi's appointed shielder, she spent virtually all of her life seeking fallowing Aoi & portion within her upbringing. She is besides super active in the running off of the Sakuraba emporium. She is usually super nonindulgent & enforces a system of a Sakuraba summertime home when the manager. Although she ab initio disliked Kaoru (& everthing of his friends), she learns to assume him because of the feelings that Aoi & Kaoru use for both more. She is too super fond of breaking watermelons in the summertime. Taeko Minazuki (水無月妙子 Minazuki Taeko) by Kaori Mizuhashi Taeko occurs when recently member of a photography club & in time come in a Sakuraba summertime home as the housekeeper when existence fired from either her last housework job. Her virtually all big features come her super large breasts & her clumsiness. She wwhen then clumsy that Aoi got to convince Miyabi to hire her, as she experienced the tendency to break much of worthful objects. Taeko explains that the cause she wants to exist as a housekeeper then badly is because whenever she was super immature, her father died & her mother got to raise her as a only parent. Taeko's mother was super skillful at keeping home, & Taeko wishes to achieve a equivalent proficiency that her mother got. She besides develops feelings for Kaoru when a series progresses. Mayu Miyuki (美幸繭 Miyuki Mayu) by Sayaka Narita Something of the prodigy, Mayu applies to Kaoru's college when sorting through out in which he attended. She is infatuated using him because he cheered her higher at the person whilst she was 12 years old. At that instance, Mayu's parents informed her that it would exist as missing her Twelfth birthday because of business overseas. It gave her the stuffed rabbit that she got been request for as a gift to produce higher for it. Mayu's parents got been holding the person for even their business partners, & there is no matter what Mayu said or did, her parents just didn't use at times a instance for her. Aghast, Mayu ran off into a forest, bumping into Kaoru & dropping her rabbit when she fled. Kaoru followed her & tried to cheer her higher, however she exclaimed that her parents didn't require care of her the least bit, & that it likewise didn't love her. Kaoru so utilizes a rabbit (which he known as "Ussa") as a puppet to cheer higher Mayu, telling her that her parents launder love her a good deal, & that potentially in case it don't pay when much attention to her as it should, it's better than with there is no parents in the least, prefer himself. This left the important impact in Mayu, & she saved & cherished Ussa to the todays day.

Mayu is however super lonely, because her parents come universally occupy working. She doesn't let others underst& this though, and hides behind an air of superiority. She thinks that Tina is especially coarse & potty't could have her presence. She attempts when stiff when she potty to clean items that would produce Kaoru happy, like learning training cook from either Aoi therefore she may produce dejeuner for him.

Chika Minazuka (水無月ちか Minazuka Chika) by Haruko Momoi Taeko's immature first cousin. inside the period of the summerinstance she lives virtually all of her time working in a coffeehouse down per beach. Because of this, she is very tanned. She notices that Taeko has the crush in Kaoru & lives much of instance trying to fix the children of them higher. She is usually cheerful & up-&-coming, and imputable her appearance was oftentimes in comparison Kaolla Suu from either Love Hina. She on occasion hwhen modest feelings for Kaoru as a series progresses, however largely, admire him as an older brother. Uzume (ウズメ) by Yuka Inokuchi - Tina's pet ferret. He seems to like a company of Miyabi-san, great deal to Tina's humiliation.