Ao Haru Ride is my favorite anime of all time. Watching this live action version was something I had great expectations for. I'm glad to say that this movie meeted my expectations. The character casting were chosen incredibly well. There are parts that the movie is missing however you can't expect the producers to include every single detail in a 12 episode anime and hundred episode manga into a 2 hour movie. One thing that could have made this a bit better was if they added the anime OST soundtrack too. Kikuchi looks like a baby in this omg he's so cute haha and kou really did give off the anime character vibes (i love). The squad was on point and the ending was nice and sweet ahhh great job overall! The anime is great too and you should definitely check it out (yes I'm promoting the anime). Overall, I think the movie is under appreciated and 10/10 would recommend this~