Ao no Flag

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For some reason, Taichi Ichinose just can’t stand Futaba Kuze. But at the start of his third year in high school, he finds himself in the same homeroom as her, along with his childhood friend Toma Mita, a star athlete. But one day, Futaba opens up to Taichi and admits she has a crush on Toma. She then asks for his help in confessing to him! There’s just one problem—Toma seems to already have a secret crush on someone else.

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Manga

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Associated Names

Ao no Furaggu

Bendera Biru

Blue Flag

Niebieska flaga

Голубой флаг

蓝色的旗帜

藍色的旗幟

青のフラッグ

청춘 플래그

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MANGA Plus

Latest Release(s)

c.54 (end) by MANGA Plus 5 years ago

c.53 by MANGA Plus 5 years ago

c.52 by MANGA Plus 5 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

8 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

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Average: 8 / 10.0 (401 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.88 / 10.0

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March 7th, 2025 2:22am PST - 2 months ago

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Drama Romance School Life Shounen Shounen Ai Slice of Life
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Original Publisher

Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)

Shounen Jump + (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

MANGA Plus

Viz (8 Vols - Complete)

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Masterpiece.. For a while

by TheOneWhoGotAway
4 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

This is extremely well written manga.. until you hit the ending. The ending really does what it's supposed to do but in such a bad way you wonder how did this even happen? I'm not sure if the last chapters were written by the same author.

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Duuuuude!

by etnol
4 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

I don't get it, from volume 1 on page 161 you can see the chemistry between both male characters, what's the disappointment? Stop giving it such a low rating.

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8.8 before chapter 52. after that ..... -infinity/10

by Akira Ryuji
4 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

8.8 before chapter 52. after that ..... -infinity/10

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Doesn't expect this into a gay manga, but I would still recommend it.

by mallika23
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

I honestly didn't really expect this manga into a gay romance. I have a feeling though, when Ichinose told Futaba what was Toma's type, because what Toma described were all the opposites of Ichinose.

Well, not that I hate it. In fact, I love it whenever there are positive representation of the LGBT community in the popular culture such as this one. I'm not LGBT myself, but I know how (at least in my country) they were always poorly represented in the media. And this is why I don't really like the yaoi/yuri genre, since I feel that this type always oversexualize the story and character. Thankfully, Blue Flag isn't one.

However, to be fair, I was also a bit disturbed by the ending. Like the previous review said, I don't understand why Futaba and Ichinose broke up, and why Ichinose suddenly got married with Toma. It feels rushed with no clear explanation.

However, I will still give it a 9. I honestly kind of like how the pros and cons of those who agree/disagree spoken here. It's well narrated that it doesn't feel like the kind of debates you'll find in social media. Lol.

... Last updated 3 years ago

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Left Me a Little Angry

by mewmewchii
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

I absolutely hated the ending of this manga, but it's some thing that could have been easily fixed if the mangaka didn't do a time skip, we need that build up to how the characters ended up where they are, having it so it's a happy ending just for happy ending sake leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Taichi showed absolutely zero interest in dating a man yet he ended up dating Touma. Where is the build up to that? Where is the explanation as to why they ended up in that relationship. Futaba marring a different man makes sense since not all high school relationships last but it would be nice to know why they broke up. We as an audience can infer all we want but it feels unsatisfactory that we'll never really know the reason behind everything.

TL;DR- For a manga that has great foreshadowing the ending was way too abrupt, felt like it gave me whiplash.

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Theending

by Miachann
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

I reread this so many time and I love the ending tbh.. i reread this again today.. and its always amaze me.. i cry, i think i just hope i can see their progress in relationship huhu, and the ending is really waw for shounen manga.. and i love it, i reread this more than 20 times already and when i read again and again its implied that Taichi already like 'likes' Touma from the start but he dont know what is it he feeling, its shows in his gesture and else.. and in the middle of stories he fall in love with Futaba and in the end he fall out of love with Futaba, Taichi and Futaba goes separated way and Touma with Taichi in that time and then Taichi choose Touma in the end, bruh i wanna see their wedding too.. and its implied the rings in Taichi hands.. tbh i love all character they were very well written.. but yea i still wanna see Taichi and Touma relationship progress huhu

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Mixed Feelings

by Suxinn
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

I feel like this manga started out really strong, and there was a period of time when it felt like every chapter hit the right points, but then a certain event happened that made me lowkey put it on the backburner (and I'm not referring to the ending)...

Namely, I think the author REALLY mishandled Touma being outed. Like, the reactions of those around him were realistic, but the way the author framed it as if it was understandable to be a homophobe, and that the guy had the right to be disgusted. I was legitimately pissed off, just like the girls in the manga.

And it was also around this time I read the vastly superior Kanojo ni Naritai Kimi to Boku which also had moments like this, but whenever it happened, the author actually treated it with the gravity it deserved, and while it acknowledged that people are going to be ignorant, it never let off those people for the hurt that they caused, even if it was unintentional hurt. ...Unlike what I felt was happening in Blue Flag at the time. (And I still never felt as if the author adequately addressed it here.)

However, after hearing about what happened with the ending, I came back to it, and... Hm, I still don't know how to feel about it. I don't agree that it shouldn't have happened this way (I'm glad it did), but I also wish there had been more buildup. I feel like the author had an ending she wanted to reach, but she didn't know how to reach it, which is why it felt so clumsy.

Also not a fan of what Masumi's husband said about how he didn't feel secure when she's around either women or men (because she's bisexual I suppose? another nitpick: author never uses the word "bisexual"!! ugh). And that he doesn't feel like he "belongs" entirely now that he's dating her, which made me go ??? why is her bisexuality all about you?? But, again, I think this might be more of the fault of the author's framing than anything. Man, this manga... so many little missteps that just add up...

I guess this is just one of those series that I'm just going to feel ambivalent about.

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What happened

by kzh01
5 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

what a shitshow and forced development, even an open ending or going their seperate way ending might be better than this shitshow

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I was surprised to learn that this ran in shounen jump.

by teahknight
5 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I liked it a lot. Its a manga about bisexuality for me, and a very good one to top it. Maybe the best queer manga of the year.

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Ending seem forced

by zarul
5 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

*Spoiler Alert"

I'm from a country that doesn't favor gay like western country (they favor everything), so normally majority of the population oppose to it too. The reason is simple, and would be agreed by majority people of the world, to avoid problem in the society. Just being normal is safe. So, if this manga genre is yaoi, I will totally avoid this. But because i'm the guy who never read synopsis, just read manga based on the art design. So I accidentally for the first time in my life, read a sort of "lgbt" manga. However, I like the story though. Its good. Its kind of story that happen to lgbt people, how society treat them, how people around them treat them. Its sad actually. But I really hate it when people blame God, but that's not the case in this manga (japanese society is kind of godless you know). But the ending though, its kind of forced. I read comment everywhere about the ending, pro-lgbt will like it, anti-lgbt will hate it. But author state at the ending some good phrase you know, he said anything you choose will ended up hurting some people, but as long as you happy, its okay. We are not perfect. So, I really dislike the ending because Ichinose suddenly become gay. Totally rushed ending. You cant make everyone happy, right?

Update after some thinking

I dunno why this manga kind of capture my mind a bit, maybe because it is different from any manga I ever read. I think the ending is kind of open-ending. The author never tell whether Ichinose turned gay. It can be that they are just 2 buddies who love together and not practicing any gay stuff. Yeah, the last panel shows Ichinose is happy while holding hand, before gay exist in this modern world (its exist a long time ago but in secretive way not like gay parade today). No one will expect you to be gay if you holding your friend's hand. So, that's my point. They are best friend forever, buddies, childhood friend, one is gay but what if Ichinose just being sympathize with Touma & just increase the best friend power level. Right?

... Last updated 5 years ago

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