Ao Haru Ride is a story that's fine ... but not more than that. The series does not go beyond, even having the opportunity to do so. I think that much of what you get to enjoy with the series depends on what you connect with the characters, which are well achieved or at least more than characters many other mngas of the genre, in my case I did not connect at all with them that in part is the deep stress that the protagonist caused me, but ignoring that fact the series triumphs with its secondary characters making the series enjoyable.