Ao-chan Can't Study!

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ren Kawahara. The series was serialized in Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine Edge magazine from October 2015 to December 2018, and was compiled into eight tankōbon volumes. The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA, who began releasing the manga digitally in English in September 2018. A sequel manga was launched in January 2019, and an anime television series adaptation by Silver Link aired from April 6 to June 22, 2019. Plot Back when she was in kindergarten, Ao Horie shared a short essay about herself, which she soon regrets, because of her father, Hanasaki Horie, who is an author of erotic novels. Ao aims to go to an elite university to finally get away from her father, but soon she meets Takumi Kijima in their first year in high school. Ao can't think of a way to avoid Takumi and constantly thinks of them being with each other as a couple. Ao believes her father has influenced her way of thinking. Characters Ao is a high school girl who tries not to associate with any of her classmates, especially boys, because her father is an erotic novelist. She is a top student academically, and aspires some day to live somewhere far away. She has a negative view of boys and sex, thinking they are all perverts and wolves, until Takumi Kijima wanted to be friends with her. Ao cannot seem to avoid him and often gets into embarrassing situations with Takumi. She later develops feelings for him.