Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - World's Greatest First Love
8. 7 episodes of Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi - World's Greatest First Love (Sekai'ichi Hatsukoi: Onodera Ritsu no Ba'ai (世界一初恋 〜小野寺律の場合〜, lit. The World's Greatest First Love: Onodera Ritsu's Affair).
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Ritsu Onodera quit working for his father’s company and transferred to work at the publishing company, Marukawa Shoten. To his dismay, he's assigned to edit shojo manga in which he has no interest or experience. He works with a strict boss, Takano, that he has trouble getting along with from the beginning. But, Onodera later discovers that he knows Takano from his past...
Episode 1: First Impressions are the Most Lasting
Ritsu Onodera hated the fact that people claimed he only got into his father's company because he was the son and promptly quits. He starts his new job at Marukawa Publishing house but ends up in a department for shojo manga, something he's neither interested nor experienced in. To make matters worse, the first impression he gets from the high handed editor in chief Masamune Takano is terrible...
Episode 2: A man has free choice to begin love but not to end it
The Emerald Editing team has started the task of releasing a magazine. Ritsu Onodera, a rookie shojo manga editor, is forced to go to the office of an author with the editor in chief, Masamune Takano. However, when Ritsu sees the author panic because of the looming deadline, he accidentally...?!
Episode 3: In love there is both dotage and discretion
Ritsu can't calm down after finding out Takano's true identity. On top of that, when he's about to immerse himself in the work for the author he's in charge for, he encounters Takafumi Yokozawa, the wild horse of the sales department. He makes a terrible first impression on Ritsu by accusing him of "riding [his] father's coat tails". To top it off, he seems to be quite friendly with Takano in and outside work...?!
Episode 4: Adversity makes a man wise.
Late at night, Ritsu has a run in with Yokozawa at Takano's apartment. He tries to stay calm, but the confusion and agitation have him too rattled. Then one day, it becomes apparent that the manuscript of one of the author's Ritsu is responsible for won't make it for the printing deadline. Yokozawa suggests to "drop it this time". However, when Ritsu insists that he wants to get it in, Takano says...
Episode 5: Love is lawless
Chiaki Yoshino is a popular shoujo manga author under the pen name "Chiharu Yoshikawa". His friends include his childhood friend and editor Yoshiyuki Hatori, and the chief assistant Yuu Yanase they know since middle school. But one day, Yoshino happens to witness Hatori and Yanase kiss...
Episode 6: Go to the sea, if you would fish well.
Yoshino's childhood friend and editor Hatori confesses his love to him. But Yoshino suspects that his friend and chief assistant Yanase is actually secretly in love with Hatori. Yoshino's so preoccupied with the relationship between those two that he can't focus on his work...
Episode 7: Coming events cast their shadows before them
Ritsu is having trouble writing up the proposal for his first manga project. Amidst his trouble, Takano's friend from the sales department, Yokozawa, declares that "Masamune is mine". Ritsu can't hide that he's shaken, but then he runs into Takano at a bar he ended up with his friend...
- It's a BL anime. Not my first time watching BL. I'd watched Here is Greenwood - see lyschan's comment below.
- I'm not sure why I clicked on this series or what I expected from it. I know! The blurb says manga editors! But it was so funny. The characters are hysterical because they are hysterics! At least some of them are.
- The main characters are manga editors. From the columns of manga, I'm aware that mangaka work very hard and their deadlines are really deadly. But watching it from the anime makes it even poignant.
- I have to admit sometimes I had really hard times distinguishing some characters. The only clues for me are hair and eye colors - so I had to keep them in mind.
- I'm sure the anime industry is as demanding as the manga!
- I really like it that one editor said he bought the mangaka's manga even though they got free copies since they work for the publisher :) his boss told him he was stupid :P
- On ward!
- Continuing series
- Manga: Bakuman 5-6
- Rambling
- Still busy, so I wound down at the end of the day by watching lots of anime!
- I've got Sailor Moon and Codename Sailor V. Haven't read them yet. Will start with Codename Sailor V first, though. Maybe it'll be in next week update :)