Hatsukoi Limited: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Being an adolescent girl is just one problem after another. Middle-schooler Arihara Ayumi receives a note from a high-schooler, a very large and intimidating boy, Zaitsu Misao, asking her out. Frightened and intrigued, she doesn't know what to do! This has been described as a series of vignettes in the everyday lives of a junior high school girl named Ayumi and seven other junior high and high school girls, as they fall in and out of love and deal with girl issues. Authored by Mizuki Kawashita, (who also created the story for Ichigo 100%,) this manga series appeared in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.

Series details

• Title: Hatsukoi Limited
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Comedy, Anime, Romance
• Premiere date: 2009-04-11
• Final broadcast date listed: 2009-06-27
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BS11
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 24238
• TVDB ID: 89311

Cast and credited roles

• Aki Toyosaki — Koyoi Bessho
• Ayumi Fujimura — Nao Chikura
• Mariya Ise — Ayumi Arihara
• Miyu Irino — Mamoru Zaitsu
• Rie Tanaka — Misaki Yamamoto
• Ryoko Shiraishi — Meguru Watase
• Shintaro Asanuma — Etsu Kusuda
• Shizuka Itou — Kei Enomoto
• Takahiro Sakurai — Hiroyuki Sogabe
• Hiroyuki Yoshino — Yuuji Arihara
• Kazuya Nakai — Gengorou Takei
• Kenji Nomura — Misao Zaitsu

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2008-05-23; final listed air date 2009-06-27; episode order: 12.

Source and licence

Adapted from Hatsukoi Limited on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.