Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Ten years ago, Onodore Ritsu had the misfortune of falling in love for the first time. The object of his adoration was a guy to whom he confessed his feelings. But that was ten years ago, the relationship ended, the face of the first love was forgotten, and Ritsu swore to himself never to fall in love again. He had now resigned from his father's company, where he worked as an editor. His colleagues thought that he had achieved everything thanks to his father, but Ritsu didn't like it and decided to prove that he could achieve everything himself. So he gets a job at another company, but instead of the literary department he's assigned to the shoujo manga department and his boss is - guess who?

Series details

• Title: Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Anime, Romance
• Premiere date: 2011-03-22
• Final broadcast date listed: 2020-02-21
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TV Tokyo
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.9/10
• TVMaze ID: 6610
• TVDB ID: 247788

Cast and credited roles

• Katsuyuki Konishi — Takano Masamune
• Takashi Kondo — Onodera Ritsu
• Yuichi Nakamura — Hatori Yoshiyuki
• Nobuhiko Okamoto — Kisa Shouta
• Kenyuu Horiuchi — Yokozawa Takafumi
• Tomoaki Maeno — Yukina Kou
• Shinnosuke Tachibana — Yoshino Chiaki
• Hiroshi Kamiya — Yanase Yuu

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2011-03-22; final listed air date 2011-06-25.
• Season 2: premiered 2011-09-27; final listed air date 2020-02-21.

Source and licence

Adapted from Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi 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.