The World's Greatest First Love
世界一初恋 (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)
Shungiku Nakamura
A manga editor starts a new job and discovers his boss is the first love who broke his heart ten years ago.
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- manga
- Volumes
- 19 in English
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Track record A TV anime began in 2011, with a film in 2014 and a new anime in 2020. Source: Wikipedia
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A manga editor discovers his new boss is the first love he ran from ten years ago. A broad, bossy office comedy in the older style, and a long-time fan favourite.
Synopsis
Ritsu Onodera leaves his father's publishing company to prove himself and lands in a shojo manga department run by Masamune Takano. Takano is his high school sweetheart under a different surname, and he intends to make Ritsu say he loves him again. Ritsu is determined not to.
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- Also adapted: Anime series.
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English publisher: SuBLime (VIZ).
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