Trope: first love

A Long & Short Love Story

Kei Ichikawa

Two next-door neighbors have done everything together since they were small, until one of them kisses the other.

After School Etude

放課後のエチュード (Houkago no Etude)

Hirune Cyan

A first-year ballet student is paired for pas de deux practice with the school's most talented and least friendly second-year.

And They Were Roommates…!

あの日の恋と暮らしたら (Ano Hi no Koi to Kurashitara)

Nica Kitabeppu

A former delinquent moves to Tokyo for work and finds his old tutor, and first crush, waiting at his new address.

Anemone Theater

Zoy (story), NOK_HAE (art)

In 1980s Seoul, a sheltered student's mystery migraines lead him somewhere his strict father would never approve of.

Behind the Desks

Day7, Evy

A new teacher at his old high school is drawn to a sunny chemistry teacher who looks like his first love.

Beijing Comrades

Bei Tong

In late-1980s Beijing, the son of a powerful official and a working-class architecture student begin a relationship neither can be open about.

BL First Crush Anthology: Five Seconds Before We Fall in Love

僕らが恋する5秒前～うぶ恋BLアンソロジー～ (Bokura ga Koisuru 5 Byou Mae ~Ubu Koi BL Anthology~)

Ken Homerun, Shoko Rakuta, Azusa Banjo, Kotobuki, Mito, Kaori Tsurutani

A short story collection about the first moment a heart skips, from the soccer field to the office.

Boy Meets Maria

ボーイミーツマリア (Boy Meets Maria)

PEYO

A would-be actor falls for the drama club's star at first sight, then learns she is a boy.

Can't Get Caught! XXX

Lee

A BL artist put his real first love into his hit series, then moves back to his hometown and runs straight into him.

Cinderella Complex

Keiko Kinoshita

Tomoki has never dated anyone, and he has fallen for Michiru, a friend he knows only through an app.

Classmates: Dou kyu sei

同級生 (Doukyuusei)

Asumiko Nakamura

A carefree guitarist offers to coach the class honor student for the choir festival, and the lessons turn into first love.

Contrast

コントラスト

itz

The boy everyone watches and the model student nobody talks to keep meeting on the stairs to the roof.

Cupid is Struck by Lightning

キューピッドに落雷 (Cupid Ni Rakurai)

Minta Suzumaru

A first-year who trades crush gossip for lunch falls hard for a cool, unreadable upperclassman.

Define the Relationship

디파인 더 릴레이션십

Flona (novel)

Told by his doctor to try sleeping with alphas, heir Karlyle Frost reconnects with Ash Jones, the alpha he kissed one New Year's Eve.

Don't Let Anyone But Me Make Your Heart Race

SUIYOUBI

College student Rio wins his first boyfriend through sheer persistence: Chiaki, a suave bartender.

Far From Romance

ロマンスには程遠い (Romance ni wa Hodotooi)

Amamiya

Arata's new British coworker says they have met before, and he is right: he was the girl Arata liked in high school.

Fate Has a Sweet Scent

Hiya

Subaru is half wolf and new at university. When he is taken ill, classmate Kyoya helps him, and smells sweeter than anything Subaru has known.

Go For It, Nakamura-kun!!

ガンバレ! 中村くん!! (Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!)

Syundei

A painfully shy boy is head over heels for a classmate he has never managed to speak to.

Hatsukoi Note

ハツコイノオト

Amekiri

Shouya finds an online diary full of longing for another boy and works out which classmate wrote it.

He Might Bite!

맹수주의보

Yeonmi

Yun Tae, a black leopard shifter, dominant alpha and chaebol heir, transfers to a country school to find his first love.

Hello, Green Days

AYU SAKUMOTO

Tomo is a shy botany graduate student who is frightened of love. Then he meets Yoji.

Homerun Hearts

Ha TaeJin (story), Magoo (art)

Two lifelong fans of the same losing baseball team find their friendship cracking in the season everything starts going right.

Honey Bear

허니 베어

Ruyoung

Judo ace Moon Geonwoo talks his way into a part-time job at the new bakery run by his first love, Yoo Hajin.

I Didn't Mean to Fall in Love

恋をするつもりはなかった (Koi o Suru Tsumori wa Nakatta)

Minta Suzumaru

A man about to turn thirty walks into a gay bar for the first time and meets a college student who does not do serious.

I Have a Boyfriend

PIBI

On the university soccer team, Hyunho walks into an elective and finds his middle school first love sitting there.

Indulged in Your Radiance

Kuaikan Comics

Shu Yun comes from a ballet family that has fallen on hard times. Tong Yang is the wealthy Peking Opera prodigy at the same school.

Lion Hearts

ライオンハーツ (Lionhearts)

Mita Ori

Shishimaru proposed to his best friend Leo when they were small, and ten years later they meet again.

Love at First Bite

Sakana Tojo

A lonely college student practicing a confession in the park is overheard by a demon who feeds on words.

Lovers on the Last Train

最終電車の恋人たち (Saishuu Densha no Koibitotachi)

Dayoo

A 42-year-old who has never been on a date matches with a suspiciously handsome man on his company's dating app.

Monotone Blue

モノトーン・ブルー (Monotone Blue)

Nagabe

A bored cat finds school less dull once a quiet lizard transfers into his class.

My Love Mix-Up!

消えた初恋 (Kieta Hatsukoi)

story Wataru Hinekure

A borrowed eraser with a name on it sets off a chain of misunderstandings and an unexpected crush.

My Senpai is Bad for My Heart

An Momose

A scary-looking university student with no friends is thrown off balance by a flirtatious graduate student.

My Summer of You

君は夏のなか (Kimi wa Natsu no Naka)

Nagisa Furuya

Two classmates bond over movies and spend a summer visiting film locations, with a confession hanging between them.

Nagahama to Be, or Not to Be

長浜To Be or Not to Be

Scarlet Beriko

Nagisa looks like a delinquent, and all it takes to turn his world over is the thought that his best friend has a girlfriend.

No God in Eden

神様なんか信じない僕らのエデン (Kamisama Nanka Shinjinai Bokura no Eden)

Yuma Ichinose

A bookish student and the most popular boy in class become the first alpha and omega.

OOTD: Overworked and Overloved

Meryu, nang in

A man who awakens as an A-rank guide is paired with his first love, now an elite S-rank esper.

Our Paradise

청사과 낙원

Greeneer

Maehwa Yang starts college determined to bury his high school crush on Jaewon Myeong, then finds out Jaewon goes there too.

Out of My Depth

ao

A former swimmer takes in an old acquaintance who claims a career-ending injury, and every part of that claim is a lie.

Pink Heart Jam

ピンクハートジャム (Pink Heart Jam)

Shikke

A new college student joins the rock band to be near a gorgeous upperclassman, then finds him working at a male brothel.

Place to Be

플레이스 투 비

Yuuji (original)

Over ten years after a failed high school confession, Chiyeong sees Euigeon walk into his shop with Joonyeong, the friend Euigeon always wanted.

Play Me Softly

ドルチェな僕らの恋について (Dolce na Bokura no Koi ni Tsuite)

Kakeru Tsukino

An office worker who plays in a concert band still has not gotten over his first love when that same classmate joins the band.

Plum Candy Love

Yun_Camellia, Domong, 500M Under the Sea

A quiet student is dragged to a cafe by a classmate rumored to have gang ties and asked to be his boyfriend.

Raw

날 것

MaRO

Kang Taehwa went from poor kid to loan-shark boss, and his newest borrower is Moon Chunghyun, the pianist who was his first love.

Reunion

해후

art: DeulSum

Years after faking a dead friend's identity for a dying tycoon, Hakyung works at a bar, and the grandson who nearly caught him walks in.

Sasaki and Miyano

佐々木と宮野 (Sasaki to Miyano)

Shou Harusono

A BL-loving underclassman lends his manga to a delinquent senior, and the senior falls for him.

Sasaki and Miyano: First-Years (novel)

佐々木と宮野

Shou Harusono (original)

Prose stories set around the Sasaki and Miyano manga.

Seven Days: Monday-Sunday

セブンデイズ (Seven Days)

story: Venio Tachibana

A first-year dates whoever asks him first on Monday and ends it a week later, and this Monday an older boy asks.

Seven Sundays

일곱 번의 선데이

story: Charyeok

Firefighter Taeyang finds his first love Jiwan again, along with a little boy who shares Taeyang's name and the right age to be suspicious.

SMELL

Nagabe

At a school for beastmen, a friendly border collie catches a shy bloodhound sniffing his shirt.

Stay By My Side After the Rain

雨上がりの僕らについて (Ameagari no Bokura ni Tsuite)

Shoko Rakuta

A closeted salaryman who has given up on love runs into the classmate he secretly liked in high school.

Takara's Treasure

タカラのびいどろ (Takara no Vidro)

Minta Suzumaru

A freshman moves to Tokyo to find the stranger who once comforted him, and gets the cold shoulder.

Talk to Me Tenderly

Ssingssing

Gabriel calls customer service to complain and falls for the consultant's voice instead.

Tangled Feelings Tugged Loose

Mugi Ikuta

Kaname has never had a lover or even a crush, and his sharp stare keeps the rest of campus at a distance.

The Awkward Steps of Love

Yoriko

A friend asks Kotaro to pose as her boyfriend to scare off an admirer, and Kotaro ends up having tea with the admirer instead.

The New Recruit

신입사원

story: MOSCARETO

A late-blooming intern finally lands the job he wanted, then learns his reserved, handsome new boss runs the team.

The Scandalous Saeki Wants to Fall in Love with Him

Utakata

A class president asked to look after a truant has no idea the boy is the school's most notorious flirt.

The Tiger In The Bamboo Forest

Tamaki Kirishima

A stubborn fox enters a bamboo forest on a dare and meets the fearsome tiger said to live there, who is nothing of the kind.

The Two Lions

ふたりのライオン (Futari no Lion)

Nagisa Furuya

A friendly freshman decides to help the scary-looking loner in his class make friends.

The Vampire and the Virgin Rose

Komachi Katsura

In a world where humans and vampires live side by side, Yayoi falls for a pure-blooded classmate.

Wet Dream Aquarium

エロ夢アクアリウム (Ero Yume Aquarium)

non food

A closeted student keeps having bizarre dreams about sea creatures, always with the class marine biology nerd looking on.

What's Wrong with Pure Love?

Magoo

A judo champion's icy act collapses after one drunken night with the gym's warmest coach.

Wishing for Love

SIN

Sungjae wishes on a star to sleep with his best friend once, and wakes up in the body of the friend's boyfriend.

Wouldn't It Be Nice

AM

After ten years of friendship, Hyobin catches his best friend kissing a guy and realizes he never knew him at all.