Audience reviews
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Idontwantto2mal
Seakaiichi Hatsukoi world of sexual assault and abuse
No means no? No, we haven't heard
The most important problem of this show is the fact that "romantic relationships" are not romantic, they are hysterical, built on blackmail and manipulation of the partner.
Story? What plot? No, it's just a regular slice of life. Chewing the same problems, character thoughts, experiences, and words over and over again. Sometimes office work and sexual assaults. That's the whole story.
Ritsu Onodera and Takano - this is one of the biggest problems. Takano is a man to be called an abuser. Yes Yes. Onodera tells him a thousand times that she loves him no more and I don't want anything to do with him. But Takano doesn't care. She harassed him sexually in most episodes. Onodera says no, but Takano doesn't ca…
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A very generic BL story, which I would describe as a waste of time.
Unlike other BL anime this anime goes no further than a kiss, let me remind you all character are 18+ but nothing more than that developed.
As usual the younger boy in 2 of the 3 cases was basically the same character, both being unaware of their own feelings and looking and sounding exactly the same.
Would rather this focused on 1 couple instead of 3, as this got very confusing with the character all looking alike.
How much more generic could you get than a BL story being based around literature/manga
Studio Deen seems to copy and paste all their BL stories, so if you've seen one you've seen them all.
Waste of time, DONT WATCH! Have no idea how this anime is rated so high
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TLDR; Even if it has BL, it doesn't excuse the show from poor writing and poorly written characters.
I like BL... which is something this show has. But I also like good writing... which is something this show DOESN'T have.
Story 3/10
As I mentioned before, this show's writing is pretty bad. The story is basically the characters going through the everyday issues they have at work (needing to meet a deadline, being overworked, ...being sexually harassed by their boss...) and a bunch of romantic melodrama that basically boils down to bad communication. A lot of decisions the characters make are questionable and usually made me go "WTF you doin m8". Oh, and apparently all the dudes that work at this shoujo department are gay. Makes sense.
Art 7/10
It's good. Many attractive bishies and st…
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It's really too bad that only popular BL manga gets an anime, not actually quality BL manga. I am clearly getting too darn old for this.
But at least it isn't as bad as BL anime used to be, so that's progress. Nobody is actually getting outright raped! We just have to put up with the never ending dubcon and the obnoxious stereotypes. The stories are contrived, but at least hang together by a thread, so that's something else to be grateful for. I had trouble with the pacing -- we get 4 episodes with couple A, then 2 with couple B, back to couple A, then 2 episodes with couple C; I felt like story coitus interruptus every few episodes. I think this would have worked better as either distinct parts A, B, and C, or much more interwoven. The latter would have required a lot of authorial skill.…
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I don't have much experience with shounen-ai, but it's a genre I'm interested in and enjoy. I've watched Nakamura Shungiku's other series, Junjou Romantica, and enjoyed it. I happened upon Sekaiichi Hatsukoi while checking out Junjou Romantica's anime page on MAL, and was pretty excited to find a new story in the same "world."
STORY → 9/10
I enjoyed the stories in Sekaiichi Hatsukoi because a lot of them were really entertaining to watch, even if I sometimes wanted to shake the characters because they were frustrating. The anime opens with Onodera, the son of a literary publishing house CEO. Frustrated that his coworkers think he's only a hotshot editor because of his name, he quits and goes to work for Marukawa Publishing - and ends up in their manga department, where his boss happens to…
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*this is my first review, so it's probably not going to be the most coherent thing, but I'll give it a go!
For what it's worth, I enjoyed this anime. The only things I knew about it before I began to watch it was that a) gayness, and b) manga. Trust me when I say that it delivered strongly on both of those points!
To start off with, the things that worked: (for me)
- I really enjoyed the environment. It reminds me of GSNK, but on a much larger scale, where there's various processes in manga production, and certain people specialise in certain areas. I dunno, I just found it interesting, and that it created some good moments for the characters.
- It's funny. It's light. It's fluffy. PLUS it's BL, and when all of that combines together... well, I'm just absolute trash for anything like t…
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This is the first BL anime that I've ever seen. All in all, I'm glad as I came across this series, as I gladly enjoyed it. While this show was written for the female audience more than the male audience, as a bisexual male, I feel I found the perfect level of enjoyment from this show. However, it has comedic aspects and a strong romance that even straight guys themselves could easily get into.
-Story- 9/10
As far as I can tell, no problems here. Even though I'm new to BL anime, I'm not new to anime in general. And still, this show seemed to be quite refreshing. Nothing about it seems boring, and I was able to binge watch the show in two days. At the same time, it's nothing out of the ordinary, that's why I'm not giving it a 10/10. However, anyone can easily be sucked into the story.…
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Sekaiichi Hatsukoi is the first shounen-ai anime that I have ever seen, so I was skeptical at the beginning of course, but after only the first episode I was already sure that was a very well done anime.
Story 9/10
The story it's nothing out of the ordinary, but still not so predictable. Even though the themes are simple they are well explained, the timing it's perfect so that you can feel what the main character feels (at least, I felt it).
There are three love stories but they are different to each other so that the viewer won't get bored. So yes, 9 out of 10 because nothing is left unsolved (the story continues in the second season though), every event matters.
Art 7/10
Nothing much to say, the animation is fine but nothing spectacular, I don't like very much the drawings but that's m…
Read at the sourceLisAnimeLover
I love Sekaiichi Hatsukoi so much!
Are you a fujoshi (yaoi fans)? If yes, you must've know this anime. Well, you can't call yourself a fujoshi if you don't know this anime.
Sekaiichi Hatsukoi is an anime TV series authorized by Nakamura Shungiku-sensei, the same author for the manga series Sekaiichi Hatsukoi Onodera Ritsu no baai, Takano Masamune no baai, Hatori Yoshiyuki no baai, Yoshino Chiaki no baai, Kisa Shouta no baai, Yukina Kou no baai, and Yokozawa Takafumi no baai. The status of the manga is still ongoing.
I give you a warn. If you are a first time user of yaoi (read or watch), I won't suggest you to read the manga first. I found it harsh myself the first time I read it. Just try to watch the anime first, trust me, you won't feel gross at all. Contrary, you will find yourself…
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I just finished watching Sekaiichi Hatsukoi for the second time. I was worried my review would have been biased after the first time because I had fallen in love with the series. After watching it a second time, I can say with the utmost certainty that this series is fantastic.
Do not let the fact that this is boy love scare you away. Whether you are straight or not, you can find yourself being taken away by this love story. I did.
The story is fantastic, much better than the story of the parent series Junjou Romantica. It kept moving at a steady pace and only in a few situations did I feel that it was taking steps back. But if you look at it from another perspective, it can be accounted to Onodera’s apprehensions of loving Takano again. In which case, it can be seen as great characteriz…
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STRAIGHT ACROSS 10'S!!
Yes, this anime IS awesome and I highly recommend it!
Even if you're a straight male or a girl that doesn't like yaoi- this is simply shonen-ai; for those of you looking for sexierness...the manga will definitely quench your thirst...PLUS it's ongoing.
The backstory is touching and you actually feel for the characters- the ups and downs of love. Every kiss scene in movies is PERFECT, like all of a sudden everyone's good at kissing? Was there a worldwide class I missed? But in SIH, Ritsu was not so good at kissing in the beginning. He always pressed his lips tightly together.
Okay- if that's not something you can relate to...then I DONT KNOW WHAT IS!
It's so much more than sexy sex or lovey love or kissy kisses (while all those components are nice) it's also abou…
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So having watched the first season and the second one, I am seriously loving this anime and as well as the manga. This deserves an overall of 10 to me, i'm not sure what it'll be to you but, i truly loved this anime. A lot of people have said that this is similar to Junjou Romantica and in the anime itself, there's lots of references to Junjou and personally i do think its kind of similar but there is a difference to it. Sekaiichi is more cuter to me as compared to Junjou which has more of 'those' scenes XD Personally, i enjoyed Sekaiichi more than Junjou
Now moving on to the story, like Junjou, the main characters are these 3 guys with their love interests, to me it has a score of 9, the story line is there and its nice but i will link this to the characters which has a score of 7 to me.…
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First, I wasn't even a fan of yaoi before, but I tried Junjou Romantica and I started liking it. And then I read, and watched, Sekaiichi Hatsukoi and it totally blew me away. I've watched both seasons of Junjou Romantica once, and watched both seasons of Sekaiichi Hatsukoi FIVE times and I'm still enjoying it. Lets get to the point.
Seeing the fluffy cute picture of a yaoi couple at the top left corner of this page, you might think 'oh, another fluffy nonsense yaoi where all they do is have sex''. YOU ARE WRONG. One of the reasons why I love this manga/anime so much is because there is more than just the story of two guys falling in love. Unlike Junjou Romantica where one falls in love with another after his heart was broken, Sekaiichi's main couple actually has a history with each other…
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The story was perfect it made a lot more sense than Junjou and it had a lot more feeling to it. I loved the setting as well how it was set in a shojo manga department. The comedy in this series is so funny, how everyone is like dying at the department and the faces Onodera makes! It was a great story, long lost love, jealousy, romance. It was perfect.
The art is fair. It wasn't anything that stands out, other than the ridiculous faces Onodera makes XD, but it's not anything that would put you off watching it.
The sounds track was really good in my opioid. Well to be honest I didn't like the first opening song it sounded too cliché. But I LOVED the ending song and the second season theme songs. Also the songs throughout the series were cute too, fitting the scenes perfectly.
The charac…
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It has the same Author, Producer, and Writer of Junjou Romantica. It is connected to Junjou Romantica because of the same venue of Marukawa Shoten
The anime is kinda cliche, if you read the manga.
Some of the characters already appeared in Junjou Romantica.
REVIEW:
Broken-hearted by his First love at 15, Onodera Ritsu (now 25), leaves his father's company due to his co-worker's jealousy and now works at Marukawa Shoten and is now ready to become independent. Ritsu meets his new boss, Takano Masamune, later on he discovers that Takano turns out to be Saga Masamune (his high school first love).
It's not your typical "First love never dies" theme series, you can actually learn lots of lesson from this slice-of-life anime.
The art style is the same as Junjou Romantica. Ritsu is a combinati…
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If you are ready to indulge yourself in a colorful world with predictable actions, predictable lines, a cast full of bishounens, a lot of love confessions (as well as characters who desperatly try to deny their loveydovey feelings) and those superduper cutsey scenes then I would recommend this one. If, however, you are looking for awesome character building, groundbreaking ideas or something unique then you might want to spent your anime time on some other show.
I am an adult, I know all the reasons why I should not like this anime as much as I do, but I just can't help it. This is my guilty pleasure.
Just kick back, don't sweat it and enjoy.
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I've personally gotten very frustrated with shounen ai/yaoi, not because of all the man love, but because there's no point to it. It's all 'Hey you're cute! Let's now have sex for no apparent reason or character development, YAY!" I also dislike that it's always marketed to little "YAOI SUKI DESU" 12 year old fan girls, so quite a lot of it has basically children getting jiggy with it. Even if the anime goes 'Oh yeah, I'm 25', there's noooo way that little boy could even possibly pass as so.
It's ridiculous.
Which brings me to Sekaiichi Hatsukoi. My oasis in the KAWAII DESU quicksand realm. Story-wise, it's nice to actually see it take place in a publishing house in the manga section. I personally haven't seen this before and found it very interesting. I also like that they split the ser…
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I decided to give everything this season a shot, and as far as breaking out of my comfortable genres I thought that even BL wouldn't stop me. As a straight man I found it slightly hard to enjoy the romantic moments this is true. However, as I knew beforehand you can find some good stuff in the most deceiving places.
Like the start. I found the setting introduction was pretty funny, and the initial backstory was pretty interesting between Takano and Onodera. A long lost boyfriend from 10 years ago ends up as your boss in the hectic manga section of the company, the section you didn't apply for. The attitude between the two is pretty funny with their constant bickering. This does make it slightly difficult for the relationship to develop however, as there is even more issues than just Onode…
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Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, you say? Now, looking at the picture right there at the top, you might think that this is just Junjou Romantica again, seeing as how both series are rather fluffy yaoi with the exact same art style. You'd be right. This is, more or less, Junjou Romantica season 3, even taking place in the same setting but with a different main cast.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Let's dive deeper into the deep depths of the phenomenon known only as "Sekaiichi Hatsukoi".
Actually, the depths aren't that deep. This is one of the shallowest anime I've ever watched. Like Junjou Romantica, Sekaiichi Hatsukoi focuses on not one but three different couples. Well, I say "different". Each of the couples has one "bottom" and one "top". The bottoms all look the same, as do the tops. It was…
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Some may argue that this anime is just another BL anime focused on fanservice for the girls. While I'm not totally denying this, I do have to say that there's more than meets the eye when it comes to Sekaiichi Hatsukoi. Unlike Junjou Romantica where it's just SEXSEXILOVEYOUSEXSEX every episode, this actually has a pretty good story.
Story: 7/10
It's simple, sweet, and straight to the point. Some may view that as a good thing while others may disagree and claim that's a bad thing. Personally, I thought the story was fairly well done considering this is a BL anime. One of the biggest flaws, however, is that the drama is kind of forced upon the viewer...but since this is a Shungiku Nakamura series, we all know the drama isn't going to end in heartbreak or tragedy; you know all of these guys…
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