“Heartbroken Takafumi is blackmailed by coworker Zen, but finds healing through their unusual relationship and Zen's daughter.”
Sekaiichi Hatsukoi: Yokozawa Takafumi no Baai
世界一初恋 〜横澤隆史の場合〜
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Synopsis
Heartbroken Takafumi is blackmailed by coworker Zen, but finds healing through their unusual relationship and Zen's daughter.
Takafumi Yokozawa has had his heart broken. In despair, he chooses to drown his sorrows the only way he knows how—with a metric ton of booze. After ending up blackout drunk, Takafumi wakes up naked in a hotel room. Greeted by Zen Kirishima, a coworker and editor-in-chief of the shounen manga magazine Japun, Takafumi finds himself being subjected to blackmail. As it turns out, Zen had taken some rather incriminating pictures the night before. Takafumi must follow along with the editor's every whim; he is tricked into drinking together, eating fancy meals he cannot afford, and even visiting the Kirishima household. Slowly, with the help of Zen and his daughter, Hiyori, Takafumi finds himself forgetting all about his broken heart.
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Derived from 4 sampled reviews
What 4 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.48 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.75
Running avg · Dec 2011 → Nov 2013
- 10 “Another treasure in storries of Sekaiichi Hatsukoi. In this story Yokozawa is shownt from very different and new angle. Feels like Yokozawa from 2D bacame a 4D. I happened to read the story not the...”
- 9 “I assume everyone who has read this one also knows Sekaiichi Hatsukoi? In SH I didn’t feel much sympathy with Yokozawa to begin with but as SH developed you started to like him. This novel, with...”
- 8 “I've read and seen a lot of yaoi and I have still yet to encounter a better yaoi than Junjou Romantica and Sekaiichi Hatsukoi. So, moving to the Yokozawa Takafumi no Baai, compare to pairs + the...”
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A Light novel Publication
- Format 6 vol ch × vol
- Published Oct 2011 – Sep 2014
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M17511 catalog