With a feature film coming for the Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi – The World’s Greatest First Love property, a new collection of what’s come before has been scheduled. Kadokawa has set a December 25th, 2019 debut for the new compact Blu-ray box set release. Priced at 18,000 yen, it’ll be a six-disc set that includes:
- – Season 1: 12 eps
- – Season 2: 12 eps
- – OVA eps 0: “No love’s like to the first.”
- – OVA eps 12.5: “The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.”
- – Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi: Yokozawa Takafumi no Baai (movie)
- – Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi: Valentine-hen (movie)
On-disc extras include the clean opening and closing.
Funimation’s pickup includes the two TV series that were released as well as the two OVAs that were bundled with the manga releases in Japan. The show saw streaming when they premiered on Crunchyroll, which we covered back in the day of 2011.
Viz Media has been releasing the manga through its SubLime Manga imprint since 2015 under the name The World’s Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera.
Check out our review of the previous anime works.
Plot concept: Tired of accusations that family connections got him his current position, Ritsu Onodera quits his job as an editor at his father’s company and transfers to Marukawa Publishing. Once there, he is assigned to the shojo manga editorial department—something he has no interest in and no experience with! Having sworn he’d never fall in love again, the last thing he wants to do is work on love stories. To make matters worse, it turns out that his overbearing boss, Masamune Takano, is actually his first love from high school!
[Source: Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi]
