Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before Them

"Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before Them" is the seventh episode of the Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi anime series. The episode revolves around the couple Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano.
==Plot==
The episode begins with Ritsu having another flashback dream, in which he sees Saga sleeping in the library and tries to find out what book he was reading, but runs away when he thinks Saga is about to wake up. Now that he knows Saga's name, he looks up other books he's checked out and begins reading them. Ritsu wakes up, irritated with himself for having a dream about that, and goes to work.
At Marukawa, Ritsu's assignment is to make his first proposal as a manga editor to publish the manga he's supervising as a book. It is initially rejected by Takano, so he stays late at night working on it. Later that night, Takano helps Ritsu with his proposal, even though Ritsu didn't want his help. After a while, Takano suddenly kisses him to break the tension, and consequently gets hit by Ritsu. Yokozawa then arrives and sends Takano to meet someone. When he's alone with Ritsu, Yokozawa proclaims Takano as his own, and doesn't believe Ritsu's words about not having any relation with Masamune other than that of boss-subordinate.
At a bookstore later, Ritsu runs into Saeki, a former colleague from Onodera Publishing, and they go for drinks. She gets drunk, stumbles, and falls into Ritsu's arms. Takano sees them as he passes by, having just arrived with a woman, and Ritsu feels jealous.
When Ritsu arrives home later, Takano is waiting for him. Takano, seemingly jealous himself, accuses Ritsu of not working hard enough on his proposal. They argue, with Ritsu concerned about Yokozawa and the woman, although Takano explains there's nothing between him and Yokozawa and the woman, Erika Ichinose, is a mangaka he was meeting for work. Takano makes another pass and admits to being in love with him, and things start getting heated, but Ritsu is still wary of falling for Takano and runs out, leaving Takano alone in his apartment. Takano answers a phone call from Yokozawa, who tells him not to get involved with Ritsu again because it tore him apart the last time.
The proposal meeting day arrives and Ritsu is quite nervous, but Takano tries to cheer him up on the way to the meeting.
== BGM Listing ==
The following tracks are listed in the order they are played. If a track is played more than once, it will be listed once for every time it plays.
# 	Song Title 	Romaji 	Translation 	OST
1 	初恋の想い出 	Hatsukoi no Omoide 	Memories of First Love 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
2 	不吉な予感 	Fukitsu na Yokan 	Complex Premonition 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
3 	世界で一番恋してる (TV Size) 	Sekai de Ichiban Koishiteru (TV Size) 	Falling in the Greatest Love in the World (TV Size) 	Sekai de Ichiban Koishiteru (Single)
4 	心機一転 	Shinkiitten 	It Turned Over A New Leaf 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
5 	一抹の不安 	Ichimatsu no Fuan 	A Shade of Anxiety 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
6 	突然の出来事 	Totsuzen no Dekigoto 	Sudden Events 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
7 	予想外な展開 	Yosougai na Tenkai 	Unexpected Deployment 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
8 	危険信号 	Kiken Shingou 	Danger's Signal 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
9 	恋は切なく 	Koi wa Setsunaku 	Love is Painful 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
10	静謐 	Seihitsu 	Serene 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
11	やりがいのある仕事 	Yarigai no Aru Shigoto 	A Challenging Job 	Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Original Soundtrack
12	明日、僕は君に会いに行く。 (TV Size) 	Ashita, Boku wa Kimi ni Ai ni Iku (TV Size)	Tomorrow, I Will Go to Meet You. (TV Size) 	Ashita, Boku wa Kimi ni Ai ni Iku (Single)
13	世界で一番恋してる (Off Vocal) 	Sekai de Ichiban Koishiteru (Off Vocal) 	Falling in the Greatest Love in the World (Off Vocal)	Unreleased
== Voice Cast ==
Characters listed in order of appearance in end credits.
Character 	Voice Actor
Ritsu Onodera 	Takashi Kondō
Masamune Takano 	Katsuyuki Konishi
Yoshiyuki Hatori 	Yūichi Nakamura
Shouta Kisa 	Nobuhiko Okamoto
Takafumi Yokozawa	Kenyu Horiuchi
Ryuichiro Isaka 	Toshiyuki Morikawa
Saeki 	Mai Nakahara (中原麻衣)
Erika Ichinose 	Sayaka Ohara (大原さやか)
Employees 	Sho Sakagami (鷹野晶)
Employees 	Kazutomi Yamamoto (山本和臣)
===German===
 Characters listed in order of appearance in end credits of original Japanese dub. Unnamed characters not listed in German credits.
Character 	Voice Actor
Ritsu Onodera 	Konrad Bösherz
Masamune Takano 	Michael Baral
Yoshiyuki Hatori 	Vincent Fallow
Shouta Kisa 	Ferdi Özten
Takafumi Yokozawa	Daniel Berger
Ryuichiro Isaka 	Uncredited
Saeki 	Nicole Hisehttps://twitter.com/nicolehise/status/1587504828078559234
Erika Ichinose 	Uncredited
==Character debuts ==
* Kou Yukina (brief cameo)
*Saeki
*Ryuichiro Isaka (formal debut; he was briefly seen in the previous episode)
==Trivia==
* In Ritsu's flashback, the book Saga is reading that Ritsu checks while he's asleep is The Moment the Panda Moved (その時パンダが動いた, Sono Toki Panda ga Ugoita).
*Also in the flashback, the book that Saga previously read, that Ritsu finds with the library card, is Tomorrow, It Might Be Sunny (明日は、晴れるかもしれない, Ashita wa, Hareru ka mo Shirenai) written by Motoharu Nakayama (中山元晴). This is also the book that Ritsu takes down from the shelf. The title of this book is unique to the anime episode; the title of the book in the manga chapter is not seen.
*The explicit scene in Takano's apartment is greatly toned down. In the manga, Takano opens their clothes and they both stroke each other before Ritsu runs out.
==Images==
High_school_ritsu.png|High school Ritsu
Masamune Saga's name on a library card ep07.jpg|Ritsu first finds Masamune Saga's name in high school
Ritsu suddenly alone in an elevator with Takano ep07.jpg|Ritsu suddenly alone on an elevator with Takano
Ritsu greets Takano ep07.jpg|Ritsu greets Takano
Takano helps Ritsu with the project proposal ep07.jpg|Takano helps Ritsu with the project proposal 
Takano kisses Ritsu while working ep07.jpg|Takano kisses Ritsu at work
Ritsu reacts to Takano's surprise kiss at work ep07.jpg|Ritsu reacts
Saeki first anime appearance wave ep07.jpg|Saeki's first appearance
Saeki and Ritsu out for a drink ep07.jpg|Saeki and Ritsu out for a drink 
Saeki likes to drink ep07.jpg|Saeki likes to drink
Saeki falls against Ritsu ep07.jpg|Saeki falls against Ritsu 
Saeki upset she didn't give Takano her business card ep07.jpg|Saeki upset that she didn't give Takano her business card
Isaka's_introduction.png|Isaka's appearance
Takano reassuring Ritsu before a project proposal ep07.jpg|Takano reassures Ritsu before the project proposal meeting
Ritsu stunned by what Isaka said ep07.jpg|Ritsu stunned by what Isaka said
Takano laughing at Ritsu ep07.jpg|Takano laughs at Ritsu
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