Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Volume 06

Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi ~Onodera Ritsu no Baai 6~ (世界一初恋 〜小野寺律の場合6〜) is the sixth volume of the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi manga series. It was released as The World's Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera 6 in English.
The volume features the first chapter of The Case of Masamune Takano which follows the relationship between Masamune Takano and Ritsu Onodera from Takano's perspective.
The limited edition included a DVD releasing the second OVA The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
== Chapters ==
* The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.10
* The Case of Masamune Takano No.1
* The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.11
* The Case of Masamune Takano No.1.5
== Synopsis ==
Masamune Takano is the boss—and first love—of rookie shojo manga editor Ritsu Onodera. One day, sick of Takafumi Yokozawa’s relentless badgering about his feelings for Takano, Ritsu snaps back that he actually hates him, not realizing Takano is nearby! In reality—and unknown to Takano—Ritsu is finally coming to terms with how he feels about his old flame. Spurred on by Ritsu’s painful words, Takano makes a clear decision regarding his relationship with Yokozawa.https://www.sublimemanga.com/read/manga/worlds-greatest-first-love-6/product/725
== Plot ==
In "The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.10," the confrontation in the previous chapter still hangs over Ritsu Onodera, Masamune Takano, and Takafumi Yokozawa. Back at work after his illness, Takano confronts Yokozawa and makes it clear that he loves Ritsu. Yokozawa accepts this and returns to sales, where a coworker says that Ritsu's project proposal is basically perfect, which pisses Yokozawa off more. Ritsu gets caught in the rain and runs into Takano, who followed him out. They talk about things and Ritsu confesses, but his words are drowned in a burst of rain. They go back to Takano's apartment and have sex. The next day at work, Ritsu has caught Takano's cold. He runs into Yokozawa and they establish that they'll still be professional together. Takano arrives and he reject's Saitou's storyboard, so Ritsu has to tell her to start over completely.
"The Case of Masamune Takano No.1" is the first chapter told from Masamune Takano's perspective. Takano falls asleep on the train to work, and reflects on how Ritsu currently is and how he used to be in high school. He figured out who Ritsu is by seeing his name on all the books he checked out. They go out to eat, and Ritsu gets extremely anxious just from ordering food, but they talk and Takano finds himself enjoying talking about their shared interests in the stories they read. Takano is also dealing with the turbulent separation of his parents, and the anger builds until he explodes at Ritsu, but Ritsu later returns and apologizes. When Takano tries to hold his hand, Ritsu panics and runs home. A classmate later confesses to him, but Takano turns her down, slowly realizing that he's fallen in love with Ritsu. Back in the present, Ritsu wakes him up because their stop is coming up. Takano is still ill, and after exiting the train he sits on a bench. He holds Ritsu's hand saying that he needs an energy boost, which Ritsu allows.
In "The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.11," Ritsu and Takano go on an overnight business trip together. Ritsu is taking on managing a third mangaka, Kaitou, and he and Takano take a train to meet her and discuss the handover. It's the last day of a festival there, and when work finishes, Takano and Ritsu watch some of the fireworks. There's a mixup with their hotel booking and they end up sharing a room with a single bed. They talk about getting to know each other better and what to discuss other than work, and they end up having sex. The next day after taking the train back, an employee from general affairs apologizes for the mixup with the hotel booking and Takano tells everyone in the department that they ended up having to share a room. Shouta Kisa teases Ritsu for details about what happened and Yoshiyuki Hatori calls Chiharu Yoshikawa to share the story to help with writers block, to Ritsu's horror.
"The Case of Masamune Takano No.1.5" is a three-page flashback chapter from Takano/Saga's perspective during high-school. He and Ritsu are walking to his place after Saga invited him over. Saga wonders what they should talk about, since they already talked about the books they both like, and Ritsu is walking very stiffly. Saga isn't sure where to start a conversation, but he finally tells Ritsu he doesn't need to be so nervous.
==Character debuts==
* Kazuma Henmi, Yokozawa's coworker
* Nanako Saitou (referenced only), Takano rejects her storyboard
* Takano's female classmate who asks to borrow his notes and later confesses her feelings to him
* Takano's father, a surgeon
* Kotoko Saga, Takano's mother, a lawyer
* Sano, Takano's guidance councilor who holds an interview for his university choices
* Akihiko Usami (referenced only), an author publishing in Shosetsu Koharo magazine which Takano and Ritsu are both reading
* Kaitou, a mangaka who was previously managed by Takano and is now managed by Ritsu
== Trivia ==
* This is the final volume of the manga to be released in Korean by Daewon C.I. before the official Korean language release was discontinued. For the six volumes that were released, there were some illustrations that had to be altered in order to be approved for release under South Korea law. Unfortunately, both Kadokawa Shoten, the original Japanese publisher, as well as Shungiku Nakamura, the original mangaka, only wanted the Korean release to continue under the circumstance that the illustrations would remain unaltered from their original release. This is something that Daewon C.I. was unable to comply with, hence why there were no further releases from them beyond that point.
== Video gallery ==
Manga volume 6 commercial|Released October 6, 2011
==Image gallery==
=== Japanese edition ===
Volume06cover.jpg |Japanese cover
Volume06cover limited edition.jpg |Japanese limited edition cover
Volume06cover back.jpg |Japanese back cover
SiH v06 contents.jpg |Contents page
SiH v06 copyright.jpg |Copyright page
=== English edition ===
Volume06cover eng.jpg |English cover
Vol06 SuBLime sample 1.jpg |Sample page from SuBLime's English releaseTweet with sample pages from SuBLime's official Twitter @SuBLimeManga. May 5, 2017.
Vol06 SuBLime sample 2.jpg |Sample page from SuBLime's English release
Vol06 SuBLime sample 3.jpg |Sample page from SuBLime's English release
=== International editions ===
Volume06cover French.jpg|French cover
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