Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Volume 13

:This page focuses on the regular edition content of Volume 13. For information on the special edition booklet content, please see Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Volume 13 Special Edition Booklet.
Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi ~Onodera Ritsu no Baai 13~ (世界一初恋 〜小野寺律の場合13〜), or The World's Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera 13, is the thirteenth volume of the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi manga series.
The special edition of this volume came with up to two booklets containing newly drawn stories depending on what retailer it was purchased from.
The release of the volume corresponded with the 10-year anniversary of the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi series. The author, Shungiku Nakamura, had an autograph signing event. Attendees were selected by lottery.
==Chapters==
*The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.25
*The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.26
*The Case of Shouta Kisa No.8
*The Case of Masamune Takano No.1.5
==Synopsis==
Manga editor Ritsu Onodera is as busy as ever working for Marukawa Publishing’s Emerald shojo magazine under his demanding boss—and first love!—Masamune Takano. After a recent run-in with Nao, an old friend from high school, Ritsu is flooded with memories of the time he spent abroad mending his broken heart after his split from Takano. But instead of Nao reassuring his old friend, he decides now is the time to tell Ritsu how he really feels!https://www.sublimemanga.com/read/manga/worlds-greatest-first-love-13/product/792
==Plot==
In "The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.25", flashback to Ritsu's time studying abroad. He has a nightmare about loosing Saga, and he wonders how long until the emotional wounds heal. He's given a hard time by his classmates because he's quiet and withdrawn, but Nao stands up for him and pushes to try to get to know him. Nao finally asks about "Saga" and Ritsu runs off, but Nao chases him down and the two fight. Nao finally opens up and tells Ritsu that when he was twelve, his brother died in a car accident, and Ritsu finally opens up in return and tells him about Saga. Ritsu then wakes up in the present day next to Takano. He tries to slip out of bed, but relents and falls back asleep in Takano's arms.
In "The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.26", Nao returns from his photoshoot crashes at Ritsu's place again. They look through some of Nao's old photos and Nao teases him about how sulky he used to be. Nao asks Ritsu if "Saga" is his boss, and Ritsu admits it. When Ritsu asks about his personal life, Nao says that he's interested in someone but it's unrequited, and Ritsu doesn't realize that Nao is talking about him. The next morning, Ritsu and Nao go to Marukawa together and run into Takano, who is jealous that Ritsu is letting a guy sleep over at his place, and Takano asks him to not let Nao get too close. Later that day, Takano runs into Nao. As they're talking over tea, Ritsu sees them out. Nao tells Takano to not get close to Ritsu because he's in love with him. Nao pleasantly says goodbye, leaving Ritsu confused, and Takano leaves him as well. Ritsu later goes to Takano's apartment to check on him, and Takano tells him about the conversation, and they make up and have sex. The next day, Ritsu sees Nao at Marukawa again. Takano increases Ritsu's workload with the implication that he won't have time to see Nao. 40 days until Ritsu falls (completely) in love.
“The Case of Shouta Kisa No.8” opens with Mikado Yukina answering Kou Yukina’s apartment door and meeting Shouta Kisa for the first time. Mikado looks so much like his younger brother that Kisa is almost fooled. Even though they wanted Mikado to think they were just friends, Yukina shows Kisa out and they end up kissing, and Mikado watches on from the window with a strange look on his face. Later on, Kisa ends up running into Mikado in public, and his own older brother happens to show up right at that moment. Kisa rushes Mikado away from his older brother before he can get any misconceptions about the two of them, and they end up on Yukina’s campus, Touto University of the Arts. Mikado talks about being worried Yukina is making the decision to stay in Tokyo for grad school specifically to stay around Kisa, but it becomes clear that’s not the case after seeing Yukina so focused on painting. After this, Mikado seems fairly calm about Yukina’s grad school decision, as well as his relationship with Kisa.
In "The Case of Masamune Takano No.1.5, flashback to Takano in high school. A single cherry blossom flower has bloomed on the tree in front of his house. His grandmother tells him that in the language of flowers, the cherry blossom means "don't forget me." Takano later goes out to look at the blossom and thinks it would be nice if he could forget, implying his ended relation with Ritsu.
== Special Edition Booklet Content ==
The special edition of Volume 13 came with a booklet that contained marriage related stories for Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano, Chiaki Yoshino and Yoshiyuki Hatori, and Shouta Kisa and Kou Yukina, as well as the pairing of Takafumi Yokozawa and Zen Kirishima if bought through a limited fair at the store Animate.
All of these stories would go on to be animated and have a theatrical run in February of 2020, released under the title Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi: Proposal Edition.
===The Case of Ritsu Onodera===
In “The Case of Ritsu Onodera,” the Emerald department has been invited to the after part of a wedding between employees from Marukawa’s production and sales departments. In the rush caused by a call for a toast for the groom, a woman is knocked into Masamune Takano, dropping her glass in the process. Some of the broken glass pricks his ring finger, and Takano is bleeding. Onodera Ritsu follows Takano to the bathroom, and offers him a band-aid. Takano requests him to wrap it for him, and Ritsu begrudgingly complies. He then asks for another, and wraps it around Ritsu’s own ring finger. Takano tells Ritsu to leave his ring finger reserved for him.
===The Case of Yoshiyuki Hatori===
In “The Case of Yoshiyuki Hatori,” Yoshiyuki Hatori has just returned from the wedding from the previous story in the booklet. Chiaki Yoshino tells him about how he had just been to his parents’ house, and how he was getting asked about whether or not he’d be getting married any time soon. Chiaki insisted to his mother that he’d get married to Hatori, and by the end of their conversation she’s telling him to go get his checkbook for a dowry. Hatori is stressed about how lightly Chiaki brought up the idea of marrying him to his parents, and goes to leave Chiaki’s apartment. Before he can get out though, Chiaki calls out to him saying he wouldn’t mind that things ended up like that, referring to them getting married.
===The Case of Shouta Kisa===
In “The Case of Shouta Kisa,” Shouta Kisa has also just returned from the wedding that occurred in the first story of the booklet. He and Kou Yukina have a conversation about what Kisa had been doing as work for the day and end up in the bath together by the end of it. At the mention of formal wear, Kisa imagines Yukina in a suit and begs him to never wear one out of concern of how sparkly he’d be.
===The Case of Takafumi Yokozawa===
In “The Case of Takafumi Yokozawa,” Takafumi Yokozawa and Zen Kirishima are walking to their respective homes from the wedding, as they had both been in attendance. They begin to talk about how Hiyori Kirishima is going to grow up and one day likely get married herself, and how the idea is stressing Kirishima out. Kirishima is worried about being alone one day, but Yokozawa says that he “do him the service of not letting him die alone.” Kirishima twists it to mean that they’ll be together until the day they die, and Yokozawa doesn’t fully seem to mind.
==Image gallery==
===Japanese edition===
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===English edition===
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===International editions===
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==External links==
*SuBLime: The World's Greatest First Love V13
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