Episode 1

Episode 1

**"First time"** is the first episode of the Sasaki to Miyano anime.

## Short Summary

After calling for help to deal with a bullying incident, Miyano Yoshikazu finds Sasaki Shuumei arrive to intervene. Three months later, Sasaki appears happy around Miyano, who shares some of his BL manga with him to read.

## Long Summary

Miyano Yoshikazu sees a student being beaten by a group of boys, the second he was going intervene, another student appears, Sasaki Shuumei and he deals with it. Several months later Miyano and Sasaki are friends and at this time Sasaki ask Miyano, a huge BL manga reader, for a manga recommendation. Miyano then gives Sasaki a manga in a bag and says "Read this, but don’t show it to anyone, and treat it like it’s a toxic substance”.

A day after at school, Sasaki talks out loud about the manga to Miyano, since the genre is Boys' Love he is shy about it and doesnt want to discuss it at school where others may be able to hear. Miyano is amazed Sasaki understands its a BL story but continues to fascinate with it, being happy that Sasaki loved the manga, Sasaki has a reaction and finds Miyano cute. He deals with those feelings by asking Miyano to lend more manga from him.

In a flashback, Miyano comes to Sasaki's class to give paperwork to Hirano Taiga, Sasaki grabs Miyano by the shoulders, testing if Miyano was absolutely a guy. By the end of the day Sasaki is stuck at school from the rain and he forgot his umbrella. Miyano then apears and ask him if he takes the train. If so, he can share his umbrella and that's what exactly they did.

Miyano arrives at Sasaki's classroom to give him a new manga and also give chocolate that makes Sasaki sick cause of the alcohol flavor, Miyano forgot to check the ingredients and soon later gives Sasaki a sweet drink to get rid of the bad flavor. Sasaki is then sent to a memory where he was beaten by the same guys from the beginning and Miyano sees him and rushes to give him a Band-aid to help. Sasaki then laughs and says to him "You’re so cute, Mya-chan. Do you want to go out?”

“Huh?” responds Miyano. “You’re joking, right?” This is when Sasaki starts realizing he likes Miyano.

## Characters

* Miyano Yoshikazu
* Sasaki Shuumei
* Kuresawa Tasuku
* Tashiro Gonzaburou
* Hirano Taiga

## Chapters Covered

Episode one covers chapters one to four from the manga bearing the same title, these are:

* Chapter 1 = Sasaki & Miyano
* Chapter 2 = We meet again
* Chapter 3 = Knot
* Chapter 4 = First time

## Differences between the manga and anime

* In the manga, a classmate asks if Sasaki wasn't some kind of bad boy and if Miyano was okay. This scene was modified in the anime, where it is Tashiro who asks.
* In the manga, Sasaki and Miyano chat a bit about the latter's poor cooking skills, so the former imagines Miyano holding a knife, much to the latter's embarrassment. This scene was cut from the anime.
* In the manga, Miyano gives a copy to Hirano after Hirano crumpled up the original sheets and when Miyano was complaining about how, while he was on his own business, the president asked him to distribute the copies to the rest of the committee members, only to be told by Hirano to continue his duty. This scene was cut from the anime.
* In the manga, they show Sasaki, Miyano, and Hirano going to the bathroom to help the former with his discomfort from the alcoholic chocolates. Miyano then recounts his thoughts on Hirano as a uke who gets drunk and later classifies him as a "handsome uke who can handle alcohol", much to the latter's chagrin. This scene was cut from the anime.