Later Masamune finds that Ritsu is his old schoolmate who had confessed to him. Ritsu wants to resign, but when his boss Masamune Takano calls him useless, he stays to protect his pride. He does get a job at the literary section, but it turns out he has been put in the shoujo manga department. He applies for a job in the Marukawa publishing company and hopes to get a position in the literary section. When he can no longer bear the jealous attitudes of his co-workers, he decides to quit his job and join another publishing company to prove his worth. He is quite good at his job, but still, people think that he has the job because his father is the owner. Ritsu works as an editor in his father’s publishing company. The protagonists of the anime are Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano. Two are anime series, one is a movie, and one is an Original Video Animation.
There have been four anime adaptations of the manga. ‘Sekaiichi Hatsukoi’ is based on a light novel that first came out in the year 2006.
