Sekaiichi Hatsukoi: Yokozawa Takafumi no Baai (2011)
世界一初恋 〜横澤隆史の場合〜
Citations
- Takafumi YOKOZAWA
When you erased all the contacts from your phone, you left my number in there. Naturally you’d fall in love with a guy like that!
# - Takafumi YOKOZAWA
I don’t know what your intentions are, but if you ever hurt him, I will swoop down without hesitation and steal him from you.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
If I give my best and am told that I’m useless, then that’s my own fault. But being considered useless, without having even tried, is something I can’t allow.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
Since then… I’ve started to think… about things with the worst case outcome first. By doing so, even if you did get hurt a little bit, it wouldn’t end up being a lasting wound.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
I was desperately trying to contain it, but it was in vain. I love you, I love you, I love you.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
The only thing I can hear is the rain pounding on the pavement, and my racing heart beat.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
The more my father helps me out, the more I realize that I have no ability of my own.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
Back then, I looked up all the books he read, and checked them out. There were all sorts of books. Books I liked and books I didn’t care for at all. It made me happy to think we shared the same space… in the world of these books. Even though that’s all it was, that alone made me so happy.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
I’ve got to get a best-seller out and shut up those people who keep saying I’m only riding on my father’s success!
# - Ritsu ONODERA
Today is the one day of the year… that everyone in the editorial department wears a suit.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
I won’t tell him. I won’t tell him that in my whole life, nobody’s ever made my heart race like this. It hurts too much to say it.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
I’d decided to keep everything locked away in my heart. Yet, as soon as he was in front of me, all my feelings poured out of me.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
I wanted to work with literature. All I want to do is make books that people will want to treasure.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
And even though it’s a manga, should the main character be allowed to reach happiness so quickly?
# - Ritsu ONODERA
Back then, everything was so pure. And now, ten years later… At age 25, I, Ritsu Onodera, have become a totally jaded adult.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
I’m going to become the best manga editor anyone’s ever seen! And then you can kiss your job goodbye!
# - Ritsu ONODERA
Maybe it would be just like in the mangas. I’d tell him I love him and then we cut to the happy ending.
# - Ritsu ONODERA
It’s not like I’m pessimistic or anything… I’m just moving forward without looking back.
# - Masamune TAKANO
Sometimes I think delinquents are people… Who still have hope that things still can get better if they just put up a SOS sign. But I don’t even have the will to lift that sign anymore.
# - Masamune TAKANO
When I’m shown something so pure and innocent, I’m forced to see the filthy part of myself even more and it pisses me off.
# - Masamune TAKANO
I don’t know what you’re aiming at, but you can’t expect to be perfect right off the bat. You have to build up your confidence… by achieving small tasks one by one.
# - Masamune TAKANO
Meeting you for the first time in ten years, I couldn’t believe that someone who used to be so naive… could turn into someone this rebellious.
# - Masamune TAKANO
You can confess your feelings to me any time. So when you want to, just let me know.
# - Masamune TAKANO
You’re the best coworker and friend I could ask for. But… you’ve got no business butting into my love life.
# - Masamune TAKANO
I knew that it was pointless to hope for anything. I was so apathetic because of this sort of upbringing.
# - Shouta KISA
My problem is probably that I don’t have any confidence about anything I do. Even if the thing I want most is right in front of me, I can’t help but imagine a future where I’m being rejected by it. I’m scared of getting hurt, so I run away from the people I love. What a good-for-nothing loser.
# - Shouta KISA
There are guys out there who are just like those prince-like dudes in shoujo manga. They’re surrounded by sparkles and flowers. I hate these flashy guys, and yet… And yet I love… his face.
# - Shouta KISA
It was love at first sight. But we have no connection, beyond that of a customer and a cashier.
# - Shouta KISA
But then, as my career progressed, and I got to know more and more people from this industry, I realized that I was a normal person. It’s not that I can’t do my job, but I’m not anything special either.
# - Shouta KISA
I know that a short, old man who’s into beautiful guys… can’t expect to experience real romance. That’s why I’m only looking.
# - Shouta KISA
Since he’s always so understanding, I can’t help but have… things like ‘Maybe he doesn’t even like me that much’ cross my mind.
# - Shouta KISA
In any case, I really need to stop… falling in love with people based on looks alone. But what can I do when he’s perfect?
# - Shouta KISA
Actually, being washed away might not be so bad. Sometimes… I feel like I’m just sinking…
# - Shouta KISA
Why do I always do this? I fall in love with someone, then I get all these and then I feel brokenhearted. And It’s always my fault.
# - Kou YUKINA
I feel like… you’re always locking yourself away and working yourself up over everything all alone.
# - Kou YUKINA
I’ve always liked this fluffy, sparkly, love stuff, but I would have never thought they were edited by men.
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