A couple days ago ANN confirmed that the second season of Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi has been green lit and now the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi LiveJournal Community has posted an image of the below ad confirming season two is to start airing this October. However, at the time of this post the website for the series had not been updated to confirm this information.

It appears Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi is following in the same footsteps as Junjo Romantica, which had a very similar airing schedule and time between seasons. If you are unfamiliar with Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi, season one aired in Japan in April of this year and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. You can catch the entire season one on Crunchyroll here. 

If anyone wants to provide a complete English translation, feel free to post it below in comments and I will add it to this post with proper credit.

Thanks to @thisfangirlsays for pointing out the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi LiveJournal Community where this was posted, and to @MagicalEmi for confirming the translation!

~Jennifer LeBlanc

Rightstuf and Nozomi Entertainment are doing an encore presentation of season 2 of Junjo Romantica! Episodes 1 through 4 are available now on their YouTube channel for the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. An additional two episodes will be available each week thereafter until episode 12. Keep in mind that these episodes are available for a limited time so go watch them now.

If you have yet to pick up your copy of Junjo Romantica, you can find season 1 here and season 2 up for preorder here (psst… I preordered my season 2 through Rightstuf and I already have it!).

Here's the season 2 trailer to get you in the mood!

~Jennifer LeBlanc

Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi is now airing in Japan and Crunchyroll has started its simulcast today for premium members. Those without a Crunchyroll membership can see it air on April 15th. I just finished watching episode one and I'm already hooked. Started a little slow and then bam!.. laughing out loud. It definitely looks just like Junjo including the characters and there's even a 'guest' appearance by a Junjo character but only in the background. People have said Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi is a little more realistic in comparison and although it's only episode one, I can already see some of that shining through. I still love Junjo so it's going to take a lot to win me over but this episode was a good start.

~Jennifer LeBlanc

Awesome news for yaoi fans! Crunchyroll has announced that they will be simulcasting Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi after it starts to air in Japan, which is April 8th. They have not released any details regarding how soon after but I would imagine about a week. What do you think? Anyway, the simulcast will be available for the following countries/regions: North America, South America, United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Netherlands, Portugal, Middle East, Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, and Indonesia. Here's the official Sekai-ichi Facebook page, which is mostly in English. 

~Jennifer LeBlanc

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Since the AMV I posted a few days ago was pulled from YouTube for copyright reasons, I thought I'd post the subtitled trailer for the upcoming TV anime (not to be confused with the recently released OVA). Watch it while you can!

~Jennifer LeBlanc

Shungiku Nakamura of Junjo Romantica fame has another manga titled Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi, which has recently been adapted into an anime.  The first episode is set to premier April 8th in Japan. Here's the publisher's description of the series:

From the creator of Junjo Romantica comes a hilarious and heartbreaking look at the world's greatest first love – yaoi style! When Onodera Ritsu accepts a job at the publishing company Marukawa Shoten, he gets assigned to the editing department that handles shojo manga; but for the heartbroken Ritsu, who vowed to never fall in love again, working on love stories is impossible. Panic ensues when he realizes that the arrogant and tyrannical editorial director turns out to be his former first love!

Per ANN, the staff is the same as Junjo Romantica and the voice cast is the original cast from the Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi drama CD's:

The English translation of volume one of the manga is releasing 7/5/11 and volume 2 is releasing 10/4/11. The manga is licensed by TOKYOPOP and is being published by their boys' love imprint, BLU Manga.

~Jennifer LeBlanc

~Jennifer LeBlanc

So much news, so little time…

Let's start with some YaoiCon news, shall we? DMP teased us with this little snippet regarding their YaoiCon guest:

Oooooo-we already have our guest for Yaoi Con! Whoooo! But can't say yet. HA! 2:57 PM Jan 25th from web

Any guesses? If not, who do you WISH it was? Of course, it would have to be a mangaka they have or will be publishing.

There's going to be a new book ABOUT boys' love released soon that contains 14 essays written about the subject. Your thoughts? Would you read it?

Season one of Junjo Romantica will be released May 4th of this year and will include extra videos and a 24 page booklet.

In related news, another of Shungiku Nakamura's works (the creator of Junjo) is going to be getting its own anime. Sekai-Ichi Hasukoi actually has some crossover with Junjo in that a few of Junjo's characters are included in the story.

Last but not least, I've created a Formspring account so if you've been dying to ask me a question but just didn't know how, now you can. I've already answered 44 questions ranging from my favorite yaoi to how I feel about scanlations to where do I live (personal much? XD).