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My First Girlfriend Is a Gal (Japanese: はじめてのギャルHepburn: Hajimete no Gyaru), also known as Hajimete no Gal, is a Japanese manga series by Meguru Ueno. It has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Ace since November 2015, and has been collected in eight tankōbon volumes. A 10-episode anime television series adaptation by NAZ aired from July 12, 2017 to September 13, 2017.

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Plot[edit]

High school boy Junichi Hashiba laments not having a girlfriend as his classmates have seemed to be pairing up everywhere. His single unattached friends force him into boldly confessing his love to Yukana Yame, a beautiful 'gal' at the school. Although Yukana easily determines that Junichi really just wants to lose his virginity, she agrees to be his girlfriend. Junichi soon attracts the affections of other girls who have known Junichi or Yukana for a while, including his childhood friend and neighbor Nene, Yukana's gal friend Ranko, and the school's madonna Yui.

Characters[edit]

Junichi Hashiba (羽柴 ジュンイチHashiba Jun'ichi)

Voiced by: Shintarō Asanuma^[1] (Japanese); Alejandro Saab^[2] (English)

Junichi is a second-year high school boy who wishes to have a girlfriend. At the start of the series, he is set up by his friends to confess his love to Yukana Yame. While he is internally thrilled to see Yukana's sexy body, he easily gets embarrassed when Yukana calls him out on such perverted actions. He regularly has sexual fantasies of losing his virginity and is depicted as having internal debates in his head over what to do in situations. His friends also pressure him to hook them up with girls. As he learns that Yukana does indeed like him, he tries to remain loyal to her, turning down the other girls that make advances on him.

Yukana Yame (八女 ゆかなYame Yukana)

Voiced by: Yuki Nagaku^[1] (Japanese); Jamie Marchi^[2] (English)

Yukana is a fashionable high school 'gal' with strawberry blonde hair, green eyes, a busty chest, loose socks, and a carefree attitude. She is very guarded about perverted stuff, calling it gross, but agrees to be Junichi's girlfriend. She finds Jun to be transparent with his emotions and reactions, and often calls Jun out for being a perverted virgin who is interested in her body, but teases and flirts with him too. Underneath she is very caring, and seeks her friends' advice often on how to relate to Jun better, being a little naive sometimes on applying the advice. On occasion, she lowers her guard and lets him touch her if it helps affirm how serious she is about the relationship. She gets jealous when the other girls interact with Junichi, but thinks that Nene's little sister act is too cute to be taken as a serious threat to her relationship.

Shinpei Sakamoto (坂本 慎平Sakamoto Shinpei)

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga^[1] (Japanese); Brad Smeaton^[2] (English)

A glasses-wearing classmate with short bluish hair who is part of Junichi's group of perverted friends.^{Ch. 1, 27} He, Jun, and Yui Kashii were classmates before in middle school.^{Ch. 29} He is the one who usually initiates the plans and recommendations for Jun, including planning the confession, giving movie tickets to Jun, and others. He is also the first to make the connection between Yui Kashii and online idol named BoA.^{Ch. 35} In the manga serialization's magazine, he provides information on the characters for the anime adaptation. They are slated to have a larger role in the anime than in the manga. Shinpei has an older cousin named Sayaka,^{Ch. 45} who attends university and is involved in a manga club.^{Ch. 50}

Keigo Ishida (石田 景吾Ishida Keigo)

Voiced by: Kenji Akabane^[1] (Japanese); Jacob Browning^[2] (English)

A blonde-haired classmate who is part of Junichi's group of perverted friends.^{Ch. 1, 27}

Minoru Kobayakawa (小早川 稔Kobayakawa Minoru)

Voiced by: Minoru Shiraishi^[1] (Japanese); Cris George^[2] (English)

An obese classmate who is part of Junichi's group of perverted friends. Of the three friends, he mentions that he likes little girls.^{Ep. 1Ch. 1, 27, 31, 32}

Ranko Honjō (本城 蘭子Honjō Ranko)

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura^[1] (Japanese); Morgan Garrett^[2] (English)

Yukana's childhood friend is a tall tan-skinned gal with short light blonde hair, light purple eyes, and a big chest. She is very aggressive, making moves on Junichi which makes Yukana jealous.^{Ch. 14-15, 20} She reveals to Jun that she loves Yukana and is possessive of her; she does not like Yukana being so close to Jun,^{Ch. 22, 29} even if it means having to have sex with Jun herself.^[3]

Nene Fujinoki (藤ノ木 寧音Fujinoki Nene)

Voiced by: Yui Ogura^[1] (Japanese); Brittany Lauda^[2] (English)

A petite but big-breasted first-year high school girl who styles her hair in buns.^{Ch. 23} She and Jun are childhood friends, but she is obsessed with Jun, and initially tried to dress and act like a little sister because he had expressed interest in that genre of video games. She briefly tries the gal lifestyle to try to win Jun over, and later tries to attack him by lying on top of him naked in bed, but Jun rejects her. She then decides to openly compete with Yukana, going back to her bun hairstyle. In the anime, Jun's friends regard her as a 'loli with big boobs'.^{Ep. 1}

Yui Kashī (香椎 結衣Kashī Yui)

Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu^[1] (Japanese); Alison Viktorin^[2] (English)

Jun's classmate and class representative, who has long dark hair and reddish eyes. Jun's friends regard her as the school's madonna, smart and beautiful, like a character from a manga or a video game. She has known Jun since middle school and initially acts very friendly and nice around him.^{Ch. 27, 29} She secretly dresses up as a blonde-haired (red hair in the anime) twin-tailed idol named BoA who does live streams on the Internet. She is upset that Jun, whom she deems her number-one servant because he had helped carry boxes for her or picked up her eraser, does not fawn over her like an obedient pet because he is with Yukana. She tries to remedy that by pulling him aside and asking him to dump Yukana and go out with her. When Jun refuses, she gets very angry and threatens him until Ranko saves him by threatening to reveal her net identity.^{Ch. 32-36} She becomes more attracted to Jun beyond just wanting him to be her pet, and eventually confesses to Jun and is declined. She then strives to be his second girlfriend as in a harem.^{Ch. 60-61} In the anime, Jun's friends say her only drawback is that she doesn't have a big chest like some of the other girls.^{Ep. 1}

Ayumi Kamisaka (上坂 歩美Kamisaka Ayumi)

Voiced by: Kazusa Aranami^[4] (Japanese); Kristin Sutton^[2] (English)

Yukana's gal friend with medium brown hair and blue eyes.^{Ch. 7} She is more of a background character in the manga, but has a larger role in the anime.

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Kokoro Shīna (椎名 心Shīna Kokoro)

Voiced by: Natsuko Hara^[4] (Japanese); Annabel Thorne^[2] (English)

Yukana's gal friend with blonde hair stylized in tails tied with red ribbons.^{Ch. 7} She is more of a background character in the manga, but has a larger role in the anime.

Yuki Kashi

Yui's younger brother who dresses up as an attractive girl at school, flirting with and teasing Jun. Yuki is very fond of Yui, but when he notices she has been off because of her love for Jun, he tries to support her and disrupt Jun's relationship with Yukana. This is so that Yui can return to being the strong older sister.^{Ch. 53-58}

Iris Kotobayashi

The student council president who dislikes that Jun has attracted a harem of pretty girls at school. She has long blonde hair, and is part French and part Japanese. She is reputed to imprison students.^{Ch. 65-66}

Media[edit]

Manga[edit]

As of March 2019, the series has been released in eight tankōbon volumes.

Anime[edit]

A 10-episode anime television series adaptation by NAZ aired between July 12, 2017 and September 13, 2017.^[14][15] The show is directed and character designed by Hiroyuki Furukawa who also did the erotic comedy My Wife is the Student Council President. The script is supervised by Yuichiro Momose, and the music done by Yashikin of MAGES.^[16] The opening theme is 'Hajimete no Season' (はじめてのSEASON) by Junjō no Afilia,^[17] and the ending theme is 'Galtic Love' (GAL的LOVE) by Erabareshi.^[1] An OVA episode has been announced, and released on December 26, 2017.^[15] The anime series is licensed and streamed in North America by Funimation with an English dub.^[18]

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Reception[edit]

The anime's first episode was reviewed by various writers at Anime News Network. James Beckett found that the fanservice to be as expected and that it embodied 'all of the most irritating sex comedy stereotypes that stopped being funny back when the American Pie sequels fizzled out over a decade ago.' Nick Creamer found the censorship bars to be the only unique thing about the show, and that the central characters were not likable. Theron Martin held out some hope that Yukana would at least have some character depth. Paul Jensen found the premise of two characters from different social circles to have potential, but the first episode to be obnoxious and dumb, outside of some moments where Yukana reacts to Junichi's confession. Rebecca Silverman regarded the episode as mostly fetishism and unless that was toned down and 'starts to develop Yukana as a real person, it could be a somewhat smarty raunchy comedy,' but did not plan to watch any more to find out.^[20]

Notes[edit]

1. ^All English episode titles are taken from Crunchyroll.
2. ^The possible canon counterpart is Chapters 70-73, found in the sixth tankōbon volume.

Works cited[edit]

• ^ 'Ch.' is shortened form for chapter and refers to a chapter number of the Hajimete no Gal manga
• ^ 'Ep.' is shortened form for episode and refers to an episode number of the My First Girlfriend Is a Gal anime

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefghi'Hajimete no Gal Anime Casts Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Kenji Akabane, Minoru Shiraishi'. Anime News Network. May 26, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
2. ^ ^abcdefghij'Summer 2017 SimulDubs on FunimationNow!'. Funimation. July 13, 2017.
3. ^Martin, Theron (July 27, 2017). 'My First Girlfriend is a Gal'. Anime News Network.
4. ^ ^ab'Hajimete no Gal Anime's 2nd Promo Video Previews Junjō no Afilia's Song'. Anime News Network. June 20, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
5. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（１）'. Kodansha. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
6. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（２）'. Kodansha. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
7. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（３）'. Kodansha. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
8. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（４）'. Kodansha. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
9. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（５）オリジナルアニメＢＤ付き定版'. Kodansha. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
10. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（５）'. Kodansha. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
11. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（６）'. Kodansha. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
12. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（７）'. Kodansha. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
13. ^Corporation, Kadokawa. 'はじめてのギャル　（８）'. Kodansha. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
14. ^'Hajimete no Gal Anime Reveals July 12 Premiere, New Visual'. Anime News Network. June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
15. ^ ^ab'Hajimete no Gal TV Anime Gets 10 Episodes, OVA'. Anime News Network. March 23, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
16. ^ ^ab'Hajimete no Gal Manga's 5th Volume Listed With Original Anime on Blu-ray'. animenewsnetwork.com. June 26, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
17. ^'Junjō no Afilia Performs Hajimete no Gal Anime's Opening Theme Song'. Anime News Network. June 5, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
18. ^'August 2018 Limited Editions – Gundam IBO Season 2, Testament of Sister New Devil Burst, My First Girlfriend is a Gal'. Funimation. June 7, 2018. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
19. ^'週間番組表(2017/08/07～2017/08/13) - AT-X ワンランク上のアニメ専門チャンネル'. www.at-x.com. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
20. ^'The Summer 2017 Anime Preview Guide - My First Girlfriend is a Gal'. animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved July 29, 2017.

External links[edit]

• Official website‹See Tfd›(in Japanese)
• My First Girlfriend Is a Gal (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia