4 Manga About 4 Firsts in Life
Once again, happy New Year from us at Manga Planet! Having recently welcomed 2024, we begin this year’s series of manga recommendations with a roundup of titles revolving around firsts, from first love to a first pet. (It is the first month of the year after all!)
As several of the firsts depicted in these manga are rather common human experiences across the board, perhaps you might even find yourself relating to the characters or certain moments in these stories. But even if they may not be relatable to you, we hope that you’ll find yourself rooting for these characters as they navigate their way through these life-changing firsts!
1. My First Cat
Author: Shihoko Shimura
Publisher: Home-Sha Inc.
Genre: Shojo/Josei
Status: Completed (2 volumes)
Access Options:
- Manga Planet Pass (readable in full)
- Free preview of Chapter 1
Office worker Eiko has been doing just fine — she works an ordinary job, lives an ordinary life, but a chance encounter threw her all the way out of her comfort zone and led to her adopting a cat. Will she ever get used to having strong feelings and making her own decisions for the first time in her life? A story of a typical woman and a typical cat who find a new home in each other.
2. I Didn’t Mean to Fall in Love
Author: Minta Suzumaru
Publisher: Home-Sha Inc.
Genre: Boys’ Love (BL)
Status: Completed (1 volume)
Access Options:
- Manga Planet Pass (readable in full)
- Free preview of Chapter 1
Yoshino is gay, thirty, and definitely not flirty — he’s never even dated anyone. He seems to have accepted the fact that he’ll die alone, until one night, in a gay bar for the first time in his life, he meets young, charming silver-haired Rou and grabs some drinks with him.
Yoshino is drawn to Rou’s mysterious charm and they spend the night together talking…one thing leads to another and suddenly that’s not the only thing they’re doing tonight…?
A sloppy, happy love story between a handsome college student playing the game of love the easy way, and a working adult who has yet to know what love is.
3. First Love Story: Shino x Asuka Story
Story: favary Inc./Kosame Tamaoki
Art: Hibiki Aoto
Publisher: Parsola Inc.
Genre: GL/Yuri
Status: Completed (2 volumes)
Access Options:
- Manga Planet Pass (readable in full)
- Points (readable in full)
- Free preview of Volume 1
Ever since Shino saw Asuka take the stage to lead the freshman pledge, she knew they were in completely different worlds. Intelligent, endlessly talented Asuka is the type who’d only be friends with fellow preppy girls — never ordinary girls like her.
The correct plan of action for Shino to take for her high school debut is to fit in by sticking close to her old friends, getting through academics somehow, and snagging herself a boyfriend — but when Asuka herself asks Shino to be her friend, does fitting in even matter?
4. My Favorite Carrera EV
Author: Kia Asamiya
Publisher: LEED Publishing Co. Ltd.
Genre: Shonen/Seinen
Status: Ongoing (currently 10 volumes)
Access Options:
- Manga Planet Pass (all currently available volumes)
- Points (all currently available volumes)
- Free preview of Volume 1
22-year-old Reina Todoroki inherits her father’s bright pink Porsche Carrera RS upon his sudden death. She knows practically nothing about this Porsche, much less how to drive them! Reina wants to honor her father’s memory through the car he’d taken care of in his final years, but first she has to learn how to drive stick…
