is a Japanese television series starring Hikari Mitsushima and Takeru Satoh, released by Netflix on 24 November 2022. The series (and its Japanese title) was inspired by two Hikaru Utada songs.

Plot

The plot revolves around a man and a woman who met in the late 1990s as teenagers and grew up together in the early 2000s. After 15 years, they meet again and try to rekindle their first love through memories. Yae wanted to be a flight attendant but suffered an accident. Harumichi served as a pilot in the JASDF but his life took a different path.

First Love (2022 TV series)

Cast

Hikari Mitsushima as Yae Noguchi

Rikako Yagi as young Yae

Takeru Satoh as Harumichi Namiki

Taisei Kido as young Harumichi

Kaho as Tsunemi Arikawa

Minami as Yū Namiki

Itsuki Nagasawa as young Yū

Akiyoshi Nakao as Bonji Kawano

Jiei Wakabayashi as young Bonji

Towa Araki as Tsuzuru Kosaka

Aoi Yamada as Uta Komori

Gaku Hamada as Ōtaro

Episodes

Reception

Phil Harrison from The Guardian wrote that "it’s tasteful, idealised and at times, a little antiseptic: romance as designed by Marie Kondo".

First Love (2022 TV series)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

2022 Japanese television series debuts

2022 Japanese television series endings

2020s romantic comedy television series

Fiction about amnesia

Japanese romance television series

Japanese-language Netflix original programming

Television series set in the 1990s

Television series set in the 2000s

Television series set in the 2010s

Television series set in the 2020s

Hikaru Utada

First Love (2022 TV series)