My First Girlfriend Is a Gal


My First Girlfriend Is a Gal, 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 twenty-one tankōbon volumes. A ten-episode anime television series adaptation produced by NAZ aired from July to September 2017.

Plot

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 Fujinoki, Yukana's gal friend Ranko Honjō, and the school's madonna Yui Kashī.

Characters

;Junichi Hashiba
;Yukana Yame
;Ranko Honjō
;Nene Fujinoki
;Yui Kashī
;Shinpei Sakamoto
;Keigo Ishida
;Minoru Kobayakawa
;Ayumi Kamisaka
;Kokoro Shīna
;Yuki Kashī
;Iris Kotohayashi
;Kiyo Gokomachi
;Karin Kurihama
;Omae Sakurako

Media

Manga

As of January 2026, the series has been released in twenty-one tankōbon volumes.

Anime

A 10-episode anime television series adaptation by NAZ aired from July 12 to September 13, 2017. The series was directed and character designed by Hiroyuki Furukawa, who also did the erotic comedy My Wife is the Student Council President. The script was supervised by Yuichiro Momose, and the music was done by Yashikin of MAGES. The opening theme is "Hajimete no Season" by Junjō no Afilia, while the ending theme is "Galtic Love" by Erabareshi. An OVA episode was released on December 26, 2017.
Crunchyroll streamed the series with original Japanese version and English subtitles, while Funimation licensed and premiered it in North America with an English dub. Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the dub was moved to Crunchyroll.

Reception

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.

Explanatory notes

Works cited

  • "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