I Give My First Love to You

Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on. What he didn't know is that he is under-estimating her.

Cast

Mao Inoue

as Mayu Taneda

Masaki Okada

as Takuma Kakunouchi

Tetta Sugimoto

as Minoru Kakinouchi

Yōko Moriguchi

as Ryoko Kakinouchi

Yoshihiko Hosoda

as Kou Suzuya

Natsuki Harada

as Teru Uehara

Toru Nakamura

as Dr. Takahito Taneda

Yuki Terada

as Yuiko Tamura

Masataka Kubota

as Ritsu Sugiyama

Keiko Horiuchi

as Yoshimi Suzuya

Reviews

Alunauwie

I Give My First Love to You follows a romance shaped by the certainty of loss, where love is never free from the shadow of time. Growing up together, Mayu and Takuma struggle between holding on and letting go, as fear of an inevitable goodbye quietly defines their choices. Despite its narrative flaw...

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