{"id":164,"date":"2012-11-01T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/11\/01\/hatsukoi-cover-and-blurb-reveal-plus-release-date\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T08:09:00","slug":"hatsukoi-cover-and-blurb-reveal-plus-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/11\/01\/hatsukoi-cover-and-blurb-reveal-plus-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;HATSUKOI.&#8221; Cover and Blurb Reveal! (Plus Release Date!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-jHZANHqVADw\/UJIrVpi6CJI\/AAAAAAAABLs\/UrDTK8VXcTA\/s1600\/hatsukoi_final.tif\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-jHZANHqVADw\/UJIrVpi6CJI\/AAAAAAAABLs\/UrDTK8VXcTA\/s320\/hatsukoi_final.tif\" width=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">If society has taught Aiko anything, it\u2019s that one day she will marry a man. Not until she meets Reina, a lesbian with a knack for flirting, does she decide she wants to experience a different kind of sexual liberation \u2013 assuming she can overcome her insecurities and nosy family. As she succumbs more and more to Reina\u2019s charms, however, Aiko wonders if she can really abandon everyone\u2019s expectations. <\/p>\n<p>Reina has met plenty of girls like Aiko before: cute, naive, and ready to screw the status quo. After being burned by countless young women who go on to marry men and forget their lesbian lives, how can Reina trust yet another \u201cgood girl\u201d following her around? Especially when she thinks she may be having those foreign feelings for her best friend instead.<\/p>\n<p>Time will only tell if <i>Hatsukoi<\/i>, or \u201cfirst love,\u201d has really come to two such different people. Is their relationship genuine or just another footnote amongst flirting, lying, and sneaking around love hotels? <\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>&#8220;HATSUKOI.&#8221; takes place from Dec. 1992 &#8211; Apr. 1993, and is the first story chronologically in the Ren&#8217;Ai Rensai series.<\/i> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>&#8220;HATSUKOI.&#8221;<\/b> will be available <b>November 30th, 2012<\/b>. (Or maybe a few days earlier.)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Yay! \ud83d\ude00<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If society has taught Aiko anything, it\u2019s that one day she will marry a man. Not until she meets Reina, a lesbian with a knack for flirting, does she decide she wants to experience a different kind of sexual liberation \u2013 assuming she can overcome her insecurities and nosy family. 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