First Love Sisters

When Matsuzato Chika was in middle school, she took a tour of the famous Tsunojyo Girls' Academy. There she met Kizaki Haruna, a beautiful girl who guided her around the school and showed her much gentleness as well as kindness. Haruna also gives Chika a handkerchief saying that Chika can give it back when she gets admitted to Tsunojyo. Being motivated by that moment, Chika strives to study hard in order to pass Tsunojyo's entrance exams.

A year passes and Chika is attending her first day at Tsunojyo. She makes a new friend, Akiho whom she tells about the promise made a year ago. Eventually, Chika runs into Haruna in the hallway but something's wrong. Haruna is giving her an extremely cold shoulder as Haruna walks off, very deliberately ignoring her. What happened to the kind and gentle sempai that Chika spent time with a year ago?

First Love Sisters also known as Hatsukoi Shimai is a Girls Love Manga originally debuting in the Shojo magazine Yuri Shimai. This manga is very typical of Girls Love Manga yet still holds its own as a quality work. Seven Seas Entertainment published the first volume in English but then put the series on hold in October 2008 due to "rights issues".

This Manga provides examples of:

 * Bifauxnen: Hiiragi
 * Big Sister Complex
 * Not Blood Siblings: An unrequited love version.
 * Cast Full Of Lesbian
 * Class Representative: Chiori with all the personality traits too.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Elaborate University High
 * Even the Girls Want Her: Hiiragi
 * First-Name Basis
 * Fur Bikini: Hiiragi wears one in Chika's dream.
 * Girls Love
 * Girlish Pigtails: Chika
 * Hot for Student
 * Indirect Kiss
 * Intertwined Fingers
 * Love At First Sight
 * Moe: Chika
 * Memento MacGuffin: The handkerchief.
 * No Export for You: Seven Seas Entertainment cites "right issues" as to why the last two volumes can't be brought over.
 * Pair the Spares
 * The Power of Love: What motivates Chika for the work needed to get into Tsunojyo.
 * Schoolgirl Lesbians
 * Sempai-Kohai
 * Shopping Montage
 * Shout-Out: Chika's Alice in Wonderland dream includes one to Miyuki-chan in Wonderland.
 * Super-Deformed
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Haruna and Kirika
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair: Chika