Hatsukoi no Ehon

“

Do you have any regrets about your first love? Even if it's drawn beautifully, it's still just your picture book of a first love.

”

"Hatsukoi no Ehon" is the third song of the Love Series, focusing on Miou Aida and her romantically unfulfilled high school relationship with Haruki Serizawa. This song and its PV are the first of the Confession Executive Committee song series to be uploaded onto Nico Nico Douga.

The song makes its first commercial appearance on the HoneyWorks Vocaloid album Hatsukoi Note. It later received a sequel song, "Re: Hatsukoi no Ehon", coinciding with the release of the mini series Itsu Datte Bokura no Koi wa 10 Centi Datta..

This song would later be adapted in the third Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu novel Hatsukoi no Ehon and the aforementioned Itsu Datte Bokura no Koi wa 10 Centi Datta.

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Synopsis

The song presents itself as a flashback to Miou's high school days. Here, we learn that she first saw Haruki when he was shouting at one of his classmates down the hall, making a ruckus enough for a teacher to step in. It was at that point when she started to take interest in him, but it wasn't quite love yet. That would come later, when the class notice that the two have become rather close, and tease them about possible crushes on one another. Even though Haruki is somewhat aloof to her, she still has an inkling that he likes her, and is happy about her circumstances.

When they sit together on the steps outside, they ask each other if they have a person they like, and both answer affirmatively, but never say who their favored person is. She ponders about their relationship when she gets back home, wondering if he likes her or not. In the present, Miou-as-narrator curses her own cowardice, saying that if she had pressed a bit further or had been more honest with herself, she probably would have gotten him.

In the last parts of the song, she reveals that she's an adult now, with her high school years gone and passed by. She doesn't regret falling in love with Haruki, seeing him as a treasured first love, but considers putting her past behind her. She never mentions seeing him again after high school, but it's not until later that we find out why.

Lyrics

 

出会ったのはいつだっけ？
何年前の春だっけ？
廊下ではしゃいで怒られてる人

クラスは離れてたけど
何かと目立ってましたよ　君は

話したのはいつだっけ？
声をかけてくれたんだっけ？
いつの間にかくだらない話して

冷やかされちゃって変な距離感
君は素気ないけど
でもね　知ってた

残り10cmの勇気があったなら
“未来” きょう が変わってたのかな
もっと私単純バカで素直なら
掴んでた　はずなの！

好きなの！　好きでしょ？
ポジティブ系の意気地なし･･･

今も思い出すの
このページも　あの時のページも
私の初恋でした

「秘密だよ」

君の長い物語の中に私
少しでもいられたかな
君と私の物語が少しだけ
重なってたはずなの！

今はもう子供じゃないけれど
素敵な　恋と思い出の本を閉じたら鍵をかけて

残り10cmの勇気があったなら

Deatta no wa itsu da kke?
nan nen mae no haru da kke?
rōka de hashai de okorareteru hito

kurasu wa hanarete ta kedo
nanikato medatte mashi ta yo kimi wa

hanashi ta no wa itsu da kke?
koe o kake te kure ta n da kke?
itsunomanika kudaranai hanashi te

hiyakasarechatte hen na kyori kan
kimi wa moto ki nai kedo
demo ne shitte ta

nokori 10 CM no yūki ga atta nara
"mirai" ga kawatte ta no ka na
motto watashi tanjun baka de sunao nara
tsukan de ta hazu na no!

suki na no! suki desho?
pojitibu kei no ikuji nashi...

ima mo omoidasu no
kono pēji mo ano toki no pēji mo
watashi no hatsukoi deshi ta

"himitsu da yo"

kimi no nagai monogatari no naka ni watashi
sukoshi demo irare ta ka na
kimi to watashi no monogatari ga sukoshi dake
kasanatte ta hazu na no!

ima wa mō kodomo ja nai keredo
suteki na koi to omoide no hon o toji tara kagi o kake te

nokori 10 CM no yūki ga atta nara

When was it that we met?
it was in the spring...how many years ago?
you were that angry guy messing around in the hallway...

Though we were in different classes,
you stood out to me somehow

When did we first talk?
When did you first call out to me?
Before we knew it, those pointless rumors started,

Getting teased somehow brought us closer in an odd way,
you were kind of cold to me, but
but I still figured it out

If I had just had the courage to cross those last 10 centimeters,
then would today be different?
even more, if I had simply been stupidly honest with you
I would've caught you, I know it

"I like him!" "And he likes me...right?"
I was trying to be positive and yet I was so timid

When I think back...
this page, from that time...
it was my first love...

"That's a secret"

Inside the long story of "you",
I only existed for a little bit, didn't I?
the story of us was just a short one,
but our paths still crossed!

Right now, I'm no longer a child though,
this book full of wonderful memories from that love, I should probably close it and lock it away...
If I had just had the courage to cross those last 10 centimeters..

translation by descentsubs

Trivia

• The PV of the arrangement version replaces Miou and Haruki with GUMI and a nameless boy.
• The original upload of this song made it into the Vocaloid Hall of Fame on Niconico, and later into the Hall of Legend.
• The seventh anniversary image and its counterpart were previously seen on Yamako's social media accounts; both originated as birthday images for Haruki and Miou, but the Miou version was updated and publicly released as the main visual for HoneyWorks' cover of "Chiisana Koi no Uta".

Milestones:

• First appearances of Miou Aida and Haruki Serizawa
• First Confession Executive Committee song to use GUMI as a vocal
• First uploaded song

Gallery

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  Yamako's promotional image

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  Celebrating the 100,000 view milestone the day of March 23, 2012

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  Illustration posted for the seventh anniversary of the song (illust. Yamako)

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  Miou perspective of 7th anniversary illustration