Series · Kodansha
Nezumi's First Love Vol. 1
Graphic Novel
Oct 28, 2025
Nezumi was raised by the yakuza to be a killer. It's all she's ever known. Love is something she's never experienced or even contemplated... until she meets an ordinary, hapless young man named Ao in an arcade during a hit. Suddenly thrust into the simple bliss of shared dinners, video games, and bashful intimacy, Nezumi is happy for the first time in her life. But her masters were never going to allow the dream to last forever. Now Nezumi has to make a terrible choice to save Ao's life-and her own. How far will this killing machine go to assert her humanity...?
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Nezumi's First Love Vol. 2
Graphic Novel
Jan 20, 2026
A perfectly normal young man falls in love with a hardened assassin raised by the yakuza to be a killing machine. What could go wrong? When Nezumi's masters find out she's living in domestic bliss with Ao, the only way she can save him is to turn him into a killer like herself-and now the time has come for him to prove his worth. Will Ao be able to go through with it? And even if he does, can love really bloom amid so much bloodshed...?
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Nezumi's First Love Vol. 3
Graphic Novel
Mar 24, 2026
Ao has made it through his training, and now works as a full-fledged assassin for the same yakuza outfit as his darling Nezumi. But when he's confronted with an unaccounted-for girl in the course of a job, he makes the fatal mistake of letting her live. Now, thanks to her, he's fallen into the hands of a rival gang-and the only way he's coming home in one piece is if Nezumi fights her way into the lion's den alone to rescue him...
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Nezumi's First Love Vol. 4
Graphic Novel
Jun 16, 2026
Grievously wounded by the Aihara gang, Ao is in for months of recuperation. But the ordeal is over, Messiah is dead by Nezumi's hand, and the happy couple is living together in a new home-when suddenly a young woman appears at the door... Their days of peace never seem to last, and now Nezumi and Ao are thrust into a new battle, with uncomfortable truths threatening to reveal themselves-!
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