First-Love Case-Study

After losing both his partner of two years and the job he held for nearly a decade, Asahi finds himself adrift with nowhere left to turn. When his father is suddenly hospitalized, he reluctantly steps in to help run his parents' restaurant. It is there that he encounters Yuzuru Togame, an associate professor seven years his senior who cuts a surprisingly disheveled figure. Rather than projecting academic authority, Yuzuru slouches over his meal, clumsily grips his chopsticks in a fist, and inexplicably falls asleep right in the middle of eating. Intrigued by this hopeless yet endearing older man, Asahi is caught off guard when Yuzuru bluntly compliments his physique and offers him a part-time position looking after him. With his own life already in shambles, Asahi accepts the unusual arrangement without giving it much thought, completely unaware of what this decision will set into motion. What begins as a simple caretaking role soon evolves into something far more complicated. First-Love Case-Study chronicles the unexpected romance between a heartbroken but hopelessly meddlesome younger man and a hapless professor, exploring how two lost souls might just find their way back to each other.