History Main / FirstGirlWins

* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'': Kyosuke meets Madoka long before Hikaru's in the picture.
** A couple of days max. Now Madoka meeting Kyosuke..[[spoiler: time travel is fun!]]

* ''Manga/BunnyDrop'': [[spoiler:Daikichi ends up marrying Rin in the end. Yes, that Rin. The 6 year old he adopts at the beginning of the series.]]

* ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'': Fa ends up with Kamille, [[KillEmAll by virture of being the only love interest left alive.]] And only after he recovered from his MindRape at the end of the series in the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ sequel.]]
* Played straight in ''KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''. Ma Renka tells Miu: "He only saw you first. That's all there is!".
* In MaiHime, this is played straight for Mai, as Yuuichi s the first boy she meets in the series besides her brother. In the manga, in which Yuuichi is the main character instead, he meets Mai first, although he has known [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Shiho]] in the past (who averts this trope).
* Asuna is the first of Kirito's love interests he meets in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''. They end up HappilyMarried after Kirito is nearly killed. Unlike most examples of this trope, this happens relatively early on; episode 10 in the anime, and chapter 16 in the light novels.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Souken Ishida's wife [[NinjaMaid assigned]] Kanae Katagiri to her son Ryuuken while very young children then organised an ArrangedMarriage between Ryuuken and her niece when they were teenagers. Ryuuken was [[BlueBlood socially compatible]] but [[NoSparks romantically incompatible]] with his cousin while being [[UptownGuy socially incompatible]] and [[UnresolvedSexualTension romantically compatible]] with Kanae. When Aizen accidentally ruins the viability of the future marriage, Ryuuken is finally [[MarryForLove allowed]] to marry [[TheLostLenore Kanae]]. [[spoiler:Ryuuken's cousin, Masaki Kurosaki, is also permitted to marry her love, Isshin Shiba.]]
* Played with in ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', [[SnakePeople Miia]] insists that since she was the first to move in with Kimihito, she's got dibs. [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Cerea]] quickly tells her to stuff it.
* While the true situation is ''[[{{Understatement}} slightly]]'' complicated in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', in the eyes of Nozomu, the titular sensei, the First Girl (Fuura Kafuka, the first student of his he met) did Win. [[spoiler: The truth is Kafuka was DeadAllAlong, and her organs were transplanted into twelve of Nozomu's students, causing the students and Nozomu to see Kafuka in the place of any one student at a time. In Nozomu's eyes, he married Kafuka and Kafuka alone, making it this trope. On paper it's an endless cycle of marriage and divorce between Nozomu and the twelve students. To outsiders, though, it looks like MarryThemAll. For what it's worth, all the girls have children by him...that look eerily like Kafuka.]]

* Suberted in ''Film/TooManyHusbands.'' Henry is introduced onscreen first, and Bill was Vicky's first husband, but neither guy really "wins." [[spoiler:The court decides that Bill is Vicky's legal husband, but she declares herself unable to choose between them, and the last scene shows them both vowing to make her happy in the future.]]

* In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', Haruhi falls for the first Host guy she meets, [[spoiler: Tamaki]].
** [[spoiler:It does take her nearly the entire length of the manga to realize it though...]]

** Not necessarily a subversion since Ataru and Lum's first meeting occurs during the {{Pilot}} and Ataru first met Shinobu before the series started.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', there are three potential winners, each of whom can be seen as the First Girl. Sakura is the first girl introduced in the main storyline and also the first girl to show obvious interest in Shirou (who is, of course, completely oblivious to it), Rin is the first female character introduced and the first we get to see interact with Shirou because the prologue is from her point of view, and Saber is the first girl seen on-screen and heard as the second image in the Novel is of her.
** Sakura is the girl Shirou first met as well (in the backstory). She's also the one Nasu always supported as his main love interest (even if Saber is more popular).
* ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'': Nayuki, the UnluckyChildhoodFriend and [[KissingCousins cousin]], seems to be the first girl introduced, because she's the first girl that Yuuichi meets upon his return. But if you remember the ''beginning'' of the series, with the first "dream" prologue... It had a narrator. (In the 2006 version, though, the prologue is moved, making it LastGirlWins instead.)
** Creator/KeyVisualArts did the same thing in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', except the first girl Yukito meets ''does'' turn out to be the same girl that the prologue talks about. (Not the narrator, though, considering she's a) his mother, b) the reincarnation of his ancestor, c) dead.)
*** It's quite ironic to talk about "winning" in this case though, considering how the story unfolds.
** It's played {{anvilicious}}ly straight in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' with Nagisa, however.
** Also played straight in ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' with Rin being both the first girl introduced and the first Riki met chronologically, being his [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend]]. [[spoiler:Though arguably subverted given the very vague, NoRomanticResolution-style ending they got.]]
* ''{{Tsukihime}}'': Quite a few female characters could possibly qualify as the "first girl" by some definition, but this title officially goes to Arcueid, who is the first girl [[FirstInstallmentWins whose story you see]] and Shiki meeting her starts the first plot.

* An extreme version appears to be shaping up in ''Manga/UQHolder'': [[spoiler: Eva "won" Touta when she took him in after the deaths of his parents, though he only recently seems to have realized it. Touta "won" Eva ''700 years before he was born'' (and before she met her professed only love Nagi Springfield) thanks to Dana's time-warped dimension.]]

* ''Fanfic/SOE2/LoneHeirOfKrypton'': Asuka is the first girl shows up in the story, and she is the one Shinji falls in love with and eventually hooks up with.

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* In ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'',[[spoiler: Annabeth is the first demigod female that Percy comes into contact with]] and they eventually get together [[spoiler: at the end of the fifth book]], after a long Just Friends relationship.

* Cory and Topanga from ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''. Topanga is the first girl Cory speaks to outside his family, and the first girl he befriends. Though initially their relationship is a case of {{Slap-Slap-Kiss}}, [[spoiler: they begin dating in the third season.]] Shortly after, however, [[spoiler: they break up, but get back together a few months later.]] In season five, [[spoiler: they break up again because Cory kisses another girl, but they quickly reunite.]] Finally, at their high school graduation, [[spoiler: Topanga proposes to Cory, and they get married in the show’s final season.]]

* Played straight in ''CaptainAtom'': Plastique appears in the second issue, before Cap meets Nightshade, Catherine Cobert, or the Crimson Fox.

* Miyako from ''EfATaleOfMemories'' may not technically be the first girl Hiro meets, but she is the first girl introduced to him in the anime.

* Arguably, this is a convention of just about any story which revolves around romance. During the opening chapter, the first character of preferred gender our protagonist meets and is attracted to is almost guaranteed to be the character s/he ends up with. (This might be First ''Boy'' Wins if the viewpoint character is female, not straight, etc.)

* Subverted several times in the ''Film/JamesBond'' franchise. The major love interest can sometimes be the first woman (besides Miss Moneypenny or Judi Dench's "M") that Bond meets in the film, but because James is a such a womanizer, the first girl he meets will often be either a quick fling, or a quick fling that ends in the woman's untimely and bizarre death, ala [[spoiler:''Film/CasinoRoyale'', Film/GoldenEye'', ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', and so on]].

* In ''KokoNiIruYo!'', it's played with, as both contenders are "first guys." Hinata was the first person who "noticed" Hikage, the first to confess to her, and the first love interest introduced. But ''Black Rabbit'' -- [[spoiler:revealed to be Teru]] -- is Hikage's first friend, the first to support her, and knew her first. [[spoiler:And while Hinata was introduced before ''Black Rabbit'', Hinata and Teru were introduced into the series ''at the same time''. In the end, Hikage chooses to be with Hinata instead of Teru.]]

* In ''SorcererHunters'', Carrot met both Misu sisters at the same time, but Tira was the first sister introduced in the manga and the one Carrot marries at the end. This doesn't stop Chocolat, as she can be seen having snuck into their bed to be with Carrot after the marriage since she wants him to live up to his promise to let her bear his first child.
* ''SteelAngelKurumi'': both Kurumi and Karinka like Kagura Nakaito, but Kurumi is introduced first (and has the extra advantage of being the title character).

* ''UmiNoMisaki'', by the same mangaka as ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'', is still up in the air as to who "wins," and is doing its best to manipulate this trope for all it's worth. Each girl can count as a different "first" for Nagi: Shizuku is the first girl he meets, Karin is the first who realizes and confesses her feelings to him, and Soyogi is his FirstKiss (not counting Shizuku giving him [[CleanPrettyReliable CPR]]) as well as the first to make further overtures towards gaining his "favor" in the same night. Each girl has roughly equal potential to win, at this point. This was lampshaded when Karin and Soyogi realize that Shizuku may have had a leg up on them because he met her first.

* ''BunnyDrop'': [[spoiler:Daikichi ends up marrying Rin in the end. Yes, that Rin. The 6 year old he adopts at the beginning of the series.]]

* The ''{{Mazinger}}'' series:

* ''LoveHina'': Naru Narusegawa is the first girl introduced, and despite [[DefrostingIceQueen Aoyama Motoko]], [[ShrinkingViolet Maehara Shinobu]], [[GeniusDitz Otohime Mutsumi]] and even his adopted sister [[NotBloodSiblings Kanako]] [[UnwantedHarem also liking]] Urashima Keitaro, the pairing of Naru and Keitaro is inevitable. Additionally, Keitaro met Naru long before any of the others (except Mutsumi) as a child. She is [[spoiler: the girl he made the Tokyo U promise with long ago]].

->''"Life is so crazy \\
And love is unkind \\
Because she came first, darling \\

Of course, a writer can't outright admit that's what they're doing, which is why you can expect an in-universe justification for how these two people met so early and took so long to figure out they belong together. Their first impression of each other may be [[SlapSlapKiss immense dislike]] or possibly indifference. Complications will abound, {{Romantic False Lead}}s will show up, [[ThirdActMisunderstanding misunderstandings will arise]] between them, pride and denial will keep them apart. In extreme cases, it may turn out [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased her apparent lack of interest in him was a major turn-on]]. Paradoxically enough, nothing screams "major romance incoming" like this sort of thing. A more subtle tactic is to get the First Girl "off the radar" somehow--DemotedToExtra, PutOnABus and similar tactics--but this adds the additional challenge of bringing her ''out'' of exile in a believable way.

* ''TrueTears'' has the main character choosing Hiromi at the end, who is the first girl introduced and the first girl he crosses paths with.
* ''UmiNoMisaki'', by the same mangaka as ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'', is still up in the air as to who "wins," and is doing its best to manipulate this trope for all it's worth. Each girl can count as a different "first" for Nagi: Shizuku is the first girl he meets, Karin is the first who realizes and confesses her feelings to him, and Soyogi is his FirstKiss (not counting Shizuku giving him [[CleanPrettyReliable CPR]]) as well as the first to make further overtures towards gaining his "favor" in the same night. Each girl has roughly equal potential to win, at this point.\\
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This was lampshaded when Karin and Soyogi realize that Shizuku may have had a leg up on them because he met her first.
* In ''UruseiYatsura'', the first girl introduced is Shinobu, but Ataru ends up with Lum, which seems like a subversion... but Lum's popularity took the author by surprise and at the start of the series Shinobu ''was'' intended to be the girl Ataru ended up with.

** Ashley can also be this for Shepard assuming you carry the romance through the 3 games, as Ashley was the first female character introduced in [=ME1=] that isn't the middle aged non-love-interest doctor, or Shepard herself if you're playing Femshep.

* ''{{Macross}}'':

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Souken Ishida's wife set up an ArrangedMarriage between her son Ryuuken and her niece [[spoiler: Masaki Kurosaki]]. She had also assigned [[NinjaMaid Kanae]] [[YamatoNadeshiko Katagiri]] to Ryuuken as his personal bodyguard when Kanae and Ryuuken were both very [[ChildhoodFriendRomance young children]]. Ryuuken and his cousin were [[BlueBlood socially compatible]] but not [[NoSparks romantically compatible]] whereas Ryuuken and Kanae had a lot of UnresolvedSexualTension but were [[UptownGuy socially incompatible]]. When the viability of the ArrangedMarriage is ruined [[spoiler:by Aizen]] and Ryuuken's cousin is allowed to MarryForLove [[spoiler:to Isshin Shiba]], [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Ryuuken]] and [[TheLostLenore Kanae]] are also able to MarryForLove.

* Stefan 'Twoflower' Gagne's "UnrealEstate" uses this: the first girl's house falls on him while he's still on Grunwald. Nevertheless, possibly to obfuscate the [[FirstGirlWins first girl winning]], the main character manages to run into each of the girls before finding himself in the 'harem', a la ''Manga/AiKora''. Though it's technically not a harem comdedy towards the end.

* In ''[[DNAKpts4tv Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv)]]'' the first guy wins: Ryuk at some point fathered a child with Light ([[MrSeahorse who is male]]). Also [[ButchLesbian Rem]] ultimately ends up with Misa by JumpingTheGenderBarrier by [[GrandTheftMe possessing Mogi]] (also because [[StupidityInducingAttack Misa has become stupider]]) and they go on to make many pornos together.

* In the first ''Literature/KaraNoKyoukai'' movie, Shiki invokes this during her second fight with Fujyou about Mikiya.

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* Like its sister manga, ''AyashiNoCeres'' does this with Aya and Tooya: Tooya is the first guy Aya [[ShutUpKiss kisses]], and Aya in turn is the first girl Tooya meets. [[spoiler:Yup, even in childhood.]]
* ''CaptainTsubasa'' loved to play around with this at the beginning. The first girl shown is NOT the female lead [[{{Shorttank}} Sanae]] but Tsubasa's old friend [[YamatoNadeshiko Yayoi Aoba]], who's seen when he is moving to Shizuoka and she barely manages to say goodbye to him. This is brought up later when Yayoi reappears with a crush on Tsubasa, much to Sanae's despair... but several years later, Yayoi hangs out more with [[IllGirl Jun Misugi]] than Tsubasa himself. He later comes to [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend aknowledge and return Sanae's feelings for him]].
* Subverted in ''CodeGeass'' when Shirley [[spoiler:reveals that she has feelings for Lelouch (to Rolo), and is promptly killed.]]

* ''FlameOfRecca'': Sakoshita Yanagi and Kirisawa Fuuko both like Hanabishi Recca, but Yanagi is guaranteed to win since she is introduced first. However, as the story goes on, Fuuko's interest shifts from Recca to Ishijima Domon, giving her a happier end than most later-introduced love interests.
* ''FruitsBasket'' has the trope and a {{Gender Flip}}ped subversion: [[spoiler:The main female character, Honda Tohru, meets Sohma Yuki before Sohma Kyo but develops mutual romantic feelings for Kyo. Later, Yuki starts a relationship with the first student council girl introduced, Kuragi Machi.]]

* {{Gender Flip}}ped on ''FushigiYuugi'': Hotohori, Tamahome, Nuriko (maybe) and Tasuki all like Yuuki Miaka. Tamahome was the first guy introduced. Draw your own conclusions.
** ''FushigiYuugi'' plays this straight and [[GenderFlip subverts it]] with Miaka (first girl introduced in the series) and Tamahome (first Seishi whom Miaka meets). And no, we're not counting the fact that Yui and Tamahome met at the same time.

** ''MacrossFrontier'' second movie came with [[WordOfGod Kawamori's]] promise to end the triangle. Alto confesses his love to [[spoiler: Sheryl Nome. [[FirstGirlAfterAll They first met when they were very young]], in Galaxy.]]
** ''MacrossZero'' is yet another case in Macross. Shin met Sara first, if only by thirty seconds.
* ''MahouSenseiNegima'': There are three, count 'em, ''three'' "First Girls." Chronologically, Anya is the very first, being a childhood friend and appearing in the first page of the manga--but she then disappeared for a hundred chapters. Then we've got Asuna, a standard {{Tsundere}} type who seems like the traditional love interest. However, from the beginning, its unclear whether she cares for Negi as a brother-type figure or something else. And finally Nodoka (the CovertPervert bookworm). She is the first girl to show an interest in Negi. She's also the first to confess to Negi. However, at the end this trope is subverted since it seems that none of them "win". Negi tells Asuna the girl he likes and it isn't her (not that she cares), Anya wasn't around when Asuna told Negi to confess to the girl he liked right away, and the epilogue explicitly states that it wasn't Nodoka.

* In ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'', after Akito both ran into Yurika before anyone else and later bring up their shared childhood on Mars, all of the other girls lost right there and then.
* In ''MidoriDays'', although Seiji had asked out another girl earlier, the first girl who was properly introduced was Midori, who of course (as this trope goes) wins out against the various other girls introduced later. Midori also had the advantage of being the title character.

** Sakura plays it straight, however, with [[spoiler: deuteragonist Sasuke Uchiha, who she'd been aiming for since the beginning.]]

* In ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', Haruhi falls for the first Host guy she meets, [[spoiler: Tamaki]].
** [[spoiler:It does take her nearly the entire length of the manga to realize it though...]]
* Averted in the manga ''Manga/{{Outlanders}}'' (the much-abriged OVA manages to avoid the subject altogether by paring down the cast and storyline considerably). The first girl that we're introduced to is [[ImpliedLoveInterest Aki Okizawa]], the coworker and boss of protagonist Tetsuya Wakatsuki, but he winds up marrying alien princess Kham--who tries to kill him when first they meet, later kidnaps him, and is finally won over by him...before being brainwashed into trying to once again kill him, by the [[KnightTemplarParent most overprotective father in the universe]]. But even then Tetsuya remains faithful to her, rather than turning to another, less abusive member of his modestly-sized harem.

* In ''PokemonSpecial'', Misty is the first girl Red meets on his journey and the first girl who develops a crush on him. Unfortunately, this trope is subverted as she never gets the chance to properly confess to him.

* ''SchoolRumble'': By the end, it's obvious that Tenma's endless devotion to Karasuma has paid off, [[spoiler:even if he lost his memories.]]
* Although it's something of a ForegoneConclusion, in ''SetoNoHanayome,'' despite the fact that [[HaremAnime Lunar, the Class Representative, Mawari, and possibly Akeno are all interested in him,]] it's obvious from about the second episode that Nagasumi is dedicated to San.

* Louise is the first person [[TheHero Saito]] sees upon being summoned in ''LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima''.

* ''OnegaiTwins'': Miyafuji Miina meets the main male character, Kamishiro Maiku, before Onodera Karen does, and Miina also shows up at Maiku's house before Karen. [[spoiler:Then, in the end, it turns out that Karen is Maiku's twin sister while Miina is unrelated to them, thus allowing her to end up in a romantic relationship with Maiku]].

In works featuring a male protagonist, the first girl introduced -- either overall or as a potential [[LoveInterests love interest]] -- has a very good chance of ending up with him.