Episode 1

Promise
japanese title	ヤクソク
translation	Yakusoku
Production information
Scenario	Yukito Kizawa
Storyboard	Takashi Kawabata
Production	Takashi Kawabata
Directed by	Kazuya Shiotsuki; Akihisa Takano; Junichi Takaoka; Hatsue Nakayama
End card	Hirokazu Koyama (TYPE-MOON)
Broadcast information
Japanese broadcast	January 11, 2014
Other airdates	October 6, 2018 (United States)
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Hulu	Watch here
Episode chronology
← Previous Episode; None	Next Episode →; Encounter

Promise (ヤクソク, Yakusoku) is the very first episode of the Nisekoi series that is originally written and illustrated by Naoshi Komi as a manga. The episode premiered on January 11, 2014.

Nisekoi Episode 01 title card — Episode 1 title card.

Overview[]

Raku Ichijō , the son of a Yakuza boss, wishes to live an ordinary life and become a public servant. On the way to school he was kneed in the face by a girl who quickly ran away in a hurry. He later gets tended by Kosaki Onodera, a sweet classmate whom he has a crush on. The teacher announces a new transfer student, Chitoge Kirisaki, who happens to be the girl who crashed into Raku, and they start arguing.

Raku realizes he has lost his locket that contains memories of his first love, because of the collision, and asks Chitoge to help look for it. After several days their relationship gets worse that Raku tells Chitoge to stop looking. Chitoge eventually finds and returns the locket. Afterwards, Raku's father tells Raku that he is to be in a fake dating relationship with a girl from a rival gang in order for their gangs to make peace, but the girl turns out to be Chitoge.

Characters[]

Debut[]

Mentioned[]

Hana Kirisaki

Episode notes[]

Character revelations[]

It is shown how Raku got his pendant, ten years prior to the first episode, he made a promise with a yet revealed girl.

It is shown that Raku is extremely good at cooking, which is shown later that he is too precise, which can be the reason why his cooking is good.

Raku is the second head of the Yakuza, although he doesn't want anything to do with that.
It is revealed that Raku has feeling for Onodera.
It is revealed that Onodera actually knows about the pendant Raku has.
Chitoge is not very good in Japanese, though she can speak Japanese very well.
Chitoge is shown to be extremely athletic, as she can perfectly balance herself when climbing on walls, she is also shown to be extremely strong.
At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Chitoge is the daughter of the boss of the Bee Hive Gang.

Trivia[]

This episode is adapted from Chapter 1 that contains to have the same title as the chapter.
At the end of the episode, an end card is shown to be illustrated by Hirokazu Koyama from the company TYPE-MOON.
This episode doesn't play an ending outro and instead plays the opening at the end of the episode.

Differences between anime and manga[]

In the anime, Raku was shown wearing a chef's attire before removing and throwing them onto a hanger, revealing his school uniform underneath. In the manga, he was shown with his school uniform from the start.
In the manga, it was never shown how much Raku was cooking for his subordinates.
In the manga, Raku's father told Raku that he has something important to tell him soon instead of a few days in the anime.
There is a scene cut where Raku was brought to school with a limousine. In the manga, it was shown that his father right-hand man was yelling to his fellow subordinates to prepare a limousine when Raku was about to get late to school.
In the manga, one of the members of the Yakuza was threatening a student at Raku's school. Raku immediately throws his shoe at him. That scene was left out of the anime.
In the manga, there was a member of the Yakuza who's ear was shot off. That dialogue was left out of the anime alongside the bandage on his ear.
In the manga, Chitoge was not seen with bread in her mouth when she kneed Raku.
In the manga, Shū tells Raku that there is a transfer student coming at their school. That scene was left out in the anime.
In the manga, after Chitoge hits Raku, his bandage was removed, but in the anime it was still plastered on.

Episode 1 end card.
There was a scene in the manga were Raku and Chitoge were talking to each other outside of the classroom before they were sitting next to each other. That scene was left out of the anime.