Chévie is an ordinary girl living in contemporary France, with her father, Guillaume. She thinks he's the best dad in the world and they're very close. Her mom disappeared when she was little and she has no other siblings.
Until one day, her friend Paul tells her that there's a boy who looks just like her and he could possibly be her twin brother. Chévie doesn't believe it at first, but she's stunned to see he's right. Chévie is even more suspicious when she finds a torn photograph of her when she was a child, and clues about her missing mother. Who is she, where does she come from, and what is being hidden from her?
Premier Muguet has examples of:
- Alpha Bitch: There's a girl in Chévie's class who always bullies her and talks down to her. Hilariously, when Chévie shows up to school dressed as Fon, she takes a liking to her.
- Aerith and Bob: Jules, Paul, Chévie and Guillame are common names you'd expect to hear in France. "Fon" is not.
- Always Identical Twins: The premise is Chévie discovering she possibly has a brother since Paul finds an Identical Stranger. It turns out that he actually is her twin brother.
- Ambiguously Related: Paul believes that the boy he saw a long time ago is Chévie's long lost twin brother.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: Chévie has a couple of nude scenes that show how dainty and skinny her figure is.
- Bishie Sparkles: When Chévie stumbles upon Fon for the first time, he's surrounded by these.
- Blue Boy, Pink Girl: Fon often wears blue (he has a light blue shirt and a turquoise cap) whereas Chevie often wears pink (like her shirt and overalls). It's even prominent on the cover
◊ of the third volume. - Call-Back: Jules has a striking resemblance to Terry Grandchester, down to the chestnut hair and "bad boy" aesthetic.
- Costume Porn: At the ball, almost everyone is dressed extravagantly and have mancy accesories and jewellery. See here◊.
- Creator's Culture Carryover:
- When Chévie meets Fon for the first time, he's buck-naked and in a pond. Despite this, she isn't fazed by him. Westerners would be freaked out about this, but in Japan it's quite normal for family to bathe together.
- Chévie's school is in France, yet it has a Japanese style classroom, and sorts it's students into Letter-Number marked classes (she's in class 5C).
- Creator Thumbprint:
- Keiko Nagita, as usual, writes tons a melodrama regarding missing family and Love Triangle.
- Premier Muguet continues Yoko Hanabusa's trend of a blonde protagonist and an European setting.
- Pages are often surrounded by flowers, as are the endings of chapters, common for Hanabusa works.
- Family Eye Resemblance: Chévie and Fon both have bright emerald green, sparkling eyes and willowy blonde hair.
- Flower Motifs: Lily-of-the-valley, or "muguet", for Chévie.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: At Raymond's ball, many people wear fancy dresses, feathery caps, belly dancer-like outfits and gemstones all over their clothing, as to emulate stereotypes of how pre-Islamic Arabia was like. Some other people dress in stereotypical Roman/Egyptian attire.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: When we see Chévie sleeping in bed, she has a big teddy bear.
- Gratuitous French: "Muguet" means lily-of-the-valley.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: When she's not crossdressing, Chévie's flaxen hair goes way past her waist and above her knees.
- Melodrama: A mysterious identical twin, a mom that disappeared when she was young and a torn photograph - the only clues of Chévie's hidden past, and a lot more secrets to be unfurled amongst a Love Triangle.
- Missing Mom: Chévie's mother disappeared when she was a young child; she was raised by her single father ever since.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: "Fon" (really, Chévie in disguise) and the local Alpha Bitch go down an alley and are accosted by a group of hooligans. Chévie proceeds to beat them senseless and run away with her.
- One of the Boys: Chévie is introduced as a playful girl who enjoys sports like handball and plays it with her male friends.
- Phenotype Stereotype: This being France, most characters are blonde.
- Punny Name: According to
Word of God (Nagita), when you put "Chévie" and "Fon" together, you get "chèvrefeuille" (aka honeysuckle). - Scenery Porn: Yoko Hanabusa's flowers, skies and gardens are exquisitely drawn.
- Shōjo: It's a dramatic Shōjo by two prominent authors of the genre.
- Shout-Out: At the ball, Chévie dresses in a sexy belly dancer's outfit and has an Imagine Spot of herself on a flying magical carpet, a nod to Aladdin.
- Tareme Eyes: Chévie has gigantic, puppy-dog greenish-blue eyes, and is a sweet-natured and excitable girl.
- Twin Switch: Despite being different genders, Chévie and Fon crossdress as each other so they can gather more information to piece together the mystery of why they were separated in the first place.
