Anime 23289 Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Japanese: 月刊少女野崎くん

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 7, 2014 to Sep 22, 2014

Premiered: Summer 2014

Broadcast: Mondays at 01:05 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Frontier Works, Media Factory, AT-X, Sony Music Communications

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Doga Kobo

Source: 4-koma manga

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Themes: Otaku Culture, School

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.82¹ (scored by 506,520 users)

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Ranked: #947²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #177

Members: 927,300

Favorites: 11,022

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7.82

Ranked #947Popularity #177Members 927,300

Summer 2014TVDoga Kobo

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Synopsis

Chiyo Sakura is a cheerful high school girl who has fallen head over heels for the oblivious Umetarou Nozaki. Much to Chiyo's confusion, when she confesses to her beloved Nozaki, he hands her an unfamiliar autograph. As it turns out, the stoic teenage boy is actually a respected shoujo mangaka, publishing under the pen name Sakiko Yumeno! A series of misunderstandings leads to Chiyo becoming one of Nozaki's manga assistants.

Throughout the hilarious events that ensue, she befriends many of her quirky schoolmates, including her seemingly shameless fellow assistant, Mikoto Mikoshiba, and the "Prince of the School," Yuu Kashima. Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun follows Chiyo as she strives to help Nozaki with his manga and hopes that he will eventually notice her feelings.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

The voice acting cast for the anime differs from the cast of the Drama CD adaptation which was released June 2013.

Related Anime

Adaptation:	Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Side story:	Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Specials

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Characters & Voice Actors

Mikoshiba, Mikoto

Main

Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Sakura, Chiyo

Main

Ozawa, Ari
Japanese

Seo, Yuzuki

Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Nozaki, Umetarou

Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi
Japanese

Kashima, Yuu

Main

Nakahara, Mai
Japanese

Hori, Masayuki

Main

Ono, Yuuki
Japanese

Wakamatsu, Hirotaka

Main

Kimura, Ryouhei
Japanese

Tomoda

Supporting

Hino, Satoshi
Japanese

Miyako, Yukari

Supporting

Kawasumi, Ayako
Japanese

Suzuki, Saburou

Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

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Opening Theme

"Kimi ja Nakya Dame Mitai (君じゃなきゃダメみたい)" by Masayoshi Ooishi (大石昌良)

Ending Theme

"Ura Omote Fortune (ウラオモテ・フォーチュン)" by Chiyo Sakura (CV: Ari Ozawa) (eps 1-11)

Reviews

Sep 20, 2014

Jarrbearr

Recommended

If you're looking for an anime with romance and relationships, this isn't what you're looking for. If you're looking for an anime with endless hilarity and gags that runs off love and romance, this is what you're looking for. This anime thrives off misjudgments and the characters.

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is an anime thats been the laughing central of this summer. With the theme of manga-artists becoming more popular lately such as, Manga-ka to assistant-san or mangirl ,it's becoming much more attractive and interesting to watch. This is a gem that's becoming popular due to its laughable characters and misinterpretations that occur all the time.

The ... story follows Sakura, a girl who tries to tell her crush that she likes him, but gets misinterpreted and ends up becoming his assistant. She often tries to get closer to him, but always gets misjudged and makes for some hilarious comedy. The story follows their life at school along with some other cast members to make the show enjoyable and a lot more entertaining to watch as a whole. With the running gag of it being comedy, some things may seem predictable, but it still stays original and has comedy in every episoded.

The characters are all really unique in their own way and is the strongest part of the show. With all the different characters you get hilarious situations that really makes the show stand out from the rest that's airing and one that takes comedy to the next level with their personalities.

You have Sakura, a girl who tries often to get close to her crush, but is always misinterpreted. She's a great person who makes the show better with her retorts and delusions that she thinks is going to happen, but the exact opposite happens. Over time she develops a bond with Nozaki and really makes for some friendship and gave a light feeling to make you smile at every scene.

Second you have Nozaki, a manga artist and one that people often misjudge. Since he stays up to draw and produce manga, he looks like he gets into fights, but really is only just aches and pains from the constant drawing and late nights. He's oblivious to Sakura's feelings and really makes up for some hilarious reactions that he gives to what he thinks she's doing.

The art style is nothing new to the 2014 style, yet brings out details that makes it better than some of the anime airing. With all the details in the characters clothes, to the beautiful scenery that they go through in their situations, it brings out a sense of comedy to support the bickering and the interactions between all the characters. With the art being one of the strong points, you have beautiful details in every aspect that they bring to the table. The characters all have unique features and traits that belong to them and wonderful backdrops such as the school, or just at their house.

The opening is nothing to be praised for, but is super catchy. The background music for this anime is one that supports the mood that the anime gives off perfectly. The opening and ending gives off the perfect feeling to start every episode and is one that I never skip. The voice actors are all really well and give the characters life to make the anime as enjoyable as possible. The voice actor for Sakura is relatively new to voice acting, but does a wonderful job portraying her character and is one of the best in the show.

Overall this anime is one of the best of Summer 2014 line up and is definitely worth watching. With it's wonderful characters and hilarious situations they get themselves into, this is one that brings out the comedy in the simplest things. You have the standard 2014 art style, yet it makes it better by adding details to make every quality shine and make it so everything stands out to the fullest. The OST is wonderful and support each scene perfectly and the opening is so catchy that you just can't help but enjoy listening to. I recommend anyone who didn't check this out yet to start watching it.

Sep 26, 2014

Baddie007

Mixed Feelings

Another mangaka themed anime has ended and frankly, I was taken as to how a reverse romance between mangaka X assistant has taken place, where it's a girl that's going after a guy, oh and the guy, however was still the usual oblivious about the girl's feelings for him, however the story part of this anime, in my opinion deserves a fair 6, since it was more like a almost there kind of thing where in the end gets spoiled up, ok so it was a bit of turn off, but then again the romance genre of this anime did played up well, but still ...

Mar 12, 2016

D-ohnuts

Not Recommended

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is about a girl named Chiyo who tries to confess to her crush. He misunderstands her confession and decides to take her as his assistant, because, as it turns out, he is a romance manga author, and he seeks inspiration from the people he knows to create his characters.

At first, the show is alright at what it does, it's your average character-driven comedy. For the first few episodes, it introduces the characters and establishes their personality. It's nothing special, but it has potential.

These are the stock characters and their relationships from shoujo manga that are parodied:

1: Chiyo is ...

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