Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

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 manga artist, 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.

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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

Tanaka, Shou Producer

Kamata, Hajime Producer

Beniya, Yoshikazu Producer

Ishizuka, Masatoshi Producer

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Sep 24, 2024

barclay11

Recommended

Masayuki Hori carries this show.

Let me tell you why.

Masayuki Hori, an extremely talented actor, is held back due to physical limitations which plague every short man: height. Hiro stands at 5 feet 4 inches tall. I, as another man of similarly dwarven stature (5'11'') understand the plight of the small Japanese man. We are brothers, despite not speaking the same language. We are brothers, despite living an ocean apart. We are brothers, despite the fact he is confined to the 2-dimensional realm and I dwell in this this 3-dimensional landscape.

All in all, this anime is for the thinking (short) man. Thank you. The romance was ... also nice.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 10, 2024

PanzerIV-J

Mixed Feelings

Both a great and difficult series. Great characters, mediocre romance & an ending that is meant to get you to go to the manga.

- Firstly, I marked mixed because it may not be to everyone's taste, as it's not necessarily a romance anime in the traditional sense. So think about that before starting the anime. -

It's hard to explain, this show doesn't do fan-service and dumb drama, but it fails at actually ending the arcs in the anime. This is entirely made to have the viewer go to the manga to finish the story, or have another season, but assuming this came out in 2014, ... and the fact that it is 2023 (as of writing), I assume this will not have a sequel, plus the fact the manga is still being made, makes me believe this is just an introduction into the manga to get people to read it.
Next, there is barely any romance, yep, almost no romantic interactions. When they do happen, they are used as gags within the main character's manga, not as actual progress to a relationship. This mainly focuses on the fact Nozaki makes manga, and really focuses on that more than actually being a romance anime.

The gags are not bad though, most of them are shock humor based on the fact Nozaki is sometimes dense and clueless to real life matters, but it is done pretty well and gave me a few chuckles throughout the series. Not saying that some of the humor isn't dry, but humor is different between everyone. So think of this as a gag anime more than a typical romance.

Overall though I quite enjoyed the show, I just wish it had an ending that actually closed the show out.
8/10 quite good.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 25, 2022

rainbou

Not Recommended

Alright, my first mediocre review! A couple spoilers btw

This show has an interesting concept but is ultimately held down. The entire length of the show is spent introducing characters that save the show from utter annihilation as all of the "side main" characters are very interesting and fun, and each are related and represented as a personality from a manga. What holds this show down is that the entirety is introduction, there's absolutely zero progression throughout the entirety of it making you feel inevitably bored. On top of that the two main characters Nozaki and Chiyo are so boring my brain felt like it fell ... off whenever they were the focus of an interaction.

Spoilers Ahead!

Chiyo is the most bland girl ever who has a crush Nozaki, a manga artist, who's entire character is being oblivious to not only Chiyo, but everything else too since he sees everything through the eyes of a stereotypical manga. Nothing happens at any point between the two for the entire show, and the first bit character development that occurs at any point in the show is on the last episode where they finally explain why Chiyo has a crush on an idiot like Nozaki in the first place (the reason is also pretty bland and stupid too). She finally confesses her love in a way Nozaki might not misunderstand it, but in the after credit scene it turns out he's a moron again and thinks she's saying she loves fireworks instead of him. The most character progression in the entire show is the last episode with a short and bland flashback the audience should have been shown from the beginning, and then the show ends, never to return, at her confession being misunderstood for no reason by an idiot who understood "I love you" as "I love the fireworks" somehow. No closure, no progression, and no return of the show for a second season.

Spoilers End!

Don't get me wrong, I'd absolutely love a second season to amend the problems of the first season, give the characters some back story, have some character progression and story progression, both of which this show lacked. Make at the very least Chiyo have a personality and not just be a boring generic girl who's only unique traits are being reasonable when all the other characters are too wacky or quirky to be reasonable, and having a crush on Nozaki. This show's only saving grace is the "Side Main" characters who have very fun personalities and quirks, and their translation to manga characters is pretty fun as well. Every single person is show starts the show the same way they end the show, nothing happens that molds them in any way to be something new or something different, nothing has any consequence, and that's boring. It feels like the creator(s) of the story were too cowardly to change the formula in the least, perhaps hoping for a renewal of a second season? They try to have some sort of progression at the end, and make it seem like something finally happened, but the after credit scene is just a giant "Oops! We might have been too out there with this one guys, quick, do something to make the entire final scene have no meaning! We don't want to have some accidental character progression, that would break the cycle we've built up, and I'm sure character progression would scare off the viewers!" The final double take isn't even funny, it's just a giant c--- block that takes away the slight satisfaction you finally get from the final scene, and makes it feel like the entire time spent watching the show was a waste. The only reason I continued watching the show after the first couple episodes was because all the other characters were at least interesting even if they didn't change at all throughout the show, and the only reason I finished the show is because it was short.

I understand that the focal point of the show is its comedy, but the jokes get old fast, and for me a must in watching a show is an overarching story, this is one of those shows that seems like it wanted to have an overarching story, but ended up being too scared to do so, so each episode ends up being a culmination of relatively short skit stories that have no lasting baring on any of the characters. I just can't enjoy a show if I feel like nothing's happened to any of the characters from the moment of their introduction to the last moment of the last episode. By the after credit scene you can't tell if the writers were cowards or making fun of a schmuck who was dumb enough to watch the whole thing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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