Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (Monthly Girls' 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 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.

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

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

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Characters & Voice Actors

Mikoshiba, Mikoto

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Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Sakura, Chiyo

Main

Ozawa, Ari
Japanese

Seo, Yuzuki

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Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Nozaki, Umetarou

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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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Tanaka, Shou

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Kamata, Hajime

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Beniya, Yoshikazu

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Matsuzawa, Tooru

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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)

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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

Mar 9, 2024

aniMayo1234

Recommended

This is my first MAL review but giving it a 10/10 for this being some of the funniest/most chaotic sh*t I've ever seen in anime, even on multiple re-watches.

It uses romance and romance anime tropes as a source of comedy but the best part of the show is the friendships and just watching the characters hang out. This show is not a romance anime or even a rom-com but an ensemble comedy about romance that's a lot more gag-based and has a lot of witty dialogue. I don't want to spoil the jokes or else it ruins it, but some of them deconstruct the archetypes ...

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Nov 1, 2023

PanzerIV-J

Mixed Feelings

Both a great and difficult series. Great characters, mediocre romance & a 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 its 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, ...

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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.

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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.

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