# Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (2014)

> A high school girl becomes the assistant of an oblivious shojo manga artist in order to get closer to her crush.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/54726

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 12
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy, romance
- Network: TV Tokyo
- Cast: Ari Ozawa, Yuichi Nakamura, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yuki Ono, Ryohei Kimura, Mai Nakahara, Miyuki Sawashiro, Kenta Miyake
- TMDB rating: 7.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3615002/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: none
- Tone: breezy, whimsical, gentle, comedic, wistful

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series positively as a light, charming romantic comedy with a likable cast and a clever premise about the manga-making process.

## Synopsis

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (2014) is a Japanese animated romantic comedy series created as a TV Tokyo broadcast anime and produced by Doga Kobo. High school student Chiyo Sakura (voiced by Ari Ozawa) confesses her love to schoolmate Umetarō Nozaki (voiced by Yuichi Nakamura), who mistakes her for a fan and hands over an autograph. When she discovers he is secretly the shojo manga artist Sakiko Yumeno, she becomes his assistant to get closer to him. The engine of the show is her persistent pursuit of a boy who never registers her romantic intent, while the pair work on his manga Let's Fall in Love and the classmates they meet, including Mikoto Mikoshiba (voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto), either lend a hand or inspire characters in the story. Each twelve-episode season is a string of brisk, gag-driven vignettes in a school setting, with a light, breezy and gently comic tone and a warm affection for the absurdities of teen romance and manga creation. Fans of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Horimiya and Hyouka will find similar resonance in its slice of life school comedy.

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