月刊少女野崎くん 2 [Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun 2] by Izumi Tsubaki

He’s very tall and pretty muscular, but he has a plain face. Nozaki is a rather dull, average-feeling sort of guy. He doesn’t actually keep this all a secret, though most people simply don’t believe him. His pen name is Yumeno Sakiko (a woman’s name), artist behind Let’s Love♡. We learn that Nozaki is actually a popular shoujo manga artist serialized in a monthly magazine. Nozaki acknowledges this proclamation, and gives her his autograph.Īfter another confession attempt and misunderstanding, she is brought to Nozaki’s home to act as an assistant in the creation of his manga. Sakura is a nervous wreck, though, and only manages to blurt out that she is Nozaki’s fan. The two of them and the rest of the core cast are high schoolers. The manga begins with the protagonist, Sakura Chiyo, trying to confess her love to title character, Nozaki Umetarou. Furthermore, it’s quite nice to imagine some of them getting together eventually. Jokes can therefore arise from the characters themselves and the interactions between them, instead of just relying on the lampooning of common features in shoujo romance manga. It isn’t simply good as a parody, however: Nozaki-kun also has a decently sized cast of characters and all of them are fun. With her experience, Tsubaki-sensei has crafted a charming and humorous manga that pokes fun at the very genre she’s always been entrenched in. That’s right, Nozaki-kun was animated, and so it should come as no surprise that this is surely the most well-known series I’ve covered so far. See, this is a case where I watched the anime adaptation of the series first and picked it up from where the anime left off (an act I usually admonish). I chose this series to review since I figured, hey, I’ve been reviewing manga, may as well use that as an excuse to finally actually read this series from the start.

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (月刊少女野崎くん, Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun) is a yonkoma shoujo parody series by Tsubaki Izumi (椿いづみ), a woman who has been drawing shoujo manga for quite a while. Romance, comedy, misunderstandings, manga.

月刊少女野崎くん 2 [Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun 2] by Izumi Tsubaki