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Synopsis

Chiyo Sakura is a cheerful loftier school girl who has fallen head over heels for the oblivious Umetarou Nozaki. Much to Chiyo's confusion, when she confesses to her dear 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 ane 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 every bit she strives to aid Nozaki with his manga and hopes that he will eventually discover her feelings.

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Sep 20, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall	9
Story	9
Animation	10
Sound	9
Grapheme	ix
Enjoyment	9

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 honey and romance, this is what yous're looking for. This anime thrives off misjudgments and the characters.

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is an anime thats been the laughing primal of this summer. With the theme of manga-artists becoming more popular lately such as, Manga-ka to assistant-san or mangirl ,it's condign much more attractive and interesting to spotter. This is a gem that'due south becoming pop 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, simply gets misinterpreted and ends upward becoming his assistant. She often tries to go closer to him, just 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 every bit a whole. With the running gag of information technology being one-act, some things may seem anticipated, but it still stays original and has one-act in every episoded.

The characters are all really unique in their own way and is the strongest part of the show. With all the dissimilar characters you get hilarious situations that really makes the show stand up out from the rest that's ambulation and one that takes one-act to the adjacent level with their personalities.

You have Sakura, a girl who tries often to become shut to her crush, but is always misinterpreted. She's a groovy person who makes the show improve with her retorts and delusions that she thinks is going to happen, but the verbal opposite happens. Over fourth dimension 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 yous accept Nozaki, a manga artist and one that people often misjudge. Since he stays upwards to draw and produce manga, he looks like he gets into fights, but really is but just aches and pains from the constant cartoon and late nights. He'south oblivious to Sakura'southward feelings and really makes up for some hilarious reactions that he gives to what he thinks she's doing.

The art fashion is nothing new to the 2014 style, yet brings out details that makes information technology better than some of the anime airing. With all the details in the characters clothes, to the beautiful scenery that they become 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 take unique features and traits that belong to them and wonderful backdrops such equally the schoolhouse, or simply at their business firm.

The opening is aught 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 starting time every episode and is one that I never skip. The vocalization actors are all actually well and give the characters life to make the anime every bit enjoyable equally possible. The vocalization role player for Sakura is relatively new to voice acting, but does a wonderful job portraying her character and is one of the best in the testify.

Overall this anime is one of the best of Summertime 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 way, yet information technology makes it better by calculation details to brand every quality polish and make it so everything stands out to the fullest. The OST is wonderful and support each scene perfectly and the opening is and so tricky that you simply tin't help but enjoy listening to. I recommend anyone who didn't check this out yet to commencement watching it.

Oct 12, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall	viii
Story	8
Animation	8
Sound	7
Character	8
Enjoyment	8

It'southward a rare affair to find a romance anime that appeals to both a male person and female audition. It is fifty-fifty rarer to notice i that does so without sexualising its characters.

Gekkan Shoujo gives us hope for the stagnant, oftentimes juvenile climate of the romance genre. Information technology doesn't rely on obnoxious misunderstandings to keep the ii primary characters from joining together (although misunderstandings practice still exist with a sense of self-enlightened humor), nor does information technology need onsen scenes, pantyshots and unsaid homolust to continue the audience'south attention towards its characters. All it's interested in doing is giving the audience a skillful laugh while nudging a few heartstrings forth the way, and it does so with its head held high.

A quick glance at the synopsis would be plenty for some to ringlet their eyes and dismiss the show as 'Yet Another Shoujo Anime'. An innocent daughter attempts to confess to the boy she likes in an empty classroom room dyed of scarlet (the setting of seemingly every confession scene in anime), only to find out that he is really a famous shoujo mangaka. And one of her favourites, no less. Uh-huh. Right.

Merely Gekkan Shoujo knows amend. It is aware of its cool premise and the clichés inherent to the genre. It embraces them, plays with them with a clever sort of irony, never taking itself besides seriously nor forcing its viewers to feel a certain way. At its core it is certainly your typical shoujo anime, but the fashion information technology handles itself is quite the opposite.

The story primarily follows the events of Chiyo and the titled Nozaki. Chiyo, perhaps reluctantly, but all the same willing to follow the visitor of the male child she likes, assists Nozaki in his daily tasks every bit a mangaka, hoping one day he might realise and respond to Chiyo'south feelings. Gradually she begins to understand that Nozaki doesn't quite live up to the 'cool, handsome and composed' prototype she had of him, and that in reality, he is and so defective in common sense that it is a mystery how he was even serialised in the first place.

Nozaki's obliviousness is undoubtedly the prove'south main source of laughter. In one scene, Nozaki accidentally draws one of his characters higher up the ground and, having the result pointed out to him, draws a random box underneath the character, nodding his head and acting like everything is now correct with the earth. He and then starts drawing boxes underneath the grapheme in every scene afterward, which understandably results in one of Nozaki'southward friends yelling to him how information technology makes no sense for the graphic symbol to be carrying around and continuing on random boxes all the time. Nozaki'due south response? "Right. I have to add an explanation."

The one-act works so well considering Nozaki's train of idea always makes, at least in his ain little world, a slight fraction of sense. He just has no thought how people really deport and ends up misinterpreting the actions of others in a completely asinine, facepalm-inducing and withal hilarious style. That's not to say that each joke is masterful and clever, or even that all of them piece of work (considering a few certainly exercise autumn utterly apartment), simply the simple manzai format works in perfect harmony with the ridiculous premise of the story. It knows how to make fun of itself while nonetheless holding onto a semblance of sincerity.

One of the more respectable aspects of Gekkan Shoujo is how information technology too focuses on its side characters beyond the usual 'idiot friend', 'strict grade president' and 'big-headed love rival' archetypes. Hori and Wakamutsu in detail are two characters who would normally be treated as nothing more than groundwork provender in the average anime for not having a colourful graphic symbol design or 'wacky' personality. But in Gekkan Shoujo they are given important roles and treated with about as much attention and respect as Nozaki and Chiyo. They even take their own love interests who play relevant roles on their own (as opposed to simply beingness a plot device, equally many ofttimes are in anime). At that place's a surprising corporeality of complexity to the character dynamic despite the full general simplicity of the testify's format.

I suppose if in that location was ane affair to criticise about the characterisation, it would be the inconsistency of Mikoshiba. He'southward handsome, eloquent-- so much so that virtually every girl in the schoolhouse is head-over-heels for him-- only at the aforementioned time he is portrayed as introverted, socially awkward and obsessed with otaku hobbies, to the signal where he uses eroge to written report real-world interaction. The latter attribute of his personality does not feel convincing in the slightest, so his comedic scenes frequently fall pretty flat. To feel comedy is to empathise with the characters, and in that location was lilliputian to no empathy between me and Mikoshiba.

Those watching strictly for the romance will likely find themselves disappointed, considering, really, aside from a small-scale handful of scenes, maybe three or iv, it is virtually non-existent. The most heartwarming matter about the show is not the idea of the two slowly becoming a couple, but that Chiyo yet loves Nozaki from the bottom of her center despite finding out about his glaring flaws. The beloved here feels genuine, far more so than about 'serious' romance anime where the girl screams at the guy when he stops acting similar a prince. Progression itself isn't what makes or breaks the romance in a story.

Gekkan Shoujo is visually pleasant. The characters (especially the males) are drawn realistically, and while it does still portray them all as idealised and bonny, it never goes overboard by drawing them in lewd or excessively 'moe' scenarios. The sound on the other hand is zilch special aside from the opening track, although, to be fair, it is a pretty great OP. It captures the silly all the same relaxed nature of the testify exceptionally well, and past the final episodes I found myself thinking it sacrilege to skip it.

Sure, while information technology may non be doing annihilation outstanding enough to be remembered decades in the future, Gekkan Shoujo is still an splendid feel for anyone who simply wants to relax and have a few laughs. It doesn't bombard the viewer with melodrama or degrade its characters through fanservice, and what niggling romance there is is handled with care and sincerity. That it besides happens to appeal to so many people at one time without leaving anyone uncomfortable is perhaps just a bonus.

Oh, and Chiyo is possibly the cutest thing ever.

Mar 12, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall	4
Story	3
Animation	7
Audio	6
Graphic symbol	3
Enjoyment	four

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 writer, 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 grapheme-driven comedy. For the beginning few episodes, it introduces the characters and establishes their personality. It'southward nothing special, but it has potential.

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

1: Chiyo is the main girl who falls in beloved with the serious and mysterious main guy who is Nozaki. The latter is oblivious.

2: Mikoshiba is like the main daughter from several shoujo romance manga that oft stumbles on her own words and embarrasses herself in front of others, causing her to monologue wistfully about being an idiot. The joke is that, despite being a guy, he acts like a girl, therefore Nozaki writes him as a girl in his manga. Do yous get information technology?

3: Hori is like the Tsundere girl who gets pissed at the handsome suave person who Kashima is. Basically, a gender-flipped Misaki and Usui from Maid-sama, minus the stalking and sexual harassment.

iv: Wakamatsu is like the sweet, always-forgiving girl who gets frustrated at the rude person who is Seo. He falls in love with Seo's voice, nonetheless, without realizing information technology'south hers. Just similar in superhero comics.

The show is meant to be a parody of shoujo romance manga, which is part of what got me interested in watching in the first place. I've read some of those, and then I know what their usual flaws are: bones characterization, forced romance, lack of creativity in terms of premise, etc. If y'all've read one, y'all've read them all. So when I heard this was a parody of that, I was looking forrard to it.

Still, comedy anime is unfortunately not very good at remaining consistently funny, and often would rather remain repetitive rather than come up with something new or original. This is sadly the case with this testify. It has the same problem equally a lot of comedy anime seem to have these days, which I like to telephone call "punchline decay": it sticks to a very rigid formula and gives the characters ane or two personality traits, which I have previously mentioned, and bases all of its jokes around them. Well-nigh every joke that ever gets fabricated in this show boils downward to the same punchlines. They're not so much characters as much as they are running gags. Just running gags require variations in order to stay fresh, which doesn't happen with the characters in this testify. I certainly don't watch comedy shows expecting deep, three-dimensional characterization, only information technology gets stale quick if the characters have nothing more than to them.

This is where my problem with information technology lies. Most of the parody merely boils down to taking romance graphic symbol stereotypes, irresolute the gender... and that's information technology. At that place isn't anything to the parody beyond that, especially pointless since the same characters or situations had already been gender-reversed or parodied in certain other series to begin with. Mostly, it plays out these situations without much in the way of irony to make a joke work. (I don't consider making a character type who is usually a girl into a boy to exist ironic if it goes down that path also often.) Very rarely does the show always actually do annihilation of bodily substance with the parody aspect, which is a shame, since the show is at its best whenever it does that.

Similar to a harem anime, the merely novelty in this comes from introducing new characters that fit into one character archetype, and once you already know what the joke will be with each character and it has already beaten their gimmicks into the basis, the show has nothing to offer. To put the graphic symbol'due south lack of dynamism into perspective, one-half of the characters don't even accept any personality of their own, and instead their personality is entirely dictated by their relation to another character. Chiyo's personality is dictated by her love of Nozaki, Wakamatsu's personality is dictated by his dislike of Seo, and Hori's personality is dictated by him beating up Kashima, etc. In that location isn't anything else to them really. I'chiliad fine with background characters or supporting characters in comedies being one-dimensional, simply not the main ones.

In regards to the romance manga parodies, it doesn't practise a whole lot with it. It makes a few obvious jokes about that, like having sparkles or rose petals flying around the characters, and what it's similar working as a mangaka. One example of such sense of humour is a gag where iii of the characters challenge each other to draw three assorted things. Two of them describe well, and the other draws poorly, except for the last one which they all draw poorly. Hilarious. I could never have seen that coming. The residue is your typical school comedy.

One of the points of a comedy is to subvert your expectations. Mikoshiba saying i of his dating sim lines and getting embarrassed later surely subverted my expectations the first time I saw it. Unfortunately, it didn't subvert them the fiftieth time nor the hundredth. It only subverted my expectations once for each of its characters, and then never again.

Basically, my criticism is that the evidence is platitude, in spite of significant to poke fun at clichés. It'southward not bad for being conventional, merely fifty-fifty if this were my first comedy anime, I still wouldn't like information technology that much due to its repetition. I'd still be thinking, "alright, I get it, this grapheme has this trait to them. Are we getting to another joke soon?"

Admittedly, there were a couple of moments I thought were hilarious: Nozaki and Mikoshiba playing a dating sim in episode 4, and Nozaki having his characters stand up on boxes to avoid misproportions when drawing in episode 8. I enjoyed these jokes because they showed unusual means to deal with unexpected drawbacks in trying to draw or get inspiration for a story, which I establish relatable. However, while these two scenes were funny, I didn't experience similar information technology was worth watching the whole testify just to laugh at only two scenes and be bored for the residue. I tin't help but experience like even if I had dropped the show, I wouldn't have missed out on anything.

The prove has a lot of practiced ideas, which could have ended up resulting in a genuinely clever prove, but in my opinion, it never attempts to actually do anything with said potential nor does it take any risks, just relying on the same 5 or six jokes and ends upward a mediocre comedy, just equally forgettable as the very same romance manga that it wants to parody. It'south cute, but I tend to like shows when they have more substance than that. If there were more than characters, there might be more different jokes based on how they collaborate with each other, only virtually of the humour revolves around their one personality trait regardless of who'southward interacting with who.

Equally much equally I've been harping on the subject for the unabridged review, I don't want to make information technology sound like I believe that this show is whatever more repetitive than most other comedy anime, because information technology isn't. I only wrote this review because I watched this show at a fourth dimension when I really became annoyed by this tendency. If I had seen it at a different time, I wouldn't have given it a second thought. From recollection, most of any given episode takes place either at school or at Nozaki's apartment, and about episodes circumduct around him trying to find ideas for his manga. Part of my apathetic opinion on it might exist because I call up I tend to similar comedy anime better when there is a larger diversity of situations that the characters notice themselves in. I just feel like Nozaki-kun doesn't take enough variety in its sense of humor to concur upward for 12 episodes.

If you more often than not similar one-act anime, so I'd recommend watching it and you'll probably enjoy it. This is by no means a terrible anime, even though I don't intendance for it. Otherwise, if you're like me and think a lot of comedy anime tends to miss the marking on sense of humor, this probable won't practice anything to change your listen. If you lot're looking for something more original in terms of characters and humor, you lot're ameliorate off looking for something else instead. There's certainly worse shows out there in regards to this, simply there's also far better ones equally well.

Jan 6, 2016

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall	3
Story	5
Blitheness	five
Audio	ii
Character	iii
Enjoyment	3

*Alert: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS, BUT NOT HEAVY SPOILERS*

The idea behind the story is not an entirely bad concept. Of course it has become a generic plot idea to base an anime on creating a manga. I hateful c'mon, it seems like every yr there is either an anime or a manga where the theme is based on creating a manga. However, the way this bear witness presents the manga creator and the interactions between him and his assistants can exist quite warm on the middle.
And so, why does the story go a lower score from me? Because of HOW it tells this story and how it all goes to shit at a fast paced speed.

The story goes something similar this....
The main character is Sakura Chiyo, who happens to exist in love with the well-nigh painfully aristocratic guy in the unabridged fucking world, Nozaki Umetarou. One day Sakura confesses her dear to Nozaki while they're at schoolhouse. Because of the fact that Nozaki is either in consummate denial, or possibly stupid, he assumes she's a fan and signs an autograph for her despite her not even asking for one. Then, this eventually leads to Nozaki asking Sakura to become his assistant since she'southward an artist herself. Obviously, like whatever other generic anime female grapheme would, she doesn't attempt to explain to him what she really meant and she agrees to condign his bitc...I mean banana.

Now the matter virtually this plot is that it heavily revolves around the interactions the characters take with ane another. This is why I say that despite the Idea of the story not being a bad one, it's told in one of the worst ways possible. Why is it told in one of the worst ways possible? Considering majority of the characters you run into throughout the series brand you blench.

Permit me merely start off by saying which character I like the virtually, and that would exist Mikoto (Mikorin) Mikoshiba. Information technology is surprising that with such poorly written characters that Mikorin managed to stay consistently well written and consistently entertaining. You run across, Mikorin is obviously supposed to be the hot guy of the testify (and the guy Sakura should have chosen, just that's for some other story). Fifty-fifty though Mikorin is considered very good looking, he is a consummate otaku dweeb who gets painfully shy around a group of people. Some accept considered his character too far-fetched and that if someone was that skillful looking and so they would not behave like such a socially scared nerd, but that is all far from the truth. Nosotros cannot merely dismiss a character because he doesn't appear realistic, or just considering he doesn't fit other generic anime stereotypes everyone seems to be used to.
Mikorin is definetly 1 of the better written male characters in a slice of life anime, and he was the main reason I was able to finish this series.

At present yous are probably wondering what was so incorrect with the residual of the cast if Mikorin was and then great. But keep in mind that this is purely based off of what I consider to be my objective reasoning as well as subjective reasoning (because nobody in this world can exist 100% objective all the time).
Let'southward start with Sakura, who was not terrible nor great...she was who she was. Her entire existance is based on the fact that she loves Nozaki. At that place is really goose egg else about her that makes her standout as an private character other than the fact that she'south the chief character (and kind of beautiful at times).

Nozaki is someone who is mentally unaware of almost everything around him, despite him being this so called amazing manga creator. He comes off as so bland and so unaware of social cues that it begins to infuriate you by the second episode. We all know his character isn't supposed to be this sporadic and overally emotional guy, but his drab demeanor could have benefited from some sort of development of his personality.

Since the ii master characters are obviously nothing special, and since the entire plot is based upon Sakura's love for Nozaki, the series was in dire need of some dynamic characters. Although, the serial could have possibly been better without the rest of the bandage altogether...

You have Yuzuki, who happens to be great at sports and great at singing despite being fifty-fifty more than aloof than Nozaki. That's right boys and girls, we couldn't have but one severely birdbrained character that already intensifies the frustration gene. Instead, the creators decided to requite united states of america two severely obtuse characters, hooray!

At that place is too Yuu, a daughter who hits on all the other girls at the school and makes all the guys jealous of her "swag". I actually idea the thought of her graphic symbol was quite enticing, but the writers savage apartment with keeping you entertained past her.

At that place is also the worst character of this entire fucking serial, Masayuki...we'll go to why he's the worst a little afterwards.

The concluding person I volition proper noun is Hirotaka, the character that nobody gives two damns about. The only reasons why I am mentioning him is because of his interaction with Nozaki and Yuzuki.

I would name everyone else, but the remainder of those characters either don't matter and should have never been in the series in the offset place, or they were there because they HAD to be in the series but they didn't contribute to making the plot any meliorate.

From watching this series it appears as though the creators wanted to defy typical anime stereotypes that are shown in every other series known to man. In that location is merely 1 problem, they decided to take these stereotypes and simply switch the genders...which makes them what? Still stereotypes!

Instead of Yuu beingness a human being who gets all the girls, her character is a woman. And despite Masayuki being the opitomy of an abusive tsundere piece of shit (which is a more than common stereotype for female characters in anime) his graphic symbol is a human being.
Masayuki always seems to be annoyed with Yuu for absolutely NO reason, and if he has a reason it is never ever justified. Now, I am already uncomfortable with how physical female tsundere characters can exist towards other male person characters, but when it is the other way effectually it becomes fifty-fifty more uncomfortable (especially since the ONE thing that seperates men and women is physiology, and unfortunately the full general corporeality of women are non able to physically handle a hit from a man). Masayuki is constantly punching and boot Yuu around, despite Yuu never really doing anything for information technology to be deserved. Nonetheless, the creators are trying to convince that since Yuu seems to be into other women and because she comes off as a male character that we should all be okay with this already fucked upwards stereotype of beating upwardly people you call your friends (or those they take a crush on). Unremarkably y'all encounter in other anime that when a female character hits a male person character it is okay because of the fact that it is a woman striking a man, which is already non okay. However, the stereotype is switched here and we should all simply except it because a female grapheme is considered "barely female person" so long every bit she behaves like a man *rolls optics*.
You tin claim that I may be reading into it, merely fifty-fifty if their interactions don't require anyone to read into that securely information technology doesn't stop it from being exaspirating to watch.

You too take the interactions betwixt Yuzuki and Hirotaka, whom depending upon who you are, had probably contributed to some of the more pointless scenes of this series. Yuzuki could have been entertaining by herself, simply the fact that she was dragged down by Hirotaka's obsession for why he thought Yuzuki would option on him added to the amount of frustration I already had for this prove. More often you see in other anime series that cliche of the male person character coming beyond equally if he didn't like another cliche female person character, even though he did really liked her (which I guess nosotros are to assume was the case hither). Nevertheless, I could accept excused this platitude so long every bit there was some sort of development betwixt the two...but there was none.

Speaking of graphic symbol evolution, did I mention there is none?...abso...lutely...none.
Now, I was willing to look past that flaw, merely the problem is that these characters are so poorly written and their interactions are so cringe worthy that if each one had developed in a fervent way and so it could have saved the plot.
The only character that was a well written cliche and wasn't in dreadful demand of evolution was Mikorin and his "otakuness".

This serial had the opportunity to defy cliche stereotypes and create a keen and unique slice of life anime. Instead the writers non only contributed to these cliche stereotypes, but they fabricated them more profound.

Go along in heed, this is a more pop aime series and is well loved by many fans. So my reasons for not liking information technology does non reflect the style yous as an private has to feel nigh this series.
I say give this a shot regardless of how I feel, simply no amount of disarming will change my opinion on why I gave this bear witness the rating that I did.

SIDE NOTE: I heard from a friend that they happened to enjoy the manga more than than they did the anime. And then I suppose that is always worth looking into.

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