Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
月刊少女野崎くん
You know how the story goes: girl crushes on guy, girl confesses feelings to guy, guy mistakes confession for a job application. Okay, maybe that's not how it usually goes, but that's what happens when Chiyo Sakura finally gets up the nerve to tell her classroom crush Nozaki how she feels. Since she doesn't know that he's secretly a manga artist who publishes under a female pen name, and he doesn't know that she doesn't know, he misunderstands and offers her a chance to work as his assistant instead of a date! But while it's not flowers and dancing, it is a chance to get closer to him, so Chiyo gamely accepts. And when Nozaki realizes how useful Chiyo can be in figuring out what girls find romantic, he'll be spending even more time with her "researching" while remaining completely clueless. Could Chiyo's romantic frustration possibly get any more drawn out of proportion? (Source: Sentai Filmworks)
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun is a tv with 12 episodes, from Summer 2014, produced by Doga Kobo, rated 7.7/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
You know how the story goes: girl crushes on guy, girl confesses feelings to guy, guy mistakes confession for a job application. Okay, maybe that's not how it usually goes, but that's what happens when Chiyo Sakura finally gets up the nerve to tell her classroom crush Nozaki how she feels. Since she doesn't know that he's secretly a manga artist who publishes under a female pen name, and he doesn't know that she doesn't know, he misunderstands and offers her a chance to work as his assistant instead of a date! But while it's not flowers and dancing, it is a chance to get closer to him, so Chiyo gamely accepts. And when Nozaki realizes how useful Chiyo can be in figuring out what girls find romantic, he'll be spending even more time with her "researching" while remaining completely clueless. Could Chiyo's romantic frustration possibly get any more drawn out of proportion? (Source: Sentai Filmworks)
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Tags
- Parody — Features deliberate exaggeration of popular tropes or a particular genre to comedic effect.
- Drawing — Centers around the art of drawing, including manga and doujinshi.
- Slapstick — Prominently features comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions or embarrassing events.
- Ensemble Cast — Features a large cast of characters with (almost) equal screen time and importance to the plot.
- School — Partly or completely set in a primary or secondary educational institution.
- Unrequited Love — One or more characters are experiencing an unrequited love that may or may not be reciprocated.
- Otaku Culture — Centers around the culture of a fanatical fan-base.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.
- Work — Centers around the activities of a certain occupation.
- Gender Bending — Prominently features a character who dresses and behaves in a way characteristic of another gender, or has been transformed into a person of another gender.
- Heterosexual — Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.
- Primarily Teen Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of teen characters.