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This is a review of the Blu-ray of Monthly girls Nazaki-kun. It comes on two blu-ray discs. Blu-ray 1 has episodes 1 – 9 and Bu-ray 2 has episodes 10 – 12 and the extras. The languages offered are English and Japanese only. The extras on Blu-Ray 2 contain six OVAs called Nozaki-kun shorts. These are in a different animation stye (more Nendoroid than anything else) but are pretty funny in their own right and a worthwhile addition to the series. The rest of the extras are the normal clean openings, etc and are nothing special. I’ve only listened to the Japanese version. The subtitles are okay and the voice acting works very well. I haven’t listened to the english dub.
The plot – Chiyo Sakura is a high school. A high school girl with a serious crush on Umetaro Nozaki. She finally plucks up the courage to confess her love to hi and is surprised when he hands her an autograph with a girl’s name on it. It turns out that Nozaki writes a monthly manga series in a shojo (for girls) magazine under a female nom de plume. Chiyo decides to become one of Nozaki’s assistants in order to get closer to him and hope that he notices her love for him. That’s it for the plot. Chiyo meets the rest of Nozaki’s assistants who are as wonderful a cast of characters as has ever been asembled in a single series and realises that Nozaki is basing his heroine, Mamiko, on Mikoshita who’s a boy. Some of her other friends become charcters in the story line too.
Mikoshita – Handsome, male, shy. He’s prone to making proud boasts when cornered and is responsible for all the flowers in the backgrounds of the manga.
Hori – Backgrounds for the manga. He’s also president of the drama club but thinks he’s too short to act. He works for Nozaki in exchange for original scripts.
Wakamatsu – He tries to get from Chiyo to stop Seo from bullying the basketball team. He ends up doing screentones for Nozaki.
Seo – A demonically athletic girl who terrorizes any sports club she’s asked to help (especially the basketball team). Her main hobby is singing and she has a truly angelic voice earning her the nickname of Lorelei. She and Wakamatsu may be dating but if they are neither of them know it for sure.
Kashima (Yuu) – A tall girl who is known as the prince of the school. She plays all the lead characters in the dram a club plays and is worshipped by the school’s female population. She is lazy and is often chased by Hori who tries to ensure that she meets her club responsibilities.
The interactions of the characters are watched by Nozaki. He’s often totally oblivious of anything except his manga about which he is obsessive. He manipulates his assistants and friends for plots while remaining above the fray (at least that’s what he hopes).
This is as truly funny a romantic comedy as you’ll ever see.
Comments - This is more of an episodic anime series and the plot is mainly about different characters rather than a serious story arc. This is as truly funny a romantic comedy as you’ll ever see. The characters are so well observed, wacky, charming, and funny. The scripts are consistent and full of jokes and asides that make this a non-stop fun-filled series. There are very few anime that can carry this off but this one manages it very well. One of the best slice of life anime in a very long time.
If you like this you might like – Denki-gai, Wagnaria, Rosario and Vampire, And you thought there is never a girl online, interviews with monster girls, D-Frag, Haven’t you heard I’m Sakamoto, The disastrous life of Saiki K.
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Wonderful series, disappointing box condition.
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2016
Personally I love this series. It's hilarious and adorable! My rating is solely based off of the condition that the case came in. I removed it from the package to find the case open already. Then upon further inspection I found that the box was broken on the inside cover are and on the side where the box opens. Plus all around the edges the plastic is bent. This is total bummer since I like my DVDs' packaging to remain pristine and right from the start its been messed up!
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2016
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