Raise your hand if you didn’t see that troll coming… I had a pretty good season for sleepers this Summer. Two of my three picks (this series and Majimoji Rurumo) wound up being not just watchable but among the very best series of the season. It was also a good […] Read more
Boy, there’s sure one hell of a lot going on with this series. It’s nice when a show you peg as a sleeper comes through, and even nicer when it happens for all the reasons you suspected it might even without knowing the source material. Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun has been […] Read more
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is basically the narrative antithesis of Occam’s Razor. I think you can probably group everyone in the industrial world into two groups: those who worry about which armrest to use, and those who don’t. There’s a deeper symbolism to this, and the events of this episode of […] Read more
Where’s the Kin-youbi Club when you need it? The spotlight turns away from most of the comedic heavyweights in Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun this time, with most of the episode being devoted to the nominally “straight man” lead pair and the second-tier supporting cast. But it’s the strength of this series […] Read more
Boxes! It’s certainly a comedy of misunderstandings, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, though it’s a pretty versatile series on the whole. The good ones can usually make you laugh in many different ways that are all still somehow inherently true to the essence of the show (Minami-ke comes to mind), and that’s […] Read more
Wait – so those guys were there the whole time? It’s pretty hard to go wrong when you build an episode around Mikorin, and Gesshounoku certainly didn’t this week. But I have to confess that Nozaki-kun himself is starting to grow on me as a purely comic character. He’s one […] Read more
It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world in Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. The thing I really like about this series is that even when it’s not making me laugh outright, it’s always a little skewed. Nothing is ever normal or straightforward – an assumption or a cliché is always […] Read more
Slide over Miura-san – make some room in the bad editors hall of fame. Since Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun seems like a pretty thorough satire of the manga industry, I guess it was only a matter of time before the subject of editors came up. And frankly, it was a bit […] Read more
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is one series that was definitely truth in advertising. This show seems to have left meta in the rear-view mirror some time ago, and is now immersed in some kind of ourobouros-like nirvana state few anime every aspire to. I’m hard-pressed to think of another anime (or […] Read more
What an odd duck is Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun… Historically I haven’t blogged very many 4-koma gag manga adaptations, and I’m starting to remember why. Simply put, they’re damn hard series to write about. Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou is about the funniest one I can remember – the first five episodes […] Read more