ChurchHatesTucker ☑#MangaMonthly 61 “Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-Kun” by Izumi Tsubaki
High School girl Chiyo Sakura is a fan of Utemarou Nozaki, a boy from another class. When she tries to confess her feelings to him, he gives her an autograph. Turns out he is the creator of a popular monthly girls’ manga and assumed she was a fan of his work. She’s soon roped into working as his assistant.
This is a gag #manga in the 4-panel format. It’s partially a high school comedy, partially a workplace comedy, and partially a sendup of manga tropes. Often it blurs the lines between them; several of Nozaki’s friends work as his assistants and he bases some of the characters in his manga on his schoolmates (invariably gender-swapped.) The load-bearing joke is that Nozaki is clueless about love, although that doesn’t stop his acquaintances from making progress.
Ongoing with 15 of 16 volumes available in English (Square Enix.) The next drops in late July. A 12-episode #anime aired in 2014.
