Casting reveals are underway from Sentai Filmworks for their upcoming release of Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun as there’s just over a month until the sets release on March 29th, 2016. The latest casting news is a pretty damn welcome one as we get to see Monica Rial step out of the roles she’s usually cast in by taking on the richer and deeper toned Yu Kashima. Check out a sample of her work in it below!
Previously cast was Scott Gibbs as Mikoto Mikoshiba.
The summer 2014 anime series, based on the manga by Izumi Tsubaki (creator of Oresama Teacher), is animated by Dogakobo. It’s directed by Mitsue Yamazaki based on scripts and composition by Yoshiko Nakamura and character designs by Junichiro Taniguchi. The original four-panel web manga began in the summer of 2011 and is ongoing with seven published volumes to date.
Scheduled for a March 29th, 2016 release and coming as a DVD/BD combo set priced at $129.98, the set will come in a heavy chipboard box with the full twelve episode run. On disc features include:
Nozaki-kun Shorts – 6 short 3 minute vignettes featuring characters from the show:
Is That Handsome Boy Just a Friend or Her Boyfriend? Parts 1 and 2
The Correlation Chart That Connects Everything
It’s Summer! It’s the Ocean! It’s Training Camp!
Me or the Sun…Which Do You Think Shines More?
The Happening is Being Turned Into a Shojo Manga
Promos
Commercials
Clean Open and Close Animations
The set will also contain:
SOUNDTRACK
“Along with the Blu-ray/DVD Combo, you’ll also be getting a soundtrack loaded with songs from the show. The soundtrack comes in two discs and is jam packed with tunes, over SIXTY in all. The music in this show is catchy as all hell, so I’m sure a lot of you will be putting this to good use!”
STICKERS AND POSTER
“The Nozaki box set also includes a set of super cute die cut stickers of Nozaki, Chiyo, Mikorin, Hori and Wakamatsu, as well as a large poster pictured below (stickers and posters are not the same size, fyi!)”
SPECIAL BOOKLET
“The included booklet contains everything you would ever want to know about the Nozaki characters and much, MUCH more. Along with Character Profiles, you’ll get staff discussions, character interviews, small features such as Mikorin’s Art Modeling Journal, Life with Hori and Kashima, Seo vs. Wakamatsu, and a ton of other awesome stuff. There’s just so much to go through, I’m about halfway done. :)”
Plot concept: A confession gone awry has resulted with Chiyo Sakura as the newest assistant to Umetaro Nozaki. Known in the publishing world under the alias Yumeno Sakiko, Nozaki is the creator of the ever-popular shoujo manga, Let’s Have a Romance!
Despite his renowned skills as a manga artist, Nozaki is completely clueless in the art of real life romance. Relying heavily on the lives of his motley group of assistants to be his source of inspiration, Nozaki’s understanding of love is as skewed as the lives of his characters. Can Sakura properly convey her feelings to her long time crush or will she forever be relegated to assistant?
