Gekkan Shojo Nozaki-kun is coming to Crunchyroll as Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun and it’s set to premiere on Sunday, July 6th, at 3:05pm ET for premium members while free member swill get it a week later. The series, based on the manga by Izumi Tsubaki (creator of Oresama Teacher), is animated by Dogakobo. The series will be 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 four published volumes to date.
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun will be available to Crunchyroll’s audience in the following territories: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America.
Daisuke Ono has signed on to play Mitsuya Maeno, Kenta Miyake as Ken Miyamae and Ayako Kawasumi will be playing Yukari Miyako. The series previously had cast its leads, which you can see in the video below, with Yuichi Nakamura as Umetaro Nozaki, Ari Ozawa as Chiyo Sakura and Nobuhiko Kotamoto as Mikoto Mikoshiba.
Plot concept: Sakura Chiyo, a high school girl who fell in love with the unrefined boy schoolmate Nozaki Umetaro, decides to be courageous one day and asks him out. Her feelings weren’t conveyed properly, and before she knew it she ends up helping a particular job of his as an assistant…
