Hanabee Entertainment in Australia has added a new series to streaming on their site with the summer 2014 show Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun. The company has not specified the extent of their acquisition of the show, as it’s only streaming at the moment, but it’s easy to presume that they picked up home video rights as well. The show was picked up for home video release in North America by Sentai Filmworks previously and the two companies have worked together with release materials before. The full twelve episode series is now available on their service in its original Japanese with English subtitles for audiences in Australia and New Zealand.
The 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 four published volumes to date.
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?
[Source: Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun]
