{"id":5413,"date":"2016-11-07T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2017-05-07T09:32:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T13:32:05","slug":"nozaki-v4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/2016\/11\/07\/nozaki-v4\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-Kun, Vol. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typical rom-com manga plotline. Girl meets boy, girl falls in love with boy, girl attempts to confess to boy, boy completely misunderstands what she\u2019s actually trying to say and instead of accepting or rejecting her love, hands her an autograph made out from a famous and popular girls\u2019 manga artist, who actually happens to be him.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what?<\/p>\n<p><em>Monthly Girls\u2019 Nozaki-kun<\/em>\u00a0follows the misadventures\u00a0of the eponymous Nozaki-kun, a\u00a0popular shoujo mangaka, and the <del>poor unfortunate<\/del> assistants he recruits to work for him. True to its placement in the romantic comedy genre, this means adding a plethora of other characters and their romantic misadventures, too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5548\" src=\"http:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tsubaki_Nozaki_kun_V4-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Volume 4 US edition Yen Press Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tsubaki_Nozaki_kun_V4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tsubaki_Nozaki_kun_V4-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tsubaki_Nozaki_kun_V4-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tsubaki_Nozaki_kun_V4.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The fourth volume of <em>Nozaki<\/em> wraps up the remaining plotlines that made it into the 2014 anime, although some chapters’ content diverts from what made it into the animated series, and this volume starts to move away from scenes viewers would be familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best things about Volume 4 is that it introduces a few characters who aren’t seen in the anime: Nozaki’s younger brother, Mayu, and his parents. While Nozaki’s parents don’t really stick around very long, his relationship with them is great, and the scenes with Mayu are a ton of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Another nice thing about Volume 4 for more dedicated fans and\/or collectors is the inclusion of character info at the end of the volume. There are pages dedicated to more information and details on the school uniforms and all 7 of the core characters in the series. There are also two bonus strips after the character information pages.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Nozaki-kun<\/em> series is set up in a 4koma style, which can be described as almost a manga-style comic strip. Each chapter has a number of 4komas that create a plot thread, although\u00a0<em>Nozaki-kun<\/em> is still a gag manga. If you’ve made it to Volume 4, I’m guessing that the 4koma style isn’t distracting, but for those thinking about jumping in who aren’t familiar with the style, it could be slightly disorienting at first.<\/p>\n<p>Volume 4 marks the ending point of the plot covered in the anime and the starting point of everything else that comes after. With many volumes out now in Japan of this comedy manga, what viewers would be familiar with is just a starting point.<\/p>\n<p>I always\u00a0recommend this series to avid fans of manga and anime, mainly because it references so many tropes of manga and anime in general. It’s also an excellent series for those who love lighthearted comedies of error and one of my most highly-recommended manga in general.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Story: 4.5\u00a0out of 5 stars<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Art: 4\u00a0out of 5 stars<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Overall: 4.5\u00a0out of 5 stars<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">—<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/felizacasano.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Feliza Casano<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has watched all of the <em>Nozaki-kun<\/em> anime three times. She\u00a0founded Girls in Capes and currently edits and writes for all sections of the site. In her approximate 2.3 hours of free time each month, she loves watching anime, reading science fiction, and working on her novels-in-progress.\u00a0Keep up with her antics at <a href=\"http:\/\/felizacasano.com\" target=\"_blank\">felizacasano.com<\/a> and follow her on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/FelizaCasano\" target=\"_blank\">@FelizaCasano<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor Feliza Casano reviews the fourth volume in the Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun series, where the manga begins to depart from the anime plotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1830],"tags":[1461,252,1081,320,676,1060,1378,508],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime-manga","tag-gekkan-shoujo-nozaki-kun","tag-manga","tag-manga-monday","tag-manga-reviews","tag-monthly-girls-nozaki-kun","tag-romantic-comedy","tag-the-inspiration-issue","tag-yen-press","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nozaki-v4.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zNPp-1pj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/5634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlsincapes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}