The boy of her dreams...is a girl's manga artist?! To the eyes of high school student Chiyo Sakura, classmate Umetarou Nozaki--brawny of build and brusque of tongue--is a dreamboat! When Chiyo finally works up the courage to tell Nozaki how she feels about him, she knows rejection is on the table...but getting recruited as a manga-ka's assistant?! Never in a million years! But for someone who makes a living drawing sweet girly romances, Nozaki-kun is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to matters of the heart in reality. And so Chiyo's daily life of manga making and heartache begins!
 
(Source: Yen Press)

You know how the story goes: girl crushes on guy, girl confesses feelings to guy, guy mistakes confession for a job application. Okay, maybe that's not how it usually goes, but that's what happens when Chiyo Sakura finally gets up the nerve to tell her classroom crush Nozaki how she feels. Since she doesn't know that he's secretly a manga artist who publishes under a female pen name, and he doesn't know that she doesn't know, he misunderstands and offers her a chance to work as his assistant instead of a date! But while it's not flowers and dancing, it is a chance to get closer to him, so Chiyo gamely accepts. And when Nozaki realizes how useful Chiyo can be in figuring out what girls find romantic, he'll be spending even more time with her "researching" while remaining completely clueless. Could Chiyo's romantic frustration possibly get any more drawn out of proportion?
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

The anthology features illustrations and comics drawn by other mangaka as well as Tsubaki Izumi herself. 
 
#Cover illustration: Tsubaki Izumi 
#Illustrations: Yoshino Satsuki (ヨシノサツキ), Yamauchi Yasunobu (山内泰延), Higuchi Tachibana (樋口橘), Takao Shigeru (高尾滋) 
1. Ousama Game Nozaki-kun (王様ゲーム野崎くん) [Tsubaki Izumi (椿いづみ)] 
2. Chiyo no Debut Daisakusen (千代のデビュー大作戦) [Akino Kisara (秋野キサラ)] 
3. Nenakya Dame yo Nozaki-kun (寝なきゃダメだよ野崎くん) [Asakura Ryousuke (朝倉亮介)] 
4. Ken-san Hangen (剣さん半減) [Ichikawa Dan (いちかわ暖)] 
5. Zessan Kosodate Nozaki-kun (絶賛子育て野崎くん) [Kawakami Masaki (川上真樹)] 
6. Shimekiri Pinch Nozaki-kun (〆切ピンチ野崎くん) [Kikuchi Nana (菊地七菜)] 
7. Kaishuu Soudougou (回収騒動号) [Kuroha (くろは)] 
8. Minna ni Kiitemiyou! (みんなに聞いてみよう!) [Konkichi] 
9. Fan Letter (ファンレター) [namo] 
10. Kikan Doujin Nozaki-kun (稀刊同人野崎くん) [Namisaki Yuka (浪咲ゆか)] 
11. Puri Shiyo♡ (プリしよっ♡) [Nekokurage (ねこクラゲ)] 
12. Tanuki ga Ippai (たぬきがいっぱい) [Nohara Yuta (野原ゆた)] 
13. Ouji to Rudolf (王子とルドルフ) [Fuji (ふじ)] 
14. Aori no Kokoroe (アオリの心得) [mikimaki (ミキマキ)] 
15. Digital Nozaki-kun (デジタル野崎くん) [Mijinkouka (みじんこうか)] 
16. Chiyo-chan no Ribbon (千代ちゃんのリボン) [Minami Toutarou (陽東太郎)]

Yumeko Nozaki is a maiden high school girl. She's greeted by the transfer student Ritsuo Miyoshi and makes him go along with her shoujo manga cliches, much to his annoyance...
 
This is about the daily life of Nozaki-san, who longs for a shoujo manga world yet hasn't noticed that her own brother is a popular shoujo manga artist -- a comedy about a girl with a shoujo manga brain!!
 
This is a spin-off of Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and takes place three years after the main timeline. Based on the the author's original idea to have Umetarou Nozaki's younger sister Yumeko as the protagonist of the original story.

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