History Characters / MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun

* IResembleThatRemark: After Wakamatsu tells him about his love for "Lorelei" ([[LovingAShadow who he has never ever seen or met]]), Nozaki says he can't do that while Wakamatsu responds back with the example of such a thing working out with someone who sent letters in an old shoujo manga. Nozaki further tries to dissolve him of it by insisting he's got to live with times instead of using that old manga as his example, after which Wakamatsu points out that Nozaki has written the exact concept as well only with text messaging and phones.

* BokkeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Plays the straight man to Yumeko's shoujo fantasy antics. Whenever something silly is going on in school, he'll usually be there to comment on it.

Nozaki is the author of ''Let's Fall In Love'', providing the plot, the writing, and the main art. He writes based on his everyday experience with his classmates and assistants, basing the characters and some plots of the manga on them.

* PromotedFangirl: Nozaki ''thinks'' he's let Sakura be a lucky fan who gets to work with him on his manga, since he mistakes her love confession as a fan's request to be his assistant and then immediately has her start helping him. Though she already knows of Nozaki's manga and is a casual fan of shoujo manga, she had no idea Nozaki was the author of ''Let's Fall in Love!'' since he uses a PenName.

* OneOfTheBoys: Gender-inverted. As seen in Chapter 47, when Hori complains that Nozaki looks out of place in a group of girls, but doesn't notice at all that Mikoshiba is in the same group.

* CovertPervert: Despite being introduced as a "Let's Love" fan, Rei has a lot of interest in more lewd works, and her relationships delusions regularly turn outright pornographic. In one of Chapter 99's omakes, she interperets Seo [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend denying that she and Wakamatsu are a couple]] as Seo saying she'd only [[BlackComedyRape started a physical relationship with him by force]][[labelnote:*]]Which is, strictly speaking, [[FetishizedAbuser not untrue]][[/labelnote]]. Later, when Nozaki accidentally hypnotizes Kashima, Rei immediately assumes that Nozaki was trying to set her and Hori up for hypnosis-themed smut and tries to help out by overwriting her own sister to become a, direct quote, "totally servile bitch".

** She loves ''Let's Fall In Love'' so much that she remembers details Nozaki completely forgot about, and the manga is the reason why she has very skewed views of how students at co-ed schools interact. She's thrilled when Nozaki reveals he's Sakiko Yumeno.

* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Since she's never been to a coed school, her only point of reference for boy-girl interactions is shoujo manga, so she sees romance in every interaction and imagines love triangles where there are none. Nozaki questions what kind of dumb book she gets her ideas from -- [[SelfDeprecation it turns out to have been]] ''Let's Fall In Love''. Later appearances indicates she might be ''even worse'' than this, with thoughts that wouldn't be out of place in some sort of pornographic work (like imagining Hori taking advantage of a hypnotised Kashima and further hypnotize Kashima into being totally servile "his bitch" to Hori).

!!''Let's Fall In Love'' Characters

[[folder:Mamiko]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarieMiyake (Anime), Creator/YukariTamura (Drama CD) (Japanese), Creator/MelissaMolano (English)

She is the heroine of Nozaki's manga. Her personality is based on Mikoshiba.

* DamselInDistress: As expected from a StockShoujoHeroine, ''Let's Love'' panels and manuscript drafts imply Mamiko is frequently targeted and has to be saved by Suzuki. Miyamae lampshades how forced this can be when Nozaki seems to be giving one of Mamiko's bullies character development in one draft, only for it to be all for naught when Suzuki comes to rescue her and "brings it to a close in three pages".
* DistaffCounterpart: Invoked, since Nozaki based her personality on Mikoshiba. It becomes obvious to Sakura once she starts reading Mamiko's scenes and realizes her tsundere tendencies closely mirror Mikoshiba's actions. Even Hori ends up realizing Mamiko had to have been based off of Mikoshiba once he actually met him.
* NaiveEverygirl: Being a [[StockShoujoHeroine typical shoujo manga protagonist]], she hits most of the points: romantic, insecure about her feelings for Suzuki and [[CannotSpitItOut too embarrassed to express them]], gets pushed around by others, and comes across as innocent and inexperienced.
* NoFullNameGiven: Despite being the main character of ''Let's Love'', her family name is still unknown.
* OfficialCouple: Is the main couple of the ''Let's Love'' manga with Suzuki aka the most popular guy at school. Nozaki finds the very idea of them being with anyone other than each other repulsive.
* ParodySue: Her description on one page is "She's a [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Normal High School Student]], yet she's popular. But her looks are [[LampshadeHanging supposed]] to be average!".
* ThePowerOfLove: Nozaki, after trying to live as her for a day, concludes that the reason she is able to put effort on the things she does is because of her love for Suzuki.
* PutOnABus: Nozaki suggests having Mamiko temporarily leave the story in order to make room for Suzuki's character development. PlayedForLaughs when it becomes clear he's too used to focusing on Mamiko and pretty much dumps all her typical development obstacles on Suzuki (which includes love troubles with ''another'' Suzuki).
* SeenItAll: One of Nozaki's drafts/manuscripts shows Mamiko being somewhat unfazed by the girls bullying her in Chapter 67, "preparing" to tremble and getting bored from having to wait for Suzuki to find her.
* SignatureHeadgear: She's primarily identified by a white ribbon on the back of her head. [[spoiler:As it turns out, Sakura was the unwitting inspiration for Mamiko's character design, since she was also wearing a white ribbon when Nozaki first met her.]]
* StockShoujoHeroine: She plays this so straight that it goes into parody; she's clumsy, innocent, and [[GenericCuteness supposedly average-looking]], and yet still manages to snag the most attractive guy in school.
* {{Tsundere}}: The ''dere'' (sweet) type, which Nozaki based on Mikoshiba's ''dere'' tendencies. Or as Nozaki puts it in Chapter 20, while providing some guidance for Hori [[SickEpisode when he's ill]]:
--> '''Nozaki''': Even though she likes Suzuki, she can't be honest with herself and always ends up saying the wrong thing, so on one hand, she feels depressed, and on the other, she's worried about the other girls' actions, thinking, "Can I trust Suzuki?" so she's torn and th-\\
'''Sakura''': So how did it go?\\
'''Hori''': In any case, I understand that this chick is really annoying.
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[[folder:Saburou Suzuki]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamoruMiyano (Japanese), Creator/ChrisPatton (English)

He is the love interest of Mamiko in Nozaki's manga.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In colored official publications his hair is shown as blond like Mamiko's. In the cover of Nozaki's manga in the anime his hair is shown as brown.
* {{Adorkable}}: [[ShowWithinAShow In-universe]]. His popularity rises in Chapter 113 because readers find him surprisingly adorable thanks to his inability to do a necktie and his confused facial expressions. This is based on Seo facing a similar problem in real life, and Nozaki lampshades how such an unexpected weakness would make the readers swoon. This also happens another time unintentionally InUniverse from Nozaki, who is annoyed that Seo is chickening out when talking to Wakamatsu and potentially deepening their relationship, so she starts singing to put him to sleep. He decides to similarly characterize the character he based on her (Oze) as a coward who is just as humorously evasive around his LoveInterest, which he also did in response to people finding the Oze character cool. To his ambivalence, Miyamae told him that they've come in first in the results on a survey...with lots of people praising Oze as being very cute.
* ButtMonkey: As a penned character, and the victim of his own author. Since Nozaki dislikes him so much, many ideas that he implements into the manga come at the expense of Suzuki. For instance, when Nozaki is told to draw chibi characters or come up with a mascot, Nozaki plans to insert a salmon mascot on Mamiko's bag... which begins taking over plots that should go to Suzuki.
* CharacterDevelopment: Nozaki attempts to give Suzuki development by giving Mamiko a "break" and have Suzuki work hard in her stead. This includes taking part in school events, dealing with rivalries, having family issues, and being in love... with another Suzuki.
* ChickMagnet: Very popular with girls. Some of Nozaki's chapters play this up for drama.
* CreatorsPest: InUniverse, Nozaki seems to dislike Suzuki despite being one of the main characters of his manga. At best, he's easy to draw, but otherwise Nozaki makes fun of his name and can't think up anything else about him that he actually likes.
* FlatCharacter: Invoked in-universe. In spite of being the main character of the manga, Suzuki has very little character development because Nozaki made him unrealistically perfect... which in turn made him dislike Suzuki and coming up with plots for him.
* GaryStu: InUniverse, he is a kind, handsome and popular guy who appears to hold no flaws. Miyamae once complains about this, and wants Nozaki to make up some weak points for him. Nozaki settles on... the inability to fold clothes.
* InformedAbility:
** Discussed when Nozaki tries to defend Suzuki's supposed lack of development by saying he actually studies a lot, to which Miyamae points out that he never shows it.
** Miyamae orders Nozaki to invoke this for Suzuki's dedicated skincare routine.
--->'''Nozaki:''' He puts great effort into his skincare every day.\\
''[insert ImagineSpot of Suzuki with all his skincare products while bragging about how handsome he is]''\\
'''Miyamae:''' You'd absolutely better not draw that.
* {{Narcissist}}: When Miyamae points out that Suzuki hasn't developed at all compared to Mamiko, Nozaki helpfully points out that he spends huge amounts of time caring for his skin while talking about how pretty he is. This isn't in the manga itself and he's forbidden from ever showing it.
* NiceGuy: To fit the typical shoujo manga male protagonist mold, he's made to be a kind and gentle guy with no particular negative traits. Mostly evident in his interactions with his love interest Mamiko, as he's chivalrous towards her and treats her with care.
* OfficialCouple: Is the main couple of the ''Let's Love'' manga with Mamiko. Nozaki can't bear to even pair other, unrelated people named "Suzuki" with non-Mamiko girls because "Suzuki only has eyes for Mamiko!"
* OnlySixFaces: Almost every male character in ''Let's Love'' is a palette swap of Suzuki because Nozaki is awful at coming up with male characters. This causes confusion later in the story, as Nozaki's classmates are reading the manga and keep confusing the boys with Suzuki. What makes it even worse is the fact that even when Nozaki is trying to come up with male characters, he inevitably gravitates towards Suzuki's appearance and personality.
* PrettyBoy: A typical pretty-boy. As the male protagonist of a [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]] manga, this is invoked since it's the norm.
* PrincelyYoungMan: Is quite popular at school and basically a PrinceCharming.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Suzuki only has eyes for Mamiko, according to Nozaki.
* {{Tsundere}}: Nozaki tests out Suzuki being a tsundere when he plays ''Secret Days'' and ponders about the heroine's crush on a tsundere suitor. He takes it to an extreme, however, by having Suzuki switch between cold and endearing between each panel on the same page, and everyone else remarks that he needs to get help with emotional stability.
* VanillaProtagonist: InUniverse. To his creator's dismay, the ''Let's Fall in Love!'' fandom finds the other male characters more interesting and tend to favor them over Suzuki, who is supposed to be the romantic lead.
* VerbalTic: Wakamatsu suggests having Suzuki end his sentences with "gepya" in an attempt to make him less perfect. This leads to ridiculous-sounding sentences like "I'm hungry gepya", "being popular is hard gepya" and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "I'll use any means necessary gepya"]].
* WeaksauceWeakness:
** When Miyamae complains Suzuki is too perfect, Nozaki decides that his weakness is that he can't fold clothes, which the others think is completely useless.
** A subplot of Chapter 25 is dedicated to his assistants thinking of other flaws to give him.
*** Sakura and Mikoshiba think either AfraidOfBlood or [[HotBlooded too aggressive]] can be better. So Nozaki [[JustForFun/XMeetsY combines the two]] with Suzuki beating up strangers on the street, and then fainting when they start to bleed.
*** Wakamatsu, when in shock from "Seo"'s bad singing (it was actually Kashima), creates a whole list of bad points for Suzuki which start off as fairly mundane (having short legs) but quickly get ridiculous (having "gepya" as a VerbalTic and being willing to kill anyone more attractive than himself). This pisses Nozaki off to no end.
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[[folder:Oze]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (Japanese)

Oze is a supporting character in Nozaki's manga, his character being based off Yuzuki Seo.

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* {{Adorkable}}: In-universe. His popularity rises in Chapter 113 because readers find him surprisingly adorable thanks to his inability to do a necktie and his confused facial expressions. This is based on Seo facing a similar problem in real life, and Nozaki lampshades how such an unexpected weakness would make the readers swoon. This also happens another time unintentionally In-Universe from Nozaki, who is annoyed that Seo is chickening out when talking to Wakamatsu and potentially deepening their relationship, so she starts singing to put him asleep. He decides to similarly characterize the character he based on her (Oze) as a coward who is just as humorously evasive around his LoveInterest, which he also did in response to people finding the Oze character cool. To his ambivalence, Miyamae told him that they've come in first in the results on a survey...with lots of people praising Oze as being very cute.
* CreatorsPest: InUniverse, Nozaki's own mixed feelings towards Seo sometimes gets taken out on Oze, like deliberately drawing him poorly and getting annoyed at his popularity. In the same chapter he explains this, he ends up making Oze being humorously evasive from Waka due to Seo getting nervous and putting Wakamatsu to sleep rather than talking to him and hopes this will get Oze be considered a coward to the readers. When it instead gets seen as {{Adorkable}}, he's legitimately angry at this (but also happy because his manga came in first for the recent survey).
* DistaffCounterpart: Invoked. His insensitive personality is based on Seo's, and his surname is even the ''kanji'' characters for "Seo" backward. Hori is quick to realize this when he encounters Seo after a discussion about Oze.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: In-universe. In Chapter 113, after Nozaki writes an Oze-focused chapter based on what he saw from Seo, he wins second place in the popularity poll despite being a supporting character, while the protagonist Suzuki is in third place.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As his personality is based on Seo's, he is quite rude and has no self-awareness whatsoever. However, he can be a bit nicer towards Waka at times, such as offering her his umbrella when it's raining.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Paralleling the situation between their real-life counterparts, Waka is in love with the person that talks to her on the phone, not knowing that it's Oze.
* LovingBully: Similar to his real-life counterpart, he annoys the hell out of Waka but is implied to like her and anonymously gives her encouragement on the phone. Though since Oze ''deliberately'' aggravates Waka (unlike Seo's self-centeredness unintentionally causing Wakamatsu problems) and then also supports her anonymously, other characters have pointed out that [[LampshadeHanging Oze's actions are kinda messed up]].
* NoFullNameGiven: So far, he's only known by his family name.

[[folder:Waka]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Nozomi Masu (Japanese)

Waka is a female character of Nozaki's manga whose appearance and situation are based off of Hirotaka Wakamatsu's. She is shown to be a close friend of Mamiko.

* DistaffCounterpart: Invoked. Her personality is based on Wakamatsu's, and her interactions with Oze specifically mirrors Wakamatsu's relationship with Seo. Her surname is even derived from his name, having the same pronunciation as ''Waka''(matsu) while using different ''kanji'' characters. Once Hori figures out Seo inspired Oze, he immediately figures out that Wakamatsu inspired Waka.
* HiddenBuxom: Nozaki decides to translate Wakamatsu's pronounced muscles as Waka being surprisingly busty.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: She is in love with someone who cheers her up and talks to her on the phone, not knowing that that person is the boy she can't stand, Oze.
* NoFullNameGiven: Like Oze, her given name has yet to be revealed.
* {{Tsundere}}: The Sweet type; like Wakamatsu, she's normally an amiable girl, while with Oze she's rather prickly.

[[folder:Utahiko Tenjouji]]
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Suzuki's rival.

One of Nozaki's assistants, mainly responsible for drawing effects and details in the backgrounds — and also the person Nozaki used as the model for the heroine of his manga. Mikoshiba acts like a playboy but in reality is a shy guy, and is often spouting flirty lines around — only to immediately get embarrassed for having said them.

* ShippingGoggles: She does this InUniverse when she goes out for drinks with her college friends and decides to get ideas for her manga. She watches two of her friends squabble and ends up reinterpreting their actions as more romantic gestures. Said friends are creeped out when they notice that she's been looking at them rather warmly.

* WastedBeauty: According to a couple of her male classmates in Chapter 3 of ''Monthly Girls' Nozaki-san'', Yumeko is cute when she keeps her mouth shut. As soon as she speaks, that illusion is gone.

* SheCleansUpNicely: According to a couple of her male classmates in Chapter 3 of ''Monthly Girls' Nozaki-san'', Yumeko is cute when she keeps her mouth shut. As soon as she speaks, that illusion is gone.

* TheBeard: Defied. When Mikoshiba tells her he needs a fake girlfriend, Sakura actively avoids continuing the conversation because she knows the standard flow would be to offer to be his fake girlfriend, and [[SingleTargetSexuality she's too into Nozaki to let that happen]].

** After failing to get Kashima to act as his [[TheBeard pretend girlfriend]] in Chapter 57, a couple of guys offer themselves for the role, even hosting a contest over it (until it is stopped by Hori).

* TheBeard: Acts as Mikoshiba's girlfriend so he can turn down a girl who confessed to him and didn't believe he was already committed. It works, though being ''Seo'', of course, it doesn't go perfectly.

* WouldHitAGirl: He has zero problems beating Kashima to a pulp.

* CovertPervert: To Nozaki and Mikoshiba's horror, the very polite and proper Rei gets unusually excited just by watching boys and girls make casual contact with each other. Seo patting Mikoshiba's shoulder alone leads to Rei having an ImagineSpot of the two of them and Wakamatsu (whom she saw Seo hang out with just then) ''naked'', terrifying Mikoshiba. Kashima goes as far as to ask male members of the drama club to either avoid going near the female members or to dress up as girls, so they can avoid "being made naked".

* SharedFamilyQuirks: Nozaki remarks that he can hardly tell Rei and her sister are related since they don't look nor act alike. He's instantly shown otherwise when both make similarly InnocentlyInsensitive comments about him. The drama club also can't help but snark, "That's Kashima-kun's sister all right", when they watch Kashima order her sister to sit still and to not get carried away nor wander around.

* SenpaiKohai: The only third year in the group. He is thus referred to as Senpai/Hori-senpai by the rest of the main cast and occasionally takes charge.

* SenpaiKohai: Wakamatsu is kohai to everyone else in the main cast. He thus uses everyone's name with the "senpai" suffix and is extremely polite and obedient to them.

* PeekABangs: Occasionally, Kashima's prominent fringe of hair is drawn covering up her left eye.

* {{Keigo}}: The ladylike Rei speaks very formally, including the ''watakushi'' pronoun and ''sama'' honorific.

* ShrinkingViolet: Despite being introduced as a HandsomeLech, he is actually a shy guy who consistently gets embarrassed after delivering his cheesy lines to other girls.

* MyEyesAreUpHere: Inverted. Her attempts to get Hori to notice her legs all fail because he's so fixated on her face.

* OneOfTheBoys: Sometimes people either forget Kashima is a girl, or they just think she is a boy. She also seems to have more guy friends outside of the main cast, with Hori even once commenting that the raport she's developed with Seo and Sakura is "unusual for her".

* WeWantOurJerkBack: Subverted when Kashima is hypnotized by her little sister to be completely subservient to Hori. The rest of the drama club is horrified by the change, but Hori is totally good with it to the point another drama club member dramatically scolds him for it.

* {{Otaku}}: He is [[ClosetGeek secretly one]], mainly on {{Dating Sim}}s. He also collects {{bishoujo}} figurines.

* StatuesqueStunner: Stands at 176 cm.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Revealed to be the case for him in Chapter 78 when he gets completely drunk [[IntoxicationEnsues by accident]] through eating a loaf of cake made with brandy. The same thing happens when Kashima offers him alcohol chocolate in the Volume 10 omakes, and he ends up drunk-singing with Kashima at karaoke.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: She doesn't hold her alcohol well and warns her friends in advance that she can't drink too much at their drinking party. The friends misinterpret this as her already drinking too much at her work (which they think is a hostess club) and make it their mission to have her avoid drinking at all costs so they can save her liver. Ryousuke, unfortunately, goes offtrack in an attempt to get closer to her and accidentally gets her drunk off of cocktails, not realizing that drinking too many low-alcohol drinks will still affect her.

* TheDitz: She appears to be a bit less intelligent than her brothers. For example, when Nozaki asks her about [[HasAType her type]], she initially answers it as a long chain of tropes. When Nozaki tells her to pick just one, her answer is the least sensible one: NewTransferStudent.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AriOzawa (Anime), Asuka Nishi (Drama CD) (Japanese), Creator/JulietSimmons (English)

* MistakenForRomance: To a ridiculous degree. He thinks Nozaki is Miyako's boyfriend. When he comes over to her apartment and sees Maeno, he concludes that the three of them are in some kind of [[TriangRelations triangle]], and when Miyamae arrives Ryousuke upgrades it to a love square.

* AintTooProudTooBeg: When Sakura points out he's always being approached by girls rather than the other way around in the first volume's extras, he's emboldened to prove his conversational skills before her and ostensibly successfully chats up three girls...in the next panel, Sakura apparently receives a text message from him titled "I'm sorry" with the message "Please save me".