Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun #6

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, or Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, began as a four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Izumi Tsubaki. Serialized on the Gangan Online platform starting in 2011, the series serves as a satirical take on the shojo manga genre, centering on a high school student who secretly works as a popular professional romance manga artist. The sixth volume is part of the ongoing tankobon collection published by Square Enix, which gathers the episodic web chapters into a physical format that maintains the series' comedic structure.

The design of the volume continues the aesthetic established by Tsubaki, featuring her distinct character art that plays with the exaggerated tropes of romance storytelling. As the series gained momentum, it was widely praised for its meta-humor and subversion of gender expectations within manga tropes. The reception of the sixth volume mirrored the success of its predecessors, contributing to the series' broader cultural footprint which eventually included a well-regarded anime adaptation that brought increased attention to the source material.