My Girlfriend's a Geek | |
Cover of the first My Girlfriend's a Geek light novel |
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腐女子彼女。 (Fujoshi Kanojo.) |
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Genre | Comedy, Romance, Slice of life |
Light novel | |
Written by | Pentabu |
Published by | Enterbrain |
English publisher | Yen Press |
Original run | December 8, 2006 – August 1, 2007 |
Volumes | 2 |
Manga | |
Written by | Pentabu |
Illustrated by | Rize Shinba |
Published by | Enterbrain |
English publisher | Yen Press |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | B's LOG Comics |
Original run | December 1, 2007 – March 1, 2010 |
Volumes | 5 |
Live-action film | |
Directed by | Atsushi Kaneshige |
Produced by | Enterbrain |
Written by | Ei Katsuragi |
Released | May 2, 2009 |
My Girlfriend's a Geek (腐女子彼女。 Fujoshi Kanojo. ) is a Japanese light novel series in two volumes by Pentabu based on a popular blog[1] of the same name with 11 million[2] pageviews. A manga adaptation by Rize Shinba started serialization in 2007 and was published by Enterbrain under their B’s LOG Comics imprint. A movie adaption was 2009 published with My Geeky Girlfriend as the International English title.[3] Both the light novel and manga have been licensed for release by Yen Press.[4]
Contents |
The story is about the misadventures of a college student, who was falling in love with a pretty girl two years his senior, while in a part-time job, only to find out his girlfriend is a hard-core yaoi fangirl, and so his torment begins.
The novels contains blog entries of the blog with the same name from 2005 to 2007.
No. | Japanese | English | ||
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Release date | ISBN | Release date | ISBN | |
01 | December 8, 2006[5] | ISBN 978-4-7577-3059-5 | September 28, 2010[6] | ISBN 978-0-7595-3171-0 |
02 | August 1, 2007[7] | ISBN 978-4-7577-3664-1 | March 29, 2011[8] | ISBN 978-0-7595-3172-7 |
In December 2007, Enterbrain published the first volume of the manga adaptation created by Rize Shinba in its B’s LOG Comics imprint. The fourth volume was released in April 2009. The manga has been translated into Chinese, German, English and French; in Germany, it is published as Akihabara Shōjo[9].
No. | Japanese | English | ||
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Release date | ISBN | Release date | ISBN | |
01 | December 1, 2007[10] | ISBN 978-4-7577-3899-7 | May 18, 2010[11] | ISBN 978-0-7595-3173-4 |
02 | March 31, 2008[12] | ISBN 978-4-7577-4111-9 | November 30, 2010[13] | ISBN 978-0-7595-3174-1 |
03 | November 1, 2008[14] | ISBN 978-4-7577-4531-5 | May 31, 2011[15] | ISBN 978-0-3161-7821-1 |
04 | April 1, 2009[16] | ISBN 978-4-7577-4811-8 | September 20, 2011[17] | ISBN 978-0-3161-7822-8 |
05 | March 1, 2010[18] | ISBN 978-4-0472-6379-6 | December 13, 2011[19] | ISBN 978-0-3161-7825-9 |
The TV drama was released in May 2009. It was directed by Atsushi Kaneshige and with screenplay written by Ei Katsuragi.