My Deer Friend Nokotan | |
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tankōbon volume cover, featuring Noko Shikanoko | |
しかのこのこのここしたんたん (Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Oshioshio |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Imprint |
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Magazine |
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Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | November 15, 2019 – present |
Volumes | 6 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Masahiko Ohta |
Written by | Takashi Aoshima |
Music by | Yasuhiro Misawa |
Studio | Wit Studio |
Licensed by | Remow |
Original network | Tokyo MX, BS Nippon, KFB, TV Aichi, SBS Shizuoka, HBC, AT-X |
Original run | July 7, 2024 – present |
Episodes | 3 |
My Deer Friend Nokotan ( Japanese: しかのこのこのここしたんたん, Hepburn: Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan, lit. 'deer child, brazen, waiting for a chance') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Oshioshio. It began serialization in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Magazine Edge in November 2019. After the magazine's discontinuation in October 2023, it was transferred to Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga website in December the same year. An anime television series adaptation produced by Wit Studio premiered in July 2024.
Torako Koshi is a popular and beautiful high school girl who tries to keep up appearances as a prim and proper beauty. However, one day, she rescues a strange deer-girl hanging from some power lines on the way to school. The girl then soon transfers into her school, introduces herself as Noko Shikanoko, and begins dragging Torako into her bizarre antics, threatening to expose her hidden past as a violent Yankee delinquent, all while Torako seems to be the only one who notices anything wrong with Noko.
Written and illustrated by Oshioshio, My Deer Friend Nokotan began serialization in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Magazine Edge on November 15, 2019. [1] After the final issue of the Shōnen Magazine Edge was published on October 17, 2023, the series was transferred to the Magazine Pocket website on December 20 the same year. [7] The series' chapters have been collected in six tankōbon volumes as of July 2024. [8] The series is licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. [9]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | North American release date | North American ISBN | ||
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1 | July 17, 2020 [10] | 978-4-06-520245-6 | March 15, 2022 [11] | 978-1-64827-886-0 | ||
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2 | February 17, 2021 [12] | 978-4-06-522330-7 | July 12, 2022 [13] | 978-1-63858-318-9 | ||
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3 | February 17, 2022 [14] | 978-4-06-526851-3 | February 28, 2023 [15] | 978-1-63858-784-2 | ||
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4 | February 16, 2023 [16] | 978-4-06-530787-8 | October 17, 2023 [17] | 978-1-68579-520-7 | ||
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5 | May 9, 2024 [18] | 978-4-06-535574-9 | December 31, 2024 [19] | 979-8-89160-645-6 | ||
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6 | July 9, 2024 [8] | 978-4-06-536165-8 | — | — | ||
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These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume.
An anime television series adaptation was announced in March 2024. The series is produced by Wit Studio and directed by Masahiko Ohta, with Takashi Aoshima writing and supervising scripts, Ayumu Tsujimura designing the characters, and Yasuhiro Misawa composing the music. It premiered on July 7, 2024, on Tokyo MX and BS Nippon. [3] The opening theme is "Shikairo Days" (シカ色デイズ, lit. Deer-Colored Days) performed by Megumi Han, Saki Fujita, Rui Tanabe, and Fūka Izumi as their respective characters in the Deer Club, while the ending theme is "Shika-senbei no Uta" (シカせんべいのうた, lit. The Deer Food Song) performed by Han and Fujita as their respective characters. [5] Remow licensed the series [20] and announced worldwide streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Anime Onegai, ADN, and Crunchyroll. [21]
No. | Title [22] [23] | Directed by [a] | Written by [a] | Storyboarded by [a] | Original air date [b] | |
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1 | "Girl Meets Deer" Transliteration: "Gāru Mītsu Shika" ( Japanese: ガール・ミーツ・シカ) | Masahiko Ohta | Takashi Aoshima | Masahiko Ohta | July 7, 2024 | |
While on her way to school, Torako Koshi runs across a strange girl with deer antlers hanging from some power lines on her way to school. The girl guilts Torako into rescuing her from the predicament. Later that morning, the same girl bursts into Torako's class as a new transfer student, introduces herself as Noko Shikanoko, and accidentally breaks down the door and part of the wall when trying to get in, but the teacher and classmates are surprisingly not bothered by this nor the pain that they received. She takes a seat next to Torako, claiming she is a delinquent. Torako, not wanting her past to be exposed, threatens Noko into silence, though some awkward conversation makes it sound like Torako's trying to hide her virgin status instead of her delinquent past. Before Torako heads home after school, she sees Noko bleeding from her head in an abandoned storage shed. Noko quickly heals up and gets Torako to help her clean the shed. Afterwards, the girls' teacher stops by and helps Noko convince Torako to become president of the newly-created Deer Club in the now-cleaned shed. As Torako brushes Noko, another girl angrily watches them from the school's front gate. | ||||||
2 | "Deer Meets Darkness Girl" Transliteration: "Shika Mītsu Kura Gāru" ( Japanese: シカ・ミーツ・暗ガール) | Masahito Otani | Kenji Sugihara | Masahiko Ohta | July 14, 2024 | |
Torako heads to school early in the morning to decorate the shed-turned-club room. Although she isn't all that happy with being the Deer Club's president, she does enjoy the club room's style. After attending class, she heads to the club room only to find it vandalized and with Noko as the only witness. Assuming she was the vandal, Noko corrects her and thinks another person may be responsible who is targeting her. Noko is lured into a trap, during which the culprit reveals herself to be Torako's sister Anko. Anko takes offense on Noko stealing Torako's attention and challenges her to a fight where Noko has to leave the school if Anko wins, but if Noko wins, she will receive lots of deer crackers. Noko agrees, and they later participate in a trivia competition that exposes Torako's private life, much to Torako's embarrassment. Frustrated with the close match, Anko decides to launch numerous
kunai towards Noko as a trap, but Noko dodges them with ease. Anko personally throws a kunai towards her, but she trips and it is thrown towards the direction of Torako that is stopped by Noko taking the blow; however, she survives thanks to the deer cracker that Anko used to lure her into the trap from earlier, despite it not being solid enough to block the hit. Impressed with Noko saving her sister, Anko yields and decides to become a friend to Noko. | ||||||
3 | "Bashame Enrolls" Transliteration: "Bashame Nyūgaku" ( Japanese: ばしゃめ入学) | Shōgo Arai | Takamitsu Kono | Shōgo Arai | July 21, 2024 | |
Torako finds a deer in the Deer Club and assumes that it is Noko in deer form. She tries many attempts to turn her back, to no avail. However, when Noko suddenly arrives, she realizes that the deer is an ordinary deer that escaped from Hino Zoo as it wanted some of the deer crackers. Afterwards, the deer returns to the zoo. When spring arrives, new students enroll in the school, including Anko. Torako and Noko later find a girl sleeping in front of the Deer Club, who introduces herself as Meme Bashame and wants to be a deer like Noko after she saved her life earlier when she was suffering from starvation. As a result, Bashame joins the club. Anko also joins the club much later and begins expressing jealously towards Bashame, but the misunderstanding is soon cleared up. After seeing how lazy the club members are, Torako tries to lay down some rules, which at one point leads Noko to threaten to leave and ruin Torako's reputation if she does not treat them with more respect. As a result, Torako ends up brushing all three of them while a group of girls are spying on them. | ||||||
4 | "The Targeted Deer Club" Transliteration: "Nerawareta Shikabu" ( Japanese: 狙われたシカ部) | TBA | TBA | TBA | July 28, 2024 |
My Deer Friend Nokotan | |
![]() First
tankōbon volume cover, featuring Noko Shikanoko | |
しかのこのこのここしたんたん (Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Oshioshio |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Imprint |
|
Magazine |
|
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | November 15, 2019 – present |
Volumes | 6 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Masahiko Ohta |
Written by | Takashi Aoshima |
Music by | Yasuhiro Misawa |
Studio | Wit Studio |
Licensed by | Remow |
Original network | Tokyo MX, BS Nippon, KFB, TV Aichi, SBS Shizuoka, HBC, AT-X |
Original run | July 7, 2024 – present |
Episodes | 3 |
My Deer Friend Nokotan ( Japanese: しかのこのこのここしたんたん, Hepburn: Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan, lit. 'deer child, brazen, waiting for a chance') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Oshioshio. It began serialization in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Magazine Edge in November 2019. After the magazine's discontinuation in October 2023, it was transferred to Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga website in December the same year. An anime television series adaptation produced by Wit Studio premiered in July 2024.
Torako Koshi is a popular and beautiful high school girl who tries to keep up appearances as a prim and proper beauty. However, one day, she rescues a strange deer-girl hanging from some power lines on the way to school. The girl then soon transfers into her school, introduces herself as Noko Shikanoko, and begins dragging Torako into her bizarre antics, threatening to expose her hidden past as a violent Yankee delinquent, all while Torako seems to be the only one who notices anything wrong with Noko.
Written and illustrated by Oshioshio, My Deer Friend Nokotan began serialization in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Magazine Edge on November 15, 2019. [1] After the final issue of the Shōnen Magazine Edge was published on October 17, 2023, the series was transferred to the Magazine Pocket website on December 20 the same year. [7] The series' chapters have been collected in six tankōbon volumes as of July 2024. [8] The series is licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. [9]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | North American release date | North American ISBN | ||
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1 | July 17, 2020 [10] | 978-4-06-520245-6 | March 15, 2022 [11] | 978-1-64827-886-0 | ||
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2 | February 17, 2021 [12] | 978-4-06-522330-7 | July 12, 2022 [13] | 978-1-63858-318-9 | ||
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3 | February 17, 2022 [14] | 978-4-06-526851-3 | February 28, 2023 [15] | 978-1-63858-784-2 | ||
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4 | February 16, 2023 [16] | 978-4-06-530787-8 | October 17, 2023 [17] | 978-1-68579-520-7 | ||
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5 | May 9, 2024 [18] | 978-4-06-535574-9 | December 31, 2024 [19] | 979-8-89160-645-6 | ||
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6 | July 9, 2024 [8] | 978-4-06-536165-8 | — | — | ||
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These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume.
An anime television series adaptation was announced in March 2024. The series is produced by Wit Studio and directed by Masahiko Ohta, with Takashi Aoshima writing and supervising scripts, Ayumu Tsujimura designing the characters, and Yasuhiro Misawa composing the music. It premiered on July 7, 2024, on Tokyo MX and BS Nippon. [3] The opening theme is "Shikairo Days" (シカ色デイズ, lit. Deer-Colored Days) performed by Megumi Han, Saki Fujita, Rui Tanabe, and Fūka Izumi as their respective characters in the Deer Club, while the ending theme is "Shika-senbei no Uta" (シカせんべいのうた, lit. The Deer Food Song) performed by Han and Fujita as their respective characters. [5] Remow licensed the series [20] and announced worldwide streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Anime Onegai, ADN, and Crunchyroll. [21]
No. | Title [22] [23] | Directed by [a] | Written by [a] | Storyboarded by [a] | Original air date [b] | |
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1 | "Girl Meets Deer" Transliteration: "Gāru Mītsu Shika" ( Japanese: ガール・ミーツ・シカ) | Masahiko Ohta | Takashi Aoshima | Masahiko Ohta | July 7, 2024 | |
While on her way to school, Torako Koshi runs across a strange girl with deer antlers hanging from some power lines on her way to school. The girl guilts Torako into rescuing her from the predicament. Later that morning, the same girl bursts into Torako's class as a new transfer student, introduces herself as Noko Shikanoko, and accidentally breaks down the door and part of the wall when trying to get in, but the teacher and classmates are surprisingly not bothered by this nor the pain that they received. She takes a seat next to Torako, claiming she is a delinquent. Torako, not wanting her past to be exposed, threatens Noko into silence, though some awkward conversation makes it sound like Torako's trying to hide her virgin status instead of her delinquent past. Before Torako heads home after school, she sees Noko bleeding from her head in an abandoned storage shed. Noko quickly heals up and gets Torako to help her clean the shed. Afterwards, the girls' teacher stops by and helps Noko convince Torako to become president of the newly-created Deer Club in the now-cleaned shed. As Torako brushes Noko, another girl angrily watches them from the school's front gate. | ||||||
2 | "Deer Meets Darkness Girl" Transliteration: "Shika Mītsu Kura Gāru" ( Japanese: シカ・ミーツ・暗ガール) | Masahito Otani | Kenji Sugihara | Masahiko Ohta | July 14, 2024 | |
Torako heads to school early in the morning to decorate the shed-turned-club room. Although she isn't all that happy with being the Deer Club's president, she does enjoy the club room's style. After attending class, she heads to the club room only to find it vandalized and with Noko as the only witness. Assuming she was the vandal, Noko corrects her and thinks another person may be responsible who is targeting her. Noko is lured into a trap, during which the culprit reveals herself to be Torako's sister Anko. Anko takes offense on Noko stealing Torako's attention and challenges her to a fight where Noko has to leave the school if Anko wins, but if Noko wins, she will receive lots of deer crackers. Noko agrees, and they later participate in a trivia competition that exposes Torako's private life, much to Torako's embarrassment. Frustrated with the close match, Anko decides to launch numerous
kunai towards Noko as a trap, but Noko dodges them with ease. Anko personally throws a kunai towards her, but she trips and it is thrown towards the direction of Torako that is stopped by Noko taking the blow; however, she survives thanks to the deer cracker that Anko used to lure her into the trap from earlier, despite it not being solid enough to block the hit. Impressed with Noko saving her sister, Anko yields and decides to become a friend to Noko. | ||||||
3 | "Bashame Enrolls" Transliteration: "Bashame Nyūgaku" ( Japanese: ばしゃめ入学) | Shōgo Arai | Takamitsu Kono | Shōgo Arai | July 21, 2024 | |
Torako finds a deer in the Deer Club and assumes that it is Noko in deer form. She tries many attempts to turn her back, to no avail. However, when Noko suddenly arrives, she realizes that the deer is an ordinary deer that escaped from Hino Zoo as it wanted some of the deer crackers. Afterwards, the deer returns to the zoo. When spring arrives, new students enroll in the school, including Anko. Torako and Noko later find a girl sleeping in front of the Deer Club, who introduces herself as Meme Bashame and wants to be a deer like Noko after she saved her life earlier when she was suffering from starvation. As a result, Bashame joins the club. Anko also joins the club much later and begins expressing jealously towards Bashame, but the misunderstanding is soon cleared up. After seeing how lazy the club members are, Torako tries to lay down some rules, which at one point leads Noko to threaten to leave and ruin Torako's reputation if she does not treat them with more respect. As a result, Torako ends up brushing all three of them while a group of girls are spying on them. | ||||||
4 | "The Targeted Deer Club" Transliteration: "Nerawareta Shikabu" ( Japanese: 狙われたシカ部) | TBA | TBA | TBA | July 28, 2024 |