And you thought there is never a girl online?

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And you thought there is never a girl online?
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First light novel volume cover featuring the character Ako Tamaki
ネトゲの嫁は女の子じゃないと思った?
(Netoge no Yome wa Onna no Ko Janai to Omotta?)
Genre Comedy, Romance
Light novel
Written by Shibai Kineko
Illustrated by Hisasi
Published by ASCII Media Works
Demographic Male
Imprint Dengeki Bunko
Original run July 2013 – present
Volumes 10
Manga
Written by Shibai Kineko
Illustrated by Kazui Ishigami
Published by ASCII Media Works
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Dengeki G's Comic
Original run August 30, 2014 – present
Volumes 2
Anime television series
Directed by Shinsuke Yanagi
Produced by Kei Fukura
Takao Kiyose
Written by Tatsuya Takahashi
Music by Maiko Iuchi
Studio Project No.9
Licensed by
Network AT-X, Tokyo MX, BS11, SUN
Original run April 7, 2016 – present
Episodes 12
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And you thought there is never a girl online? (ネトゲの嫁は女の子じゃないと思った? Netoge no Yome wa Onna no Ko Janai to Omotta??, lit. "You Thought Your Online Game Wife Wasn't A Girl?") is a Japanese light novel series, written by Shibai Kineko and illustrated by Hisasi. ASCII Media Works have published nine volumes since 2013 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Kazui Ishigami began serialization in ASCII Media Works' seinen manga magazine Dengeki G's Comic from August 30, 2014, and has been collected in two tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Project No.9 began airing on April 7, 2016.

Plot

Teenager Hideki Nishimura plays the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Legendary Age under the alias Lucian. One day, after he proposes online to a girl who says that she is a man, Hideki swears off online marriages. Two years later, the persistence of Ako Tamaki, another Legendary Age player who is in the same guild as him, wore him down, and he accepted her in-game marriage offer. When he finally meets up with the rest of his guild members in the real world, he is shocked to discover that not only are they all actually girls, but that they attend the same school as him.

Characters

Main Characters

The four main characters are the members of the "Alley Cat guild" in the online game Legendary Age. In real life, they later find out they are all the students of the same school.

Hideki Nishimura (西村 英騎 Nishimura Hideki) / Lucian (ルシアン Rushian) (Funimation: Rusian)
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga[1] (Japanese), Dallas Reid (English)
The main protagonist. In game, he serves as a male knight. He is also Ako's husband inside the game. In real life, he is a male 1st-year high-school student, and distrusts girls due to the fact that a long time ago he proposed to a girl in the game, who told him that she is male.
Ako Tamaki (玉置 亜子 Tamaki Ako) / Ako (アコ Ako)
Voiced by: Rina Hidaka[1] (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)
The main female protagonist. In game, she takes the role of a female cleric. She is Hideki's in-game wife as a result of her repeated in-game proposals to him and his reluctant acceptance. In real life, she attends the same school as Hideki, but is often absent due to her heavy addiction to the online games. She has a hard time distinguishing the gaming world from reality and casually calls everybody in the guild by their avatar names even in real life.
Akane Segawa (瀬川 茜 Segawa Akane) / Schwein (シュヴァイン Shuvain)
Voiced by: Inori Minase,[1] Masaya Matsukaze (game) (Japanese), Jād Saxton, Josh Grelle (game) (English)
In game, she takes the character of a male knight. In real life, she is a classmate of Hideki, and despises otakus despite being one herself. Her avatar name is German for pig, which she did not know until Kyo informs her offline, much to her chagrin.
Kyō Goshōin (御聖院 杏 Goshōin Kyō) / Apricot (アプリコット Apurikotto)
Voiced by: M·A·O,[1] Wataru Hatano (game) (Japanese), Mallorie Rodak, J. Michael Tatum (game) (English)
In game, she is the leader of the Alley Cat guild, taking the role of a male mage. In real life, she is the student council president of the school, and the daughter of a wealthy family.

Supporting Characters

Nanako Akiyama (秋山 奈々子 Akiyama Nanako) / Sette (セッテ Sette)
Voiced by: Hitomi Ōwada (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)
Akane's friend and a new player. She finds out about Akane's secret that she plays online games and agrees to keep it a secret. Shortly afterwards, she begins playing Legendary Age.
Yui Saitō (斉藤 結衣 Saitō Yui) / Nekohime (猫姫 Nekohime)
Voiced by: Yoshino Nanjō (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
A teacher and the club's supervisor. She is the player of the avatar Hideki confessed his love to that he believed was a guy.
Ako's Mother (亜子の母)
Voiced by: Megumi Takamoto
Mizuki Nishimura (西村 瑞姫 Nishimura Mizuki)
Voiced by: Mayu Iizuka
Hideki's little sister.

Media

The first light novel volume was published on July 10, 2013 by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. As of April 2016, ten volumes have been published.

Light novel

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 July 10, 2013[2] ISBN 978-4-04-891799-5
2 October 10, 2013[3] ISBN 978-4-04-866030-3
3 February 8, 2014[4] ISBN 978-4-04-866332-8
4 May 10, 2014[5] ISBN 978-4-04-866572-8
5 August 9, 2014[6] ISBN 978-4-04-866780-7
6 December 10, 2014[7] ISBN 978-4-04-869090-4
7 April 10, 2015[8] ISBN 978-4-04-865065-6
8 August 8, 2015[9] ISBN 978-4-04-865340-4
9 December 10, 2015[10] ISBN 978-4-04-865587-3
10 April 9, 2016[11] ISBN 978-4-04-865914-7

Anime

An anime television series adaptation by Project No.9 premiered on April 7, 2016.[12][13] The opening theme is "1st Love Story." by Luce Twinke Wink☆, and the ending theme is "Zero Ichi Kiseki" (ゼロイチキセキ?, lit. "Zero One Miracle") by Yoshino Nanjō.[14]

Episode list

No. Official English title[lower-alpha 1]
Original Japanese title[15]		 Original air date
1 "And you thought there is never a girl online?"
"Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko Janai to omotta?" (ネトゲの嫁は女の子じゃないと思った？) 		 April 7, 2016
2 "I thought we couldn't play net games at school?"
"Gakkō ja Netoge wa Dekinai to Omotta?" (学校じゃネトゲはできないと思った？) 		 April 14, 2016
3 "I thought net games and reality were different?"
"Netoge to Riaru wa Chigau to Omotta?" (ネトゲとリアルは違うと思った？) 		 April 21, 2016
4 "I thought her secret wasn't going to get out?"
"Ano Ko no Himitsu ga Barenai to Omotta?" (あの子の秘密がバレないと思った？) 		 April 28, 2016
5 "I thought reincarnating would give me my big chance?"
"Tensei Sureba Wanchan Aru to Omotta?" (転生すればワンチャンあると思った？) 		 May 5, 2016
6 "I thought if I declared my love, I was sure to succeed"
"Kokuhaku Shitara Seikō Kakutei Da to Omotta?" (告白したら成功確定だと思った？) 		 May 12, 2016
7 "I thought if I went to the beach, I would become a normie?"
"Umi ni Ittara Riajū ni Nareru to Omotta?" (海に行ったらリア充になれると思った？) 		 May 19, 2016
Alley Cats summer vacation has finally started and Kyo has a few surprises to help Ako better understand the real world whilst helping connect her and Hideki's relationship. After enjoying Kyo's private beach and villa for a couple hours, Saito Sensei gets angered that the group isn't using the most of their "youth" and demands they all hangout together for the rest of the day. Night falls and Kyo sets up a special line of fireworks where Hideki then pronounces his love to Ako on the villa steps, but even with Ako accepting and pronouncing hers, she still sees their relationship as husband and wife. To no avail Kyo sees the vacation as a failure and thus sets up another at Hotel Flores a hotel that is collaborating with Legendary Age. The group then spends most the day going on "code quests" that give the player items when they purchase stuff from different areas in the hotel. Around mid day Hideki returns to his hotel room and starts up Legendary Age with Ako where she then invites Hideki (Lucian) to her room via the game. Ako suggest they swap couples chat. Hideki then randomly logs out and logs back in, but something doesn't seem right about the newly logged in Lucian. 
8 "I thought I was giving up being a net game husband?"
"Netoge no dan'na o Akirameru to Omotta?" (ネトゲの旦那を諦めると思った？) 		 May 26, 2016
9 "I thought if we stayed over, we would get along better?"
"Otomari shitara Nakayoku nareru to Omotta?" (お泊まりしたら仲良くなれると思った？) 		 June 2, 2016

Notes

  1. ↑ All English titles are taken from Funimation.

References

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