Alternative TitlesEnglish: Gokusen Synonyms: Gangster Teacher Japanese: ごくせん
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 15
Chapters: 200
Status: Finished
Published: 2000 to 2007
StatisticsScore: 8.011 (scored by 598 users)
Ranked: #5662
Popularity: #528
Members: 1,181
Favorites: 59 1 indicates a weighted score
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Synopsis"Fresh out of college, Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi becomes a math teacher at an all-boys high school. Unfortunately for her, she's assigned by the school board as the homeroom teacher for class 3-D, which happens to be the class of delinquent students. When the class attempts to make a living hell out of Yankumi's career, they fail as her persistence and aggression gain her respect. However, little does anyone in the school know that Yankumi is actually heir to the Kuroda Ikka - one of Tokyo's most powerful yakuza clans."
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Related MangaAdaptation: Gokusen
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Susurrous
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
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119 of 200 chapters read
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
7 |
| Art |
6 |
| Character |
9 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
Gokusen is a great manga, with a unique storyline and hilarious characters. However, it just. Isn't. Quite. There.
I will explain:
Story:
Gokusen has a unique storyline, with the Yankumi being the heir to a Yakuza clan and all. I love how in the early chapters she attempts to keep her yakuza heritage hidden while using her skills to protect her class. It is quite fun humour. However, a lot of the chapters are very similar in that they follows this pattern:
a) her students get themselves into some trouble.
b) Yankumi saves them.
This gets quite boring after a while and so a lot of the past chapters are not very memorable (however, some parts of the story are, so I am not saying that the whole story is not memorable- just some parts).
Art
This is Gokusen's Achilles heel. I nearly stopped reading it at the beginning due to the art which I thought was not very pretty, or attractive. However, it is clean, crisp, and easy to follow, so I suppose that is why I stuck to it. Then again, this IS a josei manga, so I didn't expect to see insanely beautiful bishounen or flowers popping up in every panel (cough, CLAMP, cough).
Character
I love the characters, especially Yankumi. While Yankumi can be quite dense and stubborn and oblivious to other people's feelings, she kicks butt and I LOVE how she can beat up thugs and then appear totally innocent about the whole thing. Also, it is very cute when she accidentally slips into "Yakuza mode" and has to cover it up by acting dumb or girlie.
Now onto Shin. While Shin's haircut ANNOYED ME TO DEATH at the beginning, I have gotten used to it and actually have grown quite fond of him. He is very cute when trying to cover up his feelings and when he blushes (which is RARE).
Enjoyment and Overall
I'll put these two together since they link closely together. I liked Gokusen very much; it is a very enjoyable josei manga. WHile the romance between them is downplayed, the relationship between Shin and Yankumi as student-teacher is one of the best out there. I have to give Gokusen an 8 because while the art is not one of the best I've ever seen, the premise of Gokusen is unique and memorable. read more
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Both deal with a spirited teacher going to teach and the issues that they have with their students.
They are both gang-becomes-teacher scenario. One difference is that GTO's main protagonist is a guy while Gokusen's is female. So it does have this shoujo feel at the end, but main character acts like a dude anyway so no problem. And it's just hilarious too.
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These share a school environment, yakuza, slow developing romance and a female lead that is somewhat oblivious to love. Each is a long read that is definitely worth the effort.
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