Gakuen Tengoku

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Japanese: 学園天国

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 8

Chapters: 86

Status: Finished

Published: Oct 23, 2003 to Nov 24, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Ecchi

Themes: Harem, School

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Jump

Authors: U-jin (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #18794²

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Gakuen Heaven is the story of Oshino Makoto in his attempt to become a teacher, in order to fulfill a promise made to his childhood friend and first love Koiwai Ayano, who also promised that when they see each other again they will get married. However he fails and ends up being a substitute teacher in an all-girls private school ruled by his grandmother. He meets there a lot of female students; especially Narusawa Tsugumi, as well as Asagiri Ayano, a teacher who resembles his long lost first love. He also becomes the love interest of the substitute principal, his cousin Kyouko.

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Dec 2, 2014

ZENSX

Recommended

Preliminary (46/86 eps)

Despite there having only ~46 chapters scanlated, I figured I'd leave a review considering there isn't any. This manga deserves that much at least.

Story: 6.5/10
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This was quite a roller coaster throughout. Initially we're introduced to a possible childhood friend reunion love story. Then of course, a possible love-triangle/minor harem comes into play. A bit later, there are a handful of ecchi scenes accompanied by a handful of sex scenes. Add in some "conflicts" every now and then for a change of pace and that's pretty much what has occurred so far. For the first half of the manga, the story progression is paced pretty well ... although I have no idea regarding the later half. Sadly, there were some filler chapters that were time wasting but for the most, the flow of the manga is pretty much on point. As for the few conflicts that arose so far, they were definitely eye-roll worthy. Even though quite some time was invested into them, they were usually solved simply- almost to the point of being deus ex machina'ed away by our protagonist.

Art: 6.5/10
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Well considering the manga dates back to 2004-2006, it obviously will not be as refined as today's works. Given that, it really isn't that bad. We have a school based setting and with good background work to match. It is worth mentioning that the artwork did improve through the course of the manga. U-Jin definitely improved his/her drawings and it showed through the work. The characters are drawn pretty well but I feel that the male lead and female lead don't really look exactly their age despite being adults among high school kids. To the mangaka's credit, there were a large variety of characters and s/he did a good job with each of them having distinct and varying details that made them unique/distinguishable.

Characters: 6.5/10
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It's a bit hard to get into character depth without spoiling a lot of the story as it's pretty much the meat and potatoes of the manga. For the most part, the male lead was a indecisive (read: a wuss) guy but came through when his female cast relied on him. The females? to put it nicely, they were pretty wanting to get a piece of the MC. U-Jin did a nice job when it came down to separating on-screen time for characters and didn't abandon the supporting characters. The cast weren't abnormally stupid or silly and pretty realistic when it came to their reaction and antics. Like I mentioned in the Story section, conflicts were a non-factor. Therefore the "villains" that were setup for the conflicts were pathetically silly and eventually transitioned into supporting characters later on. I feel rather disdained of the situations our male lead gets himself into though I don't think that was the author's intention, maybe.

Enjoyment/Overall: 6.5/10
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So far despite the wonky story line and less than appreciable characters, it has been a decent read. The current scanlations left off at a rather interesting point in the story that I actually want to read further into; so the manga can be quite enthralling when it wants to be. As far as recommending it to others, yeah it's still good enough for that purpose. The genre tags are spot on with perhaps romance taking more of a backseat, so if you're a fan of the genres then you already know your course of action huh?

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Jan 16, 2021

hexashadow13

Mixed Feelings

tl;dr: A manga that is pretty generic yet still has some greatly amusing aspects, but has major issues that prevent it from being all that enjoyable.

This manga is bizarre. It could have been a semi-decent, albeit generic, harem rom-com. The core premise of a teacher trying to stay true to his love for another teacher while helping other students who fall in love with him so he has to fend off their advances is decent. But the implementation is horrible.

The first major issue is all of the things he has to help them with stem from other teachers essentially molesting them and that's supposed to ...

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Feb 15, 2017

KaeUBW

Not Recommended

This will be a spoiler free review after having read the entire manga.

Story - If you have read Love Hina you'll find the story of Gakuen Tengoku familiar. The problem is that the story here never really advance and in fact the manga seems unfinished.

There are a lot of stupid situations that make you ask "what's the problem with those people" and "does police exist in this manga?". Nothing really exciting happens and there are a lot of things that are not developed whatsoever. An example would be the principal who is the cousin of the MC and she likes him, but this part of ...

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