Manga Review: GTO Shonan 14 Days (Volume 1)

Manga Review:
GTO Shonan 14 Days

In this volume of the sequel to the Great Teacher Onizuka series, Onizuka takes a new job as a Group Home Counselor (O.O)

This manga starts off where the end of the GTO anime series leaves off. Onizuka has reconciled with his homeroom class and getting ready to start summer vacation.

Now Onizuka is going on summer vacation and he's trying to find a gig for the summer!

But not before playing some pranks on the Headmaster!  

Onizuka tries out a few different things (you'll have to read to find out) before finding his calling for summer vacation. 

... Then he happens to meet Fuyutsuki's good friend, Ayame Shiratori, on the train. Do you think he has second thoughts about Fuyutsuki when he starts to hit on her girlfriend???

Eventually she offers him a job at a teen group home that she runs with another woman. Onizuka politely... accepts. But not before fantasizing about his future!

Onizuka has no idea that the kids that live at the group home are just as bad, if not worse, than his kids back at the school. He promises to change them for the better and in turn one of them promises to teach Onizuka a permanent lesson in choosing promises. One of the young women at the group home vows to chase Onizuka out before he can help anyone.

This manga was really good. It's a good one to read if you're bored or you're stuck inside on a rainy day. It did seem like it had less jokes and more violence than usual GTO. There are some fanservice shots also. This volume is plot driven and a good addition for any fan of the Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) series.

Everyone Take Your Seats, An Anime Recommendation from RPGHero

I'm going to recommend to you an anime that literally changed my life. Not in the sense that things changed but changed the way I thought about anime and myself. That anime is...

 GREAT TEACHER ONIZUKA

Eikichi Onizuka is a twenty-two year old community college graduate. He wants to become a teacher, according to his proclamations, the greatest teacher in all of Japan. Eikichi really isn't the teacher type. Throughout his middle school and some high school years he was the leader of a yakuza (or Japanese street gang), he frequently watches pornography, he sits under escalators to look up skirts, he drinks, smokes, etc. During his student teaching part of college he was even tempted (key word) to date and marry (with everything in between) girls around sixteen (as the age of consent ranges from 13 to 18 in Japan) due to the advice of a fellow student teacher (who later got kicked out of college). How could this man become the greatest teacher in Japan?? Well it turns out that Eikichi is a really good person. All of that other stuff aside Eikichi is determined to do anything for his students. He has amazing skills at street smarts and common sense. When he's assigned a middle school class he is disappointed at first, but that's not the only challenge he has to overcome. His class has been the problem class at that school for years and they hate teachers! If anyone can help them and make school fun at the same time, it's Great Teacher Onizuka!

On top of all of that Onizuka's co-workers don't approve of him, the vice principal wants him fired, and there are many conspirators who try to ruin his life. It doesn't phase Onizuka at all. He even manages to have a crush on a female teacher who starts to stick up for him when he's up against all odds. 

Go watch it!

The fall season lineup might be too anti-seinin for you...

(Seinin means anime or manga that is geared to people over eighteen)