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[GTO] Great Teacher Onizuka V.3 Manga Review ————————

By: Alpha

Synopsis:
      Off the streets and on the job, Eikichi Onizuka has ascended to the exalted ranks of schoolteacher only to discover he’s now got to learn how to teach.   And the student’s are not going to make it easy for him.   A gaggle of seemingly placid young pupils who have already driven three teachers into psychotic fits now set their sites on the Great Teacher.   But they could very well have underestimated Onizuka’s unusually high threshold for punishment.

Review:  
      In this volume, the plan to kill Onizuka as begun.   After their failure in the first attempt, Murai goes all out and of course, this results in humor to the extreme.   We are also introduced to the smokin’ hot school nurse, Naoko Moritaka (Still can’t compare to Ms. Fuyutsuki though).   Going back to Murai’s plans.   How’s a cockroach in your lunch?   (I’ve always thought that school lunch had a certain funny funk to it.   Now I know it is for real.   Note: I do not eat school lunch :P).   Well this plan fails then leaves to another try in which Murai almost got a taste of his own medicine.   Battles after battles, then all of a sudden we are introduced to Murai’s young mother.   The upcoming parts just shows off Onizuka’s character a little more.   At the end of this volume, Noboru attempts to suicide again, but Onizuka gets there just in time to save him.   But he could not save the Cresta.   After Onizuka, Kikuchi and Noboru sets out for revenge.   Anko Uehara (one of the girls who abused Noboru), tells her mother, the head of the PTA and she starts a big ruckus out of the whole situation.       

Recommend Value - A+, This volume is the funniest yet.   You just can’t get bored of GTO.   The humor comes back to you every time you read it.   Upon reviewing this volume, I have at least read this volume five times.   I will still be cracking up on the comedic scenes in the near future reads.    

Closing Statement(s) - Time to go on to volume four.  

[GTO] Great Teacher Onizuka V.2 Manga Review ————————

By: Alpha

Synopsis:
      Former gangster Onizuka is ready to put aside his punkish outlaw ways and join the working world as a teacher. All that stands between him and a regular paycheck - and dozens of hot girls to flirt with - is the big teaching exam …which, of course, he proceeds to flub. Now, without credentials, the only place he can land a job is as a student teacher at the Holy Forest Academy where he only barely gets hired after humiliating the Vice Principal. He’ll have to use his street smarts to deal with students and faculty alike if he’s ever going to become a Great Teacher.

Review:  
      After being hung up so high by TokyoPOP at the end of volume one, we finally go to volume two and the action continues.   Onizuka shows what he thinks teaching is about.   He tries to fix a family problem, that one of his female students was having.   At the end, of course, his help works and the family finally begins to come back as a whole.   (Ya know? a good old sledge hammer does come in handy at times ^_^)  

      One problem is solved and another comes running in.   Onizuka finishes his teacher in training program, and is looking for a school who would hire him, being a lazy person that he is and thinking that things will come knocking on your door without yourself giving any effort, (By the way, that quote has some meaning to it, FYI) Onizuka doesn’t make it to the exam that all teachers had to take if they were to teach at a public school.   As he is sulking, his best friend Ryuji, shows him the light!   That’s where the funniest part out of this volume comes in; Onizuka meets Azusa Fuyutsuki (A soon to be teacher) and vice principal, Uchiyamada.   After a hilarious scene on the bus, both Onizuka and Fuyutsuki goes to Holy Forest Academy for their interviews.   Oh my god!   Funny scenes come one after another, and all of a sudden you see Uchiyamada on the floor with white foam over his mouth. :D  then…

      GTO changes to GDO (Great Driver Onizuka) and as he drives, Ryuji rings him up and tells Onizuka some great news.   He makes a U-turn on the Tokaido interstate and drives recklessly back to the academy.   He is later on hired and will be living on campus.   A lot of weird things go on at night on the campus and as Onizuka uncovers them, he finds another, soon to be problem.                                   

Recommend Value - A+,GTO is one of the best manga / anime series that ever appeared on the face of the Earth.   With comedy, ecchi humor, and life values this piece of work contains.   It’s no wonder why Tohru Fujisawa named this work GREAT Teacher Onizuka and I’m sure a lot of readers and viewers agree too.

Closing Statement(s) - Need.. to… calm… the… cravings… for…. more… scenes… of… Ms….. Fuyutsuki.  

Kare Kano Vol. 1 Manga Review —————————————-

By: Alpha

Synopsis:
      Yukino Miyazawa has it all - perfect grades, looks, the admiration of her peers.   She’s the #1 student at her school… at least she was until he showed up.   The new boy, Soichiro Arima, one-ups her in every department.   And the worst thing about it is that he’s sincere!   With her ego in jeopardy, Yukino will do whatever it takes to regain the spotlight, but falling in love was never part of the plan.

Review:  
      I am pretty surprised that I took approximately three weeks just to finish Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances or Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou) volume one.   Do not get me wrong.   This manga was a very fun read.   Sometimes manga-ka Masami Tsuda would add her little funny life episode on the side of a page.   Masami has a great sense of humor, she made me laugh as I was reading Tsuda Diary near the end of volume one.    

      Let’s get to the story, Yukino Miyazawa a top student and ego maniac, preys on the praises of others.   In other words, she gets satisfied as people admire her.   All eyes were on Yukino until Arima arrived.   Arima, a male student who is similar to Yukino in many ways in the eyes of the school, suddenly becomes the center of attention and Yukino feels that she no longer is number one.   Finally, Yukino scores higher than Arima on a test and she becomes surprised at Arima’s actions.   All he did was praised her.   Yukino feeling a bit of uneasiness goes home and acts if nothing happened.    

      But later on is when something does happen, and when the story starts pulling together.   Arima finds out Yukino’s true self first hand and then we end up with Arima blackmailing Yukino.   Many things happen and at the end of the volume we are put into what is going to become the beginning of a pair of lovers.    

      Certainly I enjoyed the manga licensed by Tokyopop as with the animation licensed and distributed by The Rightstuf International.   The story was pretty much on par with the animation.   The only difference between them is that in the manga a bonus story called “The Tiger and the Chameleon: A Promise For One Week” and “Tsuda Diary” was included.   The story of the bonus story was about a girl who thought that she was ugly, because a kid from back then called her ugly.   The story relates to an issue that many people face today; looks in other’s eyes.   She went from a person who would not even put her head up because she had such low self esteem to a person who no longer cares.   How?   That’s for everybody who read Kare Kano volume one to know and you who have not yet read Kare Kano volume one to find out :P.      

Recommend Value - A, Kare Kano is easily my top favorites right now.   But let’s try to find some negatives.   I can’t.   The story of Kare Kano is real.   Meaning it is based in present time more importantly Masami Tsuda is a genius!   And hehe she sleeps late so that she cannot wake up early on purpose and what her brother does to her when she can’t wake up is funny.   Check it out, hey who knows you might grow to love this series too.            

Closing Statement(s) - Three weeks to finish a manga… that’s sad, I need to kick myself in the rear or jump start my motor for taking so long!     

Chobits V.1 Manga Review ————————————————–

By: Alpha

Synopsis:
      Chi isn’t your average humanoid computer. She can’t do word processing, she can’t connect to the net, and she’s incapable of interfacing with other persocoms … but when the hapless, technophobic Hideki rescues her from the scrap heap and takes her home, he finds that she may be more advanced than her childlike behavior lets on …

Review:  
      I remember when I was taking an exam, and in the exam came a reading part where it was about a computer named Joe and a dude that programmed Joe.   The programmer wanted to find his one true love, through Joe’s advanced pair making program that he created.   As time goes by and the programmer enters his information to Joe, Joe becomes more and more like the programmer.   Sort of being his closes friend.   Then one day, because Joe is a mechanical version of the programmer, he betrays his master and gets him arrested for breaking some law (I forgot).   By the time that happened, Joe found the programmer’s soul mate and he takes the place of the programmer and of course Joe takes the girl too.   This story is very interesting and it brings up the issue of if humans should have computers (robots).   Which also brings us to Chobits…          

      Have you ever wonder what it would be like to own a robot?   Better yet, a persocom.   Hideki Motosuwa, 19 years old and a virgin :P.   He introduces us to the setting of Chobits in the first few pages.   Then we find out his desire for a persocom, but because he is poor, there’s no way he can afford a persocom that costs more than what he has in his bank.   He wonders what it would be like to have a persocom.   Then it happened, like an angel falling from the sky.   Hideki finds Chi (Chii) in a garbage dump as he is walking home after work.   At first he thought it was a dead body of a girl, then he looked carefully and found out it was a persocom that someone apparently had thrown out.   The whole process of bringing Chi back to his place was hilarious and… I don’t know how to explain it ^_^;;  
Anyways, Hideki finally gets Chi to start and all Chi can say is Chi, because her data disk was dropped as he brought her home.   That pretty much sums up volume one ^_^    

      There’s comedy everywhere in the manga, so as I was reading I had a lot of good laughs.   The drawings are nicely done and the story is addictive, because of the fact that computers are taking over a lot things in our lives in this day in age.   Who knows when we’ll have persocoms.           

Recommend Value - A, Chobits is created by the all female group CLAMP, but that’s not the reason why I recommend Chobits.   The main reason is that Chobits has a cool story, a lot of comedy and the drawings are very well done.         

Closing Statement(s) - CLAMP has scored big with Chobits.   Anyone looking for something to get a good laugh out of, a deep story that tackles the issue between humans and robots; it has to be Chobits.   One more thing, I love TokyoPOP for bringing so many hit manga series.   And no I’m not sucking up!   If you have read the news lately you’ll know what I’m talking about.