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    Aixchel  wrote:   
      
   > Gokusen is a highly popular josei (adult women) title by Morimoto   
   > Kozueko currently running in You Comics Magazine. It has been made into   
   > a very successful drama (3 seasons!) and anime. Despite that popularity   
   > in Japan, only the anime has been licensed in North America.   
      
   > The artwork is very clean and easy to follow, making it a quick and   
      
   gokusen is famous enough that I know about it by reputation, but the   
   art-work style is too bi-shonen for my taste.   
      
   > enjoyable read. Superficial parallels are going to be drawn to GTO since   
   > this is a story set in a highschool full of misfits. But that is the   
   > only similarity between the two. GTO's Onizuka is jaded, street-smart   
   > and oversexed - and so are his students. He soon loses his idealism and   
      
   actually the sex and violence in GTO is just baits for people to start   
   reading, when you consider that in the end of the series nobody dies,   
   and Onizuka is still a virgin.  if anything, Onizuka is undersex becuase   
   he can't get any.   
      
   > concentrates on fixing his student's personal lives. In contrast,   
   > Yankumi is naive and never loses her idealism  (much to the dismay of   
      
   it depend on what idealism you are talking about, if Onizuka's idealism   
   is high-school teacher == girl magnet, then yea, his idealism is   
   shattered, but if his idealsim is to do what is right?  then he never   
   wavers from that,   
      
   > Interestingly, the drama, manga, and anime differ in one key point:   
   > Yankumi's love interest.   
      
   when they do the live TV drama of Western Antique Confectionery Store,   
   they also change the relationship to hide the yaoi-gay elements.   
      
   > Readers afraid that the Gokusen manga has at its heart another   
   > unrealistic shoujo cliched teacher-student relationship story need not   
   > worry. In many ways, Sawada is far more mature than his young teacher   
      
   this is actually a common element in manga relationship, in shonen, the   
   girls usually are the more mature one, in shoujo, it is the guys, or to   
   be more precise, the love interest of the "lead" is usually the more   
   mature one.   
      
   > As long as there is the Sawada/Yankumi dynamics, I'll continue to read   
   > this great series. It is fun, humorous, silly, and interesting without   
   > needing fanservice, gratuitous sex, melodrama, or machismo to keep   
   > reader interest.   
      
   which is not to say you can't have good manga with fanservice and   
   gratuitous sex, etc. priority, priority... :)   
      
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