Shonan Junai Gumi Review

I have roughly a dozen volumes of GTO which I really like, so coming across the series that preceded it is kinda cool.

Shonan Junai Gumi is about Ekichi Onizuka and his Friend Ryuji, who leavw their current highschool to transfer to a Co-Ed Highschool in another prefecture to hit on chicks who have no idea who they are.

SJG starts off in a slightly different vein that what I expected, but by the end of the volume it was closer to what I was reading in GTO.

Course the series seems to be only about Onizuka and his friend trying to score (there are some lessons about love towards the end, i was surprised) and that there no real lessons are learned at all, but its all about the friendship between Onizuka and his friend Ryuji in the end and how the two well go through anything for each other, no matter how embrassing.

The tankoban is full of sexually jokes, some which are hilarious others that are groan inducing. And other jokes wiil be lost on most due to Westerners not knowing anything about Japanese Pop Culture (we know waymore now but there are lots of 80's pop jokes).

Fujisawa's artwork is pretty decent, he draws some damn decent looking babes but that could be said for most manga artists.

Overall I ended up enjoying SJG which I didn't think I would when I started reading. I will definitely pick up Vol 2 soon.