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The sequel to the groundbreaking manga Great Teacher Onizuka takes its titular lead back home to the rough and tough surfing heaven of Shonan. Eikichi Onizuka, former biker turned great teacher, is back home in the Tokyo suburbs for a well deserved break (...and to escape possible discipline from his employers at the Tokyo Kissho Academy). But once he arrives, he quickly finds himself assisting a new child protection home as they try to guide troubled teens back to the path of happiness. Unfortunately for the GTO, he has run into a buzzsaw in the form of Miki Katsuragi. Miki is determined to rid her home, the White Swan, of nosy know-nothing adults, and has the financial and political capital to not only have the teacher reconsider his lesson-plan but probably send off the straight and narrow entirely. Then again, who said Onizuka was ever on that path to begin with...The Oni-Baku rides again and manga will be all the better for it.

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<p> If I had to boil it down to a high concept, I'd probably say that GTO is about believing in yourself enough to have a good time in life. Fujisawa does a pretty good job balancing the more saccharine elements of the series with the knock-down, drag-out, somewhat perverted jokes. It's clearly a comedy, but when it takes a turn into drama, it doesn't feel unnatural. 14 Days in Shonan looks like one of those series that can be brutally funny when it wants to be...I've got high hopes. <br> --Comics Alliance<p> Cracking open Vertical Inc.'s release of GTO: 14 Days in Shonan brought back a lot of manga memories. A lot of the comedy comes not from what's going on around or happening to Onizuka, but how he reacts to it all... Established fans will definitely get more out of it, but there's enough fun here to 'open the doors of all hearts, ' as Onizuka himself would put it. <br> --Otaku USA Magazine<p> While I've largely fallen out of manga for a number of reasons, there are certain things that will always draw me back. Discovering that the man behind Great Teacher Onizuka decided to do another series focusing on the character is definitely one of them... The opening volume makes things well connected to the original and adjusts to the new situation with ease in a way that doesn't detract or impact what has come before... This is a ride I am completely enthused about. <br> --Fandom Post<p> I thought I was done with Great Teacher Onizuka. All throughout college, I plowed my way through the series... All was well and good, until just the other day, when Vertical dropped the first volume of Great Teacher Onizuka: 14 Days in Shonan in my mailbox... Suffice to say, the first chapter grabbed me almost immediately. It was the same Great Teacher Onizuka humor I remember, and most importantly, I reacted the same to it as I had when I was stuck in my college dorm on those long Syracuse winter nights. <br> --Japanator<p> As a character explicitly points out, it's painful

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Born in 1967, Tohru Fujisawa is a veteran Japanese comic artist and multimillion unit seller. Best known globally for his international sensation Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO), Fujisawa was the 22nd Kodansha Comic Award Winner in 1998 for his work on the hit series. The GTO property would go on to inspire two animated TV series and an internationally distributed live action TV series by the same name. Since GTO Fujisawa has gone on to pen thirteen more comic series, with four of those properties landing on American shores. Fujisawa continues to be one of the most beloved manga artists of this generation.

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