The thirty-sixth comic: #700 Great Teacher Onizuka

This was a bit of an odd manga. The basic premise doesn't sound too bad - a graduate from a fifth tier university loafs around all day, mostly without a job, until he wanders into being a substitute teacher. He then decides to make that his calling, although he's not exactly a standard teacher, isn't great at imparting normal lessons, but turns out to be amazing at dealing with trouble classes and troubled students.

Then the oddities set in, with some Japanese touches and a lot of fan service. There are plenty of voluptous students, as well as mothers and teachers that the teacher is impressed by. He avoids getting entangled with students - although more because it would cost him his job than because he actually feels he shouldn't - but is fairly perverted. There is a feeling that the bad boy (he was in a gang before) was meant to be something the teen boy readers should identify with, but I felt it was off putting. The gang elements mean that breaking through to the students went in an interesting way, one that I wouldn't want to see in real life, but make sense in the comic's context. It just is surrounded by some things I don't enjoy as much.

Through that, the story annoyed me as often as it connected, and I just didn't see the point in why would want to continue reading. It just isn't much fun.