Shonan Jun'ai Gumi!

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Shonan Jun'ai Gumi! ( Japanese. 湘南 純愛 組! , dt. "The true love gang of Shōnan ") is a completed manga series of the Japanese mangaka Tohru Fujisawa . It ran from 1991 to 1996 and was published in a total of 31 volumes. Shonan Jun'ai Gumi! is the prelude to the Manga Great Teacher Onizuka , which was also published in Germany . Similar to Great Teacher Onizuka, the manga can be assigned to the genres comedy and drama. An anime and a series of real- life films were later produced based on the manga .

action

The plot of the manga revolves around the duo Eikichi Onizuka ( 鬼塚 英 吉 ) and Ryūji Damma ( 弾 間 龍 二 ) on their way to lose their virginity and grow up. Both are feared Bōsōzoku , who are known for their toughness and toughness in combat. However, this lifestyle is not exactly appealing to women, so they both decide to change their lives, which is easier said than done. As the story progresses, the reader learns a wide variety of friends and enemies, how they get into and out of the craziest situations.

Publications

Manga

The manga was published from March 1991 to December 1996 in individual chapters in Shōnen Magazine and summarized in 31 Tankōbon . In Canada and the USA the manga is published by Tokyopop under the title GTO: The Early Years , in Italy by Dynit and in France by Pika Édition .

Anime

Based on the manga, a five-part OVA was released on VHS from 1994 to 1997 , which was produced by the studio JCStaff . The OVA has not yet been published outside of Japan.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Eikichi Onizuka Issei Futamata
Ryūji Damma Hideyuki Hori
Machida Ikuya Sawaki
Mitsuaki Okubo Hisao Egawa
Ayumi Murakoshi Hiromi Tsuru
Mariko Izumo Masako Katsuki

Real film

From 1995 to 1997, a real film series based on the manga was also shot as a V-Cinema . The series consisted of 5 episodes with a duration of 93 minutes each. The actors Naoki Miyashita (Eikichi Onizuka) and Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi (Ryūji Damma) each played the leading roles. The series has not yet been released outside of Japan.

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