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Heartbreaking, heartwarming, just heart. A beautiful whimsical short series about love and acceptance.

The collection of well realised, complex, unconventional characters and their stories sucked me in very quickly. Finding out each of their backgrounds and philosophies was fascinating, old man Tchaiko and the boy Misora especially, I fell in love with the characters and falling in love with made me feel like I'm just hanging with them at the drop-in center.

The fantastical metaphors are some of the best I've seen in any story. The shape shifting, gravity defying, Anonymous might be the obvious example, but not the only one. Tasuku breaking through a metaphorical wall ... drawn as a physical one was genius and one of the best moments in the series, the hospital flying scene almost made me cry.

It's a must read and a quick one at that.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

This was just right. As a weekly jump reader who's tired of recycled villains and disappointing endings, this was just right.

I didn't know anything about volleyball before reading this, and i think i sort of love volleyball now. And if there's a reason why i love volleyball it is because Furudate loves it ten thousand more times then me and it shows. Not only does he write games like battles, he writes them like Hunter x Hunter battles. Every save, every set and every spike are tactical and surprising. When are first games got longer and longer i was worried, but i ... was wrong to, i love every single part of the games and if they were even more detailed you wouldn't hear me complain

The series is amazing in so many aspect, but it stands tall as a masterpiece in one aspect, characters. Not character, characters, because there are so many effing characters in this series and they're all great. The decision not to have any villains, or one dimensional antagonists was brilliant, it lets us delve into and fall in love with so many characters it's jaw dropping. Everyone has their own philosophy, they're own motivation, their own relationships, their own victories and eventually their own losses. And of course without the perfect treatment of characters, we couldn't have had the perfect ending.

Oh my god, i loved this ending! the amount of genius character development in every panel was incredible. Instead of giving two chapters to the characters' future, the choice to make it the entire final arc is genius and bold. I love how fitting every character's future was to they're personality, even if the character completely quit volleyball it made sense and somehow still was satisfying. The big game itself, incredible. Seeing the biggest players of the series Duke it out was so gratifying i lost it, and the fact after all the build-up we find out it wasn't even that big of a deal for Hinata and Kageyama was a great moment.

BTW try reading comments on YouTube volleyball videos, nothing but haikyuu fans

I read many reviews praising this manga and speaking on how it changed them, well, I'm very sorry then, but as an adult reading this it was too flawed to enjoy any of it.

I guess I'll start by talking about what, I guess, most people find appealing about GTO, the messages. Now, some of them are nice, not all of them, some of them. "Face up to your past mistakes." Great! "Everyone has their own problems." Very true. "If somebody sexually attacks someone, sexually assault them in return." Uuuuuuuuuuuum, no.

About the art, it's not good. It's not so bad (for the time), but it's also ... not impressive and it doesn't really improve throughout the series. There were so many unmemorable character designs I confused everyone with anyone and it became unbearable as more characters joined in.

If I'm on the subject of characters, it's a weird one. Most characters are boring and dumb and everytime I saw them I sighed. But some of them, I liked, until they sexually assaulted someone, or tried to get someone raped, did terrible things in general. Now, if the series addressed these terrible actions as terrible, it might find ways of redeeming it's characters, but most of the horrible things people do just come off as funny or quirky, and that just grossed me out thinking the author might agree with these actions.

The plot, I'm not sure how to talk about something that's just not there. There are only two types of arcs in GTO, someone tries kicking onizuka out of school, and onizuka stops someone from killing themselves. That's it! And it repeats itself and repeats itself and repeats itself, Everytime a character declared they're about to get onizuka fired I wanted to die, Everytime someone jumped off the school roof and onizuka jumped after them (for someone who's so good at helping people an awful lot of them actually try and kill themselves) I started pulling hairs out. I know it's a comedy, but still. And the ending, it just ended! The last arc didn't feel all that special, was it cancelled or something?!

And, worst part of all, the humor. I did not laugh once, I sometimes wasn't even sure where the the jokes tried to go. Onizuka looks up his student's skirt after she tells him she's depressed, it's an old series, it's fine. Onizuka makes a funny face all the time, it's for children, they like funny faces, it's fine. She wants onizuka to like her so she dyes her hair blond and tans, where the fuck is the joke?!!

Overall, it might save been a 2/10 if I didn't think the treatment of women and rape in this series was terrible. I really hope no kids ever read it again and especially not taking any life lessons from it.