Description
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.
American Outlaws
The Oni-Baku have dealt with misfits and ruffians all over the greater Tokyo area all throughout their high school years, but now a new world threat has settled along the shores of Shonan. A bizarre mix of American midshipmen have turned this surfers&rsquo, paradise into a war-zone!
PRAISE FOR THE WORK:
&ldquo,If you love tales of delinquents who will fight with all their youth for what they believe in, tales of love and missed chances or just the occasional comedy of the absurd then GTO: The Early Years is a title you are looking for as it is bursting with tales of those living their youth to its utmost. Recommended&mdash,A Grade.&rdquo, &mdash,Fandom Post
&ldquo,I had fallen way behind in my [GTO: The Early Years] reading, but was able to pick up where I left off with minimal confusion&hellip, There&rsquo,s also some terrific comedy here&mdash,the author likes to break up all the gang fights with one-shot chapters that are hilariously silly.&rdquo, &mdash,A Case Suitable for Treatment
&ldquo,While this part of the story is a bit cruder than later parts of Onizuka&rsquo,s story it also has its own energy&hellip, I feel the humor is a bit ruder, the action a bit wilder, and the stakes a bit higher&hellip, This is the raw and uncut Onizuka.&rdquo, &mdash,Reverse Thieves
&ldquo,This prequel to the immensely popular GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) actually came out first in Japan, but is lesser known. There&rsquo,s slapstick galore&hellip, There&rsquo,s also plenty of tear-jerking pathos. [GTO: The Early Years] offers lots of rowdy high-school fun, with a pleasant absence of shrinking girls and an abundance of good humor.&rdquo,
&mdash,Publishers Weekly
&ldquo,How&rsquo,s Onizuka, brawler extraordinaire, supposed to deal with someone who not only doesn&rsquo,t feel pain but positively thrives on it? &hellip, If you start here without any context, you&rsquo,re liable to be a little lost. To compensate for that, though, they&rsquo,ve post some notes&hellip, Me, I walked in more or less cold, picked up most of what I need to know from context, and laughed myself out of my chair all the same.&rdquo,
&mdash,Genji Press
Ü,ber den Autor
Toru Fujisawa
