[REVIEW] Gakuen Ouji

It's funny how I always seem to review things I have many, many complaints about. But ah well, it's things like these that get me really fired up. If it were something good like Reimei no Arcana or Ima Ai Ni Yukimasu all I have to say would be “It's good, go read/watch." I actually did write about them but one entry died with Otakuzone and the other you'll have to find somewhere in my pile of old blog posts.

Pull yo pants up.

Anyway, Gakuen Ouji had been my new craze within the past 2 days. I was trying to find a smutty story from Pink no Idenshi and I came across it. My first impression had been "Hmm the main guy's cute, let's give it a read maybe it'll be Shinji Mayu style." Needless to say I became addicted. I read it everywhere I go.

I mean a stupid plot like this just give it so much potential! A world of female domination, inherent sexual tension between the main characters, abundance of fanservice, indicators of future smutty goodness and how everyone has an extensive back story which somehow connects every character together in some way. The funny bits actually had me in stitches, the main girl isn't too hateable upon first impression since she isn't a total pushover. The guys have a lot of imperfections and already I knew I was in for a long ride.

Racist imagery of a black monkey (its owner is Indian).

I suppose the plot is pretty stupid, I mean a former all-girls private school with only a handful of (hot) males already sound bad enough. What's worse is that every guy in the school risks getting sexually harassed unless they're either 1) An unapproachable delinquent, 2) A high-up idol, 3) A sex-crazed player who really doesn't give a crap and 4) Taken by another girl in the school shown through the exchange of ties. 

So Mizutani is a transfer student, he's pretty mysterious and decent-looking. The classes are ranked and naturally being the rare species that is a male he got placed in the S class where only the brightest of the crop go. After being given a general run-down of the school he got pretty freaked out and once girls start chasing after him wanting to give him a 'baptism' (pretty much to violate him) he finds nerdy girl Okitsu who just wants to blend in hiding in a cupboard. He's like, hey let's choose option four and declares her as his girlfriend without her consent. So naturally the girl gets bullied by her sheep-like classmates, and the two eventually do their best to act couple-like in front of other students (INSERT PLOT DEVELOPMENT HERE). 

Akamaru, the QTPie Tsundere

Alot of other things happen, such as shitty transfer students (seriously can someone in this world PLEASE be nice to Okitsu for once, why does everyone have a villainous side to them? It gets totally predictable in the end). She realises that the hot tsundere guy who falls into category no 1 is actually her long-lost childhood friend and Mizutani faces public rape execution and they all have to save him. Each individual 'arc' were actually pretty interesting and well-paced. This is when the English translations end and I thought I had to wave goodbye to Gakuen Ouji forever... UNTIL I found the Chinese RAWs and you have no idea how damn happy I was to have made that discovery, since the manga's so nice so far.

UNTIL Okitsu starts dating Akamaru.

I thought of Akamaru (sweetiepie, I totally ship them but still) like the dude with a crush on the MC but will never have his feelings reciprocated, or the MC's one-time boyfriend who never kisses/sleeps with her because that would be against the rules of Shoujo Manga. Well, I thought again, alright, I guess this must be a plot twist where the girl actually ends up with the nice guy. But then Okitsu starts to show signs of liking Mizutani once again (because he totally didn't just betray you) because she is such a slutbag. But all dat intuition happens to be wrong because some villain feeds her aphrodisiacs and she seduces Akamaru and I'm like that's it I'm so done I want to see mah smut but this is not the smut I want to see because it makes 0 sense. Turns out slutbag Okitsu mumbles Mizutani's name in her sleep and breaks poor Akamaru's heart.

"Come find me anytime." Douche.

Of course Okitsu ends up with Mizutani. But the stupid ending was rushed, unjustified and plain half-assed. I wanted to know so much more about all the characters but the author decided to reveal everything in 3 shortass chapters. Oi Yuzuki Jun, maybe you can tell me whatever happened to Akamaru when Okitsu totally dumps him like that? Maybe you can finally reward a faithful reader with some well-deserved smut? Anything? No. This is like Reborn! all over again. Freaking sigh.

Now, here are more problems I have with this manga. Firstly, the plot's unrealistic enough, why would an 'ugly' (pfft yeah just take off her glasses and she'd look hot) girl have a friggin harem inside an all-girl's school where guys are treated as rare treasures? Also, majority of the 'smut' in this manga is Mizutani getting molested by girls, or the glasses dude having sex with all the girls. Which gets really repetitive and stupid after a while. Then the girl's personality keeps on changing from headstrong to a pathetic little weakling that can't fend for herself. I just get increasingly annoyed and agitated with her stupid indecision and self-pity. Also, something interesting to note is the heavy BL undertones present in this manga. Even the scanlators made funny pictures by changing the dialogue of some pics and turning them into yaoi.

Literally what half the manga consist of

So in conclusion, this manga would probably hook a person like me upon initial inspection. However, its quality gradually degrades and after one reaches the ending they will have already torn all of their hair out.