Gokusen

Yes, there are far fewer speeches here where his every word is meant to drive the nail of justice and righteousness into your heart, and into my funny bone, but I still liked the dorama better. Or rather, I was a lot more entertained with it. It's not bad, I'm sure you won't get bored with it if you like stuff like GTO, but I roared with laughter with that one, and here I only laughed a few times. The animation has an older feel to it, but it's dressed up in new garb, so MADHOUSE clearly has it under its wing. Maybe if I hadn't seen the dorama first and then the anime on the same day I'd give it a higher rating, but I can't help comparing, and for me living creatures just take the lead in this one. I'm kind of in love with the ending sequence here, I don't know if I can use it, but it's as if I started to get off on Enka :-D I think my biggest disappointment is that I didn't enjoy the class issues enough. Anyway, it's only thirteen episodes, so I can definitely recommend it. (2010.10.24)