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“Pre-GTO Onizuka's junior high delinquent days with Ryuji, featuring bike origins and Midnight Angel first meeting.”
Bad Company
BAD COMPANY
7.5
3,414 rank · 16,932 readers · 114 favorites
Shounen
Delinquents
Action
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Synopsis
Pre-GTO Onizuka's junior high delinquent days with Ryuji, featuring bike origins and Midnight Angel first meeting.
Before Eikichi Onizuka became a legend, before Onibaku, before he became GTO, he was just a normal junior high school delinquent. Getting into fights with his seniors, trying to pick up girls and just hanging out with his friends. Bad Company is a compilation of many short stories, linked together with the characters of Eikichi, Ryuji and their school buds. Such stories involve the origins of Eikichi`s bike, which we see frequently in GTO, the first meeting with the Midnight Angel and many other.
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 6
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.50
Running avg · Aug 2013 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Bad Company is what all school life mangas are aspiring to be, but aren't. I mean, most of current school life mangas and anime are usually harems with loser main characters and little girls...”
- 6 “A short manga on how Onizuka and Danma got to know each other. It has some cozy vibes of past childhood days with friends, but that pretty much it. Is has some fighting but fewer jokes than SJG....”
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Short · 50%
Medium · 50%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 10 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 20m approx
- Published Jun 1996 – Jul 1996
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0431 catalog