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“New teacher Yankumi leads delinquent class while secretly being yakuza heiress.”
Gokusen
ごくせん
8.1
691 rank · 20,674 readers · 471 favorites
Josei
Delinquents
Organized Crime
School
Workplace
Action
Comedy
Romance
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
New teacher Yankumi leads delinquent class while secretly being yakuza heiress.
Fresh out of college, Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi becomes a math teacher at an all-boys high school. Unfortunately for her, she's assigned by the school board as the homeroom teacher for class 3-D, which happens to be the class of delinquent students. When the class attempts to make a living hell out of Yankumi's career, they fail as her persistence and aggression gain her respect. However, little does anyone in the school know that Yankumi is actually heir to the Kuroda Ikka—one of Tokyo's most powerful yakuza clans. (Source: ANN)
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Community consensus
Derived from 16 sampled reviews
8.5
/10
What 16 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8.5
mode 8
σ 0.87
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.87 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.50
Running avg · Oct 2008 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Gokusen, it's one of the few manga that doesn't completely revolve around a love story that I've liked. It's the story of a high school teacher whose family is from the Yakuza, but she has a dream...”
- 9 “I don't understand the reason that why the fuck its animated series was never continued ever again, I mean it was better than Drama bcz in Drama many arcs were missing which could fill as a gap in...”
- 7 “The story has no direction. It's that simple, but it's compensated by it's refreshing and vast variety of characters. The teacher doesn't really have a goal, so neither does the story in my...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 44%
Long · 31%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 156 × 15 ch × vol
- Total read 20h 48m approx
- Published Dec 1999 – Feb 2007
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1009 catalog