School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei, Vol. 1 (1)

This manga teaches you and helps you to understand how a prosecution happens. Not only this but it is a great manga with an amazing storyline, I wouldn’t recommend it for children under the age of 12 though. As I does have some very 13+ content but mature 12 year olds should be able to handle it.

My daughter (11) enjoyed this book. She said she thought it could have been longer but overall she liked it. As with any anime/manga there is some "saucy' parts but in my opinion it was nothing extreme or out of ordinary.

awesome manga

Great art, great story, just great.

I had a great time reading this book. I think that it's a bit repetitive but it's still fun to read!

~3/5I thought this sounded cute, and with Obata’s name on it, I was at least intrigued. Plus, I like me some mysteries.I have to admit, though, that I had a hard time distending my belief enough for middle-school lawyers. Not to mention baby judges. And given that they have real training, and their judgments have real consequences? I just had a hard time believing in all this.The main character is Abaku, the defense attorney. He’s rather closed off and rude to his classmates, but it’s hinted that he’s witnessed a real murder. A massacre, even, and he has plans to avenge it maybe. There’s the average school boy who befriends him, Tento, who’s just a nice kid in the end. There are a few side characters, friends to the main ones, and a crazy teacher. Abaku’s real enemy is the prosecutor, a girl who puts on a cute face to win people over, and her minion who likes her rough side.It’s an interesting cast of characters, and I like the hints to what happened to Abaku. The trials are interesting to see, and the mysteries are okay, though not very surprising in the end. Mostly, I have a hard time believing in the whole set up.I’m not sure how I feel about it, but I probably won’t be picking up more.A review copy was provided by the publisher, VIZ Media, for an honest review. Thank you so, so much![More of my reviews are available on my blog, Geeky Reading, to which there's a link on my profile.]

I have to admit - I am having a hard time really getting into this manga. Perhaps it would read better if I was around 11 years old - then the silliness might be nice in a mind-numbing way. But this is no Detective Conan; the cases our litigator has to deal with are a classroom fish that was killed, a hidden camera in an idol's locker, and whether or not the class high achiever cheated on his exam. Apparently, these cases are so important that our protagonist travels from school to school solving them.Story: Abaku Inugami travels Japan's schools to solve cases. He'll exam all the clues and usually helps his defendant get off by proving them innocent. Along the way, he has to battle super cute idol Pine - the prosecutor with a Precure fixation. Neither six grader wants to lose their case - and they'll do their best "Ronpa" (arguments) to build their cases.The panels are a bit crowded and the characters rather 2-dimensional. The 'crimes' weren't very interesting, though there were hints of a bloody and mysterious past for Inugami. But honestly, there just wasn't enough to sustain my interest in this first volume. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

I can't deny I liked this. The idea of the legal classroom alone is intriguing enough for a series, let alone having its pages decorated by Takeshi Obata. I like the idea of the cases and there are quite a few going on in this volume which unfortunately does make the plot rather choppy. But the characters are consistent carrying through the book. Also not sure if part of the choppiness, but one character, the lawyer, seems to have some connection to the bloody massacre in the past. If these are plot teasers this could prove interesting for book 2.

At first i was thinking its story was like Danganrompa but i was wrong it have rompas but the situation got grade schoolers level which i found little cringe because i am 18. I guess its for age 12 - 14. Anyways the manga is not that bad with 3 volumes.