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Men's Kou #1
Seiho Boys' High School!, Vol. 1
In a high school nicknamed Alcatraz, how's a guy supposed to find love?
Remote, lonely and surrounded by the ocean. This isn't Alcatraz we're talking about--it's Seiho Boys' High School, where the student body is rife with sexually frustrated hunks! How can these young men get girlfriends when they're stuck in the middle of nowhere? These are the stories of the students of Seiho High and the trouble they get into as they awkwardly pursue all girls who cross their paths.
When a pretty girl shows up on campus, the whole school is sent into a frenzy. It's not often these sheltered youths get a real living and breathing female within their midst. The boys want to help her out but are they in way over their heads?
Remote, lonely and surrounded by the ocean. This isn't Alcatraz we're talking about--it's Seiho Boys' High School, where the student body is rife with sexually frustrated hunks! How can these young men get girlfriends when they're stuck in the middle of nowhere? These are the stories of the students of Seiho High and the trouble they get into as they awkwardly pursue all girls who cross their paths.
When a pretty girl shows up on campus, the whole school is sent into a frenzy. It's not often these sheltered youths get a real living and breathing female within their midst. The boys want to help her out but are they in way over their heads?
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 26, 2007
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About the author
Kaneyoshi Izumi
84 books21 followersAssociated Names:
和泉兼好
Name (in native language) :
和泉かねよし
Kaneyoshi Izumi is a Japanese manga artist, born in April 1st. Her blood type is A and her hobbies include hiking, piano playing and feeding wild cats.
She received the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo in 2006 for そんなんじゃねえよ [Sonnan ja nee yo] and in 2015 for 女王の花 [Joō no Hana].
和泉兼好
Name (in native language) :
和泉かねよし
Kaneyoshi Izumi is a Japanese manga artist, born in April 1st. Her blood type is A and her hobbies include hiking, piano playing and feeding wild cats.
She received the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo in 2006 for そんなんじゃねえよ [Sonnan ja nee yo] and in 2015 for 女王の花 [Joō no Hana].
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June 24, 2019
--- Seiho Boys High School 1-8 ---
Plot: Sepintas seperti akan melupakan kejadian lalu-lalu, tapi untunglah tidak XD.
Penokohan: Ok.
Gambar: Ok!^^
Yahhh, kurang lebih begitu (´∀`) //apanya.
Kisah Seiho Boys High School ini punya beberapa fokus cerita, tapi tokoh utamanya jelas cowok bernama Maki yang bertampang manis tapi jago berkelahi. Dia lelaki yang normal... diantara teman-teman yang patut dipertanyakan X"D //ehgajugasih //plak.
Komik ini kental humor-- asal gelombang otaknya sedang ringan saat membacanya. Jalan plotnya juga menurut saya sangat baik. Meski mengadang-adang kisah anak muda, tetapi toh cerita utamanya selalu tentang percintaan, percintaan, dan percintaan. Makanya, kalau mencari kisah penuh keringat masa muda komik shounen, anda salah alamat! Mwahahahah!
Yah, sebagai bacaan ringan, saya menikmatinya. Meski ada satu dua plot dan tokoh yang menjengkelkan, saya tetap menikmatinya. Gambarnya sensei bagus ya btw! X"D
[8/10]
Plot: Sepintas seperti akan melupakan kejadian lalu-lalu, tapi untunglah tidak XD.
Penokohan: Ok.
Gambar: Ok!^^
Mencari kisah tentang asrama cowok?
Mau melihat kehidupan anak-anak cowok?
Penuh peluh keringat dan sportifitas?
Persahabatan "lain" dari para cowok?
Kalau begitu silahkan ambil langkah menjauh dari komik ini. Soalnya cowok-cowok disini............. SERIGALA! “(`(エ)´)ノ //eh
Yahhh, kurang lebih begitu (´∀`) //apanya.
Kisah Seiho Boys High School ini punya beberapa fokus cerita, tapi tokoh utamanya jelas cowok bernama Maki yang bertampang manis tapi jago berkelahi. Dia lelaki yang normal... diantara teman-teman yang patut dipertanyakan X"D //ehgajugasih //plak.
Komik ini kental humor-- asal gelombang otaknya sedang ringan saat membacanya. Jalan plotnya juga menurut saya sangat baik. Meski mengadang-adang kisah anak muda, tetapi toh cerita utamanya selalu tentang percintaan, percintaan, dan percintaan. Makanya, kalau mencari kisah penuh keringat masa muda komik shounen, anda salah alamat! Mwahahahah!
Yah, sebagai bacaan ringan, saya menikmatinya. Meski ada satu dua plot dan tokoh yang menjengkelkan, saya tetap menikmatinya. Gambarnya sensei bagus ya btw! X"D
[8/10]
July 11, 2014
This was a strange one. In the world of shojo, this book is an oddity. The story follows a group of boys living at a secluded boarding school. They are horny, lonely, and looking for love at every possible opportunity with no success what so ever.
At first I didn't think I would like this. It's definitely not my thing and if the first three volumes weren't on the library shelf I probably wouldn't have bothered. I was pleasantly surprised. The book is broken up into three main stories and an unrelated side story. The art is pretty fantastic and each male is an individual which I mark as an accomplishment in and of itself. The writing is interesting. It reads very real, yet still has that shojo vibe to it. I really, really did not expect to like this one bit, but there was a nice balance between the heartfelt moments and the no-holds horniness.
It's not for everyone, but worth a try. I'm interested enough to at least read the next one, which may not be a ringing endorsement, but certainly unexpected. This was a weird 2.7999 STARS rating.
At first I didn't think I would like this. It's definitely not my thing and if the first three volumes weren't on the library shelf I probably wouldn't have bothered. I was pleasantly surprised. The book is broken up into three main stories and an unrelated side story. The art is pretty fantastic and each male is an individual which I mark as an accomplishment in and of itself. The writing is interesting. It reads very real, yet still has that shojo vibe to it. I really, really did not expect to like this one bit, but there was a nice balance between the heartfelt moments and the no-holds horniness.
It's not for everyone, but worth a try. I'm interested enough to at least read the next one, which may not be a ringing endorsement, but certainly unexpected. This was a weird 2.7999 STARS rating.
November 30, 2024
60% lustig und niedlich, 40% ganz großer Cringe
January 19, 2025
REVIEW UNTUK VOL 1-8
Sebenarnya manga ini lumayan lucu sih dan kaakter para remaja cowonya juga lumayan menyenangkan. Saya sejujurnya lebih suka dengan hubungan pertemenan para tokoh cowonya dibandingkan kisah romansanya yang terasa apa ya? Mau saya bilang dangkal tapi mereka memang masih remaja sih jadi cukul bisa dimaklumi. Yah, begitulah.
yang membuat saya jadi hanya bisa memberikan dua bintang untuk serial manga ini.
Sebenarnya manga ini lumayan lucu sih dan kaakter para remaja cowonya juga lumayan menyenangkan. Saya sejujurnya lebih suka dengan hubungan pertemenan para tokoh cowonya dibandingkan kisah romansanya yang terasa apa ya? Mau saya bilang dangkal tapi mereka memang masih remaja sih jadi cukul bisa dimaklumi. Yah, begitulah.
yang membuat saya jadi hanya bisa memberikan dua bintang untuk serial manga ini.
October 5, 2010
Shojo manga that insists on portraying teen boys as their cheerfully crude selves. I laughed and laughed.
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December 5, 2024DNF
In my collection of Viz first volumes now released on sale or points back on Bookwalker (yay!), I managed to buy both this and Doubt!! If I'd read either one before buying the other... I wouldn't have. The preview for this had a modern Here is Greenwood vibe but by the time I got to the school nurse, it was nope nope nope.
(To be clear, I didn't mind the teen boy stuff although I don't prioritise teen boy fantasies in my reading, cause basically ick, who needs that. It was that I wanted character and situation-based comedy and I got lazy and cliched with overt sexual bullying.)
In my collection of Viz first volumes now released on sale or points back on Bookwalker (yay!), I managed to buy both this and Doubt!! If I'd read either one before buying the other... I wouldn't have. The preview for this had a modern Here is Greenwood vibe but by the time I got to the school nurse, it was nope nope nope.
(To be clear, I didn't mind the teen boy stuff although I don't prioritise teen boy fantasies in my reading, cause basically ick, who needs that. It was that I wanted character and situation-based comedy and I got lazy and cliched with overt sexual bullying.)
August 18, 2020
I thought it would be about boys going out of their way to seduce young women but turns out it's boys going out of their way to find cheap porn and stare at the school nurse's tits. So you know, gets old pretty fast.
May 8, 2021
I had to reread the volume to figure out which characters were which. There were too many complex relationships that didn’t get explored but had definitive endings, and some were taboo. Overall, I was very confused and won’t be continuing this series.
July 19, 2025
The art was good and all.. but what’s with all the incest tropes…? That’s really weird. I knew it was gonna be a weird book but what the heck! I was expecting boys high school drama not “I’m in love with my little sister.” Bro come ON!
January 24, 2018
Forgot all about this one, if that tells you anything about how memorable it was.
September 9, 2019
Is this even considerd shojo?
December 29, 2019
Ceritanya lucu dan ringan tentang kehidupan di asrama cowok Jepang.
July 28, 2010
Originally posted here at Anime Radius.
A lot of expectations and preconceived notions naturally follow any manga series published under the Shojo Beat banner: a dramatically told love story that is heavy on the romance and drama and told from the female perspective specifically for the female gaze. Seiho Boys High School!, as it stands right now in its premiere volume, is really none of those things. Sure, it has some dramatic moments and the purpose of the series is so its cast can one day find romance, but it's a series about horny teen boys on a secluded high school who see more girls in the pages of magazines than in real life. Hell, at one point two boys end up fighting over the rights to read a pile of porno mags; they are not exactly the dreamy mature lads from series like Hana-Kimi or Boys Over Flowers, not by a long shot - which is good, because I honestly think this series would be dead boring if they were.
Boys like Nogami and Maki don't really live in the world of reverse harems seen in Ouran, and you'd do well to not categorize Seiho Boys High School! as a reverse harem manga: even if the ratio of boys to girls is overwhelming based on premise alone, it's not about which boy will which girl hook up with in the end or even about the girls at all. This series consciously decides to not view the boys' school for a female gaze, showing all of the gross and unkempt things that naturally arise from a ton of adolescent males living in dorms and rejects romanticizing their lives in favor of showing what happens when boys who don't talk to the opposite sex on a regular basis cope when meeting one after a long girl-less dry spell (hint: it is not pretty for anyone involved, as poor Ayako found out the hard way in her respective chapter).
Despite it having a lot of things going for it in terms of being out of the ordinary, Seiho Boys High School! somehow manages to stumble over the starting line by committing a terrible fallacy often seen in series that want to be unique by doing half the work required: it tries to pander to the same characteristics found in so many shojo manga before it, from the fireworks at the beach to stealing a bike and riding off into the sunset with someone else's girlfriend. There's even a smattering of sister complexes that would seem by-the-number if it weren't for the actual characters involved. In the process of embracing some tired tropes, the series self-consciously laughs them all off and occasionally subverts them to humorous effect, but even this can't hide the self-doubt it has in its own message: a manga series about boys for girls that isn't bishonen city 24/7. Sadly, this self-esteem problem routinely manifests itself from the mouth of the manga-ka herself; Izumi doesn't seem very confident in her work, comparing it at one moment to a weed in a bookstore and practically begging her readers to buy her work. This kind of humble-is-me pandering is usually typical in manga-ka's side notes, but coupled with the in-story issues the series already suffers from, perhaps it would not have hurt Izumi to show a little more faith in her own work's strengths.
What exactly are Seiho Boys High School!'s strengths? For one thing, it is wickedly funny, especially the blue humor that shows up during the scenes in the boys' dorms, whether they be fighting over porny mags or yelling at a certain "butt-scratching prince". The artwork works hand-in-hand with Izumi's own sense of comedy, especially when it comes to facial expressions (it seems that the usually low-key Maki gets to wear the best of these, followed by the always overly dramatic Nogami). It takes its time setting up what will probably be the series' usual cast of characters, but there are hints galore that now it is more comfortable in its setting and story foundation, the only direction that Seiho Boys High School! can possibly go is up - and with it, the size of its readership. Only the release of the second volume will truly tell, and hopefully enough people will hang around for it to see how this manga stands on its own two feet.
A lot of expectations and preconceived notions naturally follow any manga series published under the Shojo Beat banner: a dramatically told love story that is heavy on the romance and drama and told from the female perspective specifically for the female gaze. Seiho Boys High School!, as it stands right now in its premiere volume, is really none of those things. Sure, it has some dramatic moments and the purpose of the series is so its cast can one day find romance, but it's a series about horny teen boys on a secluded high school who see more girls in the pages of magazines than in real life. Hell, at one point two boys end up fighting over the rights to read a pile of porno mags; they are not exactly the dreamy mature lads from series like Hana-Kimi or Boys Over Flowers, not by a long shot - which is good, because I honestly think this series would be dead boring if they were.
Boys like Nogami and Maki don't really live in the world of reverse harems seen in Ouran, and you'd do well to not categorize Seiho Boys High School! as a reverse harem manga: even if the ratio of boys to girls is overwhelming based on premise alone, it's not about which boy will which girl hook up with in the end or even about the girls at all. This series consciously decides to not view the boys' school for a female gaze, showing all of the gross and unkempt things that naturally arise from a ton of adolescent males living in dorms and rejects romanticizing their lives in favor of showing what happens when boys who don't talk to the opposite sex on a regular basis cope when meeting one after a long girl-less dry spell (hint: it is not pretty for anyone involved, as poor Ayako found out the hard way in her respective chapter).
Despite it having a lot of things going for it in terms of being out of the ordinary, Seiho Boys High School! somehow manages to stumble over the starting line by committing a terrible fallacy often seen in series that want to be unique by doing half the work required: it tries to pander to the same characteristics found in so many shojo manga before it, from the fireworks at the beach to stealing a bike and riding off into the sunset with someone else's girlfriend. There's even a smattering of sister complexes that would seem by-the-number if it weren't for the actual characters involved. In the process of embracing some tired tropes, the series self-consciously laughs them all off and occasionally subverts them to humorous effect, but even this can't hide the self-doubt it has in its own message: a manga series about boys for girls that isn't bishonen city 24/7. Sadly, this self-esteem problem routinely manifests itself from the mouth of the manga-ka herself; Izumi doesn't seem very confident in her work, comparing it at one moment to a weed in a bookstore and practically begging her readers to buy her work. This kind of humble-is-me pandering is usually typical in manga-ka's side notes, but coupled with the in-story issues the series already suffers from, perhaps it would not have hurt Izumi to show a little more faith in her own work's strengths.
What exactly are Seiho Boys High School!'s strengths? For one thing, it is wickedly funny, especially the blue humor that shows up during the scenes in the boys' dorms, whether they be fighting over porny mags or yelling at a certain "butt-scratching prince". The artwork works hand-in-hand with Izumi's own sense of comedy, especially when it comes to facial expressions (it seems that the usually low-key Maki gets to wear the best of these, followed by the always overly dramatic Nogami). It takes its time setting up what will probably be the series' usual cast of characters, but there are hints galore that now it is more comfortable in its setting and story foundation, the only direction that Seiho Boys High School! can possibly go is up - and with it, the size of its readership. Only the release of the second volume will truly tell, and hopefully enough people will hang around for it to see how this manga stands on its own two feet.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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January 15, 2011I'll be honest at the start of this review & say that this series really wasn't for me. It's a cute read but it's kind of not my style. That admission however, does not stop me from recognizing that this is a pretty decent series that's sure to gain a good fan following.
The storyline follows a bunch of gorgeous guys in an all boys school as they try to gain the attentions of the various girls that they run across & for the most part, failing miserably. Whether it's a forbidden love or an unrequited one, these guys just can't seem to get a break!
I have to admit, this series was pretty darn cute. I recognized the author's work in the series Doubt!!, which was a pretty decent series. As in Doubt!!, the artwork is pretty nice & you can see where she puts a lot of love into it. The stories are also pretty decent, being completely one shots that have almost no relation to each other except for having the same cast of characters. Fans Izumi's previous works will undoubtedly be drawn to this series & those who like a hint of boys love in their manga will love the slight brushes against that genre. (I can't honestly say if that element gets more explored as the series progresses.)
It's just that in the end this series didn't really do anything to personally draw me in. I liked it & if I see the second volume on the shelves of my local bookstore I'd read it, but it's not something I'd buy or re-read. Like I said above though, I can see where this will be incredibly popular with other people.
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The storyline follows a bunch of gorgeous guys in an all boys school as they try to gain the attentions of the various girls that they run across & for the most part, failing miserably. Whether it's a forbidden love or an unrequited one, these guys just can't seem to get a break!
I have to admit, this series was pretty darn cute. I recognized the author's work in the series Doubt!!, which was a pretty decent series. As in Doubt!!, the artwork is pretty nice & you can see where she puts a lot of love into it. The stories are also pretty decent, being completely one shots that have almost no relation to each other except for having the same cast of characters. Fans Izumi's previous works will undoubtedly be drawn to this series & those who like a hint of boys love in their manga will love the slight brushes against that genre. (I can't honestly say if that element gets more explored as the series progresses.)
It's just that in the end this series didn't really do anything to personally draw me in. I liked it & if I see the second volume on the shelves of my local bookstore I'd read it, but it's not something I'd buy or re-read. Like I said above though, I can see where this will be incredibly popular with other people.
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April 9, 2014
Ceritanya lumayan sih.. nggak terlalu menye. Ini Shoujo tapi nggak kayak kebanyakan Shoujo yang berpusat sama pasangan yang romantis. Ini tentang SMA berasrama khusus cowok terpencil yang cowok-cowoknya hampir nggak pernah lihat cewek. Kalau siswa-siswanya biasa menyebut sekolah mereka sebagai "PENJARA ALCATRAZ" XD
Di volume 1 ini baru bercerita tentang kisahnya Hanai, Nogami, dan Kamiki. Sedangkan cerita Maki si tokoh utama malah belum ada, katanya sih bakal ada di volume 2. Lucu sih, karena ini tokohnya banyakan ikemen cowoknya, jadi hampir nggak ada tuh adegan klise. Tiap ada kata-kata bagus yang diucapkan oleh seseorang, pasti langsung ditimpali "Jijik!" atau "Kayak sinetron!" XD
Kenapa baca komik ini? Soalnya udah fix ada 8 volume, jadi nggak akan di-PHP nunggu endingnya kayak pas baca The Wallflower, Vol. 1. Terus kenapa bintang 3? Tadinya mau ngasih 4 tapi extra-story di belakangnya agak jijay -___-"
Di volume 1 ini baru bercerita tentang kisahnya Hanai, Nogami, dan Kamiki. Sedangkan cerita Maki si tokoh utama malah belum ada, katanya sih bakal ada di volume 2. Lucu sih, karena ini tokohnya banyakan ikemen cowoknya, jadi hampir nggak ada tuh adegan klise. Tiap ada kata-kata bagus yang diucapkan oleh seseorang, pasti langsung ditimpali "Jijik!" atau "Kayak sinetron!" XD
Kenapa baca komik ini? Soalnya udah fix ada 8 volume, jadi nggak akan di-PHP nunggu endingnya kayak pas baca The Wallflower, Vol. 1. Terus kenapa bintang 3? Tadinya mau ngasih 4 tapi extra-story di belakangnya agak jijay -___-"
April 18, 2011
Cute read with some fun characters. When I read the jacket and saw that this series focuses on an all-boy boarding school and the daily ups and downs (and puberty driven lusts) of said teen boys, I was worried this would be a teen series with a pervy 'to much info about teen boy desires' edge. However, the characters (while desperate for girls) are really sweet and rambunctuos in a typical teen way. Teen drama at its best - where characters laugh and cry and pick up their friends' spirits along the way ;b
January 18, 2011
Gay, Jock, Perv, and Good Guy. The four main characters are all desperate for relationships! Mostly a comedy, there are some here and there pieces of seriousness. The boys have more experience with 2D (magazine) than 3D (real) girls! What's funny is how they all seem to end up in bad or not-to-be relationships. The gay boy was the only one to have a real girlfriend in middle school. A fun light read.
September 20, 2016
Ngakak baca komik seri ini.. Saking ngakaknya sampe nangis XD.
Baru baca sampe seri 4 sih.
Ceritanya tentang sekolah cowok di sebuah pulau "terpencil". Murid-muridnya pada gila kalo udah ngeliat mahluk yang namanya perempuan. Tapi ceritanya gak vulgar kok. Kisah cintanya juga bisa dibilang biasa aja, khas anak SMA, tapi gak klise dan lumayan menyentuh dengan gaya bahasa yang ringan dan penuh humor.
Ceritanya mudah diikuti jadi walaupun gak baca dari awal tetap saja menarik.
Baru baca sampe seri 4 sih.
Ceritanya tentang sekolah cowok di sebuah pulau "terpencil". Murid-muridnya pada gila kalo udah ngeliat mahluk yang namanya perempuan. Tapi ceritanya gak vulgar kok. Kisah cintanya juga bisa dibilang biasa aja, khas anak SMA, tapi gak klise dan lumayan menyentuh dengan gaya bahasa yang ringan dan penuh humor.
Ceritanya mudah diikuti jadi walaupun gak baca dari awal tetap saja menarik.
April 20, 2011
A romance following the male side of things, I have a soft spot for this. Certainly not realistic but still it drew me in with the different characters and great humor.
November 17, 2013
sekolah khusus cowok
gak heran kalau sampai ada yang gay -_-"
gak heran kalau sampai ada yang gay -_-"
August 11, 2015
There isn't a main thing going on but the stories are good and the characters are nice. It's something nice to read when you're not sure what to read or in between series.
December 4, 2015
I didn't like it, :{ I tried to read the whole manga but I couldnt the story-line was too bored for me.
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