Genuine dogshit. The only reason to read is if you like to torture yourself, which is what I was doing until I got bored of doing even that. Pretentious as fuck. The main character is the worst self-insert character I've ever seen. At least these type of characters tend to get everybody jacking off to them by doing some level of busted bullshit, but this guy has it happen by supposedly being the only 'genuine' guy in the story. He's just insanely perfect and superhuman. Smart, educated, handsome, skilled at fighting, funny, and has all the girls after him. You'd think with how much the author likes to fellate himself about how much literature he reads, he might have enough of a sense of taste to know not to write juvenile horseshit like that. He pretty much gets all the delinquents to get their shit together with just sheer persistence, which leads to nothing interesting getting revealed about them. Teenagers who are this violent, and anti-social just have nothing going in their personal lives that could have led to them lashing out this way. They were bored, and because sports isn't boring they just do that instead. How this shit got 233 chapters is beyond me.

The arts looks good, but a lot of the characters look hideous at times. And not the on purpose goofy ugliness he does for comedy. But even in normal times Kawato just looks ugly. The art was what actually sort of had me thinking this might've been alright at the beginning. But it quickly stops being entertaining just due to plain repetition. He makes all the characters make the same damn goofy faces over and over again anytime Kawato says something 'cool' or weird (which he does on repeat the entire goddamn time.) The faces were neat at the start and but blegh. The paneling is stiff and boring. There isn't really much flow to it. There are several shots of just the ball because he doesn't have any idea on how to portray the ball speeding to the batter interestingly. The worst part about the visuals is how there's absolutely fuck all breathing room. He's so proud of his artstyle that everything is up the ass of every character. face shot, face shot, face shot, generic background shot with nothing interesting, face shot, face shot. And with the large assortment of characters the entire manga is just so claustrophobic because every panel is filled to the brim with bullshit.

The humor was the only alright part about it. Superhuman teacher against delinquents is funny. The part where Anya trashes his paper because he failed, but Kawato tapes it all back by had is funny. It just makes for pisspoor drama, especially at the hands of a guy who loves the sniff of his own farts and doesn't know how to write. That Hiratsuko shit got old really, really quick.

The worst part about all of this is the author still hasn't changed at all. The main character in his new manga is this savvy dude with a chiseled jaw line who likes books a lot. The very first chapter has a fat fuck teacher tell him, "books are for idiots, I don't read that shit" as the protag tells him "Books are cool bro!". And then followed by three different shots of the protagonist 'stylishly' sitting in his chair reading it in silence. I dunno, maybe he's grown self-aware and is riffing on himself, but ehhh.

This shit was just... lame.

And also the main character makes the Pixar-dreamwork eyebrow raise face the entire time:

Of all the things he could have stolen from the Americans, he picks that. For fucks sake bro come on!!