This series is one of the manga that i really like to read when i was in primary school and middle school. Jigoku Sensei Nube or Hell Teacher Nube is one of the Shonen Jump title back in early 90s with theme of Youkai which is somehow prevalent around this era. The story of this manga is about a Primary School teacher called Nube who is just assigned to Domori Primary School as a Homeroom teacher for 5th graders. He is an exorcist possessing a powerful demonic on his left hand and apparently the school need him due to high spiritual activity within the school which will often involve his students. The manga is well known for ecchiness level in its era and reference of the pop culture of Japan throughout its period. As a horror manga, i find this series is quite scary back then especially the earlier volumes though it gradually becomes more generic shounen manga but it still have some awesome moments. The series had 33 volumes though the current scanlation is rather slow probably due to low interest. If you like youkai manga like Ghost Sweeper Mikami or Nurarihyon, i think you will enjoy this manga too.
I'm kind of a poor writer on manga and this seems like a vintage series. The manga that I was seriously into during my teenager years must be Dragonball Z
ReplyDeleteAh, this is also another great manga, but personally I think GSM is better. I especially liked the chapters revolving around Yukime.
ReplyDeleteI find GSM and Nube is quite similar as they gets more Shounen towards the end of the series and i would say both of them are equally good (though Nube is scarier). Yukime is easily one of the high tier rendition of Yuki Onna and probably even better than Tsurara in Nurarihyon.
Deletegahhhh! i have been looking for scanlation of the manga but unfortunately i am only able to find til chapter 50..i do have the raw file and link to the eng scanlation
ReplyDeleteThere are complete raws scans of the series indeed but i suppose the scanlation team who worked on this manga's translation appear to lost interest for Nube.
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