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Doushirou de Gozaru   
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Description
What would happen if you took a normal Japanese kid, flew him to Nevada, and then raised him on stories of feudal Japan? "I'm Doushirou" would happen. Now Doushirou is back in Japan and is facing the difference between what he's been told all his life and what his own eyes and ears are telling him.

Type
Manga

Related Series
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Associated Names
I'm Doshiro
I'm Doushiro
I'm Doushirou
Io sono Doshiro
道士郎でござる

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Latest Release(s)
c.78-79 (end) by Dayment scans over 4 years ago
c.76-77 by Dayment scans over 4 years ago
c.75 by Dayment scans over 4 years ago
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Status
in Country of Origin
8 Volumes (Complete)
3 Volumes (Special Edition)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

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Average: 8.2 / 10.0 (91 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.73 / 10.0
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Year
2004

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Licensed (in English)
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Weekly Pos #755 increased(+32)
Monthly Pos #1692 increased(+143)
3 Month Pos #2220 increased(+1081)
6 Month Pos #5112 (No change)
Year Pos #6587 increased(+1116)

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On 348 wish lists
On 111 completed lists
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Truly epic!  
by inficio
January 21st, 2008, 3:07am
Rating: N/A
Well, I've always enjoyed Nishimori Hiroyuki's sense of humour that can be found in his more famous work, Cheeky Angel. However, rather than the complicated plot in Cheeky Angel, Doushirou de Gozaru's story is much easier to understand; a boy, raised in Nevada to become a "samurai", has just returned to Japan, and he definitely has no idea that Japan is not all that he thinks it is.

Doushirou is this boy, now grown up and entering high school; accompanied with his tono (master), Kensuke, unenthusiastic Erika, and the newly-reformed delinquent Maejima/Saotome (take your pick), his story is full of great humour (which sadly, mostly works in written form) and epic story arcs starting from high school delinquents to facing off with yakuza.

Kensuke only adds on to the humour, with ways of thinking that usually defy the typical samurai master; in fact, he's rather the opposite of it, but whatever he's thinking always end up making me crack up with laughter.

But the best part is just how well Doushirou's Magic, as Kensuke refers to it, works, seeing how he changes everyone around him (mostly ex-delinquents) so drastically by the ways of samurai.

Overall, it's a great read, and though some might not be fond of the art style, I think it's a great improvement from Cheeky Angel. This series had so much potential though, and it's such a pity that it abruptly ended by the eighth volume.
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Really funny but...  
by VampireBanana
July 11th, 2007, 9:55am
Rating: 6.5  / 10.0
Really funny but by the 7th chapter or so, it feels like the mangaka was reusing all the old jokes.
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Not one of Nishimori's best  
by Y_Sasuke
September 20th, 2019, 4:18am
Rating: N/A
The biggest problem with the manga, and what makes rating it hard, is that the translation by Dayment scans is pretty bad, there are glaring errors in every page. I do appreciate their efforts and am thankful for scanlating this in the first place.

Given the translation problem, the original manga might be better than what I read, but I felt that while entertaining, the characters were so weird, the author didn't really know where he was going and what was even going on character wise.

So the gags work, but chracter development is... well, confusing.
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10 out of 10  
by kvait
March 18th, 2007, 4:53pm
Rating: 10.0  / 10.0
Well, very unique I'd say =)
So far I like it...
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