Chapters of the manga series written by Kōji Kumeta were serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine, published by Kodansha, from 2005 to 2012 (except for chapter 259, guest-published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday). It is a comedy about a teacher who takes all aspects of life, world and culture in the most negative light possible. It satirizes politics, media, and Japanese society. In 2007, the manga received the thirty-first Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.
All 301 serialized chapters except chapter 268 were collected in thirty volumes released in Japan. The series was licensed for English-language publication by Del Rey Manga, and the first volume was released in February 2009. Del Rey and Kodansha Comics released the first fourteen volumes in North America, the last in April 2012.
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Volume list
Chapter 268 Chapter 268, published in July 2011 and titled , discusses real-world pay-to-work jobs, then imagines a world where sellers pay money to buyers. After its magazine publication, due to similarities to the Doraemon story , chapter 268 was left out of the collected .
Kumeta explains the incident in volume 27: after receiving reader complaints, Kumeta voluntarily contacted Shogakukan's Doraemon department, who concluded that the similarities were unintentional. Despite receiving clearance, Kumeta still held back chapter 268 due to suspecting himself of subconscious plagiarism.
References
External links
Manga official website