Dragon Zakura

It's sad when I see a good series like this lying dormant

8 months passing by still nothing

"Alien" was a reference to earlier in the manga, chapter 52 I think.

Thank you to DKThias and TheThing for help with some tricky typesetting.

Thanks to Titania for all their hard work on this series. It's since been dropped (https://www.facebook.com/titaniascans/posts/1045800558805770). We'll continue work on this series.

yesss !! thank you everyone love this one

I love the cold blooded honesty.

"You're going to continue being cheated for the rest of your life."

"Humans just love worrying."

"Are heartfelt words really so important?"

Such a cool series. Makes me want to take charge of my life.

hmm, ill give this one a shot, i've read enough manga to know that just because the art is lacking that doesn't mean it's a bad manga. will probably post a reply after a few hours of reading

The memory tree has a glaring problem in which it can't be used without having thoroughly read and completely understood the material at least once. Hence "memory". Something that Japan seems to miss a lot, learning isn't about memory. Notes should be used to reinforce someone's understanding of a concept or idea, not to reinforce their memory of it. This holds true for history as well. What good is knowing the causes and consequences of the Prohibition Act if students don't understand the concept of precedent and how to analyze current events for precedent as to not let history repeat itself?

Of course it is probably asinine to be thinking about such things: This manga is geared towards passing tests, not learning.

Then it should be considered that it is completely impossible to use it in any hard science or mathematics because the structure of the tree is incompatible with that of mathematics.

I would say that, yeah, rote learning for something like mathematics is gonna make people puke and hate the subject (especially when it continues into college with literally countless theorems and formulas). Actually, it has already done so for 99% of people. Because most of those who teach maths were taught the same way. Those who learn it by exploring it can derive everything with almost no effort and waste of mental storage. Usually they go on and become mathematicians.

 

But I guess they are just cramming for an exam and there's no mathematician here.

lol... if my teacher explain about the sperms and eggs like this.... im sure we will never complete the whole subjects for that year... my point is, its take too long to explain only about that mini topic in 12 subjects

The chemistry teacher is the likeness of Albert Einstein. It even has him do the iconic "tongue-out" pose. It's also hilarious.

I've always found that the chapter on TOEFL is absolutely hilarious. I especially love how they compare Japan and Norway's English education. As someone who's experienced both, I can say that they're dead wrong. There's really a serious lack of research done for this chapter.

The main reason that there are so few Norwegians taking TOEFL is that most universities and colleges teaching in English have an exception to the TOEFL (or similar test) requirement for Norwegians - and a couple of other countries, I think (in some cases, you have to do an essay instead, though). Basically, it's commonly acknowledged that the Norwegian English level is generally so good that asking for a TOEFL-score is pretty much a waste of time.

As, y'know, evidenced by how, in High School classes, you're required to read plays, full novels, both classic and modern, excerpts of novels, and you're required to read and analyze both poetry and short stories. And be able to write papers; both analyzing literature and/or society and culture, and poetry/fiction. In Japan, I did my entire year's worth of grammar coursework in... three or so classes, and I read my textbook in less than a day, and that was supposedly an advanced school, and the literature course. Norwegians are expected to manage grammatically correct (if simple) sentences by third or fourth grade of elementary, ffs. In Japan, you're lucky if they can manage that by end of High School.

Even the Norwegian third language studies were further along than the Japanese second language (English) studies... Oh, and Norwegian students learn two versions of Norwegian, too. And a little bit of old Norse. Y'know, cause why not, right?

If you're Norwegian and can't speak English at least semi-fluently, people will wonder wtf is wrong with you (you may be excused if you're older than 50). Exchange students to Norway apparently find this super frustrating, because they're never able to practice their Norwegian, since the moment people realize they're not fluent, they switch to English...

Also, the only people who say they "know Japanese" (or any language, really) if they speak less than fifty words are, in my experience, socially inept morons. Most people will say "god, no, I'm awful," or "yeah, I can introduce myself as Idiot from Stupidville" and laugh.

New sizzling chapter! Enjoy!

nice one, give it a try guys.

I like story about education ex hammer session and Denpa Kyoushi

Jesus, one of my favorite series.