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 Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:01 pm
Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a split-second temper. His unlikely goal: to be the Greatest High School Teacher in the World! Of course, the only reason he wants to be a teacher is so he can try and score with the hot students ... Before he can become a full instructor, he's got to work as a student teacher to earn his credentials. Onizuka may think he's the toughest guy on campus, but when he meets his class full of bullies, blackmailers, and scheming sadists, he'll have to prove it. They're coming out with a prequel series, it's called... GTO: The Early Years -- Shonan Junai GumiBefore Ekichi Onizuka would become the "Greatest Teacher in the World," he and Ryuji Danma were members of the infamous biker gang, Oni Baku. When they weren't out riding around and getting into trouble, this duo could be found in school. Doing what you ask? Picking up young women of course!
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:07 pm
Definitly one of my top favorite anime and manga series. I didn't finish buying the anime series but I did finally made time to finish the manga series. Oh I almost forgot the just released the live action. ninja Must acquire this too. I didn't really like how they ended the manga though it could of been done a whole lot better. Onizuka is a really good teacher. Its too bad there isn't a lot more like him out there.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:42 pm
I've read up to vol. 5 in GTO. I love it. I thought it would be crap and it was actually really good.
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 7:39 pm
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:47 am
xd sweet i didn't know about the prequal
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:08 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:51 pm
My fav. anime/manga series of ALL time ^_^ Onizuka is awesome, wish there were more teachers like him.
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:51 pm
have you read the prequel?
(came out couple weeks ago...)
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:44 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:03 pm
Just got this one: LOVE IT!
Onizuka reminds me of Naruto, in a older sort of way lol!
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:48 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:29 pm
The whole GTO thing is pretty big.
I mean, 25 manga volumes, 10 DVDs and then another 15 I think manga volumes for the prequal xd
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:56 pm
Great Teacher Onizuka (more commonly abbreviated to GTO) is a manga, anime, and live-action shonen series created by Tohru Fujisawa. It is the story of Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old bōsōzoku member, and his quest to be the greatest teacher in Japan. GTO is a continuation of Tohru Fujisawa's other manga series Shonan Junai Gumi (lit. "Shōnan True Love Group") and Bad Company.
Both the anime and manga have been licensed in North America by Tokyopop.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:57 pm
Story
While peeping up girl's skirts at a local shopping mall, Onizuka meets a girl who agrees to go out on a date with him. However, Onizuka's attempts to bed her fails when her current "boyfriend", her teacher, shows up at the love hotel they were in and asks her to come back. This teacher is old and unattractive, but she is so under this teacher's power that she leaps from a window two stories up and lands in his arms. Onizuka, seeing this display of a teacher's power over girls, decides to become one himself, and discovers three important things:
1. He has a conscience and a sense of morality. This means taking advantage of impressionable schoolgirls is out . . . but their unusually attractive mothers (see Kunio Murai, below) are a different matter.
2. He enjoys teaching.
3. He hates the systems of traditional instruction, especially when they have grown ignorant and condescending.
With these realizations, he sets out to become the greatest teacher ever, using his own brand of philosophy and the ability to do nearly anything when under sufficient pressure. One example being improving his grade from near-zero to perfect on a standardized test in one week, and taking said test in one hour instead of the normal five, all with a few bullet wounds in him from using the other four hours to rescue the daughter of a famous government official from a yakuza hideout. Hired as a long-shot teacher by a privately operated school to tame a class that has driven one teacher to a mysterious death, one to nervous breakdown, and one to joining a cult, he embarks on a mission of self-discovery via breaking through to each student one by one, and helping each student, ranging from the busty bimbo to the oedipal rebel, to learn to genuinely enjoy life.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:58 pm
Live Action
There are live action TV series in 12 episodes (drama), a TV special and movie. Takashi Sorimachi stars as Onizuka, and Nanako Matsushima is Azusa. It is directed by Masayuki Suzuki, and the opening song, "Poison", is sung by Takashi Sorimachi himself. There are some drastic changes from the anime in order to fit the 12 hour format (like Nanako also studying at the Holy Forest Academy, eliminating Anko and making Miyabi the daughter of the PTA president, eliminating Ryuji and giving some of his characters's functions to Saejima (the cop friend), Kunio's mom is now the widow of Onizuka's biker gang idol, as well as a few minor changes) but in the end it accomplishes to capture the spirit of GTO very well. The final episode of the live action series received a rating of 35.7%, which TOKYOPOP's publicity says "was the most watched TV program ever in Japan".
Coincidentally, Matsushima is married to Takashi Sorimachi, who played Onizuka in that series. Sorimachi and Matsushima met on the set of GTO, they married in 2001 after a long term relationship and in May 2004, Nanako gave birth to their first child together, a baby daughter.
A two-hour TV movie followed in August, 1999 and a theatrical movie in January, 2000.
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