:Great Teacher Onizuka
{{Short description|Japanese manga series}}
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{{Infobox animanga/Header
| image = GTO volume 1.jpg
| caption = First {{Transliteration|ja|tankōbon}} volume cover, featuring Eikichi Onizuka
| genre = {{ubl|Action|Comedy{{cite web|url=http://www.tokyopop.com/S-1034/1.html|title=GTO Volume 1|publisher=Tokyopop|access-date=March 10, 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501100854/http://www.tokyopop.com/S-1034/1.html|archive-date=May 1, 2007}}|{{Transliteration|ja|Yankī}}{{cite web|last=Toole|first=Michael|title=Damn Yankiis - The Mike Toole Show|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-mike-toole-show/2015-03-22/.86254|website=Anime News Network|access-date=April 30, 2020|date=March 22, 2015|archive-date=December 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213134036/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-mike-toole-show/2015-03-22/.86254|url-status=live}}}}
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{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type = manga
| author = Tooru Fujisawa
| publisher = Kodansha
| publisher_en = {{English manga publisher|NA={{ubl|Tokyopop (former)|Kodansha USA (current, digital)}}}}
| demographic = {{Transliteration|ja|Shōnen}}
| imprint = Shōnen Magazine Comics
| magazine = Weekly Shōnen Magazine
| first = January 8, 1997
| last = February 13, 2002
| volumes = 25
| volume_list = List of Great Teacher Onizuka chapters
}}
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{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = drama
| director = {{ubl|Hiroshi Akabane|Satoru Nakajima}}
| producer =
| writer = Kazuhiko Yukawa
| music =
| studio = {{Unbulleted list|Fuji Television|Avec Company}}
| network = FNS (Fuji TV)
| first = July 7, 1998
| last = September 22, 1998
| episodes = 12 + 1 special
| episode_list =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = tv series
| director = Noriyuki Abe
| producer =
| writer = Masashi Sogo
| music = Yusuke Honma
| studio = Pierrot
| licensee = {{English anime licensee
| AUS = Madman Entertainment
| NA = Discotek Media}}
| network = FNS (Fuji TV)
| network_en = {{English anime network|NA = SHONext
Anime Selects on Demand|SEA=Animax Asia}}
| first = June 30, 1999
| last = September 17, 2000
| episodes = 43
| episode_list = List of Great Teacher Onizuka episodes
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = live film
| director = Masayuki Suzuki
| producer =
| writer =
| music =
| studio =
| released = December 1999
| runtime = 140 minutes
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = drama
| director = Imai Kazuhisa
| producer = {{Unbulleted list|Kasai Hideyuki|Yamamoto Yoshihiko}}
| writer = Masaki Fukuzawa
| music = Haneoka Kei
| studio = {{Unbulleted list|Kansai Telecasting Corporation|Media Mix Japan}}
| network = FNS (KTV)
| first = July 3, 2012
| last = September 11, 2012
| episodes = 11 + 3 specials
| episode_list =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = drama
| title = GTO in Taiwan
| director = Imai Kazuhisa
| writer = Junpei Yamaoka
| music = Haneoka Kei
| studio = Kansai Telecasting Corporation
| network = {{Unbulleted list|GTV Variety Show (Taiwan)|FNS (KTV)|(Japan)}}
| first = March 22, 2014
| last = April 12, 2014
| episodes = 4
| episode_list =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = drama
| director = Ken Iizuka
| writer =
| studio = Kansai Telecasting Corporation
| network = FNS (KTV)
| first = July 8, 2014
| last = September 16, 2014
| episodes = 11
| episode_list =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type = manga
| title = GTU: Ikari no Death Yamada
| author = Tooru Fujisawa
| publisher = Hero's Inc.
| publisher_en =
| demographic = {{Transliteration|ja|Seinen}}
| imprint =
| magazine = Comiplex
| first = October 18, 2024
| last =
| volumes =
| volume_list =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Other
| title = Related
| content =
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Great Teacher Onizuka, officially abbreviated as GTO, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's Shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 1997 to February 2002, with its chapters collected in 25 {{Transliteration|ja|tankōbon}} volumes. The story focuses on 22-year-old ex-{{Transliteration|ja|bōsōzoku}} member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. It is a standalone sequel to Fujisawa's earlier manga series Shonan Junai Gumi and Bad Company, both of which focus on the life of Onizuka before becoming a teacher.
Due to the popularity of the manga, several adaptations of GTO were created, including a 12-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998; a live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999; and a 43-episode anime television series produced by Pierrot, which aired in Japan on Fuji TV from June 1999 to September 2000. A second live-action series aired in Japan during 2012, and two more in 2014.
A sequel manga series, titled GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, ran in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June 2009 to September 2011. Another sequel, titled GTO: Paradise Lost, began in Weekly Young Magazine in April 2014. Both the anime and manga were licensed in North America by Tokyopop. The anime series was re-licensed by Discotek Media in 2012. The manga is licensed by Kodansha USA.
The manga has had over 50 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history. In 1998, Great Teacher Onizuka won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award in the {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} category.
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Plot
{{main|List of Great Teacher Onizuka characters{{!}}List of Great Teacher Onizuka characters}}
Eikichi Onizuka is a 22-year-old ex-gang member who wants to lose his virginity. While peeping up girls' skirts at a local shopping mall, Onizuka meets a schoolgirl who agrees to go out on a date with him. Onizuka's attempt to sleep with her fails when her current "boyfriend", her teacher, shows up at the love hotel they are in and asks her to return to him. The teacher is old and ugly, but has sufficient influence over her that she leaps from a second-story window and lands in his arms.
Onizuka, upon seeing this display of a teacher's power over girls, decides to become a teacher himself. He earns his teaching degree, just barely, at a second-rate college. In his quest, he develops a conscience. This means taking advantage of impressionable schoolgirls is out of the question, but their unusually attractive mothers are a different matter. He enjoys teaching and, most of the time, he teaches life lessons rather than routine schoolwork. He hates the system of traditional education, especially when other teachers and administrators have grown ignorant and condescending to students and their needs. With these realizations, he sets out to become the greatest teacher ever, using his own unique brand of philosophy and the ability to do nearly anything when under enough pressure. He is hired as a long-shot teacher by a privately operated middle school in Kichijōji to tame a class that has driven one teacher to a mysterious death, another to a nervous breakdown, and one other to joining a cult. He embarks on a mission of self-discovery by reaching out to each student one by one and helping each student overcome their problems and learn to enjoy life. He uses methods that are unorthodox, illegal, and life-threatening, yet he manages to succeed in educating and opening up his students.
Production
When writing GTO, Fujisawa was influenced by the writing style of Kōhei Tsuka. The series was originally intended to run for 10 volumes; however, it was extended at the request of the publisher. Fujisawa began to run out of characters as a result. When faced with writing block he would write stories without Onizuka. Onizuka's first name, Eikichi, was taken from musician Eikichi Yazawa.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} When developing Onizuka's character for the series, Fujisawa sought to incorporate real character traits from Japanese gangs often referred to as "Yankees". Onizuka's look is modelled on such gang members and was not intended to convey an "American look".{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Onizuka acts tough and confident but is actually shy and lacking in confidence to follow through on some of his desires. He is a simple character that stands by his own reasoning and principles and has his own conscience. Fujisawa gave him the viewpoint that you should take responsibility for your actions, something he sees as important.
Onizuka's role in the school is to provide a bridge between the students and teachers. The character of Fuyutsuki reflects the point of view of the average teacher. Fujisawa built the series on his own school experience where teachers were mostly focused only on a good performance record rather than the teaching itself. However, he was able to take an interest in mathematics because of the approach of his teacher.Interview with Fujisawa on the Tokyopop DVDs Tatsuya Egawa has claimed that GTO plagiarized his debut manga, Be Free!.{{cite news|last=Sherman|first=Jennifer|date=June 2, 2017|title=Golden Boy's Tatsuya Egawa Claims GTO Plagiarizes His Debut Manga|website=Anime News Network|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-06-02/golden-boy-tatsuya-egawa-claims-gto-plagiarizes-his-debut-manga/.116946|access-date=June 5, 2017|archive-date=June 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604120415/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-06-02/golden-boy-tatsuya-egawa-claims-gto-plagiarizes-his-debut-manga/.116946|url-status=live}}
Media
=Manga=
{{See also|List of Great Teacher Onizuka chapters{{!}}List of Great Teacher Onizuka chapters}}
Written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa, Great Teacher Onizuka was serialized in Kodansha's Shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 8, 1997,{{cite web|url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M536131|script-title=ja: 週刊少年マガジン 1997年 表示号数2|language=ja|website=Media Arts Database|publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108182015/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M536131|archive-date=January 8, 2021|url-status=live}} to February 13, 2002.{{cite web|url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M535879|script-title=ja: 週刊少年マガジン 2002年 表示号数9|language=ja|website=Media Arts Database|publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108182017/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M535879|archive-date=January 8, 2021|url-status=live}} Kodansha collected its 200 individual chapters in 25 {{Transliteration|ja|tankōbon}} volumes, released from May 16, 1997,{{cite web|script-title=ja:ＧＴＯ（１）|url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3124118|publisher=Kodansha|access-date=February 25, 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130822130151/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3124118|archive-date=August 22, 2013|language=ja|url-status=live}} to April 17, 2002.{{cite web|script-title=ja:ＧＴＯ（２５）|url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3130983|publisher=Kodansha|access-date=February 25, 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130822134115/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3130983|archive-date=August 22, 2013|language=ja|url-status=live}}
The series was licensed in English by Tokyopop and was one of Tokyopop's first releases in the "Authentic Manga" lineup of titles using the Japanese right-to-left reading style. In doing so the artwork remained unchanged from the original compared to previous publishing methods.{{cite web|url=http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/1067.html|title=Tokyopop To Publish Manga in Japanese Format|publisher=ICv2|access-date=January 20, 2014|archive-date=May 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514113629/http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/1067.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Macdonald|first=Christopher|date=January 29, 2002|title=Tokyopop Commits to Unflopped Manga|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-01-29/tokyopop-commits-to-unflopped-manga|access-date=January 22, 2020|website=Anime News Network|archive-date=December 17, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217122421/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-01-29/tokyopop-commits-to-unflopped-manga|url-status=live}} The 25 volumes were published between April 23, 2002, and August 9, 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.tokyopop.com/S-1034/25.html|title=GTO Volume 25|publisher=Tokyopop|access-date=March 10, 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501041704/http://www.tokyopop.com/S-1034/25.html|archive-date=May 1, 2007}} Kodansha USA republished the series digitally on February 2, 2022.{{cite web|last=Mateo|first=Alex|title=Exclusive: Kodansha Comics Publishes Great Teacher Onizuka, GTO: 14 Days in Shonan Manga Digitally|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-01-24/exclusive-kodansha-comics-publishes-great-teacher-onizuka-gto-14-days-in-shonan-manga-digitally/.181786|website=Anime News Network|access-date=January 24, 2022|date=January 24, 2022|archive-date=January 31, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131101201/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-01-24/exclusive-kodansha-comics-publishes-great-teacher-onizuka-gto-14-days-in-shonan-manga-digitally/.181786|url-status=live}}
==Sequels and spin-offs==
{{main|GTO: 14 Days in Shonan{{!}}GTO: 14 Days in Shonan|GTO: Paradise Lost{{!}}GTO: Paradise Lost}}
A side story series, titled GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June 10, 2009,{{cite web|script-title=ja:藤沢とおる「GTO」復活。マガジン28号から連載スタート|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/17162|website=Comic Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=September 4, 2020|language=ja|date=June 3, 2009|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105083024/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/17162|url-status=live}} to September 14, 2011.{{cite web|script-title=ja:「はじめの一歩」連載22周年、週マガでクオカード贈呈|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/56510|website=Comic Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=September 4, 2020|language=ja|date=September 14, 2011|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105083022/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/56510|url-status=live}}
A three-chapter spin-off, titled Black Diamond, was later published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in November 2011.{{cite web|last=Sherman|first=Jennifer|title=3-Chapter GTO Short Story to Launch in November|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-21/3-chapter-gto-short-story-to-launch-in-november|website=Anime News Network|access-date=September 4, 2020|date=October 21, 2011|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411021643/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-21/3-chapter-gto-short-story-to-launch-in-november|url-status=live}}{{cite web|script-title=ja:週マガでGTO番外編＆アニメ「君のいる町」の声優発表|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/59063|website=Comic Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=September 4, 2020|language=ja|date=November 2, 2011|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105083022/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/59063|url-status=live}}
A spin-off manga, titled GT-R, focused on Onizuka's friend Ryūji Danma, was published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June 27 to October 3, 2012.{{cite web|script-title=ja:「GTO」の番外編「GT-R」マガジンで始動、主人公は龍二|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/71874|website=Comic Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=September 5, 2020|language=ja|date=June 27, 2012|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105083024/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/71874|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Loveridge|first=Lynzee|title=GTO Spinoff Manga GT-R Wraps in October|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-09-24/gto-spinoff-manga-gt-r-wraps-in-october|website=Anime News Network|access-date=September 5, 2020|date=September 24, 2012|archive-date=January 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123204646/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-09-24/gto-spinoff-manga-gt-r-wraps-in-october|url-status=live}} Kodansha collected its chapters in a single {{Transliteration|ja|tankōbon}} volume, released on November 16, 2012.{{cite web|url=https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000017540|title=ＧＴ－Ｒ（１）|publisher=Kodansha|access-date=September 5, 2020|language=ja|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805163154/https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000017540|url-status=live}}
A sequel, titled GTO: Paradise Lost, started in Kodansha's Seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine on April 14, 2014.{{cite web|script-title=ja:「GTO」新シリーズ開幕！「空手小公子」は14年の連載に幕|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/114406|website=Comic Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=September 4, 2020|language=ja|date=April 14, 2014|archive-date=October 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007065921/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/114406|url-status=live}}
A spin-off, titled {{Nihongo|GTU: Ikari no Death Yamada|GTU -怒りのDEATH山田-||"Great Teacher Uchiyamada: Fury of Death Yamada"}}, started on {{ill|Hero's Inc.|ja|月刊ヒーローズ#株式会社ヒーローズ}}'s Comiplex website on October 18, 2024.{{cite web|last=Tai|first=Anita|title=GTO Series Gets New Uchiyamada Spinoff Manga|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-10-13/gto-series-gets-new-uchiyamada-spinoff-manga/.216682|website=Anime News Network|access-date=October 13, 2024|date=October 13, 2024}}{{cite web|script-title=ja:「GTO」にも登場した内山田ひろしによる予測不能の課外授業、新連載「GTU」開幕|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/595791|website=Comic Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=October 18, 2024|language=ja|date=October 18, 2024}}
=Anime=
{{main|List of Great Teacher Onizuka episodes{{!}}List of Great Teacher Onizuka episodes}}
A 43-episode anime television series adaptation was produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Noriyuki Abe, was broadcast on Fuji TV from June 30, 1999, to September 24, 2000.{{cite book|last1=Clements|first1=Jonathan|author-link=Jonathan Clements|last2=McCarthy|first2=Helen|author2-link=Helen McCarthy|title=The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917|url=https://archive.org/details/animeencyclopedi0000clem/page/157/mode/2up?q=GTO|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|year=2001|isbn=1-933330-10-4|edition=Revised and Expanded|location=Berkeley, California|pages=157|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240920032700/https://archive.org/details/animeencyclopedi0000clem/page/156/mode/2up?q=%22quintessential+GTO%22|archive-date=September 20, 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aniplex.co.jp/GTO/cast/index.html|script-title=ja:GTO アニメ 詳細データ|publisher=Aniplex|access-date=January 22, 2020|language=ja|archive-date=July 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723205849/https://www.aniplex.co.jp/GTO/cast/index.html|url-status=live}} Yoshiyuki Suga provided scripts, having also written scripts for the live-action adaptation.{{cite book|last1=Clements|first1=Jonathan|last2=Tamamura|first2=Motoko|title=The Dorama Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7I-VyCfZdQC&pg=PT106|date=November 2003|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|isbn=9781880656815|pages=105–106}}
Tokyopop licensed the series for release in North America and released it across 10 DVDs between March 22, 2002, and September 16, 2003, and for American TV broadcast on Showtime's SHONext channel in 2004 and Comcast's Anime Selects on Demand network in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/gto-vol-01_article_74061.html|title=GTO Vol. #01|last=Beveridge|first=Chris|website=Mania.com|date=May 30, 2002|access-date=February 3, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220041752/http://www.mania.com/gto-vol-01_article_74061.html|archive-date=February 20, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/gto-vol-10_article_75408.html|title=GTO Vol. #10|last=Beveridge|first=Chris|website=Mania.com|date=September 15, 2003|access-date=February 3, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220023105/http://www.mania.com/gto-vol-10_article_75408.html|archive-date=February 20, 2014}} The series was re-released in a seven-disc box set by Discotek Media on September 24, 2013.{{cite web|last=Loo|first=Egan|title=Discotek Licenses GTO TV Anime|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-24/discotek-licenses-gto-tv-anime|website=Anime News Network|access-date=February 21, 2020|date=October 24, 2012|archive-date=October 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024191806/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-24/discotek-licenses-gto-tv-anime|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Hodgkins|first=Crystalyn|title=North American Anime, Manga Releases, September 22–28|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-09-24/north-american-anime-manga-releases-september-22-28|website=Anime News Network|access-date=February 21, 2020|date=September 24, 2013|archive-date=February 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221193448/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-09-24/north-american-anime-manga-releases-september-22-28|url-status=live}} Crunchyroll began streaming the series in January 2015.{{cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Tiara|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2015-01-16/crunchyroll-offers-manga-with-premium-membership-adds-gto-and-zatch-bell-anime-tomotoons/.83357|title=Crunchyroll Offers Manga with Premium Membership, Adds GTO & Zatch Bell Anime, TomoToons|date=January 16, 2015|access-date=January 20, 2015|website=Anime News Network|archive-date=January 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120043558/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2015-01-16/crunchyroll-offers-manga-with-premium-membership-adds-gto-and-zatch-bell-anime-tomotoons/.83357|url-status=live}} Netflix began streaming the series in April 2024.{{cite web|last=Hazra|first=Adriana|title=Netflix Adds GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka Anime|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-04-02/netflix-adds-gto-great-teacher-onizuka-anime/.209481|website=Anime News Network|access-date=April 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402201130/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-04-02/netflix-adds-gto-great-teacher-onizuka-anime/.209481|archive-date=April 2, 2024|date=April 2, 2024|url-status=live}}
=Live-action=
A 12-episode television drama adaptation starring Takashi Sorimachi as the titular character was broadcast on Fuji TV from July 7 to September 22, 1998.{{cite book|last1=Clements|first1=Jonathan|author1-link=Jonathan Clements|last2=Tamamuro|first2=Motoko|title=The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LzeSd4SvU7cC&dq=Great%20Teacher%20Onizuka&pg=PA105|date=2003|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|isbn=978-1-880656-81-5|page=105|access-date=August 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230912062114/https://books.google.com/books?id=LzeSd4SvU7cC&dq=Great%20Teacher%20Onizuka&pg=PA105|archive-date=September 12, 2023|url-status=live}} Some of the manga's more violent and smutty elements were toned down in the TV drama. Changes were also made to the character of Fuyutsuki (Nanako Matsushima) who disliked Onizuka early on in the drama and had wanted to leave teaching to become an Air Hostess (contrasting her depiction as an eager teacher who supported Onizuka throughout the manga). A television special was broadcast on June 29, 1999.{{cite web|script-title=ja:GTOドラマスペシャル|url=http://www.nihon-eiga.com/program/detail/nh10008639_0001.html|publisher=Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp.|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523061147/https://www.nihon-eiga.com/program/detail/nh10008639_0001.html|archive-date=May 23, 2020|language=ja}} This was followed by a theatrical movie in January 2000.{{cite web|script-title=ja:ＧＴＯ（映画）|url=http://www.nihon-eiga.com/program/detail/nh10001972.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422211909/https://www.nihon-eiga.com/program/detail/nh10001972.html|archive-date=April 22, 2021|access-date=January 22, 2020|publisher=Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp.}} The movie was released in North America by Media Blasters, under their Tokyo Shock division,{{cite web|title=GTO Movie DVD (live)|url=http://www.animenation.com/tsdvd-0519.html|publisher=AnimeNation|access-date=September 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104073017/http://www.animenation.com/tsdvd-0519.html|archive-date=November 4, 2005}} on July 26, 2005.{{cite web|last=Macdonald|first=Christopher|title=Media Blasters Licenses GTO: The Movie|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-03-16/media-blasters-licenses-gto-the-movie|website=Anime News Network|access-date=September 17, 2023|date=March 16, 2005|archive-date=May 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529145954/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-03-16/media-blasters-licenses-gto-the-movie|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=GTO: The Movie|url=http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/4025.php|website=Mania.com|access-date=September 17, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050818094154/http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/4025.php|archive-date=August 18, 2005}}{{cite web|last=Mays|first=Jonathan|title=GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/gto-great-teacher-onizuka|website=Anime News Network|access-date=January 22, 2020|date=June 7, 2005|archive-date=September 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918182653/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/gto-great-teacher-onizuka|url-status=live}}
During 2012, it was announced that a new live-action series would be broadcast in Japan. Produced by KTV and Media Mix Japan, the series ran from July 3, 2012, until September 11, 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/gto/|title=GTO (2012年)|publisher=Fuji Television|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-date=August 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809210614/https://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/gto/|url-status=live}} Originally, Jin Akanishi was to play the role of Onizuka; however, he was forced to withdraw by his management. Instead, Akira of Japanese band Exile was selected to play Onizuka.{{cite web|last=Loo|first=Egan|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-05/newspaper/exile-akira-replaces-akanishi-on-gto-remake|title=Exile's Akira Replaces Akanishi on GTO Remake|website=Anime News Network|date=May 5, 2011|access-date=May 6, 2011|archive-date=May 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506063057/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-05/newspaper/exile-akira-replaces-akanishi-on-gto-remake|url-status=live}} An Autumn special was broadcast on October 2, 2012, followed by a New Year's special on January 2, 2013, and a Spring special on April 2, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/121002gto/|script-title=ja:GTO秋も鬼暴れスペシャル|publisher=Fuji Television|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-date=March 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320105857/http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/121002gto/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/130102gto/index.html|script-title=ja:GTO正月スペシャル！冬休みも熱血授業だ|publisher=Fuji Television|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-date=October 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024231912/https://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/130102gto/index.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/130402gto_sp/|script-title=ja:GTO 完結編さらば鬼塚！卒業スペシャル|publisher=Fuji Television|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-date=March 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320110353/http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/130402gto_sp/|url-status=live}} On March 22, 2014, a 4-part mini-series aired in Taiwan on GTV Variety Show, before being broadcast in Japan at a later date.{{cite web|last=Loo|first=Egan|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-22/exile-akira-reprises-gto-with-live-action-taiwan-mini-series|title=EXILE's Akira Reprises GTO in Live-Action Taiwan Mini-Series|website=Anime News Network|access-date=January 22, 2020|date=January 22, 2014|archive-date=June 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620230544/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-22/exile-akira-reprises-gto-with-live-action-taiwan-mini-series|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://mantan-web.jp/article/20140122dog00m200062000c.html|script-title=ja:GTO：AKIRA主演の新シリーズを台湾で制作 日台で放送へ|language=ja|website=Mantan Web|access-date=January 23, 2020|date=January 23, 2014|archive-date=April 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422211929/https://mantan-web.jp/article/20140122dog00m200062000c.html|url-status=live}} The mini-series places Onizuka in a Taiwanese school as part of a training program and is a joint Japan/Taiwan co production that contains both Japanese and Mandarin Chinese dialogue. The series has been announced for English subtitled release via the Crunchyroll streaming service.{{cite web|last=Loo|first=Egan|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-22/crunchyroll-to-stream-champion-joe-2-live-action-gto-taiwan|title=Crunchyroll to Stream Champion Joe 2, Live-Action GTO Taiwan|website=Anime News Network|access-date=January 23, 2014|date=January 22, 2014|archive-date=March 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323200122/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-22/crunchyroll-to-stream-champion-joe-2-live-action-gto-taiwan|url-status=live}} A new series set in Japan aired from July to September 2014.{{cite web|last=Loo|first=Egan|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-13/live-action-gto-show-returns-in-july-after-new-manga-debuts|title=Live-Action GTO Show Returns in July After New Manga Debuts|website=Anime News Network|date=March 13, 2014|access-date=April 8, 2014|archive-date=May 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524123652/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-13/live-action-gto-show-returns-in-july-after-new-manga-debuts|url-status=live}}
A new version of the original drama, with the title character reprised by Sorimachi, was announced to air in 2024, as part of Fuji TV's 65th anniversary, under the title GTO Revival.{{cite web|script-title=ja:反町隆史主演『GTO』26年ぶり復活 伝説の教師・鬼塚英吉再び「今このタイミングで復活することに意味がある」|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2294883/full/|website=Oricon News|access-date=September 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230915222327/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2294883/full/|archive-date=September 15, 2023|language=ja|date=September 15, 2023|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Pineda|first=Rafael|title=Live-Action GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) Series Gets New TV Special Next Spring|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-09-14/live-action-gto-series-gets-new-tv-special-next-spring/.202403|website=Anime News Network|access-date=September 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230915230056/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-09-14/live-action-gto-series-gets-new-tv-special-next-spring/.202403|archive-date=September 15, 2023|date=September 14, 2023|url-status=live}} The cast of third-year students and teacher team of Sotoku Gakuin High School, where this version takes place, includes {{ill|Sae Okazaki|ja|岡崎紗絵}} (as Miyu Ayahara, a third-year homeroom and Japanese History teacher), Shinya Kote (as Takeshi Fujida, the vice-principal), Rikako Yagi (as Suzuka Ichikawa, an honor student, with a strained relationship with her father), {{ill|Mei Hata|ja|畑 芽育}} (as Rin Endo, a student whose father's company's fraud problem was exposed), {{ill|Wataru Hyuga (actor)|lt=Wataru Hyuga|ja|日向亘}} (as Haruto Uno, a student on a baseball scholarship, unable to play because of an injury, whose father despises him for this), and Kosuke Suzuki (as Koichi Ichikawa, Suzuka's father and a candidate for the House of Representatives). It premiered on April 1, 2024.{{Cite web|script-title=ja:反町隆史『GTOリバイバル』新キャスト一挙解禁 岡崎紗絵&小手伸也ら6人、放送日は4・1に決定【全員のコメントあり】|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2313228/full/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204232746/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2313228/full/|archive-date=February 4, 2024|access-date=February 6, 2024|website=Oricon News|language=Japanese|date=February 5, 2024|url-status=live}} Seven cast members from the original are reprising their roles in this new version: Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Kunio Murai, {{ill|Yuta Yamazaki|ja|山崎裕太}} as Masaru Watanabe, Yōsuke Kubozuka as Yoshito Kikuchi, Hidenori Tokuyama as Kenji Youda, Shun Oguri as Noboru Yoshikawa, Naohito Fujiki as Ryuji Saejima, and Nanako Matsushima as Azusa Fuyutsuki.{{cite web|last=Pineda|first=Rafael|title=Live-Action GTO Revival Special Confirms 6 Returning 1998 Cast Members|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-22/live-action-gto-revival-special-confirms-6-returning-1998-cast-members/.207892|website=Anime News Network|access-date=February 26, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224202147/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-22/live-action-gto-revival-special-confirms-6-returning-1998-cast-members/.207892|archive-date=February 24, 2024|date=February 22, 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite web|script-title=ja:26年ぶり！「GTO リバイバル」に池内博之、山崎裕太、窪塚洋介らが再集結|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/562262|website=Comic Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=February 26, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225222406/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/562262|archive-date=February 25, 2024|language=ja|date=February 23, 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Pineda|first=Rafael|title=Nanako Matsushima Returns as Azusa in Live-Action GTO Revival Special|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-03-25/nanako-matsushima-returns-as-azusa-in-live-action-gto-revival-special/.209228|website=Anime News Network|access-date=March 26, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326005236/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-03-25/nanako-matsushima-returns-as-azusa-in-live-action-gto-revival-special/.209228|archive-date=March 26, 2024|date=March 25, 2024|url-status=live}}
The theme song for the original series is {{Nihongo|"Poison: Iitai Koto mo Ienai Kon'na Yononaka wa"|POISON ～言いたい事も言えないこんな世の中は～}}, performed by Sorimachi. For the 2024 revival version, a new version of the song, titled "Poison", is performed by Sorimachi with {{ill|Blue Encount|jp|BLUE ENCOUNT}}.{{cite web|script-title=ja:BLUE ENCOUNT×反町隆史「POISON」でコラボ、ドラマ「GTOリバイバル」主題歌に|url=https://natalie.mu/music/news/559824|website=Music Natalie|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=March 2, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302054641/https://natalie.mu/music/news/559824|archive-date=March 2, 2024|language=ja|date=February 5, 2024|url-status=live}}
Reception
By November 2007, the manga had over 50 million copies in circulation.{{cite web| url=http://book.asahi.com/clip/TKY200711120219.html| script-title=ja:「金田一少年」、「神の雫」の原作者が株と家族の小説| date=November 16, 2007| work=Asahi Shimbun Digital| access-date=November 29, 2013| language=ja| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221224844/http://book.asahi.com/clip/TKY200711120219.html| archive-date=February 21, 2014}} Great Teacher Onizuka won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award for the {{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} category in 1998.{{cite web| url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.php| author=Joel Hahn| title=Kodansha Manga Awards| work=Comic Book Awards Almanac| access-date=January 6, 2013| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630033000/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.php|archive-date=June 30, 2012}}
In Manga: The Complete Guide, Jason Thompson referred to the manga as "shameless, frequently sexist and totally hilarious". He gave it four stars out of four, praising its imagery, detailed art, and "smutty, pop culture-laden dialogue". He added that in its best moments, the manga "goes beyond the level of an Adam Sandler movie and approaches true social satire".{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Jason|title=Manga: The Complete Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/mangacompletegui0000thom_l3e2/page/132/mode/2up?q=%22Great+Teacher+Onizuka%22|publisher=Del Rey|date=October 9, 2007|isbn=978-0-345-48590-8|location=New York, New York|page=132|oclc=85833345|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240919211107/https://archive.org/details/mangacompletegui0000thom_l3e2/page/132/mode/2up?q=%22Great+Teacher+Onizuka%22&view=theater|archive-date=September 19, 2024|url-status=live}}
The 1998 live-action series had an average audience share of 28.5% with the final episode recording a rate of 35.7%. The final episode was the eighth-most-watched broadcast in the Kantō region during 1998.{{cite web|last=Hodgkins|first=Crystalyn|date=November 15, 2012|title=New Live-Action GTO Gets New Years Special|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-11-15/new-live-action-gto-gets-new-years-special|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512181545/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-11-15/new-live-action-gto-gets-new-years-special|archive-date=May 12, 2019|access-date=January 19, 2014|website=Anime News Network}}{{cite web|script-title=ja:1998年 年間高世帯視聴率番組30（関東地区）|url=http://www.videor.co.jp/tvrating/past_tvrating/top30/199830.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213034643/https://www.videor.co.jp/tvrating/past_tvrating/top30/199830.html|archive-date=February 13, 2020|access-date=February 13, 2020|publisher=Video Research}} The 2000 live-action film sequel grossed ¥1.32 billion at the box office, becoming the tenth-highest-grossing film of the year.{{cite web|script-title=ja:一般社団法人日本映画製作者連盟|url=http://www.eiren.org/toukei/2000.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613064812/http://eiren.org/toukei/2000.html|archive-date=June 13, 2010|access-date=May 13, 2008|publisher=Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan|language=ja}}
In The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy noted the anime's use of computer graphics for cloud and water effects to cover up "the cheap TV animation". They called the 1998 live-action adaptation "the quintessential GTO, with its handsome loner [protagonist] fighting injustices on his motorcycle like an educational lawman" but still found the anime adaptation to have "considerable bite" due to its animated origins allowing for "slightly more violence and menace than its prime-time live-action counterpart."
In 2008, Russian network 2x2 came under investigation by Rossvyazkomnadzor, the government watchdog, for allegedly promoting "child pornography, sexual aberrations, violence and cruelty" by broadcasting the GTO anime.{{cite web|title=Россвязькомнадзор рассмотрит результаты экспертизы мультфильма "2х2"|url=https://ria.ru/20081127/155966821.html|website=RIA Novosti|date=November 27, 2008|access-date=February 8, 2022|archive-date=February 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208063616/https://ria.ru/20081127/155966821.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Holdsworth|first=Nick|title='Teacher' scolds Russian network|url=https://variety.com/2008/scene/markets-festivals/teacher-scolds-russian-network-1117996947/|website=Variety|date=December 5, 2008|access-date=February 8, 2022|archive-date=February 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208063617/https://variety.com/2008/scene/markets-festivals/teacher-scolds-russian-network-1117996947/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Kozenko|first=Andrei|title="2Х2" проверяют не по-детски|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1081399|website=Kommersant|date=November 27, 2008|access-date=February 8, 2022|archive-date=February 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208064137/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1081399|url-status=live}}
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