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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka

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1999 · TV · 43 eps Finished

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What is GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka about?

GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka is a TV anime series of 43 episodes animated by Studio Pierrot, adapted from a manga. It aired from June 30, 1999 to September 24, 2000. AniList classifies it as comedy, drama and slice of life. It continues from Shounan Junai Gumi!, which is worth watching first.

Onizuka is a reformed biker gang leader who has his sights set on an honorable new ambition: to become the world's greatest teacher... for the purpose of meeting sexy high school girls. Okay, so he's mostly reformed.

However, strict administrators and a class of ruthless delinquents stand between Onizuka and his goal and they will use any means, however illegal or low, to drive the new teacher away. Perfect, because Onizuka's methods won't be found in any teaching manual; he cares about the difference between legal and illegal activities about as much as he cares for the age difference between himself and a high school girl.

So get ready for math that doesn't add up, language you'd be slapped for using, and biology that would make a grown man blush... unless of course, you're the Great Teacher Onizuka.

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Themes AniList users associate with it: Teacher, School, Work, Delinquents, Male Protagonist, Coming of Age, Educational, Satire, Bullying, Gangs.

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Main characters

Characters AniList lists in a main role, with spoiler-free notes.

  • Eikichi Onizuka 鬼塚英吉

    Main character

    A hormonal, blonde-haired biker and virgin, Onizuka Eikichi graduated from a bottom-rung university by cheating and, as such, cannot get a decent job. His main way of spending time is peering up girls' skirts in a local mall.

    Japanese voice: Wataru Takagi

  • Urumi Kanzaki 神崎麗美

    Main character

    The antithesis to the "dumb blonde" stereotype, Urumi Kanzaki is a prodigy with an IQ over 200. She is also a heterochromatic, possessing different colored eyes: one brown and one blue. However, she is psychologically disturbed, having her fair share of hate toward teachers.

    Japanese voice: Kotono Mitsuishi

  • Azusa Fuyutsuki 冬月あずさ

    Main character

    A beautiful female teacher who is the heroine of the series. Unlike Onizuka, she led a relatively normal life, graduating from Waseda University. Her quiet manner and moderate ideas are misleading as she proves to be very tough on her own sometimes scaring even Onizuka.

    Japanese voice: Fumiko Orikasa

  • Yoshito Kikuchi 菊地善人

    Main character

    Yoshito Kikuchi is one of Eikichi Onizuka's students. This computer prodigy (scoring the highest without certain "aid" in the country, on a standardized test) serves as class president and is also notorious for making pornographic composite photos, during Onizuka's arrival at the Holy Forest Academy.

    Japanese voice: Hikaru Midorikawa

  • Kunio Murai 村井國男

    Main character

    The class "jock bully", Kunio Murai is not very bright and loses his temper easily. When Eikichi Onizuka arrives at the Holy Forest Academy, Kunio and his gang (consisting of Kouji Fujiyoshi and Tadaaki Kusano) attempt to kill him several times with seemingly innocent pranks, such as a cockroach planted in his school…

    Japanese voice: Tomokazu Seki

  • Noboru Yoshikawa 吉川昇

    Main character

    A student at Holy Forest Academy who didn't have a good time before Eikichi Onizuka arrived, as he was the victim of bullying, mostly from Uehara Anko and her group. He is extremely good with video games and somewhat of an otaku, but proves to be quite handy with making things.

    Japanese voice: Kousuke Okano

  • Tomoko Nomura 野村朋子

    Main character

    A student in Eikichi Onizuka's class, Tomoko Nomura has a large chest (her cup size is F), but is not too bright, leading to people calling her Toro-ko (Toro meaning "slow" in Japanese; she is nicknamed Slo-mo-ko in the English version).

    Japanese voice: Ayako Kawasumi

  • Miyabi Aizawa 相沢雅

    Main character

    Anime - Aizawa began not to trust teachers anymore when one of her classmates got involved in a scandal due to an affair of their former instructor. From this, she and her cohorts began their quest of kicking out any teacher who will be assigned to their class.

    Japanese voice: Junko Noda

  • Hiroshi Uchiyamada 内山田ひろし

    Main character

    Yoshiko's father and Vice Principal of Holy Forest Academy. He is a very strict man who readily blindly follows the school rules and places them on top of anything else. Also he doesn't have much patience. He is easily enraged by Onizuka's behavior basically always.

    Japanese voice: Choo

Supporting characters

  • Ryuuji Danma 弾間龍二

    Supporting character

    The other member of the Onibaku duo, Ryuuji is taller and maybe slightly more restrained than his partner, although get in his bad books and you're in for big trouble. He has more luck with women, having had a relationship with his teacher Ayumi, and later Nagisa (seen in GTO).

    Japanese voice: Isshin Chiba

  • Anko Uehara 上原杏子

    Supporting character

    Anko Uehara is an athletic girl with well-off parents who has her own trio, in which she is accompanied by Naoko Asano and Mayuko Izumi. Anko is one of the first of the class to start trouble for Eikichi Onizuka, due to her and her friends' constant mistreatment of Noboru Yoshikawa.

    Japanese voice: Akemi Okamura

  • Toshiyuki Saejima 冴島俊行

    Supporting character

    Along with his partner Kamata, he is feared as Kamakura no Kyouken (The Mad Dogs of Kamakura). This duo were renowned for their brutality, including shoving pencils through people's noses. Saejima has a malevolent face, so much so that girls are afraid of him and assume he is a Yakuza.

    Japanese voice: Kazuki Yao

  • Nagisa Nagase 長瀬渚

    Supporting character

    Nagisa first appears working in the Marine House seafood restaurant as a waitress, catching Ryuji's attention with her t-back bikini. However, although she seems sweet and innocent, she actually suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, and has an evil side who calls herself Yasha.

    Japanese voice: Kae Araki

  • Suguru Teshigawara 勅使河原優

    Supporting character

    The math teacher at the school. He graduated from Tokyo University and is very intelligent. He has a perverse mind, and is an obsessive stalker. His tendencies get resolved later on by Onizuka.

    Japanese voice: Tooru Furuya

  • Hajime Fukuroda 袋田はじめ

    Supporting character

    Onizuka's co-worker who is the Physical Education teacher. He is obsessed with exercise and is perverted.

    Japanese voice: Kazuhiro Nakata

  • Tadashi Sakurai 桜井ただし

    Supporting character

    The 42-year-old English teacher at the Holy Forest Academy, Sakurai Tadashi is not very fluent at the language he teaches. His last name was changed to Sakurada in the anime, in order to avoid confusion with Headmaster Sakurai, with whom he shares no relation.

    Japanese voice: Katsumi Suzuki

  • Hiroshi Kochatani 小茶谷宏

    Supporting character

    A science teacher. He is called "Chihuahua" due to his big eyes and small physique.

    Japanese voice: Isshin Chiba

  • Kumiko Fukada 鱶田久美子

    Supporting character

    Fukada is involved in a minor romance arc involving Kunio, Fukada, and Kujirakawa.

    Japanese voice: Sara Nakayama

  • Fuyumi Kujirakawa 鯨川冬美

    Supporting character

    A member of the girls basketball team and manga club, Fuyumi Kujirakawa is notably tall for a girl her age, and much to her displeasure, since boys tend to prefer girls who are smaller in height than themselves.

    Japanese voice: Takako Honda

  • Yoshiko Uchiyamada 内山田好子

    Supporting character

    Uchiyamada Hiroshi's daughter.

    Japanese voice: Atsuko Bungo

  • Nao Kadena 嘉手納南風

    Supporting character

    An attractive school nurse and a former street racer. A former car club member and street racer, Kadena is a teacher at Tsujikou, taking over from the absent Nanno. She uses her beauty to inspire her male students to work hard, and entices the girls with attractive university guys.

    Japanese voice: Kaya Matsutani

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