If you have seen the aforementioned GTO, then the story is going to feel pretty familiar to you, though with a few strange differences. We start with some lab experiment gone wrong then are suddenly thrust three years into the future. Don’t expect that part to make much sense until the end. Our "hero", Ganpachi enters a high school that is basically a war zone, with various gangs and punk kids and graves to teachers before. This is all lead by the unlikely gang leader Himeko. There is a lot of physical comedy and some parody and quite a bit of action. The humor is juvenile to put it nicely but it is funny at times (rarely). The story does stick to basics for the most part and it does manage to flesh out the important characters enough to make sense.
The biggest problem with this show is the characters. Normally for a show to be enjoyable you have to have someone in the cast to cheer for. Maybe I sound like a bit of a prude.. well I am a former teacher after all (middle school yuck), but I for one found nothing redeeming about any of the students. Himeko is supposed to be the hero, I suppose, but she’s well a punk. I’m supposed to feel bad for her as Ganpachi humiliates her but I don’t. Considering what she has done to the staff of the school and the state the school is in I find it impossible to see what is so good about her. She has super strength, well unless someone sees her panties (Huh?). Luckily she has her blue lucky kitty which saves herself from this weakness. Stay with me, I don’t think this is supposed to make sense.
Teenagers running amok and defeating all their authority figures I suppose is a dream of those this age and definitely the target audience of this show but I fail to see what life lesson this is supposed to teach. If you though the "authority figure" Ganpachi was going to be like Onizuka then your proven wrong pretty quickly. He becomes probably even more unlikable and tyrannical than even the students. Normally I can think of something positive worth mentioning but in this case I can’t. Worst cast ever.
The animation and music/acting don’t do anything to distinguish themselves either. I give them fair marks as none of them are horrible, and the visuals are not bad for a show from 1988. There is very little music to speak of and the sound effects sound pretty corny but it’s nothing that’s going to make your cringe.
I suppose Ultimate Teacher has some decent action scenes, though I got very little enjoyment out of it. If you really like girls in kitty panties fighting and absolutely must see every anime with them, then by all means knock yourself out. Fortunately not many of you have had the misfortune of seeing this yet, thus I direct this review to you as a public to not make the same mistake as me.
