I've hunted this manga for quite a while but there were always problems with the order. The translation was poorly done because it had a lot of spelling mistakes in it and failed to use proper use of the English language in some scenes.
That aside, this is by far the best manga I have ever read. I am stunned, the concept is so simple but so well thought out.
Well let’s start with a quick introduction to the story. Eikichi Onizuka is a 22 year old virgin and ex-gang leader of the dreaded motorcycle gang “Oni-Baku”. He’s a street punk with piercings and bleached hair, a
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: GTO: Tomoko's Big Adventures Japanese: GTO More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 25
Chapters: 208
Status: Finished
Published: Dec 11, 1996 to Jan 30, 2002
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Shounen
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Shounen Magazine (Weekly) Authors:
Fujisawa, Tooru (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #252 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #56
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Oct 7, 2007
I can only use one word to describe this manga, OUTSTANDING! This is definitely must-read manga for all shounen manga lovers!
The story is nevertheless to say, more than great. I didn't talk this blindly, though. This manga can describes what is going wrong with the education system in this era. The story can makes you more mature by understanding the society more deeply than ever. If you are thinking 'manga should not be too realistic' right now, then you are definitely wrong. While it describes how serious the problem is, it also slips many sense of humor (most of it is perverted one :P) and ... 
Feb 27, 2018 Not Recommended Funny 
This series was a waste of time. I have to give myself a pat on the shoulder for actually sitting through the entire bullshit. Man, what was I even doing? I dropped this series halfway few years ago, so I thought I'd give it a chance again to see if I had a different opinion of it now. I was wrong.
In a sea of positive 10/10 reviews, I find it hard to believe if we are all reading the very same GTO. Ecchi has never been my favorite genre but sometimes I do come across certain series where the fan-service was done tastefully (and this ... 
May 18, 2013
This manga, I can safely say, needs to be on everyone's "must read" list. I've been recommended this manga by a friend, and I tried it out. This was a refreshing change of pace from other popular manga out there. Maybe it was the more realistic setting, or it could have been the great arcs in each plot development. Whatever it was, I fell in love with this manga.
To begin, let's start with the story. To be honest, I personally thought it was a bit slow in the beginning. The "teacher" portion of GTO doesn't actually happen until a bit later on. However, once Eikichi ... 
Jul 27, 2009
Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO): one of the most loved and inspirational manga in existence. Some even pursued a career in teaching after reading it! A story about a man with little in the way of education finding a place for himself in the world as a teacher; teaching kids with more education than himself lessons about life. A wonderful combination of hard-hitting drama, complete with characters with realistic, easy to relate to problems and plenty of over the top comedy. As well as being meaningful, it can inject warmth into even the coldest of hearts. Like mine.
Story: 8/10 The story is centered around a man ... 
Sep 20, 2020 Mixed Feelings Well-written 
I first found out about GTO by going through all the top rated manga on MAL, as you do. If you listen to anyone online, you'd think that GTO is one of the best manga ever written, with no doubts. I went and specifically tried to find bad reviews, and it was hard to find any. So I went in with sky high expectations, only to find myself...a little disappointed. That isn't to say GTO is a horrible manga, however. If you manage to stick through it and deal with its problems, I do think that it is a read that is worth your time.
My ... 
Mar 8, 2021
GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) is absolutely legendary. It’s about a former gang member turned teacher teaching one of the worst classes in his school & turning them around into fine young men & women. Throughout time its been hailed as an all time great & for very good reason. In this review I hope to explain what makes this series so legendary.
I’ll start with the concept. A manga about turning into delinquents into fine people, giving them a figure in their life to look up to. It’s not the most original set-up in story telling but because of this we get to see ourselves in ... 
Jun 20, 2011
This Review contains MINOR spoilers. But they dont matter, trust me.
Onizuka is a Ex biker gang member, a virgin and a 5th rate university drop out. His goal. To be the greatest teacher in all of japan. And that is precisely what he becomes in this 200 chapter masterpiece. Let me start by saying this is the greatest manga i have ever read. Do not watch it, read it and i promise you it will be one of the ... 
Sep 22, 2022 Not Recommended Funny Preliminary
(97/208 chp)
With a MAL score of 8.89, I figured GTO was a sure thing. I wish I could have those hours back. Now I'm left to try to make some lemonade out of this rotten and moldy fruit.
GTO is the adolescent fantasy of a mangaka and editors who hate women, and are comfortable selling rape fantasies to an audience that gets off on the torture and abuse of teenagers. There is nothing redeeming about this trash. If you really want to know more, read the other negative reviews. I wasted enough brain cells on GTO. Never trust the MAL score.
Jul 30, 2020
I read many reviews praising this manga and speaking on how it changed them, well, I'm very sorry then, but as an adult reading this it was too flawed to enjoy any of it.
I guess I'll start by talking about what, I guess, most people find appealing about GTO, the messages. Now, some of them are nice, not all of them, some of them. "Face up to your past mistakes." Great! "Everyone has their own problems." Very true. "If somebody sexually attacks someone, sexually assault them in return." Uuuuuuuuuuuum, no. About the art, it's not good. It's not so bad (for the time), but it's also ... 
Oct 21, 2023
GTO is the story of Eikichi Onizuka, a former gangster who seeks to become the greatest teacher in all of Japan. Not because he matures and wants to redeem himself, or that actually cares about teaching. He does it because wants to be around a bunch of high school girls and look up their skirts. Yeah. And while that may sound like a really silly or dumb premise, GTO is one of the most soulful, genuine, and unexpectedly mature stories I’ve ever read.
When Onizuka starts off as a teacher, he’s assigned to Class 3-4 at Holy Forest Academy, a class infamously known for how ... 
May 1, 2010
Great Teacher Onizuka is one of the best Mangas there is. Why? Because it's very simple and it relates to other peoples lives. (Spoilers maybe included)
GTO's doesn't really have a straight story on it apart from stories of other peoples lives divided into each part in the Manga itself. There are stories of Betrayal, hurt, distrust, and many more things that have happened to peoples lives but what's so brilliant about this is how GTO changed people's views on how to live. For example: Urumi, she distrust teachers because she has been betrayed before. But then after knowing Onizuka and Onizuka teaching her one of ... 
Jun 3, 2012
"Fuyutsuki, sometimes violence is the only way to get the message across." seems not like a line any teaches should say ... But not for our protagonist hes little different if i might say...
So Another manga is in my hands i have read it quite a few times its about School life which is seen trough this one Teacher who is kind of different from what we call a teacher Bad manners , rude and violent is what i would call him but hey he has quite a few sides to him and dealing with all kinds of students calls for having all kinds of ... 
Sep 28, 2021
Great Teacher Onizuka is one of the greatest (no pun intended) mangas I have ever read. Reading it has made me actually introspective about myself, what I want to do in life and what I'm like as a person, something that no other piece of media has EVER done before. I've always had this thought 'How do people connect so much do a story, it's just a story', but holy shit I completely gained that feeling now with this manga.
The story is so fun and satisfying, just seeing annoying authority figures being put into their place by this loveable ... 
Jun 7, 2014
Ah, Great Teacher Onizuka. The manga that changed my life. I remember being 17 years old with the latest volume of the manga, walking home as I'm reading it and laughing like a maniac while doing so. Since I left for the military and returned 4 years later, my 25 volume collection has pretty much disappeared. Now my only chance of reminiscing Onizuka's adventures involves me picking up a volume at the nearest Barnes and Noble, while trying not to distract other readers and shoppers with my guffaws.
Story: 8 The plot in Onizuka starts off very strong and continues throughout. It shows no signs of ... 
Mar 11, 2013
Where should i even start
The story is good, it had a slow start, if you compare it with the action that comes packed in the later chapters of the manga.Then it picked up the pace when the students and other teachers started plotting against onizuka then it ends with a happy ending for everyone. The art is good. the backgrounds had a lot of detail into it, although the one major down point is the character's faces overall it's fine. Character, whew don't get me started on this one. The characters are perfect. Most, if not all had very intense characteristics. Now i don't wanna give off ... 
Dec 27, 2021 Not Recommended Funny
completely and utterly uninteresting. GTO really just isn't funny, and for a aeries which relies heavily on humour, that does not bode well.
onizuka as a a super-teacher that teaches life lessons to his students does not work. not that it isn't plausible but the way that it's done is just uninteresting. it's the same ridiculous formula every single time, and there's only so many times i can be excited for the same thing in a different skin. the rest of the cast really don't help either GTO takes on a somewhat darker tone in the later part of the story, while trying to maintain the ...
Aug 1, 2013
All in all, i give this manga a 10 for "overall". I do give a few 9's and it doesn't seem to make any sense. But i give 10 for "overall" because i haven't found any manga that surpasses this, that however is my opinion.
If i were you, then i would just give this manga a try because this manga has a very high score on average. Don't even bother reading negative reviews. I can't understand why some people rate this manga very low. I do understand however that when people hate something, then they're just going to find another reason to hate it, then ... 
Aug 6, 2009
At first i thought that this is another try-to-be-fun manga , with panty-shots and stuff , but as the story develops it tends to get more "serious" .
The story is concentrated around Onizuka but , other people get center stage sometimes. I liked the level of realism of the problems the people are faced in the series , and though Onizuka`s problem-solving is somewhat exaggarated , it`s only to ilustrate a point , and this manga does that in great fashion. Story is fun stuff (maybe since i encounter this kinda story for the first time) Art .. i`m no critist to judge art, but it was ...
Jun 6, 2021
I fucking love/hate Tohru Fujisawa. He's capable of the best but also the worst (ehem, Paradise Lost). And this is probably my favorite manga ever, but it's admittedly NOT the best (there are many issues with the story). However, GTO left such a mark on me that no other work has ever come even remotely close to it.
SPOILERS It has a lot of flaws, I HATE the repetition, the simplistic way to address complex problems the teenagers have. He saves the students by fighting somebody like 4-5 times (first school, Murai, feet fetish girl, Miyabi, Tokiwa), a very cheap narrative resource. Also, there are 2 chapters ... |
