Age: 22
Occupation: Teacher
Previous Occupation: Biker Gang leader
Hobbies: Cosplaying and playing video games
Relationship Status: Single & a virgin
IQ: Debatable
Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) is a slice of life/ comedy 43 episode series that follows Eikichi Onizuka as a middle school homeroom teacher for class 3-4 at holy forest academy. He also teaches social studies or at least attempts to. Class 3-4 as you may guess isn’t an ordinary classroom but instead it’s a class full of students that terrorize the teacher till the point that they resign due to some tragedy that the class experienced in the past that isn’t explained until the last couple of episodes. So GTO actual story is about Onizuka befriending the class and restoring their faith in teachers.
So that is basically the overview of the story, quite bland but to be expected from a slice of life.
Story:
It’s a slice of life there’s not much to say.
Art:
GTO was made roughly 13 years ago so i didn’t have much of an expectation for it but at the same time i hoped that it wouldn’t ruin the show (i can’t stand when it’s really bad) but i was pleasantly surprised. GTO was actually pretty decent looking (taking account its age) and they do an amazing job on Onizuka’s expressions. This bit is actually unrelated but i want to say it anyway. In the first OP in the first 10 or so seconds, am i the only one that thinks of titans from shingeki no kyojin when Onizuka appears.
Character:
There is really any character development besides the fact that the children become less demonic or should i say less evil. The best thing about this show is Onizuka’s personality it is basically the reason the show is so popular and the nice thing is that he sticks to it the whole way.
Voices:
The voices all fit the character and there isn't really anything that you can argue about, OF COARSE I’m talking about the Japanglish (jap dub eng sub) ones. The Eng DUB is painfully funny to watch in my opinion. I was lucky enough to download the dual audio version so i could switch between languages and because of that i can recommend to watch the subbed not dubbed, i swear i heard Thelma (glasses girl) off Scooby Doo in the eng dub.
Overall/Opinion:
I really enjoyed GTO, i was really sceptical about it at first because it was both a slice of life and old but as the saying goes “Don’t judge a book by its cover”.
I didn’t really sell the anime in this review BUT i recommend you to watch it as it is an anime that would leave you satisfied when finished watching and Onizuka is a character that is amusing to watch.
