Comedy and anime have never really been a thing that I connect too well with but GTO really worked for me. One of the things I appreciate most about this show is how they really don't hold back. It's pretty bold to make your main character as awful a person as Onizuka is. I mean the dude only became a teacher to look at girls, he's a former gang member, and his sense of human empathy is quite questionable at times. Even with all that being said this shows unrelenting and massively successful absurdness makes him a likable character along with the fact that he seems to end up on the right side of things at the end of the day.
The show's main shtick is playing off of the "bad guy turns out to be a good guy because of his/her unfair past" trope. Playing into tropes is usually a complaint of mine, but this show does it so well by bringing the characters along throughout the rest of the show and developing them in such natural ways I couldn't help but love it.
While this show may not be for everybody its ridiculous over-the-top style works perfectly for me.
