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Summary: The Best Teacher in All of Japan
Review: "GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)" is a fun comic, with more heart than I expected. The premise, a tough, go-nowhere 22 year old bosozoku deciding to become a High School teacher in order to pick up girls, at first seems like a recipe for fan service and lewd humor. And it is. However, like the best of Japanese comics, this rather sketchy plot develops into something a little more personal and respectable. Onizuka, as he can relate to his pupils and is a tough guy in his own right, becomes "Great Teacher Onizuka."The art is great, and flows easily between two distinct styles, a classic Japanese cartoon style and a more expressive, violent style in some parts. The characters are fun and multi-dimensional. I can see why this series is so popular in Japan. Also, this is a comic where my experience teaching in the Japanese school system has richened the outcome. I "get" several of the jokes that I might have missed before, and I recognize the stereotypes. Good fun all around, and I will definitely be picking up the rest of the series.
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Summary: Better than expected
Review: "GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)" is a fun comic, with more heart than I expected. The premise, a tough, go-nowhere 22 year old bosozoku deciding to become a High School teacher in order to pick up girls, at first seems like a recipe for fan service and lewd humor. And it is. However, like the best of Japanese comics, this rather sketchy plot develops into something a little more personal and respectable. Onizuka, as he can relate to his pupils and is a tough guy in his own right, becomes "Great Teacher Onizuka." The art is great, and flows easily between two distinct styles, a classic Japanese cartoon style and a more expressive, violent style in some parts. The characters are fun and multi-dimensional. I can see why this series is so popular in Japan. Also, this is a comic where my experience teaching in the Japanese school system has richened the outcome. I "get" several of the jokes that I might have missed before, and I recognize the stereotypes. Good fun all around, and I will definitely be picking up the rest of the series.
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Summary: I'm Eikichi Onizuka, 22 years old!
Review: Before I bought GTO, I wasn't expecting it to be so good... Onizuka proves to be a pretty nice guy that likes to help students, and it's fun watching all the trouble he gets into on the way. His journey to be a great teacher is loaded with obstacles, such as trouble classes, teachers, etc. How will he ever become a great teacher if he can't even hold his job with peace of mind?
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Summary: REALITY MANGA STYLE
Review: Great Teacher Onizuka, or GTO, for short, is one of the most popular mangas going, with over 37 million copies sold worldwide. I wouldn't really expect that, seeing as how it focuses on the life of a teacher. If you can imagine a cross between Marlon Brando as the Wild One and the beatnik attitude of Jack Kerouac along with the cool hipness of Japanese youth as a teacher. While being brillantly subversive, GTO succeeds as both entertainment and satire of the teaching establishment, much as Chaucer lampooned the Church in his Canterbury Tales. Eikichi Onizuka is the 22 year old ex-leader of a biker gang who has found out that he's not going to be able to goof off his whole life. He has to find a job. Having a fetish for young girls in uniform, he decides to become a teacher. He finds out that his impulsive decision is going to take a lot more courage than he thought. This first volume is basically his origin story as he is disappointed by his dreams of becoming something great and having to reevaluate his life as he begins his teacher training. It also begins a pattern that will continue in the following books, namely that he has to use his wits to escape the plots of hateful students and a vice-principal who would like nothing more than to fire him. This book was great. What can I say? If you are a teacher, you'll really get a kick out of seeing a cartoon character fulfill your wishes. Who doesn't want to karate kick their bonehead students sometimes? While Onizuka's attraction to high school girls seems lurid, we find out that he becomes overwhelmed with trying to help his students rather than wanting to seduce them in the end. I think it's just a Japanese thing to be attracted to girls in school uniforms. I think anyone with a sense of humor and semi-lewdness would find these manga entertaining and funny. I would especially recommend it to teachers.
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Summary: Amazing Onizuka!!!!
Review: GTO is an amazing series of manga and anime. It is very funny and there is a good ammount of sexuality. I suggest this for anyone who likes this kind of stuff. As you go on, you will love it. I say you should buy this right now!!!
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Summary: Onizuka! Banzai!
Review: GTO is one of the freshest stories I have had the pleasure to read. I have the first three volumes of the tankoubon and I think it is a great mix of interesting premise, good characters, and a very fresh visual style, which I guess could be called realistic expressionism (Especially when you get a scene with an expressive Onizuka or Uchiyamada). If you want to read some good manga with shonen elements and suprisingly well-used shoujo sensibilities that doesn't need magic, or robots or constipated overly powerful martial artists, GTO is the best bet.
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Summary: Original and Entertaining
Review: GTO is quite unlike any comic (manga or otherwise) that I've ever read. It starts with an unlikely premise: that a 22-year old former gang member and street-brawling ruffian decides one day to become not just a teacher, but the greatest High School teacher in Japan. His reason: to be close to all those nubile young High School girls. Not exactly the most admirable or likable character to come down the pike, but there's a lot of humor to be found in the "fish out of water" aspects of the story, and by the end of volume one I found myself warming to him. He's a letch, but he's a harmless letch, easily manipulated by the girls he lusts after, and as the story progresses you come to see that he has a heart. He may turn out to be a great teacher after all.
I'm really looking forward to future volumes of GTO.
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Summary: Great Teacher Onizuka!!!!
Review: I like to start off saying that GTO is one of my favorite manga. Its about this hardcore blonde haired punk who want to be the greatest teacher of all of Japan! But first he actually has to become a teacher. Onizuka has a strong sense in pride and justice. He's an all around decent guy except he's a sex starved pervert. Peeking a look at beautiful white cotton panties to watching the latest porn. He is a person everyone would love or want to be like. I hope you enjoy reading this series as much as i did except i havent actually read all of them just the ones out to date. hahahaha
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Summary: Better than the Bible
Review: I wish there was a way that I could cook up this manga, tie off and shoot it up. It's that good. No, I don't really know what the author's name is, being that it's Japanese, but he is a brilliant and enlightened man.
This is the story of a 22-year-old virgin who decides to become a teacher so he can nail kogals. I think that's something we can all relate to.
Hey, man, not that I'm anti-American, but you know we couldn't get away with that premise here. I don't know how Tohru Fujisawa did it. My best guess is that it was by some perfect combination of drugs, trauma, and eventually, love. But what's he's managed to pull off is balancing sex, comedy and compassion. It works from all three angles!
Our protagonist pleasures himself with a cup of Ramen with a hole punched in the center. C'mon! How does the story then manage to shift gears by the next page, with me feeling hurt right along with this guy when he's set up by his students?
How can we start out unabashedly and amorally (right!) lusting after young Japanese school girls and then make the transition into caring about everyone involved? A flawless transition!
I'm not talking about running out of a storyline and contriving something to keep the series going. I'm talking about a natural evolution. The characters change in this story. They're not static, they're capable of compassion as well as cruelty. Everyone is shallow at a distance, but a little depth becomes apparent the more you see of them.
You know what this means? It means that everything else I've reviewed here at Amazon, utilizing their incredibly stupid five star system, has been a lie. Those books were all two stars at best. This book here, this is five stars.
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Summary: Low brow humor with a good stry interwoven thruout
Review: This a book for everyone that doesn't mind a LOT of sexual humor. Eichiki Onizuka is a down in the dumps punk who spends all day looking up girls' skirts. When he finds out that high school girls want their teachers, he decides to be a teacher for the love and sex. When he turns a groups of O (lowest level of education) group kids into hard working students, he decides he really wants to be a teacher. The humor is just perfect and Onizuka has more faces than Digimon (I like the gritty style most). The only reason this got a 4 was because it got too dramatic sometimes, like in the Happiness in a Six-Mat Apartment
story. =GEt this now.
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