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GTO - Great Teacher Onizuka (Vol. 1)

GTO - Great Teacher Onizuka (Vol. 1)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hee hee - Feeling Crude?
Review: I have all three released DVDs of GTO series and I love them!! This series has some of the FUNNIEST scenes I have ever seen, such as Onizuka's dunking of his students, the scene in 2 where he's pretending to be various anime/manga characters, or when he meets Murai's mom! Of course, it calls for an enjoyment of crude humor, so this series is NOT for everyone. If you don't mind nose picking and panty flashes, then go for it.

The animation is, well, it ain't the best, but the Onizuka costumes (wolf, monkey, and so forth) are great. On a personal note, I love the battles with the students.

Ah, if only...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I wish I could give 5 1/2 stars
Review: I have seen volumes 1-4 of GTO and I am officially addicted. I love Onizuka!! Any anime fan that wants to just have fun and learn a lesson or two from a really good teacher should watch this series. Besides the cool name GTO, there's a cool lesson to be learned at the end of every episode.

You have got to watch this series. I want to see more Onizuka!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Anime Series!!!
Review: I have the Manga and I have bought up to volume 3 of the dvd, of this wonderful series. This anime is very addictive so be warned! It is also not for kids, you can tell by the content of the anime. I highly suggest it for any anime fan out there. If you like adult humor and totaly awsome comedy with some sexual inuendo you will like this dvd! I wasnt sure about this series at first till i read the manga and then it just got me hooked. I figured a lecharous guy looking up school girls uniforms was not worth the time but I was wrong. Onizuka's true self comes out as this story progresses and you find out how much his like everyone else in real life. Both the subbed and Dubbed versions are worth looking at! The voice acting is awsome and the transsalations are very close to the Japanese version. Hope everyone enjoys this series!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Surprisingly good
Review: I've become increasingly picky about the onslaught of anime that's being thrust on the market these days, but I'm happy to say that I'm impressed by GTO. It stands out among the other comedy anime because it has an interesting premise and is charming in a lot of ways--not to mention that it is very, very funny.

GTO is a rather long-running series (it will be released on 10 discs) and I've only seen this first disc, so I don't know if the quality remains constant through the whole series--but I have to say that this show is very good so far. I'd say that GTO is sort of an overlooked gem. It has very little visibility beyond established anime fans; which is a shame because it has the potential for pretty broad appeal.

If you can, invite some friends over, order some pizza and watch GTO. This show lends itself very easily to being watched in a group, and even your friends who aren't already anime fans will probably enjoy it. The animation is well done, the show is stylish and funny, and the DVD transfer looks great. The only other things I should point out are that the character designs are occasionally strangely deformed (a style I actually like, but others may not), and that the humor is meant for an adult audience.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: BEST SEREIS IVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME
Review: I. LOVE. THIS. SERIES. Onizuka, the main character is so fun to watch, its just so fun to see how he's going to react to the situation. One time, i thought he was going to go balistic and beat down the kid that put his face on naughty photos, as he had to a different bunch of students in the first episodes. But he didn't. He finds a real solution to the problem. Instead of getting the kid expelled, he makes him put together photos of naked women from the body parts of many other naked women to form a super naked woman... GREAT STUFF MY FRIENDS, GREAT STUFF...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Listen Closely, GTO Fans!
Review: If you thought the anime was funny, you should know it was made more "TV Friendly" than the manga. The books are easy to find and are much cheaper, and the comedy is MUCH funnier. There are instances in which you must throw the book on the floor and laugh your... off for a few minutes before you pick it back up.
The DVD's are great, but the special features were bland. I did enjoy the spot-on voice acting and the actors (Onizuka is played by the same guy who plays Spike on Cowboy Bebop, and Tom, the robot host of Toonami). A great buy!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great action, well written, and Funny as hell
Review: If your tired of the same 'ol thing and you want some good quality anime entertainment check out GTO. It's a perfect mix of action and comedy in the story making it have no dull or boring parts. It's dubbed well making the characters well developed and understandable.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Teacher with heart of gold and ...attitude
Review: Intended for a mature audience able to deal with blackmail, and sexual concepts, GTO is the story of blond, ear-ring wearing pretty-boy Grand Teacher Onizuka. His mission in life is to become a 22 year old school teacher and hook up with 16 year old school girls, following an honorable profession and leading a lecher's life.

And like most dreamers, his plans go awry - in a very strange way. In reality he has a heart of gold under his muscle-rippled ab's; when a young student weasles her way into his home, and he nervously but eagerly sets up a seduction scene, but reverses it when realizing how serious it is, and yet she doffs clothes and then doors open and blackmail camera's flash (smirks light up), his true nature comes out. His blackmailers are caught in the park by motorcylce gangs. Which wouldn't be all that bad if the pretty-boy teacher didn't happen to be the meanest, most ... gang member there was. He applies the use of water to castigate them; expecting to be fired the next day for excessive use of corporal punishment on a student, he is surprised to find he's been hired on full time. His black mailer's were students in the nastiest class in school (his class) who just needed to learn to respect "teachers" and his object lesson definitely made them respect him! (And set up his future teaching career plans, to his dismay...)

From then on the events continue to unroll; his particular no-holds barred brand of tough love. Is there a wall in your life? He has a sledge hammer to fix it! "Don't worry, I have a lesson plan for them," is a classic quote to be.

This series will appeal more to the general audience than any other audience; it is about people, set in modern day, and fairly clean cut, sometimes comical, occasionally silly, often very soft hearted, and sharp as glass when need be, usually intending to convey warmth and sometimes sympathy. You have to be able to appreciate the humor of a wanna-be lecher who's stutters and blushes when faced with the real thing, and yet can open a six-pack of ... when need be (i.e. embodying the concepts of innocence and strength at the same time). If you only prefer high maturity (married people and love triangles and who's sleeping with who plots), or violent blood-slinging ninja and samurai action, or military action and hero-saves-the-world plots, nudity and/or porn sex, or monsters and people with special psychic powers, you'll probably think it's boring trash. A general audience looking for a tough nice guy should definitely give it a rent and probably buy it (if you have fickle morals rent it; it's not nasty but there are some very mature and 100% real feeling situations that may spoil it if you are irked by excesses, like homosexual inferences - even when they prove definitely mistaken, part of a psych-out plot.)

The only reason I didn't rate it 5 stars was because I save 5 stars for movies I think everyone should look at. And I usually rate honestly; most shows are 3 stars at best. This is an excellent flick, not perfect, but very good for the audience it aims at.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Once You Pop, You Can't Stop
Review: It may not quite hang with its bigger, badder, shoot-em-up, slash-em-to-pieces, giant robot anime bretheren, but when it's all said and done, Great Teacher Onizuka may end up being the most addictive anime series ever.

The plot is simple enough: Eikichi Onizuka, a former bike gang member, college karate champ, 22 years old and a bachelor, has taken it upon himself to be the world's greatest teacher. with little or no qualifications, he somehow gets accepted into a prestigious school, is assigned the worst class of delinquents ever, and proceeds to work on taming the adolescent beasts.

Simple plot, complex protagonist. Onizuka is the definition of "man-child," the battle with the man and the child within him always in conflict. This is key as the series plays up the ongoing battle between the students and adults, be it teachers, administrators, parents or politicians. Onizuka is into videogames, internet porn, costumes, launching bottle rockets and ogling schoolgirls. At the same time he has a better sensitivity toward the real causes of the students problems, be it parental conflict, bad past experiences with teachers, money or bullying. Then again, he likes to deal with his problems in the most unorthodox methods, i.e. beating up students.

This volume shows Onizuka first getting used to his methods as a student-teacher. A group of students pull a clever prank, and blackmail Onizuka for a million yen. With the help of some biker gangs and a midnight dipping/drowning at a nearby pond, Onizuka manages to "win over" the males of the group. He take a more subtle approach to Nanako, whose problems stem more from a declining parental relationship, which he creatively remedies.

With that phase over, Onizuka next has to tackle the task of getting into prestigious Holy Family Academy and Class 2-4, the angel-faced, snake-hearted delinquent crew he must deal with for the rest of the series.

The art is on a par with Dragonball Z, and watching this series in Japanese is *necessary*! Not only are their numerous word jokes (Nanako says "Yoo-poo" instead of "yoo-hoo" and Onizuka ridicules her), or that the English teacher struggles with and forces English, the story has pretty significant differences from the English to the Japanese version. The Japanese vocal cast is far superior, and the vocal intonations better match the facial expressions; the storyline and what they say are far more risque and naughtier than the English dub as well.

A great, addicting series, that has up to Vol. 9 (at this point) released in the US. There are only 43 episodes in the set, so it should be coming to a close. Very few extras other than stills and previews on this disc.

Also recommended are the 12-episode GTO Live Action Japanese Drama, a loose approximation of the anime and manga, and the live action movie that takes place after the series.

Not recommended if you can't afford to get the whole thing; no sane person can handle the cliffhangers at the end of each disc.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: That is a very good Anime :D
Review: My rate is 5. Why? Because that anime is different like anyone.
This anime is Funny, amazing, dirty, and fantastic. (Itt élek ebben a h...e oszágban, olyan dolgokat nézek, láttok, amiket évek múlva se látnék a net nélkül :P)

bye everybody


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