Great Teacher Onizuka–inspiration or turn-off?

Good morning folks. I am in a inquisitive mood and was wondering how many people thought GTO (be it the manga, drama series, or anime) rocked their world as much as it did mine.

Even if you don’t know who/what GTO is, drop a line and I (or someone else) will explain who this crazy dude is.

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For me, GTO was my inspiration to become a teacher. Currently, I’m well on my way on becoming an elementary teacher. I really hope that I get the opportunity to suplex a corrupt principle, do some late-night roof diving, or get my biker gang to rough up unruly students (or abusive parents) and manage not to get fired.

If not, I can still fantasize about it. 😛

Just in case you couldn’t tell from my avatar, I really like GTO and hope to become a real "GTS" one day… ^_^;;

I’m pretty familiar with all versions of it, actually. Much liking for Onizuka here. Can’t say it really affected me in any way, but I still watch the occasional episode of the anime and I have the entire live action series sitting on my hard drive despite having finished watching it ages ago. It’s one of the few things I’ve been able to bring myself to delete.

Ditto to the deletion thing. My live action GTO has been collecting dust (if files can do that).

I was going through Hastings a few months ago and found the actual DVD of GTO: The Movie. It would have been a personal sin not to buy it, so I did, even though I’ve seen it as well. Not to my surprise, the dubbing was awful. But hey, Takashi Sorimachi played one helluva good Onizuka, so that’s all that matters.

I’ve never seen the movie, though if I ever stumbled across the dvd, I would buy it on the spot.

At very the end of the drama series (the episode that ran for an hour and a half), Onizuka gets a call from one of his students and hangs up on them (because he’s about to tell Fuyutsuki that he loves her, or maybe he’s about to propose..?)

Anyhow, he then gets another call, tries to ignore it, and eventually answers without looking on the caller ID. Assuming it’s the same student, he says something like "I told you I’m busy! …Huh? …Hokkaido?"

The guitar riff of "Poison" plays as the screen fades and the subtitles read "see you next time" or something.

The movie was damn good. It combined a lot of the aspects that made the anime and manga so good (such as suplexing someone or teaching life lessons though the most abstract of methods).

I recommend it for any GTO fan. I’m pretty sure I leached my copy from isohunt before stumbling upon it two years later.

I will call you Mr. Teacher.

whoa. i think i stopped myself in time from reading stevo’s last post. i know its the drama series and i’ll prolly never watch it, but that seemed like a spoiler so mark appropirately please. :p

i got the first dvd from a pawn shop last year along with some other random titles i thought i’d check out. this was defiantely hilarious. heck i didn’t even know they had a drama. reminds me of gokusen.

I love GTO, its an anime I saw a long time ago but never got to finish XD; I saw some episodes of the drama too, which I really loved ^^ I wanted to be a teacher also when I watched that XD for the longest time I had kept that occupation in the back of my head incase I really wanted to fulfill it ^^ so I know wha tyou mean. GTO is awesome :3 and its cool you’re becoming a teacher ^^

GTO 4EVA

I ran across an episode or two online a while back and instantly loved the series. It has a very good story, a lot of funny parts, and great characters. I’ve recommended it to all of my friends who are into anime. I also found volumes 1-4 (episodes 1-19) at a local Gamestop in their used DVDs section. I grabbed them up like someone was trying to get to them at the same time. Now I just need to get the rest of the anime and check out the live action series as well.

Oh yeah, this is one of my all time fav’s. It had a great story, comedy, and it was just a great anime to watch.

The name shares 3 letters with GTFO….

I’m going to have to get this one. Most of the time half the people say its great while half say it ripped a big one.

to me its an inspiration
evn though im not a guy!
onizuka is hiliarioius, dont like the ending though, y cnat he stay where he is