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GTO trivia; kung wala kang alam.... pwes alamin mo..
Topic Started: Feb 10 2006, 11:59 AM (359 Views)
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Story

This Story is about the life of Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old biker who initially has no idea whatsoever about what to do with his life.

While peeping up girl's skirts at a local shopping mall, Onizuka meets a girl who agrees to go out on a date with him. However, Onizuka's attempts to bed her fail when her current boyfriend - her teacher - shows up at the Love hotel they were in and asks her to come back. This Teacher is old and unattractive, but she is so under this teacher's power that she leaps from a window two stories up and lands in his arms.

Onizuka, seeing this display of a teacher's power over girls, decides to become one himself, and discovers three important things:

He has a conscience and a sense of morality. This means taking advantage of impressionable schoolgirls is out...but their unusually attractive parents (see Kunio Murai, below) are a different matter.

He enjoys teaching.

He hates the systems of traditional instruction, especially when they have grown ignorant and condescending.

With these realizations, he sets out to become the greatest Teacher ever, using his own wacky brand of philosophy and the ability to do nearly anything when under sufficient pressure. One example being improving his grade from near-zero to perfect on a standardized test in one week, and taking said test in one hour (two in the anime) instead of the normal five, all with a few bullet wounds in him from using the other three to rescue the daughter of a famous government official from a yakuza hideout. Hired as a long-shot Teacher by a privately operated school to tame a class that has driven one Teacher to suicide, one to nervous breakdown, and one to joining a cult, he embarks on a mission of self-discovery by one by one breaking through to each student, and helping each student, ranging from the busty bimbo to the Oedipal Rebel, to learn to genuinely enjoy life.


Media Information

Manga

The original Japanese manga was collected into 25 volumes (tankouban) by Kodansha's Shounen Magazine Comics imprint. It is currently being translated into English by publisher TOKYOPOP. Of the original 25 volumes, 24 have been translated to date, with the final volume 25 slated for release on August 9th, 2005. Kodansha released a bi-lingual version in Japan.


Anime

Directed by Noriyuki Abe and Naoyasu Hanyu of Madhouse Studios. The opening theme for the first few episodes is "Driver's High" by L'Arc~en~Ciel and later switches to "Hitori No Yoru (Lonely Night)" by Porno Graffiti.


Onizuka and Fuyutsuki from the live action.

There are also a live Action TV series in 11 episodes (dorama), a TV special and movie. Takashi Sorimachi stars as Onizuka, and Nanako Matsushima is Azusa. It is directed by Masayuki Suzuki, and the opening song, "Poison", is sung by Takashi Sorimachi himself. There are some drastic changes from the anime. The final episode of the live Action series was the most-watched televised event in Japan's history.

Trivia: Sorimachi and Matsushima met on the set of GTO and are now married with a baby daughter.


Characters



Eikichi Onizuka



Eikichi Onizuka (Onizuka Eikichi) is a 22-year old biker and virgin. He graduated from a 5th-rate university and as such cannot get a decent job, and so his main way of spending time was to peer up girls' skirts in a local mall.

Through the events explained in the Story section Onizuka decides to become a teacher. His initial Teacher training is in the Musashino Public High School, where he meets Nanako Mizuki (see below). His experience taming the rowdy gangs in his assigned class hardens his convictions that teaching was the way to go, (but meeting Nanako hardened something else...)

Unfortunately, he nearly messes up by forgetting to sit the Public teachers' civil service exam. As a result no Public High school will take him, though he is still eligible for a number of private schools. He manages to get a job at the upper-crust Holy Forest Academy, despite the objections of vice-principal Uchiyamada.

One of the conditions of having the job at Holy Forest is to sleep at the school (on the roof) and it is here that Onizuka meets Noboru by stopping him from committing suicide. Unfortunately, in doing this he trashes Uchiyamada's car, making the stressed-out vice principal even more intent on getting Onizuka fired.

Onizuka is put in charge of class 3-4, a class so bad it has already made three teachers psychotic. However, he not only survives the class, but begins to bring them round onto his side and sort out their problems, and this is what the main part of the books is about.


Azusa Fuyutsuki

Azusa Fuyutsuki (Fuyutsuki Azusa) is a 22 year-old beautiful female Teacher who is the heroine of the series. Unlike Onizuka, she led a relatively normal life, graduating from Waseda University Her quiet manner and moderate ideas are misleading as she proves to be very tough on her own sometimes scaring even tough Onizuka. To prepare him for the test of his teaching life, she prepares a mountain of jelly with eyes of Maguro tuna fish as fruits and imposes impossibly tough schedule that would have killed anyone or drove them mad. Her field of teaching is Kokugo or Japanese language. She, not that surprisingly, falls in Love with Onizuka but as both are quite reluctant to admit their feeling and show them in the open, they claim that they are just "friends". It's not really a major matter to anyone else except Suguru Teshigawara, who finds it most aggravating that a woman with her qualifications would fall in Love with one with such a crude background as Onizuka.


Nanako Mizuki

Nanako is a student at the Musashino Public High School who is in the class that Onizuka is given to teach While training. Initially she agrees to set Onizuka up, seducing him into taking her back to his apartment, where she undresses and some of the boys from the class take a picture of Onizuka and Nanako together.

However, Onizuka is able to persuade the boys to keep quiet about this (using a few of his biker friends to help - about 100 of them). Despite being set up once, Onizuka agrees to take Nanako to her house after she insinuates he might be able to have sex with her.

Eventually though she ends up at his house and sleeps There (though no sex happens) after explaining that her parents have no time for her anymore because of their businesses.

Onizuka solves this by bashing a hole in one of the walls in Nanako's house, thus ensuring that the wall does not act as a barrier between Nanako and her parents. Her parents have the hole filled, but the rift is healed by the time it is.


Hideki Ozawa

The first teacher Onizuka meets at Musashino Public High School during training. This so-called teacher has a reputation for sleeping with his lovely female students and convinces Onizuka that teaching High school is the way to go. Needless to say, the prospect of having a 16-year-old wife at age 40 is irresistible to the 22-year-old(-and-proud-of-it) Onizuka. But not long after Onizuka silences Nanako's gang, Hideki insists that Onizuka rape Nanako just to keep her shut too. Just as Onizuka's about to go through with it, he learns of Nanako's problems and changes his ways.

We don't exactly learn what happens to Ozawa, all we know is that he was caught but left for another training session somewhere.


Noboru Yoshikawa

Noboru is a pupil at Holy Forest academy, and has not had a good time There so far, being the victim of serious bullying, most of it by Anko and her group. He is extremely good with TV games and is something of an Otaku but proves to be quite handy with making things in a later episode.

This bullying is so bad it makes Noboru try to kill himself twice, by leaping off the roof of the school both times, but each time he is saved by Onizuka and strikes up a sort of friendship with him, as Noboru has a lot of stuff that Onizuka wants to borrow.

In the School trip to Okinawa, he finally gets over the bullying by pretending to be the ghost with help of Onizuka and scaring Anko's Group to death. He would later get lost with Anko on an island but Anko discovers that he can be someone to trust and bullying stops.


Anko Uehara

Anko (Uehara Anko) is one of the students in Onizuka's class. She is a typical female bully and Noboru is often on the short end of this.

However, after a particular degrading attack on Noboru, Onizuka ambushes Anko and two of her friends at a local Karaoke bar with Noboru and Kikuchi, taking some rather embarrassing pictures of them in return.

This makes Anko get her mother - the president of the school PTA - to file a complaint against Onizuka. However, this complaint is dropped when the mother is blackmailed by some evidence that has been fabricated by Noboru and others.

At some point after this, however, Anko switches sides because she doesn't like the way Miyabi is making others do her dirty work, and even helps Onizuka when Miyabi sets up the embezzlement of the school trip fund. On the trip in Okinawa, Noboru ends up helping Anko, and she falls in Love with him, though it takes a good old-fashioned Onizuka scheme to make her announce her love.


Kunio Murai

Kunio Murai(Murai Kunio)is the class jock bully. He's not very bright and loses his temper very easily. When Onizuka arrives at Holy Forest, Kunio and his gang (consisting of Fujiyoshi and Kusano) attempt to kill him several times with seemingly innocent pranks - such as a cockroach planted in his school lunch. The plans backfire - Kunio ends up eating the cockroach! - and he goes insane, nearly ending up with his face impaled on a pair of razor-sharp scissors. Onizuka then takes advantage of Kunio's weakpoint - his sexy 27-year-old mother Julia - after trouncing Kunio at several arcade games. As it turns out, Julia got pregnant at 13(!) and she ran away from his father and her parents so she could keep the baby.

Kunio and his gang befriend Onizuka later on (especially in Volume 4 when he saves them from a Group of ruffians, but not before Onizuka joins the ruffians and has Kunio bungee jump off a Tokyo bay bridge.) Kunio still gets very angry when Onizuka tries to make a pass at his mother, especially with the possibility that Onizuka may well be his new stepfather.


Tomoko Nomura

Tomoko Nomura (Nomura Tomoko) is a pupil in Onizuka's class. She has very large breasts, but is not too bright, leading to people calling her Toro-ko (or Slo-mo-ko in the English version). She and Yoshikawa makes a good duo beating the tag of Onizuka in a watergun battle by blasting the room with multiple water rockets prepared by Yoshikawa himself (There had been no limit placed on what type of weapons to use).

After initially messing up her role in one of Miyabi's plans to get Onizuka fired, she is cut off from Miyabi's group. However, Onizuka sorts this out by getting her into a local beauty contest. He even arranges for two porn producers he knows to dress her up for the occasion! Rather than read the given script for the acting category, Onizuka gives her a couple of Action figures and she ends up doing a very lovely improv piece (with the vice principal getting an accidental role!) She doesn't win, but she gets noticed by several TV producers and starts starring in various commercials and the like. Her young male manager, impressed with her naturalness and falling in Love at the first sight, makes it a lifetime quest to make her succeed.

The second half of Volume 11 and the first half of Volume 12 have a small side adventure featuring Tomoko and her manager, called GTO - this time standing for Great Tomoko Oppai (Oppai meaning breasts.) In it Tomoko's manager embarks on one very madcap adventure to save her from her dubious producers.

In the live Action TV episode, instead of her succeeding dramatically in following episodes, she would part for an Okinawa actor school to learn dancing and singing. In the Anime version, Tomoko is given a cell-phone for her performance and her improv is her calling Miyabi asking for forgiveness and friendship.


Miyabi Aizawa

Miyabi is another pupil in Onizuka's class, and seems to hate teachers quite severely. She is easily the most popular girl in school though her queen-like manner can easily irritate anyone. At the beginning she appears to be the ringleader of the classmates that want to get rid of Onizuka. Like Anko Uehara and Kunio Murai, she has her own crime trio. She also hired Tomoko for a rape blackmail trap against Onizuka, but expels her from the Group when it backfires.

Originally just out to be rid of Onizuka on principle, she quickly makes it personal when she loses to the Onizuka-sponsored Tomoko at the beauty contest.

Miyabi is behind the school trip embezzlement, in which she blackmails Mr.Sakurai (not Mrs. Sakurai husband) into asking parent to submit the money by cash. This allows her to steal the money and plant it on Onizuka, who manages to lose it all in a sting step up by Miyabi.

However, Urumi, who is Onizuka's side by this time, gets revenge for him by setting her and her three friends up with a Sadomasochistic group, where she is narrowly saved from being raped - when Onizuka crashes into their room of their hotel through the window after swinging Tarzanstyle from a rope suspended from a blimp...all the way from another skyscraper. Of course, before he could actually save them, he demanded a sincere apology from Miyabi. In the Anime, Urumi hires a Group of yakuza instead of the perverts - probably because the producers wanted the anime to make it past censors.


Urumi Kanzaki

Urumi Kanzaki (Kanzaki Urumi) is the antithesis to the dumb blonde stereotype. In fact, she is a child genius, with an IQ over 200. However, she is also psychologically disturbed, specifically having an intense hatred of teachers.

Her genius is displayed repeatedly by such abstract actions as blasting every single disposable boxes with firecrackers right on the 0:00 PM, making a fake sillicone head so a snake look like a viper, or more genius like actions like shouting curses in French and being able to speak Cantonese.

This hatred stems from her elementary school days. Her Teacher wasn't able to handle Urumi properly, and Urumi's constant requests for the teachers time both inside and outside of school eventually made the Teacher snap. The Teacher then told Urumi's secret to her class (something about her father, but it isn't stated explicitly then. It is later told that her mother had selected a genetical father based on his intelligence and nothing more). Naturally this caused a Great deal of psychological trauma to Urumi, and a quite understandable hatred of teachers.

However, after a couple of run-ins with Onizuka he is able to get through to her by almost killing both himself and her by jumping over the gap in a suspension bridge, and by making her see that her past trauma, however bad, just isn't worth messing up her present with.


Hiroshi Uchiyamada

Hiroshi Uchiyamada (Uchiyamada Hiroshi) is the vice-principal at Holy Forest Academy, and the Mr. Wilson to Onizuka's Dennis the Menace. He has some very set ideas on how peoples' backgrounds relates to how well they can do. Despite his many failings, he is not an evil man but is just very serious about the job of teaching. Uchiyamada is commonly seen in the manga throwing fits over his two favorite subjects, Onizuka the "parasite" and his beloved Toyota Cresta (read on to see why).

Biography according to Volume 5:

Born and educated in a small rural town, Uchiyamada is discovered as a prodigy and eventually recommended to learn to be a Teacher at the Tokyo College of Education where he first met his wife-to-be. 29 years of hard work eventually earned him his house in Imura, with a small garden.

Uchiyamada rubs Onizuka up the wrong way in the interview because of his background - as revenge when he got slugged for grabbing Fuyutsuki's butt on the train he took on the way to work. However, Onizuka is not the first to experience this, and a couple of expelled students come to the Academy looking to pay Uchiyamada back for their own treatment. He offers Onizuka a job if he can get rid of these students, but after hearing what Uchiyamada has to say about them, he incapacitates Uchiyamada instead. Onizuka infuriates Uchiyamada even more when he uses the principal's shiny new and VERY beloved Toyota Cresta as a disposable cushion when he saves Noboru from suicide...both times! Uchiyamada's Cresta is destroyed AGAIN when Azusa, Kikuchi, and Murai steal it to go after Onizuka when he drives off with Urumi and ends up sinking it in the river. To add insult to injury, the poor vice-principal ends up paying for all of its repairs and prostrating himself in front of his ever-more-aggravated insurance committee!

He is a not quite extreme example of punishing an ordinary older middle-aged Japanese man takes from his home and workplace. He is forced to work with a young man like Onizuka who easily breaks his rule and things he do doesn't make sense to him. The boss he serves under seems to think it is fun. At home, his daughter and wife openly disdain him in his often deluded imaginings. He feels that they're only satisfied with the luxuries that his work earns.


Mayu Wakui

Mayu Wakui (Wakui Mayu) is the grandson of Chairwoman Sakurai. He attended Holy Forest for a while, then left for an unknown reason.

As part of Miyabi's continuing (as of book 14) quest to get rid of Onizuka, she asks Mayu to come back to try and get him removed.

Mayu comes back and almost immediately rubs Onizuka up the wrong way. This results in him bursting a water main and almost doing Mayu in with an entire set of lockers. At this point Onizuka finds out that Mayu is Chairwoman Sakurai's grandson, and she lashes out at him. Uchiyamada then takes that opportunity to suspend Onizuka.

However Mrs. Sakurai then calms down, realises that it was all Mayu's fault (it always is according to her) and asks Onizuka to come back and try and bring him back onto the straight and narrow.

Mayu has a terminal illness because of a medical mistreatment and later makes a debut in the mainstream Media by confessing his illness - the reason for his live like no tomorrow personality.


Yoshito Kikuchi

Yoshito is one of Onizuka's students. This computer prodigy serves as the class president. He is also notorious for making pornographic composite photos for use as blackmail. Upon Onizuka's arrival at Holy Forest Academy, Yoshito tries to blackmail the new Teacher into resignation with several pictures posted all across the school for everyone to see. Onizuka catches Yoshito and ironically asks him to make composite porn pictures of Azusa and other teachers.

Yoshito eventually befriends Onizuka and later helps Noboru fabricate evidence to prevent Anko Uehara's mother - the president of the school PTA - from getting Onizuka fired. Later volumes hint at a relationship between him and fellow genius Urumi Kanzaki.


Toshiyuki Saejima

Toshiyuki Saejima (Saejima Toshiyuki) is one of Onizuka's as well as Ryuji's buddy from their gangland days in Shonan Beach. A corrupt police officer, he spends most of his time selling seized police evidence, trying to convince Onizuka to buy into his scams, such as selling goods off the locker, Benzs, Chinese immigrants, among other things and "testing" out weapons from crime scenes.


Suguru Teshigawara

Suguru Teshigawara is a ruthlessly perfectionist Teacher and a graduate cum laude of Tokyo University. He grew up trying to follow after his successful brother and his father, who works for a High Parliament minister. He dresses very neatly and even wears a white velvet glove - a symbol of perfection. He's obsessed with Azusa Fuyutsuki far past the point of stalking; the walls of his apartment overlooking Azusa's is completely plastered with photos of her. He keeps tabs on her every move in her apartment with enough surveillance equipment to make Big Brother seem like Homeland Security. Suguru even had to drape white cloth all over them to keep up a spotless appearance when he tried to invite Azusa over to his apartment in Volume 5. Instead, Onizuka came over and nearly pulled the special rope that would remove the cloth. Suguru ends up crashing head-first into his computer screen just to chase him out. Suguru absolutely loathes Onizuka, not only because he's a fifth-string College dropout, but because his students Love him...and Azusa even more.

In Volume 5 he also pulls in a favor with the head of a concerned parents' Group whose daughter he tutors (and is the personal manservant of.) This eventually leads to Onizuka taking the aptitude test - and passing with flying colors and several bullet wounds (long story). Later on in Volumes 18 and 19 his obsession and passion reaches a boiling point when he kidnaps Azusa. When Onizuka figures out the plot with the help of Azusa's sister, Suguru finally snaps and threatens to blow up the school with homemade molotovs (sake bottles and rags).


Hajime Fukuroda

The stereotypically macho-muscular gym coach at Holy Forest, aka "Moleface" for an unusually large mole on his cheek. A graduate of a prestigious Physical Education academy, Fukuroda admires his body and does his very best to keep it - and those of his pupils - in tip-top shape. He even enjoys famously macho theme songs when out at karaoke with his colleagues. But like every macho man, he also has a closeted sexual longing for young girls - specifically his own students.

In Volume 4, Fukuroda challenges Onizuka to several bouts of swimming and running competition to prove the 22-year-old-and-proud-of-it teacher's competency. Tomoko is also introduced in this storyline, when Miyabi and uses her as bait to lure Onizuka into a photo-blackmail trap. Miyabi gave Tomoko a letter that she was supposed to place in Onizuka's locker inviting him to have sex with her. However, Tomoko accidentally delivers the bait letter to Fukuroda and all hell breaks loose. In the Anime, Miyabi had Tomoko plant underwear stolen from the girls' locker rooms in Onizuka's locker.


Naoko Moritaka

The sexy school nurse, introduced near the beginning in the manga and well over halfway into the anime series. She's quite helpful and knows her trade well (i.e. actual nursing), though she seems to derive some erotic pleasure from her regular blood donations. In the Anime series she's introduced as an ex-street racing queen.


Ryuji Danma

Onizuka's best (drinking) buddy and his sidekick from his gangland days. In the years since he went straight, Ryuji has set up his own used motorcycle shop and profits greatly from it. He refers Onizuka to Holy Forest Academy when his buddy is down on his luck.

Later events show the bond between gangbangers isn't solid, when he refuses to lend Onizuka any money to cover the 8-million-yen cost of a school trip to Okinawa - at least not until he clears up his own million-large debts with Ryuji.


Hidemi Oda

Hidemi is the spoiled daughter of a Tokyo legislator and the president of a concerned parents' group, and a major character in the first Teshigawara storyline in Volumes 5, 6, and 7. She finds out that Suguru - her math tutor - is in Love with Azusa and ends up having him lick her feet as punishment so she would not release news of the affair. She also tries to get Onizuka to do the same thing, but the plan backfires, needless to say. The climax of this particular series of events starts when she's kidnapped by yakuza right after she's dropped off from school. Onizuka follows the kidnappers - by clinging to the roof of their getaway car. She ends up in their industrial hideout where Onizuka has to save her before they can make pornographic videos of her as blackmail for her father.


Yuuki Miyamori

Son of a Yakuza kingpin who Onizuka tries to return to school in exchange for more points in the point system set up by Principal Misuzu Daimon. More to come...


Nagisa Nagase

Ryuji's TV-star girlfriend, seen briefly near the beginning of the Urumi Arc in Volume 7. Not much is known about her other than the fact that she's attractive enough that Ryuji slammed his fist into Onizuka's face when he saw him trying to grope her
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gustong gusto ko tong anime na to... kaso not intimately.. sa animax ko pa pinapanood to couple of months ago.. /heh
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medyo fanetz story ng movie (not anime) neto...maganda lang yung student na tinutulungan nya kaya pde pagtyagaan. /heh swerte nga ng lead actor nyan...naging asawa nya ang one of the most wanted actresses ng japan. :worthy: if you like this one, also try to find Dragonzakura (2005 tv series), which I think is much better...luma na kasi GTO.
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i feel so sorry for the people watching the GTO now on animax or abs-cbn. it's filled with cuts, and censors. back then when they first aired it on animax, the storyline, plot, and everything was.. "meatier". /e2
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i feel so sorry for the people watching the GTO now on animax or abs-cbn. it's filled with cuts, and censors. back then when they first aired it on animax, the storyline, plot, and everything was.. "meatier". /e2

yea.. lucky for me napanood ko to nung bago bago plng ung animax hihi..
unlike now full of cuts.. khit d nman ganun ka laswa cut prn nila :(
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