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From Tokyopop: Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a split-second temper. His unlikely goal: to be the Greatest High School Teacher in the World! Of course, the only reason he wants to be a teacher is so he can try to score with the hot students... Before he can become a full instructor, he's got to work as a student teacher to earn his credentials. Onizuka may think he's the toughest guy on campus, but when he meets his class full of bullies, blackmailers, and scheming sadists, he'll have to prove it.
GTO won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shounen.
I took my time deciding whether or not to start this, but when i did... I made the RIGHT choice. Funny, drama, great story. I'll re-read sooner or later as well.
Must read. Don't judge the specifics of this manga based on the comments here, just simply read the manga.
Only thing that makes me angry about this manga is that while the ending was...good... it didn't feel good enough. Almost as if it didn't live up to the previous 199 chapters. I just think it failed to explain some things about the different characters which I'm sure everyone wanted to know. I mean...You're introduced two characters, earlier they seem to fall in love with each other, but never confess... and that's it. The manga doesn't take it any further than that, or explain what happened to those two characters in the end. Just sort of irritates you.
I cant believe that there are ppl who rate this manga 1. This is 1 of the best manga ever! Very interesting, original, funny and deep. Even my teacher love it... Onizuka is amazing, pervert and ridiculously strong. The art isnt great but i still love it
The only thing I didn't like about this manga was the exaggerated facial expressions (especially the mouths) and the frequent ranting by some of the characters. Though those things are probably needed to get the point across, it was just taxing to have to read line after line of a rant when it didn't matter if you read it or not. Eventually I wised up and just skimmed the rants to get the jist of it.
all in all its a really good manga thats got lots of drama, humor, and action. and it was worth reading.
This series is pretty good. It's almost very rare that a teacher would somehow crawl their way into the hearts of students who hate them with their whole being. Not the mention that I love Onizuka's character. It's a good, hilarious read.
My only turn-off with this is that the grammar goes horrid with the blue text boxes, and the constant "Onidzuka," instead of Onizuka. I'd love to read the correct scanlations if someone took the time and effort to make them. =] I kind of stopped reading at volume 6, as the grammar seemed to take the major downfall in that section.
this manga is a masterpeice it really is funny i wish all comedy mangas were like this but there not..it kinda dragged on a little but still worth reading every volume..although the translations got kinda annoying in the beginning like the guy below me said but they fixed it..it also got kinda annoying how Onizuka always made someone accidentally fall onto of the roof top
I mean, I've heard of the story line, absurd teacher teaching at a high classed private school. Add in random shit that happens during the story and the teacher itself and you have a fun few days of reading the whole series.
My only beef with the series are the translations that I get. The first few volumes had annoying blue text boxes with some horrid grammar, but eventually leveled itself out. Could anyone post a completed torrent with "correct scanlating"? Much appreciated and would benefit early volumes.
I didn't think I'd like this series at first - I just randomly decided to download for the heck of it. And then I got so addicted I finished the entire series (that's 25 volumes, mind you) in...a week, I think. It was pretty intense. I love the plot, it made me LMFAO to bits. It got a little repetitive and outrageous toward the end, like other readers have said, but I love how the author gives the readers little insights into the minds of twisted students or the great Onizuka himself. It's definitely got a lot of ecchi though. If you like that, fine, but if you don't, then the plot and LOL but meaningful stories more than make up for it. This is definitely one of my top rated school-life mangas, and I think anyone into the shounen-school life genres has to check this out. Oh, one more thing: the art does take getting used to, it's not typical.
I really enjoyed this series. The plot was original and down to earth, although it got somewhat outrageous at the end. The events are common and easy for me to relate to, so I got into the manga.
However, it started going downhill near the end when they started having unbelievable events happen. If the manga had continued, my enjoyment of it would have dropped considerably.
Overall, the manga was very enjoyable, but I think the anime actually did a better job. It captured the idea of "dedication and trust in teaching" but removed the outrageous events so that the tone was more consistent.
alot of LOL moments, one of my favorite mangas. my friend's mom walked in on us reading this once. somehow we were so lucky that when she was flipping through the pages she only saw up to the fight scenes. if she had flipped one more page she would've seen a scene of old men being bondaged by middle-school girls... yes dont let this manga lie around if you still have parents-nose-poking problems.
later story lines feel like a bit of reruns. bad students -> worse students -> worser student -> worserer student -> worsererer student etc....
a minor thing thing that i really liked about it was that some pages are absolutely FILLED with texts, where every dialogue has a sub dialogue. and background texts such as signs, titles, newspapers are hilarious to read. also some of the "sound effects" in the fight boxes are hilariously (mis)-used.
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