GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)

Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:26 am

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Anyone watch this? Its a pretty entertaining. Its about a guy who is a high school teacher who likes to solve all his students problems in funny mannered ways. Its quite funny and often leaves cliff hanger shows which can get rather annoying. But i mean over all its a funny as hell anime and its also a manga. who else as heard or seen this anime?

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Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:32 am

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Urumi Kanzaki eats you for breakfast.

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:55 am

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I find the anime series started to suck when it became Secondary Character Onizuka.

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:00 am

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Shonen Junai Gumi is crap compared to even the second half of GTO.

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:09 am

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Would any of you want to tell me more about the orignal show before gto? Im only familier with GTO cause its the only anime that caught my attention on my cables on demand section.

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:26 am

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Well, I don't believe the original was ever animated. It was a manga in the early 80's, though, so I'm not sure how easy it is to find nowadays.

If I recall correctly, it got localized in these giant volumes, though...

Eh, I don't know. Look around a bookstore's manga section for "Shonen Junai Gumi".

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:09 am

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Holy Hell wrote:

Shonen Junai Gumi is far superior to the second half of GTO.

For those not in the know, GTO is a sequel to SJG.

A lot of stuff is superior to the second half of GTO.

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:02 am

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A lot of stuff is also superior to GTO!Anime's piece of crap ending. It just had such an empty feeling to it.

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:10 pm

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Holy Hell wrote:

A lot of stuff is also superior to GTO!Anime's piece of crap ending. It just had such an empty feeling to it.

Well, at least it's an ending.

GTO!Manga's

Spoiler:

ending was, I find, totally inconclusive.

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Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:55 pm

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Attorney Hatman wrote:

Holy Hell wrote:

A lot of stuff is also superior to GTO!Anime's piece of crap ending. It just had such an empty feeling to it.

Well, at least it's an ending.

GTO!Manga's

Spoiler:

ending was, I find, totally inconclusive.

I thought the Urumi suicide thing was kinda fun, though. But, eh, I guess we can conclude that both endings suck. :/

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Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:26 pm

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This is one of my favorite manga selections, and its on my top ten list for anime. Although I was pretty disappointed with the anime ending, and they did a better job patching things up in the manga. I'd like to get my hands on the GTO:Early Years set soon to see what I missed...

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Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:26 am

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Whoaly geyser, look at these old posts of mine! They're so old! I actually said this stuff? Wow.

... so, yeah, GTO is like.. okay and stuff.

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Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:40 pm

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I watched the dub versions on Youtube. Great Teacher Onizuka is insanely funny, but what I criticize about the english dub is those interfering PICTURE FRAMES.

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Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:35 pm

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I saw a few episodes and it was alright. It's not the best anime in the world, but to me, it's worth watching.

Chikikyo wrote:

I watched the dub versions on Youtube. Great Teacher Onizuka is insanely funny, but what I criticize about the english dub is those interfering PICTURE FRAMES.

Oh joy...here we go again...more complaining about dubs...

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Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:16 am

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I enjoyed the bit of the anime that I saw... I'm sorry that it turned out not-so-great. >_< I watched a live-action GTO movie that was friggin' awesome/hilarious, though!

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Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:41 pm

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The manga was much better than the anime, but the anime was at least more entertaining than many other shows.

However, HH, I have to say that SJG is fucking garbage and you should be ashamed of yourself.

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Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:31 am

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I've seen a number of episodes of the live action GTO show. I enjoyed it, however we only watched it up to a certain point. But either way, you gotta admit, the teacher had some interesting ways of getting through to his students.

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Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:11 am

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Quote:

However, HH, I have to say that SJG is fucking garbage and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Lol at old posts of mine. I am ashamed of myself and I can't believe I ever used the phrase "for those in the know". As always, I consider these previous incarnations of Holy Hell to be completely unrelated to my current form.

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Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:39 am

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The anime was fairly good. It seemed mostly scatter-brained when more emphesis was put on the students, but it was still alright.

I didn't really care much for the manga. It was alright, too, but I lost interest in it after a while.

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Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:47 am

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suicide, etc.

I've always liked series that focus on Japanese schools (in a more or less 'realistic' way, unlike the every day rom-com about school children) if only because it tends to display some of the more unfortunate and ugly sides of the education system with alarmingly high frequency; the nasty archetypes that show up, if and when you ever look into it, are more or less metaphors for real life problems and people in the system itself.

But at face value, GTO is a really good read anyway. Although to be honest the last five volumes really do reek of 'Hey this is popular don't end it yet.'

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Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:12 am

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I was just looking through GTO when I realized that they stopped having giant pants.

If there was one thing I liked about SJG (literally one thing), it was the comically gigantic, bloated pants they had. The crotch came down to, like, their ankles too. I'm sort of disapointed that they didn't carry on to GTO. Only slightly.

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Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:49 pm

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That's more to do with Bosouzoku fashion than his inability to draw pants. The closest comparison I can think of are baggy 'gangsta' jeans. The huge baggy pants have been around for a long time--they're basically one of the staples of a 'Yankee' look, along with bleached/permed/whatever hair and super long jackets.