Line #16 YMMV/GreatTeacherOnizuka


1	* {{Anvilicious}}: The Teshigawara arc reminds us multiple times that FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse and that you should always take responsibility for your actions. Though in all fairness, Teshigawara really wasn't getting the message through his head the first time.
2	* ArchivePanic: ''GTO'' has 207 manga chapters, and if you want to read everything in chronological order, there's also the 10-chapter OriginsEpisode ''Manga/BadCompany'' and '''267''' chapters of ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'' to read first. Then there's the {{Interquel}} ''GTO: Shonan 14 Days'', which runs for 70 chapters, and the ongoing sequel ''GTO: Paradise Lost'', currently at 133 chapters. And the ''The Early Years'' spinoff ''Shonan Seven''[[note]]46 chapters; however, Onizuka doesn't appear in it, it's just set at the same school he attended[[/note]].
3	** And then there's the 43-episode anime adaptation, the live-action adaptation[[note]]12 episodes and 1 special[[/note]], the 1999 live-action film, the ''second'' live-action adaptation[[note]]11 episodes and 3 specials[[/note]], the ''third'' live-action adaptation[[note]]4 episodes[[/note]], and the fourth live-action[[note]]11 episodes[[/note]]. And then there's the 5 {{OVA}}s for ''Shonan Junai Gumi''[[note]]52 minutes each[[/note]], the live-action for ''that''[[note]]5 episodes[[/note]], and a ''second'' live-action on Amazon Prime. AND the 1998 live-action film of ''Bad Company'', which seems to have [[NoExportForYou no official subtitled release]].
4	** Saejima and Ryuji also got their own spinoffs, ''Manga/InoHeadGargoyle'' (39 chapters) and ''GTR: Great Transporter Ryuji'' (10 chapters).
5	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
6	** The first opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWwwY4tNcsU Driver's High]] by L'arc en Ciel.
7	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiRKD_1S4e0 "In a world where we can't ever say what's in our heart, POISON..."]]
8	* CargoShip: At times the only thing that seems to prevent Uchiyamada from marrying his Cresta is the unfortunate fact that it's kinda sorta... unconventional.
9	* ContestedSequel: ''14 Days in Shonan'' and ''Paradise Lost'' are often compared unfavorably to the original series.
10	* CrazyIsCool: Onizuka is prone to ComedicSociopathy and ToughLove, but will do anything to protect his students, up to and including FastRoping ''from a fucking blimp'' through a hotel room window, jumping off the roof of the school at least half a dozen times, and driving his motorcycle off an unfinished overpass, ''with one of his students on it too''. His antics make him popular with his students (once he [[DefeatMeansRespect wins them over]]) and cause no end of headaches for the vice principal and most other teachers.
11	* EndingFatigue: General consensus is that the manga really should have ended after the Teshigawara arc.
12	* FanPreferredCouple: Onizuka and Urumi, at least as far as the majority of the Western fanbase first introduced to the series through [=GTO=] is concerned. The pairing tends to get more support due to the opinion that Urumi has more of a developed personality, while Fuyutsuki too obviously fills in the role of [[SatelliteLoveInterest obligatory love interest]].
13	** Ayame and returning LoveInterest Shinomi from ''Shonan 14 Days'' join the fray, with the advantage of being the same age as Onizuka rather than a minor.
14	* FridgeLogic: Think about the last middle schooler you saw. Now picture them pregnant, living alone, and holding a job. How exactly would a disowned 13 year old rent an apartment without a credit history, raise a child by herself, and in the most expensive city in the world, all with no outside help or child services intervention? Either Japan has the world's greatest and most beneficial welfare system, she had the world's nicest landlord, or the writers are greatly exaggerating for dramatic purposes.
15	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: GTO is loved in the US and in Europe, however ''Shonan Jun'ai Gumi'' sold better in Japan.
16	* LesYay: Tomoko with Miyabi and Urumi. One of the inside sketches for Volume 20 has Urumi playing the [[SpaghettiKiss Pocky game]] with a blushing Tomoko.
17	* MemeticMutation: [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/worried-hiroshi-uchiyamada-gto-gif 'Worried Uchiyamada']], the go-to reaction picture for moments where you realize you forgot something that may as well ruin your day.
18	* MoralEventHorizon:
19	** After her setting up three classmates (no matter how huge bitches they were) to be [[spoiler:''gang-raped'' by several old perverts with strange fetishes]], it's hard to view Urumi as a positive character. To a reader. In-universe she doesn't even get called out for this.
20	** Shonan's mayor from ''14 Days''. His debut moment? Making a policy that takes children from shelters such as White Swan, unwanted and[=/=]or abandoned children, mind you, and taking them back to their parents who either don't want them, as is the case with Miko and Riko, or abusive monsters like Sakurako's father. His reason for doing this? To rack up votes from housewives.
21	*** Also from ''14 Days'', [[TooDumbToLive Seiya's mother]] abandoned him for her boyfriend who ''threatened to hit her if she didn't stop Seiya from hitting him and pinned the blame on her for Seiya trying to kill him over his abuse'' and did ''nothing'' to help her flesh and blood from being beat up by said boyfriend ''in front of her''. [[ParentalNeglect Riko and Miko's mother]] kept trying to get rid of them and committed suicide in the end because she didn't want to have the responsibility to look after them and their father didn't want it either. And [[WouldHurtAChild then]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil there's]] Sakurako's father. It all but makes Onizuka's message at the end of the Seiya arc the more powerful.
22	* NightmareFuel: Onizuka is mistakenly forced into a marriage with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchisake-onna Kuchisake-Onna]]; her family share the same trait of a StepfordSmiler with saw teeth. Onizuka also encounters one in Okinawa, though it was a young girl and actually quite nice.
23	* SequelDisplacement[=/=]EvenBetterSequel:
24	** Many people may not realize that GTO was an almost direct sequel to a lesser-known manga series, ''Shonan Jun'ai Gumi!'' They most likely assumed that GTO started ''InMediasRes'', though it could just be the fault of [=TokyoPop=] for Americans.
25	** ''Shonan Junai Gumi'' was marketed as ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'' in North America and UK, but it was marketed as ''Young GTO'' in France.
26	* {{Squick}}:
27	** All the talk of wanting to, ahem, go with high school girls. Especially coming from the minds of [[DirtyOldMan Dirty Old Men]]. Mr. Sakurai is the worst offender, given his [[ThePeepingTom peeping tom]] tendencies and habit of covertly recording girls in bathrooms and locker rooms.
28	** In the manga - Pubic hair cookies. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes sense if you read it]].
29	** Onizuka's shit. [[NauseaFuel Literally]].
30	** Mr. Sakurai going into a septic tank ''while it's being used'', then running through the sewers to escape the cops.
31	* TearJerker: While Onizuka is [[spoiler:dying of his GameBreakingInjury]], [[TheStoic his old Nakama Ryuji]] refuses to believe that [[spoiler:Onizuka could be hurt in any way and says that he can ''not'' die. When Onizuka's heart stops beating, he ''punches him in the chest'' hoping to wake him up, crying.]]
32	** In the live-action drama episode 11, Onizuka was being forced apart from his students. As he was being dragged away, he [[CasualDangerDialogue tells each of his students]] something relating to their interests (showing just how well he got to know them) or a final piece of advice.
33	* ValuesDissonance:
34	** Onizuka's response to [[spoiler:Tokiwa]]'s plight of having been gang-raped is along the lines of "you are a girl, you are weak, you are always going to be a victim, roll with it". He also does nothing to punish the guys who raped her in the first place. In the West, Onizuka's response would be considered hideously sexist, but in Japan, it's just seen as a harsh reality and people who have a problem with it need to suck it up.
35	** Onizuka in general is a fan of resorting to CorporalPunishment or other acts of humiliation to [[LaserGuidedKarma teach his students a lesson]]. Since he was put in charge of the problem class of the school that the rest of the faculty have already written off as lost causes, his methods are often treated as unorthodox but fair. Naturally, something like this wouldn't fly in real life.
36	* TheWoobie:
37	** ''Vice-principal Uchiyamada'' sometimes gets into this territory. Chapter 107 is his greatest moment.
38	** Noboru fits this too. He took so much crap from Anko and her gang [[spoiler:and still saves her anyway because it was the right thing to do.]]
39	** Don't forget poor Tomo-chan, who gets called stupid by everyone, is manipulated by her "best friend" and who spends her time alone playing with dolls.
40	** In ''Shonan 14 Days'', most of the {{foster kid}}s at White Swan have some sort of DarkAndTroubledPast, but Sakurako, Ikuko, and Seiya have it the worst. All three had AbusiveParents: Sakurako's father beat and molested her, Ikuko's mom burned her with cigarettes and boiling water, and forced her to eat cat food, and Seiya's mom sided with her boyfriend, who beat both of them and forcibly gave Seiya a full-back tattoo, over her own son.

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