Great Teacher Onizuka

Great Teacher Onizuka
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Eikichi Onizuka
Genre
Manga
Written byTooru Fujisawa
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Magazine Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 8, 1997February 13, 2002
Volumes25 (List of volumes)
Further information
Television drama
Directed by
  • Hiroshi Akabane
  • Satoru Nakajima
Written byKazuhiko Yukawa
Studio
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
Original run July 7, 1998 September 22, 1998
Episodes12 + 1 special
Anime television series
Directed byNoriyuki Abe
Written byMasashi Sogo
Music byYusuke Honma
StudioPierrot
Licensed by
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
English network
Original run June 30, 1999 September 17, 2000
Episodes43 (List of episodes)
Live-action film
Directed byMasayuki Suzuki
ReleasedDecember 1999
Runtime140 minutes
Television drama
Directed byImai Kazuhisa
Produced by
  • Kasai Hideyuki
  • Yamamoto Yoshihiko
Written byMasaki Fukuzawa
Music byHaneoka Kei
Studio
Original networkFNS (KTV)
Original run July 3, 2012 September 11, 2012
Episodes11 + 3 specials
Television drama
GTO in Taiwan
Directed byImai Kazuhisa
Written byJunpei Yamaoka
Music byHaneoka Kei
StudioKansai Telecasting Corporation
Original network
Original run March 22, 2014 April 12, 2014
Episodes4
Television drama
Directed byKen Iizuka
StudioKansai Telecasting Corporation
Original networkFNS (KTV)
Original run July 8, 2014 September 16, 2014
Episodes11
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Great Teacher Onizuka, officially abbreviated as GTO, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 1997 to February 2002, with its chapters collected in 25 tankōbon volumes. The story focuses on 22-year-old ex-bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. It is a continuation of Fujisawa's earlier manga series Shonan Junai Gumi and Bad Company, both of which focus on the life of Onizuka before becoming a teacher.

Due to the popularity of the manga, several adaptations of GTO were created, including a 12-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998; a live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999; and a 43-episode anime television series produced by Pierrot, which aired in Japan on Fuji TV from June 1999 to September 2000. A second live-action series aired in Japan during 2012, and two more in 2014.

A sequel manga series, titled GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, ran in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June 2009 to September 2011. Another sequel, titled GTO: Paradise Lost, began in Weekly Young Magazine in April 2014. Both the anime and manga were licensed in North America by Tokyopop. The anime series was re-licensed by Discotek Media in 2012. The manga is licensed by Kodansha USA.

The manga has had over 50 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history. In 1998, Great Teacher Onizuka won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.

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