Great Teacher Onizuka

Great Teacher Onizuka
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Eikichi Onizuka
Genre	Action[1] Comedy[1] Yankī[2]
Manga
Written by	Tooru Fujisawa
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Tokyopop (former) Kodansha USA (current, digital)
Imprint	Shōnen Magazine Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	January 8, 1997 – February 13, 2002
Volumes	25 (List of volumes)
Further information Television drama Directed by Hiroshi Akabane Satoru Nakajima Written by Kazuhiko Yukawa Studio Fuji TV Avec Company Original network FNS (Fuji TV) Original run July 7, 1998 – September 22, 1998 Episodes 12 + 1 special Anime television series Directed by Noriyuki Abe Written by Masashi Sogo Music by Yusuke Honma Studio Pierrot Licensed by AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Discotek Media Original network FNS (Fuji TV) English network NA: SHONext Anime Selects on Demand SEA: Animax Asia Original run June 30, 1999 – September 24, 2000 Episodes 43 (List of episodes) Live-action film Directed by Masayuki Suzuki Released December 1999 Runtime 140 minutes Television drama Directed by Imai Kazuhisa Produced by Kasai Hideyuki Yamamoto Yoshihiko Written by Masaki Fukuzawa Music by Haneoka Kei Studio Kansai Telecasting Corporation Media Mix Japan Original network FNS (KTV) Original run July 3, 2012 – September 11, 2012 Episodes 11 + 3 specials Television drama GTO in Taiwan Directed by Imai Kazuhisa Written by Junpei Yamaoka Music by Haneoka Kei Studio Kansai Telecasting Corporation Original network GTV Variety Show (Taiwan) FNS (KTV) (Japan) Original run March 22, 2014 – April 12, 2014 Episodes 4 Television drama Directed by Ken Iizuka Studio Kansai Telecasting Corporation Original network FNS (KTV) Original run July 8, 2014 – September 16, 2014 Episodes 11 Related GTO: 14 Days in Shonan GTO: Paradise Lost

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.