I became a GTO fan by mistake in the summer of 2002. I was supposed to pick up Onegai Teacher (Please Teacher), but I picked up GTO DVD volumes 1 and 2 instead. A great and wonderful mistake.

Great Teacher Onizuka

The Anime is already over. You can all go and get GTO DVDs seperately or by box set which come in 1-5 per box. The next five set dvd consisting of 6-10 will be here shortly, for news go to Tokyopop.com or Anime News Network. The characters are already listed in the Manga section of this website. But what will be listed here on this portion is the main differences and episode summaries. Of course there will be spoilers so, be careful. However those spoilers will not take away a lot of what is going to happen.

.:Major Differences between the Manga and the Anime:.

Former bike gang leader, former Onibaku, Eikichi Onizuka is becoming a teacher. Of course that made waves among his biker friends, but hey. Eikichi is known for trying everything and not giving up. But this challenge may be the one that may be an end to him. The Chairlady Sakurai, his sponsor, makes him take charge of the most torturous class of all of Holy Forest acadamy. Class 3-4. Of course, there is a back story of why these kids are the way they are. But it would only take Onizuka's will power, strength and luck to help him find out what is wrong with these students.

This is the major premise between the two versions. However, in the Anime there have been more filler episodes, and moving away from the reasons why the students acted the way they did. The amount of characters and the character arcs are a bit different between the two.

Main differences:

The most major difference why the Anime differs from the Manga is that the reason why the students strike out against teachers and adults. It was because of the loss of a best friend of Miyabi's. Whereas in the Manga, it is a bit different. It was because of what a teacher did to her.

Another difference is the amount of characters. There is just so many more characters in the Manga than the Anime. If the Anime version was extended, maybe we would have seen the Mayu arc, or the Daimon arc. It would have been really great if Studio Pierrot made GTO more than 43 episodes.

On to episode summaries...