Great Teacher Onizuka
Great Teacher Onizuka (グレート・ティーチャー・オニヅカ, Gurēto Tīchā Onizuka), in short GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga series. It was created by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22-year-old Eikichi Onizuka. He becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. Shonan Junai Gumi (lit. "Shōnan True Love Group") and Bad Company are other manga series by Tooru Fujisawa. They focus on the life of Onizuka before he became a teacher in Great Teacher Onizuka.
| Great Teacher Onizuka | |
| グレート・ティーチャー・オニヅカ (Gurēto Tīchā Onizuka) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy-drama[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Tohru Fujisawa |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | May 16, 1997 – April 17, 2002 |
| Volumes | 25 |
| Television drama | |
| Directed by | Masayuki Suzuki |
| Written by | Kazuhiko Yukawa |
| Original network | Fuji TV Kansai TV |
| Original run | July 7, 1998 – September 22, 1998 |
| Episodes | 12 + 1 Special |
| Live-action movie | |
| Directed by | Masayuki Suzuki |
| Released | 1999 |
| Runtime | 140 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Noriyuki Abe |
| Written by | Masashi Sogo |
| Music by | Yusuke Honma |
| Studio | Pierrot |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| English network | |
| Original run | June 30, 1999 – September 24, 2000 |
| Episodes | 43 |
| Manga | |
| GTO Shonan 14 Days | |
| Written by | Tohru Fujisawa |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | June 10, 2009 – November 16, 2011 |
| Volumes | 9 |
| Television drama | |
| Directed by | Imai Kazuhisa |
| Produced by | Kasai Hideyuki Yamamoto Yoshihiko |
| Written by | Masaki Fukuzawa |
| Music by | Haneoka Kei |
| Original network | Fuji TV Kansai TV |
| Original run | July 3, 2012 – September 11, 2012 |
| Episodes | 11 + 3 Special |
| Television drama | |
| GTO In Taiwan | |
| Directed by | Imai Kazuhisa |
| Written by | Junpei Yamaoka |
| Music by | Haneoka Kei |
| Original network | Fuji TV Kansai TV |
| Original run | March 22, 2014 – April 12, 2014 |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Manga | |
| GTO: Paradise Lost | |
| Written by | Tohru Fujisawa |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Magazine |
| Original run | April 14, 2014 – present |
| Volumes | 11 |
| Television drama | |
| Directed by | Ken Iizuka |
| Original network | Fuji TV Kansai TV |
| Original run | July 8, 2014 – September 16, 2014 |
| Episodes | 11 |
A twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998 was created based on this manga. A live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999 was also created based on this manga. A 43-episode anime television series based on this manga aired in Japan by Fuji Television and Animax from June 1999 to September 2000.[2] Both the anime and manga have been licensed in North America by Tokyopop. A second live action series aired in Japan during 2012, and two more in 2014. It won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen category.
References
change- ↑ Toole, Michael (March 25, 2013). "Out of Order - The Mike Toole Show". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
- ↑ "9 J-Dramas for K-Drama Fans to Start Watching | Viu". Viu. 2017-10-20. Archived from the original on 2020-02-17. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
