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Onizuka Eikichi: Twenty-two years old, current virgin, black belt martial artist, former delinquent, seeking direction. What better job for such a man than teaching? Easy hours, and the potential of after-school study sessions with beautiful high school girls... At least, so go Onizuka's daydreams. The truth is, as a new hire at Holy Forest Academy (surprisingly, not a [[Two-Teacher School]]), he's been put in charge of a class who believe it is their sole mission to run any teacher they're given right out of town.
 
The [[Manga]] dramedy ''[['''Great Teacher Onizuka]]''''' is the story of this (semi-indestructible) man and his continuing attempts to keep from being fired while straightening out the class which has been placed in his care. The series is humorous, if occasionally over-the-top (as the continual destruction of Vice Principal Uchiyamada's beloved Toyota Cresta will attest). Onizuka consistently gets into worse and worse scrapes, and just as consistently extricates himself with his own unique flair.
 
Often marketed as simply "GTO." Newcomers unfamiliar with the series should be aware it has (largely) nothing to do with [[wikipedia:Pontiac GTO|muscle cars]].
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GTO is the sequel to Shonan Jun'ai Gumi, which ran for 31 volumes (longer than GTO, mind you) and featured the high school adventures of a much more badass Onizuka and his best friend Ryuuji Danma. Currently being serialized by Tokyopop as GTO: The Early Years, even though strictly speaking GTO should be SJG: The Later Years. [[More Popular Spinoff|Second Installment Wins]]. Between Shonan Junai Gumi and GTO a single volume manga was released under the title Bad Company, chronicling the tale of how Ryuji and Eikichi first met. Thus Onizuka has appeared as the main character of a total of four titles.
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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Fuyutsuki▼
* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: Kunio's mother, also a [[Stacy's Mom]]. Once, Kunio and his buddies come home to see his mom asleep on the couch and wearing very little clothes...
* [[The Ace]]: Bordering on the [[Marty Stu]] territory.
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Both played straight and subverted.
▲* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Fuyutsuki
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Nanako finds a lot of objects in Onizuka's apartment that show he masturbates frequently, even using an instant noodle cup. Fuyutsuki and others even stumble on Onizuka masturbating while watching a porn movie, and he tries his best to tell this is [[Not What It Looks Like]].▼
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The Live Action version trims the cast down to a small handful, which is also [[Cast Herd|further segregated]] depending on the episode and makes some remarkably accurate guesses on what some of the students' (then unrevealed) teacher-bullying motives are.
** The finale of the live action version was at the time the highest rated drama in Japanese history.
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** Also in the sequel, he got in trouble for his story in burying a girl in the forest. Said girl was Urumi back when she was toying with him!
* [[Car Cushion]]: Courtesy of Uchiyamada's good old Cresta.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: ("Onizuka Eikichi, 22 years old.") The German Suplex is also something of a non-verbal "catch-phrase".
** Also, the Vice Principal: "B- Boku no shiroi Cresta!!"
* [[Caught with Your Pants Down]]
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* [[Character Development]]: Most of the cast, thanks to Onizuka.
* [[Chaste Hero]]: Onizuka, unintentionally and to his immense chagrin.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: poorPoor Noboru▼
* [[The Chikan]]: The vice-principal was introduced molesting Azusa on a train.
** Onizuka intended to do the same when he was beaten to it.
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* [[Cool Loser]]: Onizuka used to be in a gang, rides a motorcycle, and beats people up. But he's also a 22-year old demented otaku virgin who can't hold down a job, and he's so broke he doesn't even know who's on the 10,000 yen bill.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: {{spoiler|Tokiwa}}.
▲* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Nanako finds a lot of objects in Onizuka's apartment that show he masturbates frequently, even using an instant noodle cup. Fuyutsuki and others even stumble on Onizuka masturbating while watching a porn movie, and he tries his best to tell this is [[Not What It Looks Like]].
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Noboru and Anko.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: They're supposed to be middle school students, but they look 16.
** They're third year middle school students/ninth graders (Class 3-4 means the fourth class of third year students), meaning they're between 14 and 15. In the Tokyopop translation, however, several characters including Tomoko are inexplicably referred to as 16.
* [[Daydream Surprise]]: When Onizuka is having a job interview with Uchiyamada and the latter is rejecting him with insults, we are shown our hero punching the vice-principal in the face and totally beating him up. He was just daydreaming this.
** Uchiyamada also has a waking nightmare when Onizuka catches him being [[The Chikan]]; in the fantasy, he loses his job and reputation, stabbing Onizuka in a fit of murderous rage.
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* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Most of the male teacher's body. Well, basically almost any male who may qualify as old.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: All the freaking time.
* [[Effective Immediately]]: When Principal Daimon [http://manga.animea.net/great-teacher-onizuka-chapter-184-page-18.html fires Onizuka]{{Dead link}}, she adds "Effective this minute".
* [[Enjo Kosai]]
* [[Enthusiasm Versus Stoicism]]
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* [[Stacy's Mom|Murai's Mom]]
* [[Naive Everygirl]]: Surprisingly in this series full of schoolgirls, a teacher, Azusa Fuyutsuki.
* [[Name's the Same]]: Mr. Sakurai, the English teacher and Mrs. Sakurai, the head of school, are not related. In the anime, Mr. Sakurai is renamed Sakurada to prevent confusion.
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Hiroshi Uchiyamada/Various students.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: What happened to class 2-4 to make it full of problem students, though the incident does eventually come to light in the final chapters.
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* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: Onizuka is a [[Rank Inflation|Class S]] holder of one! No matter what crazy, illegal, unethical, immoral thing he has in mind, it always turns out for the best for his students and all is always forgiven.
* [[One Judge to Rule Them All]]: Warning Productions during the talent search Onizuka sets up for Tomoko, though she also does give the best, and most moving performance (ad-libbing completely off script and using action figures as props).
* [[One-Man Army]]: Onizuka - so [[Badass]] he armwrestledarm-wrestled 99 local [[The Brute|hardcore]] [[Delinquent|delinquentsdelinquent]]s (some of them not exactly looking ''human'') one after another. Talk about [[Marty Stu]]...
* [[One-Sided Arm Wrestling]]: Look up at [[One-Man Army]]
* [[One Steve Limit]]: This is subverted with Mr. Sakurai and Mrs. Sakurai, who are unrelated (in the manga only), and two female characters named Naoko, though one is just of [[Those Two Guys|those two girls]] hanging with Anko.
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* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Our lead shrugs off being hit by a truck, jumps off a building onto a car (twice), receiving only a broken arm that he doesn't even notice until it's pointed out the next day (and does push-ups on it), and even then continues to play computer games like a god (while keeping track of his winning streak on his still-untreated and horrifically swollen arm). He's also survived a number of gunshot wounds that should have been fatal.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]
* [[Otaku]] -: Yoshikawa Noboru - a gaming otaku; Yoshito Kikuchi - a computer otaku, and Onizuka has his otaku moments.
** Not to mention The [[Gundam]] Brothers.
* [[Panty Shot]]
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* [[Rape as Drama]]: {{spoiler|Again, Ai Tokiwa}}.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Most of what Onizuka does. The first example that springs to mind being in episode 1 when a gang is holding and threatening the students who tried to blackmail him. Not only does he {{spoiler|get them out safely}} he does so after {{spoiler|having a serious man-to-man chat with them about the relationship between teacher and student}} in between {{spoiler|torturing them}} with {{spoiler|two flashlights strapped to his forehead for no clear reason}}. All with the willing assistance of the gang in question. As a result of this he is {{spoiler|praised for being the first teacher to reform that delinquent class}}. The entire class {{spoiler|praises him for his hard work, voluntarily cleans the school each day and commends him to the school as someone who must graduate as a teacher}}.
** In the manga, Onizuka snapped and called the gang out himself; he realisesrealizes it was a mistake the next morning. ''Then'' he gets praised.
* [[Reverse Mole]]: Kinoshita.
* [[Road Apples]]: Onizuka's. Rarely has a character shown as often his "business" in the world of fiction.
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* [[Shower of Angst]]: Miyabi, after being "betrayed" by her teacher.
* [[Showy Invincible Hero]]: Guess who.
* [[Shout-Out]]: ''Tons'', although a standout moment is when Onizuka draws [[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro]]'s scars on his chest (plus some [[Cross-Popping Veins]]) and loudly says "I'm Kenshiro!" (and after saying "I'm here to save Yuria!" in which 'Yuria' (Kenshiro's [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]] of a lover) can also be spelled as 'Julia', the name of the mother of Kunio (who himself, is a shoutout to the Kunio-kun games), his student he's currently trying to save), then beats up some thugs with the Hokuto Hyakeretsu Ken. This is after he (with bowling balls on his hands) had drawn whiskers on his face and claimed to be Doraemon. He also once cosplayed as Devilman for no apparent reason ''in class.'' And in ''GTO - Shonan 14 Days'', Onizuka paints a portrait of [[Haruhi Suzumiya]] on the hood of good ol' Uchiyamada's Toyota.
** Anko and Noboru are practically [[Expy|expies]] of Asuka and Shinji from [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]. Furthermore, when Miyabi dyes her hair blue, Onizuka geeks out and attempts to rearrange it in Rei Ayanami's style.
** This is made even more obvious in episode 39 {{spoiler|where Anko falls unconscious and has a [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion-esque]] flashback, complete with a doll and a religious symbol at the end}}.
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-y-Q5vPb-4 Not to mention the Gundam trio], one of whom is even ''voiced'' by [[Tohru Furuya]] himself and says many lines lifted straight from [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro Ray]] - complete with a 'newtype flash' effect - as well as referring to Urumi as [[Mobile Suit Gundam|"Sayla"]].
** Also in Shonan 14 Days, the abusive father of one of the girls calls himself "a walking [[Death Note]]".
** In Lesson 127, Urumi's [[Otaku]] private tutor uses [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428065735/http://manga.animea.net/great-teacher-onizuka-chapter-127-page-5.html on two] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428103306/http://manga.animea.net/great-teacher-onizuka-chapter-127-page-10.html occasions] a "''DokuDoku Memorial 2''" handkerchief. [[Tokimeki Memorial|Three guesses on which famous]] [[Dating Sim]] [[Tokimeki Memorial|the author threw a]] [[Take That]] [[Tokimeki Memorial|at]].
** He also wears a yellow jumpsuit a la Bruce Lee at one point.
** During the Summer Festival mini-story with Anko and Noboru, Anko wears a mask on the back of her head that is clearly supposed to be [[Pokémon|Pikachu]].
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* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Teshigawara.
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Fuyumi Kujirakawa
* [[Steve Blum]]: Onizuka, [[Talking to Himself|Fujiyoshi]], and several others in the dub. As usual, he's playing the badass
* [[Stun Guns]]: Used several times. By Miyabi on a 'customer' when she goes [[Enjo Kosai]], by Kikuchi on Uchiyamada to steal his car and by Onizuka on himself to stay awake.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Lots of times, usually amounting to: "It's not like I was looking through your underwear or anything".
* [[Take That]]: When the three "Gundam Brothers" are using various Gundam series to analyze Urumi's personality,one of them says "the ones who watch that are kids" about [[G Gundam]] and another says that [[Zeta Gundam]] indicates "destructive impulses",a reference to the [[True Art Is Angsty|very high angst-quotient]] of that show. Additional humor is lent to this by the fact that one of the three is voiced by [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro Ray]] himself.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Aizawa
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: One of the reasons Onizuka's often quite extreme form of punishments are even tolerable, outside of [[Rule of Funny]], is the sheer unrepentant cruelty displayed by many of his students. ▼
* [[Teen Genius]]: Urumi, of course. Also Kikuchi.
▲* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: One of the reasons Onizuka's often quite extreme form of punishments are even tolerable, outside of [[Rule of Funny]], is the sheer unrepentant cruelty displayed by many of his students.
▲* [[The Chew Toy]]: poor Noboru
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Murai's two friends.
** Also two pairs of Those Two Girls - Naoko and Mayuko for Anko, and Saeko and Chikako for Miyabi. They fit the trope even better than Murai's friends, since the guys sometimes ''do'' get to play more important role on their own, especially Fujiyoshi.
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** Azusa Fuyutsuki is a Dere type.
** Shinomi in Shonan 14 Days.
* [[The Ugly GuysGuy's Hot Daughter]]: Subverted: it is hinted that Yoshiko Uchiyamada may be the butcher's daughter, not the vice-principal's. Which makes sense, since her mother is not too hot, either.
** Or it's another of his paranoid delusions. And maybe her mom [[I Was Quite a Looker|was a looker]] back in the day.
* [[Undead Child]]: Fujiyoshi and Miyabi stumble onto one at a road crossing late at night. They don't realize it until they wonder why a kid would hang around so late alone and they see a signpost telling about a child being killed here in a road accident.
* [[Wacky Homeroom]]
* [[Wallpaper Camouflage]]
* [[Wendee Lee]] (in englishEnglish dub): Azusa Fuyutsuki, Miyabi Aizawa, Mrs. Sakurai, Tadashi Sakurada. Therefore, she is [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]].
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Murai and Fuyutsuki call Onizuka out in two separate occasions when he forgets his morals in favor of his career.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Tokiwa}} doesn't even bother to get a bruise or two, being an innocent-looking little girl, while her victims are mostly male deliquents. Onizuka's stupidity helps a lot.
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