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Pro-tip: if the 200IQ girl who could become the antichrist if it wasn't for an insane teacher putting some sense in her tells you to not make her mad, you'd best follow her advice.

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My Review of GTO - Great Teacher Onizuka

Oh, shit. Only now do I realize that I haven't posted an actual review since October and it's now January 1st. That is unlike me, but I guess there's been a domino effect of things happening one after another like a small vacation out of state, working through the holidays, and just general laziness. Okay, let me get back on track. Let's review, GTO!

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Well, this has been a long time coming. This has been seen as one of the greatest animes of all time. I mean, “greatest�� is in the title so it would be false advertising.

Eikichi Onizuka is about to become a teacher. He’s 22, a virgin, and an ex-biker gang leader. Perfect qualifications! Onizuka has high ambitions of becoming the greatest teacher of all-time. Hence, the title of this show. Is it for his love of education? No, he just wants a high school waifu. Oh honey, that’s going to get you put right in the slammer. Don’t let this perverted side fool you, Onizuka has a lot of life experience that could set his students on the right path. Unfortunately, Onizuka is put in the roughest class at Holy Forest Academy. Could this be a test for him or is he the right person for the job?

A lot of doubt has been thrown at Onizuka. He has quite the police record including more recent incidents and even more to come as you’ll see throughout this series. In his assistant teaching stint, he did some unorthodox methods of getting through to some students and parents. In the actual teaching interview, Onizuka punched and later body-slammed the vice principal. But, Onizuka wound up as an instructor. A middle school teacher, but a teacher nevertheless. These students are at the threshold of adulthood despite all the things they’ve gone through. I mean, these kids are dealing with shit like bullying, sexual assault, suicide, body issues, and trust issues. Mr. Onizuka might just be the right person for the job to help with these difficult pre-teens/teens.

You know, when Onizuka isn’t doing something sketchy.

BETWEEN THE SUB AND THE DUB: Holy shit, look at all of these castmates on the dub. Everyone here has 2-5 roles in this anime. Shit, early 2000’s dubbing company, hire more people. You know how early this anime dub was? Steven Blum played the titular character and used a fake name for the credits. Wow! Come on, like we aren’t going to know that’s really Spike Speigel voicing this bro. Another amazing sight for this anime is the fact that they got the Papenbrooks to voice a couple of characters. That’s right, Debbie Rothstein and the late Bob Papenbrook. By the looks of it, Bryce wasn’t in this anime. I think this was dubbed prior to his anime debut.

As for the sub…OH SHIT, SEKI-ALERT! Greatest seiyuu in the world, Tomokazu Seki! Yeah, this looks like Toji 2.0. And that makes so much sense because Tomokazu Seki does play Toji. Look at these two and tell me I'm not crazy. Anyways, here’s what you might recognize these folks from.

JAPANESE CAST:

*Onizuka is played by Wataru Takagi (known for Wataru on Detective Conan, Kaiman on Dorohedoro, Tobi on Naruto, Ganju on Bleach, and Chudelkin on SAO: Alicization)

*Fuyutsuki is played by Fumiko Orikasa (known for Diantha on Pokemon XY, Riza on FMA: Brotherhood, Seras on Hellsing, Kyubei on Gintama, Rukia on Bleach, Shirley on Code Geass, and Lotte on Little Witch Academia)

*Yoshikawa is played by Kousuke Okano (known for Russell Tringum on FMA)

*Uchiyamada is played by Cho (known for Jaken on InuYasha, Brook on One Piece, Chobi-hige on Natsume’s Book of Friends, The Principal on Hidamari Sketch, and The President on Super Milk-Chan)

*Murai is played by Tomokazu Seki (known for Tracey on Pokemon, Gilgamesh on Fate/Stay Night, Kyo on Fruits Basket, Pucci on Jojo’s Pt. 6, Shuuichi on Gravitation, Itaru on Steins;Gate, and Meito Anizawa)

ENGLISH CAST:

*Onizuka is played by Steven Blum (known for Spike on Cowboy Bebop, Orochimaru on Naruto, Shishio on Rurouni Kenshin, Roger on The Big O, Leeron on Gurren Lagann, Kadota on Durarara, and Tom from Toonami)

*Fuyutsuki is played by Wendee Lee (known for Faye on Cowboy Bebop, Konata on Lucky Star, Serenity on Sailor Moon [redub], Yoruichi on Bleach, Yahiko on Rurouni Kenshin, Yui on Fushigi Yuugi, and Haruhi Suzumiya)

*Yoshikawa is played by Kirk Thornton (known for Shirou on Blue Exorcist, Tanjiro’s father on Demon Slayer, Ougi on Code Geass, Klein on SAO, and Hotohori on Fushigi Yuugi)

*Uchiyamada is played by Bob Papenbrook (known for Nobuyuki & Katsuhito from Tenchi Muyo [season 3]) [R.I.P.]

*Murai is played by Tony Oliver (known for Lancer on Fate/Stay Night, Minato on Naruto, Soujiro on Lucky Star, Ulquiorra on Bleach, Simon on Gurren Lagann [finale], and Lupin the III)

DISLIKED CHARACTER: First things first, I will not hate on any of these students. A lot of these students like Miyabi and Anko (despite being absolute bitches) had some unfortunate things happen to them or to their friends. It’s not really their fault they were dealt a shitty hand in life. Especially when you have educators who you’re supposed to put your faith and trust in and they do something to you so unforgivable that you look upon every educator in a horrible light. Anko and the girls bullying Yoshikawa relentlessly is definitely something I dislike, but I’m going to stay focused on where I was going.

The adults at the school however are fair game. Onizuka and Fuyutsuki are excused here to an extent. Onizuka has his demons and everyone knows it. He does get his point across albeit through unorthodox methods. Though he would totally be fired in real life! And Fuyutsuki has been nothing but kind and patient with her students. But I digress, many of these teachers showcased here are pretty bad. Especially the gym teacher and the English teacher Mr. Sakurada. The gym teacher reminds me too much of the gym teacher from Persona 5 and that’s a big strike. If you know, you know! Sakurada on the other hand, there’s no forgiving with him when he gets involved in trying to steal the third-year class trip money and would just sit there and allow Onizuka’s head be put on the chopping block. Never mind being blackmailed by one of his students, he did Mr. Onizuka dirty here. Now as for Vice Principal Uchiyamada…

And the face he makes before…well, you’ve all seen the memes.

Every episode I tell myself that maybe there’s something deeper to this guy. That there’s some redeeming quality to this man and that he doesn’t deserve to be shit on episode after episode. I know there were a lot of shows and animes that would be mean to the vice principal or have them be the butt of the joke. Mr. Bone from Doug and Guber from Boston Public come to mind. Uchiyamada has definitely been the severe punching bag and butt of the joke in the series. I stopped counting how many times his car got destroyed because of Onizuka. To be fair, some of those were to stop a student from committing suicide. But then you remember his very first scene in this show was of him staring at and later sniffing Miss Fuyutsuki’s ass.

Hell yeah, I’m putting Vice Principal Uchiyamada on here!

…I do wane away from hating this guy later on though.

SHIPPING: You know what? I was sitting here the several months I spent watching this anime thinking that this couple was going to happen. And when I hit the final episode. I’m shocked yet not surprised. I’m just going to crumple up this ship, throw it in the garbage and pretend I never thought what I thought.

PREQUEL: A couple of years prior to the GTO anime, a five-part OVA series was released between 1994 and 1997 showing Onizuka and his friend Ryuuji in their high school days. This was during their middle/high school days where they were known as Onibaku. Just letting you know, nobody has licensed this in the states, it’s not streaming anywhere, there is no English dub, beware of shotty subtitles, and the Japanese cast is different from the television series.

MUSIC: I know everyone goes to the first opening theme by L'Arc~en~Ciel. And you should, it’s a great song. But if you want a toe-tapping earworm, the second opening Hitori no Yoru is the jam.

I swear, I always neglect Porno Graffitti. I need to stop, because they’ve been putting out good-ass bangers for the last 20 years.

ENDING: The final arc just before the finale was the classes taking the big trip to Okinawa. This almost didn’t happen due to one of Onizuka’s students blackmailing one of the teachers to trick Onizuka and steal all the money for the trip. That was an ordeal. But they all made it! This trip showed more of Yoshikawa than I anticipated. Remember this kid? He’s the one that almost offed himself several times throughout the series and has been bullied repeatedly. The bullying continued on this trip. So Onizuka got the bright idea of changing the sleeping arrangements and having them become coed. The end result of having Yoshikawa and his bully Anko share the same room led to an episodes-long coming to terms for Anko having feelings for Yoshikawa despite all the bullying.

Does it bother anybody else that Anko looks and acts too much like Asuka Langly Soryu? What is it with this anime and its characters looking like Evangelion characters? It can’t just be that they came out in the same decade. There’s gotta be like several animators that worked on both anime!

The final two episodes answer the question of who the hell was the teacher before Onizuka. We got our answer when the dude (Mr. Saitou) ends up in the hospital after being stabbed nearly to death. The students loved their teacher. But he wound up in a relationship with another student in the class. And when found out, Saitou promised his class one thing, but turned around and did something else. The whole class felt betrayed by the teacher they once trusted. The end result of this ordeal was that Saitou left Holy Forest Academy and actually wound up working at another school despite what he did at his prior employment. The girl Saitou had an affair with wound up pregnant and later committed suicide. And the entire classroom of students was left with a severe distrust of educators.

It's no doubt that in these last 40 episodes, Onizuka has helped each and everyone of his students in one way or another. For many, they were able to put their faith in a teacher again. But one final holdout was still never going down. And that was Miyabi! She has been trying to get Onizuka fired at every given opportunity. These episodes, she switched gears to another target. One night, she visited Mr. Saitou and stabs him. Miyabi was on the run for most of the day until she was found by Onizuka ready to stab a member of the board of education. Onizuka had a few choice words for this guy. So, the board of education guy was like, “Imma end this man’s career”. The board has given the principal an ultimatum. Miyabi must surrender herself to the police and Onizuka must be terminated for “assaulting” a board member.

Thankfully, the entire school was on Onizuka’s side. Despite everyone risking their own careers to support this guy, it is what it is. Even Vice Principal Uchiyamada! That was pretty surprising as Uchiyamada has been on a crusade since day one to get Onizuka terminated. The principal put her foot down with her decisions concerning Miyabi and Onizuka that it really ruffled the board members’ feathers. I should say so as they are some shady fucks. Murai and the other students do some sleuthing of their own and came across some interesting things. Mr. Saitou was really trying to do the right thing by his students. Miyabi didn’t stab him, Saitou stabbed his own damn self in a suicide attempt. And the school board is pretty much the bad guy in this situation.

It all comes together when Onizuka enters the room, brings the press, and admits to everyone that he stabbed Mr. Saitou. This whole scene was just anarchy that it was hard for anyone to comprehend everything that’s about to go down. The anime just shows Onizuka leaving with the police…and then he tries to escape. All of a sudden, it’s two months later. Fuyutsuki and the principal are wondering if Onizuka will ever return. And at that same time, Onizuka’s on his motorcycle traveling the United States southwest until winding up in California where he’s going to be a teacher at a junior high.

Okay, sure anime! “See you soon”. Yeah, sure. I’ll buy that. THIS ANIME CAME OUT 25 YEARS AGO AND THAT’S STILL THE LAST WE’VE SEEN OF GTO. At least in anime form. The manga went on until 2002.

I’m sure this is another case for me to go to the manga and start digging around for answers if there are any. Yes, I enjoyed this one. Okay, yes. Onizuka is the…great…Shit, I can’t finish that sentence. I’m still on Team Koro-sensei from Assassination Classroom. I know both teachers are of different generations and their curriculum was hella different, but I still have to side with Koro-sensei.

I think everyone here wishes they had a teacher like Onizuka. Well…a majority of people. You do have to admit, a lot of the things he did throughout the series would have gotten him fired, arrested, or deported. Going to a home and smashing a wall so that a father and daughter would be closer. That’s one way, but I’m surprised that family wasn’t pressing charges. The raucous behavior he’s had throughout the series. The perversion too! The numerous amounts of times he destroyed the vice principal’s car. And let’s not forget some of the things he did before he entered Holy Forest Academy.

Is there ever hope that this’ll ever see a revival? There’s always hope! Hell, Fruits Basket got a revival and exceeded expectations. And other anime revivals happened to…lesser expectations. Maybe one day, some crazy studio (maybe MAPPA) will do a service to the anime community once again, give us a new cast, have Aniplex pick it up, and have the whole story told. Or, we could just leave it be and have the classic remain a classic.

In the meantime, GTO is available on Retro Crush and Crunchyroll.

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my oshi🥰

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For Mother’s Day, The Girls’ Mothers Are Temporary Visiting Muses!

Tsuki Uzaki, Shuuko Komi, Akemi Aizawa, and Miyabi Shikimori are here to visit their girls for mother’s day and are ready for questions!

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I keep wondering where I've heard Tashigi's voice and ofc I can't forget Junko Noda bc she voiced Miyabi Aizawa in GTO

Hey. Hey. Is this character's name Daddy. Like honest to god. Daddy. Daddy? Daddy

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EAH VA/Seiyuus Part 2

For @sayuricorner's AU. Link to Part 1 here.

Same rules as my previous post, but I decided to look into more Japanese VA/Seiyuu's for this one. I also found a link for the Latin America VAs that I'll drop here because I had the hardest time finding Prudence and Charlotte's English VA (Erin Fitzgerald voices both of them) for some reason and they list both the English and LA VAs there.

Again this will be long so it's under the cut. Enjoy!

Alistair Wonderland/Liddell

Hirose Daisuke: Tenma Tsukasa (Project Sekai), Leonhard von Granzreich (Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine), Ikaruga Misumi (A3! Act! Addict! Actors!)

Atsushi Abe: Kukai Souma (Shugo Chara), Touma Kamijo (A Certain Magical Index/Scientific Railgun), Takeru Nakashima (Haikyuu 2)

Takuma Terashima: Touma Amagase (The Idolmaster SideM), Shiroe (Log Horizon), Otoya Ittoki (Uta no Prince-sama)

Bunny Blanc

Rikako Aida: Riko Sakurauchi (Love Live! Sunshine!!), Iyo Sakuraba (Pop Team Epic), Yuna Tachiki (Those Snow White Notes)

Akina: Azusawa Kohane (Project Sekai), Oona Aya (Girls Und Panzer), Karakuri Hitoha and Futaba (Tokyo 7th Sisters)

Minako Kotobuki: Vert FarBreton (Dog Days), Tsumugi Kotobuki (K-On!), Karina Lyle/Blue Rose (Tiger & Bunny)

Kitty Cheshire

Mikako Komatsu: Neko/Miyabi Ameno (K Project), Kotori Mizuki (Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal), Ito Suzuno (Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live)

Emiri Kato: Blair (Soul Eater), Momoko Akatsutsumi/Hyper Blossom (Powerpuff Girls Z), Kagami Hiiragi (Lucky Star)

Sumire Uesaka: Sharu (Dog Days), Yuni/Cure Cosmo (Star Twinkle Pretty Cure), Konomi Kasahara (Iwa Kakeru! Climbing Girls)

Ginger Breadhouse

Machico: Kusanagi Nene (Project Sekai), Fumino Sayuki (Magia Record), Misaki Ayane (KiraKira Pretty Cure A La Mode)

Aoi Yuki: Ichigo Amano (Yumeiro Pâtissière), Koto Yumeno (Onegai My Melody), Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Minami Takahashi: Megumi Tadokoro (Food Wars!), Sora Kazesawa/Rin Oikawa (Aikatsu!), Aone Shikimiya (Re:Stage! Dream Days♪)

Courtly Jester

Mayumi Shintari: Nonon Jakuzure (Kill la Kill), Wendy (Black Butler: Book of Circus), Miss Shamour (Go! Princess Pretty Cure)

Misato Fukuten (Misato Sakuragi): Patty Lowell (Devil May Cry), Kurumu Kurono (Rosario + Vampire), Himiko Toga (MHA/BNHA)

Kikuko Inoue: Shizuna Minamoto (Negima! Magister Negi Magi!), Belldandy (Ah! My Goddess), Lust (FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

Chase Redford

Gou Inoue: Kaisar Lidfard (Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis), Kieth Goodman/Sky High (Tiger & Bunny), Stain (MHA/BNHA)

Kazuhiko Inoue: Kakashi Hatake (Naruto), Günter von Christ (Kyou Kara Maoh!), Daryun (Arslan Senki)

Takahiro Sakurai: Kouichi Kouno (Cardcaptor Sakura), Fakir (Princess Tutu), Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass)

Jillian Beanstalk

Ayana Taketatsu: Azusa Nakano (K-On!), Vanilla (Yumeiro Pâtissière), Eclair Martinozzi (Dog Days)

Shizuka Ishigami: Nao Kashiwagi (Your Lie in April), Ikumi Mito (Food Wars!), Ayaka Uehara (How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?)

Sumire Uesaka: Sharu (Dog Days), Yuni/Cure Cosmo (Star Twinkle Pretty Cure), Konomi Kasahara (Iwa Kakeru! Climbing Girls)

Cedar Wood

Machico: Kusanagi Nene (Project Sekai), Fumino Sayuki (Magia Record), Misaki Ayane (KiraKira Pretty Cure A La Mode)

Mai Aizawa: Natsumi Murakami (Negima!), Ayano Minegishi (Lucky Star), Rie Nishina (Clannad (After Story))

Himika Akanya: Laala Manaka (PriPara), Ritsuka Tachibana (Dance with Devils), Zircon (Land of the Lustrous)

Rosabella Beauty

Chiaki Omigawa: Maka Albarn (Soul Eater), Valkyrie (Luck & Logic), Naomi Tanizaki (Mob Psycho 100)

Mariya Ise: Yuka Kano (Onegai My Melody), Urara Kasugano/Cure Lemonade (Yes! Pretty Cure 5), Levy McGarden/Romeo Conbolt (Fairy Tail)

Aina Aiba: Tokoha Anjou (Cardfight!! Vanguard G: NEXT/Z), Yukina Minato (BanG Dream!), Claudine Saijou (Revenue Starlight:RE LIVE)

Prudence Step

Saori Hayami: Razette, Burupya, Taijo, etc. (07 - Ghost), Miki Arai (Say "I Love You"), Yumeko Jabami (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler)

Ami Koshimizu: Ryuko Matoi (Kill la Kill), Kallen Stadfeld (Code Geass), Leonmichelli Galette des Rois (Dog Days)

Aoi Koga: Sora Kaneshiro (Angel's 3 Piece), Paimon (Genshin Impact), Kaguya Shinomiya (Kaguya-sama: Love is War)

Charlotte Step

Rie Kugimiya: Alphonse Elric (FullMetal Alchemist), Kagura (Gin Tama), Nagi Sanzenin (Hayate the Combat Butler)

Yui Horie: Eri Sawachika (School Rumble), Fiena (Orphan), Honey Kisaragi (Re: Cutie Honey (OVA 2004)

Chinatsu Akasaki: Nanami Akasaki (Sacred Seven), Akane Hino (The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls), Alice Nakiri (Food Wars!)

Justine Dancer

Nanae Katou: Ahiru/Princess Tutu (Princess Tutu), Miki (Shugo Chara), Kakeru Megane (Inazuma Eleven)

Yoshino Nanjo: Eli Ayase (Love Live!), Maaya Awatsuki (A Certain Scientific Railgun), Shirabe Tsukuyomi (Senki Zesshou Symphogear)

Chinatsu Akasaki: Nanami Akasaki (Sacred Seven), Akane Hino (The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls), Chinatsu Hiyama (Welcome to the Ballroom)

Nina Thumbell

Aimi: Suiko (Cardfight!! Vanguard), Kazumi Tokiwa (Futari wa Milky Holmes/Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD), Kasumi Toyama (BanG Dream!)

Yui Horie: Millhiore Firianno Biscotti (Dog Days), Fiena (Orphan), Honey Kisaragi (RE: Cutie Honey (OVA 2004))

Kino Hina: Ootori Emu (Project Sekai), Fuwa (Star Twinkle Pretty Cure), Moon Rabbit Cake (Cookie Run: Kingdom)

And that is it! Thanks again for reading! Remember to show Sayuri some love too okay?

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100Koi+ 4th Anniversary Party Room (Part 2)

➡️ Part 1

💟 Since 2014

Be My Princess Season 2

The prince 50 years later is also here!

Hayden A. Spencer | Kuon J. Casiraghi | Sieg Lieben | Oliver Button | Ivan Chernenkov | Aslan Mafdir | Kevin A. Alford | Maximillion Levaincois

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Enchanted in the Moonlight

Youkai also came to the venue...!

Miyabi | Chikage | Shinra | Kyoga | Yukinojo | Samon | Kiryu

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In Your Arms Tonight Season 2

Today everyone here...!

Takeru Ashida | Shinichiro Ogiwara | Shu Mishima | Fumitaka Nishi | Kazuya Seta | Ryosuke Sakura

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Finally, in Love Again

Today everyone here...!

Aki Fujishima | Shuichiro Momoi | Sosuke Kikuchi | Yoh Kobayakawa | Yuto Tsuruya | Kazuki Serizawa | Kanata Tachibana

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True Love Sweet Lies

We invited detectives today!

Kiyoharu Nanahoshi | Sakuya Nanahoshi | Rui Wakaba | Naomasa Sakura | Nozomu Fuse

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Her Love in the Force

All the public security detectives are now in the match!

Seiji Goto | Hyogo Kaga | Hideki Ishigami | Shusuke Soma | Ayumu Shinonome | Jin Namba | Toru Kurosawa | Takaomi Tsugaru

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Star-Cossed Myth

The god of the constellations also came...!

Leon | Scorpio | Teorus | Dui | Huedhaut | Ichthys | Karno | Zyglavis | Aigonorus | Krioff | Tauxolouve | Partheno

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Scandal in the Spotlight

There were also national idols...!

Kyohei Rikudoh | Iori Enjo | Kota Igarashi | Nagito Aoshima | Takashi Ninagawa | Ryo Chibana | Ritsuto Ena | Fumito Ena

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My Wedding and 7 Rings

All of Sanno Shoji are here!

Asahi Kakyouin | Yamato Kougami | Junta Nikaido | Hiroto Chitose | Ren Shibasaki | Kai Fujisawa | Seiichirou Hayami

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💟 Since 2015

My Last First Kiss

Today are my childhood friends...!

Ayato Hidaka | Ichiya Misono | Makoto Morimachi | Takamune Kitami | Riku Morimachi | Hiroki Eniwa | Rin Yakumo

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Butler Until Midnight

There were also butlers...!

Yuma Akagi | Aoi Shirafuji | Tomoki Matsuba | Kyo Aizawa | Itsuki Matsuba

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After School Affairs

Everyone at Kiyoharu High School is now available!

Shinichi Kagari | Kiyonori Taishi | Rikiya Mononobe | Hidetaka Sera | Kenzo Yasukawa | Chiharu Utsumi 

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Bad Boys Do it Better!

Today, everyone from Shinran High School is here!

Ryoji Ryukai | Rei Todo | Yu Agatsuma | Akira Sakaki | Keiichiro Minase | Yuki Saejima

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Era of Samurai: Code of Love

Over time from the end of the Edo period...!

Toshizo Hijikata | Soji Okita | Sanosuke Harada | Hajime Saito | Isami Kondo | Shinsaku Takasugi

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💟 Since 2016

Dangerous Seduction

We invited all of you today!

Masaharu Ryuzaki | Yasumi Arimura | Haruma Fujioka | Asuka Hino | Kentaro Inui

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Irresistible Mistakes

Pheromen are also available here!

Shunichiro Tachibana | Toshiaki Kijima | Toma Kiriya | Taku Hayama | Go Okubo | Natsume Asaoka | Yukihisa Maki | Keita Miura | Rei Kamiki | Jun Araki

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Love Brings You Home

Everyone here is here today!

Taiyo Inami | Arata Yuki | Liam Kurusu | Hazuki Tojo | Yoshiro Fukumoto

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💟 Since 2017

When Destiny Comes Knocking

There were also regulars of Jesus!

Nozomu Kaneko | Rheo Usami | Seiya Fushimi | Wataru Toge | Shintaro Ando

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Rose in the Embers 

You came from the imperial capital of the Taisho era!

Kyosuke Takatsukasa | Takahisa Togo | Misao Higuchi | Tsukumo Kobayakawa | Atsuro Shibusawa

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Our Private Homeroom

There were also teachers from Shirogaoka High School...!

Ryota Mochizuki | Yohji Furuya | Shuya Komaki

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Kings of Paradise

The best men are now available...!

Taki Kozaki | Kiyohito Shirakami | Shun Randoh | Yosuke Sagara | Kaisei Kuon | Hayachika Ryutsubaki | Blood Moon / Sakuto Amatsuka

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💟 Since 2018

A World With(out) You

Tonight, these guys also came to see you again.

Kotaro Kamiyama | Saku Fukazawa | Kento Miyoshi | Kiyohiro Amemiya

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Masquerade Kiss

Today, these people have a slightly dangerous scent...!

Kazuomi Shido | Yuzuru Shiba | Kei Soejima | Boss / Seiichi Setoyanagi

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Romance MD: Always on Call

There were also members of the Seikai University Hospital and the Special Lifesaving Department...!

Munechika Takado | Tetsuya Hosho | Kyogoku Sentaro | Matsunaga Eiichi | Toshiki Kasumi | Kaede Ekuni

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💟 Since 2019

Destind: Mr. Almost Right

All of these people, who are rarely gathered together, are all together today!

Rei Rindoh | Araya Kuze | Takane Momochi | Ryogo Saikusa | Haruma Tosaka | Yuri Kazumoto

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Love's Hella Punk

He rushed to see you today!

Tengoku Shima | Tatsunoshin Utsuki | Daiki Hazeki | Akira Kousaka

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💟 Since 2020

Professional Boyfriend

These two are also the same...!

Banri Saki | Ikki Tatsumi

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💟 Since 2021

Oops, I Said Yes?!

The last is...! These people came from Miyoshi Kukansha Co., Ltd.!

Kunihiro Kasai | Kiba Kuranosuke | Shu Hasunuma | Eiji Takao | Sengawa Ukyo

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GTO: One of My Favorite Arcs

This one’s going to be a 1st for the channel. Great Teacher Onizuka is honestly one of my favorite manga of all time. It’s one of the few that regardless of how many others I’ve read, I just feel pride whenever it comes back in my mind. As such, I wanted to spin a tale of one of my favorite arcs of the original GTO series just because. Spoilers for anyone interested. First I’ll see to set the stage.

Urumi Kanzaki is one of the students in Onizuka’s class, and while they initially describe her as the dumb blonde stereotype since she looks the part, she is actually a child prodigy. Early in the series, she was one of the antagonists to Onizuka, harboring her hatred for teachers after a heart shattering moment involving one of her past educators, and essentially let her past trauma nuture her to believe her intelligence made her. She can be menacing with her intellect, to the point where she commits actual terrorism in the school after being provoked. Onizuka eventually gets through to her thanks to his unconventional, almost suicidal, methods, and she stands by him after “loosening her asshole” on life, so to speak.

Now. We cut to chapters 127... This isn’t necessary the start of the arc, I’d say it’s the setup. Kanzaki wants to hang out with Onizuka, get away from her parents, and she’s having some good fun with him. During this time, she grows closer to him, not much in infatuation as much as having genuine respect for him. Then another student/antagonist/friend(?) of Urumi, Miyabi Aizawa, comes out of nowhere. Their egos clash for a bit, ending with Urumi stinging Miyabi with some harsh words which causes her to retaliate with something that would hit Kanzaki where it hurts the most. When I mentioned that Kanzaki is a child prodigy, that intelligence comes from the fact that she was actually a in-vitro newborn.... a test tube baby. This origin has haunted her her whole life, one secret she wanted to bury more than anything, one that ignited her vitriol towards teachers in the first place, and on the day where she goes back to school, hopeful of being around people that would truly give her a sense of belonging....

Miyabi exposes her to the whole school

This “rumor” causes murmuring shame towards Kanzaki, immediately labeling her a monster, and this shatters her completely. As such, she decides to retaliate, one last time. Before leaving the school, she spray paints a website URL on the windows, MiyabiAizawa.com. Rightfully confused, Miyabi finds that Urumi set up hidden cameras in her house and the website was pre-meditated with teasing images and a countdown that has 69 hours left before it reveals a major secret Urumi had in store on it. This sends Miyabi into a cold panic and some of the students to hack into the secret of the site before time runs out, All the while, Onizuka heads out to track down Urumi, whom has ghosted within the city.

Things take a turn for the worse where it not only turns out the site will upload major viruses if there’s an attempt to break in, Urumi has plotted to kill herself not long after the website was discovered in an undisclosed location; reciting a notable Japanese philosopher’s farewell poem or swan song. Onizuka heads to her mother’s house, whom has little concern over her as much as the stock market being a heavy financial stockholder herself. As Onizuka storms off, it’s almost poetic justice that the company her mother invested in applied for bankruptcy, essentially ruining her financially and leaving in a desperate plea for Urumi’s presence. That’s something I love most about this series’ characters, regardless of whoever you are, you are not above getting punished or karma thrown back at you, deserved or not.

This arc, like the other great ones in this series as a whole, is also great in keeping the momentum. For someone that liked Urumi once redeemed and was happy that she finally got to be happy, I was on the edge of my seat with Onizuka wondering what happened. It was especially momentous that the one person Kanzaki conversed with before her attempt at death is Onizuka, generally the last person she found to be a great part in her otherwise heavy life. 

This is one of the few times where the series puts our hero not only on a race against the clock, but with someone’s life on the line. Someone he thought had changed, a smile he thought could live better for herself. And like with everyone else before her, he’s giving it his all to save her from her own built doom. Not to mention everything else going on; another teacher putting out a scandal note against Onizuka, Miyabi trying to OD herself, the foiling vice principal trying to track down Onizuka to selfishly help him get out of a crime. There’s just so many layers stacked on top of a considerably tragic and scary moment for Kanzaki. A moment that culminates in her passing out in the snow...

This wide panel especially got me. Contrasting the cluttered panels of the flashback before it, as it slowly shows snowfall, the sudden emptiness of it with Urumi’s body being the only thing there made page-turner feel like an understatement.

The climatic chapters have our teacher and the vice-principal giving chase up to the ski dome where she is and the students at the school creating an online hacker war to unlock the website. The vice-principal is clinging, tackling, begging Onizuka to help him save his job. And when the guy essentially throws Urumi out as a statistic, Onizuka rightfully puts him in his place.

I didn’t mention the vice-principal’s sideplot cuz I didn’t want this to be too long. I’ll just say he’s a well meaning yet ugly motherfucker and this moment here is definitely a good turning point for his character. This is also a great moment where Onizuka is legitimately angry at somebody and it just has the fist pumping feeling where you’re on his side 100%. Back to the main point, he finds Urumi in the distance and the students finally get the website unlocked. And after all this time, Urumi only planned to post a single image... of her and Miyabi as kids.

��She was only ever going to post this one. No matter what Miyabi did to her... in her heart... Urumi believes that they’re still friends and always will be.“

Miyabi overhears this in the hospital and while there are some loose ends to be handled in the later chapters, I'm honestly glad with the pervy yet relieving ending we get where Urumi wakes to find that Onizuka and a tag along student came to save her, happy that her favorite teacher went through all that trouble just for her.

One of the core themes of GTO has always been ‘Responsibility’. For Onizuka, where he lacks in actual academics, his strength is in helping people, students or adults, own up to the troubles they bear deep down, think better or remind themselves that there can always be a better path to take than the one they’re on. This is with the fact that Onizuka does not stop until his job is taken care of regardless of what gets in his way. This is where GTO shines for me. Be it a race against time or having to deal with persistent antagonists, Fujisawa knows how to make every chapter well paced to where you can feel genuinely concerned with what happens next yet never feels like each is getting stretched thin with padding. It can get text heavy sometimes, but he makes sure every arc reaches the most satisfying conclusions, open ended or otherwise, and he makes sure Onizuka does not rest or die until a lesson has been learned. For Kanzaki, like the one before, it’s about not letting the past have a chokehold on your life and it was pretty heartfelt to know that while Urumi had the right to get revenge on Miyabi, she doesn’t and she was willing to die knowing that memorial pain of hers would never go away. And when Onizuka saves her, it was that second chance to learn that while the past can hurt, she doesn’t have to cause trouble to know she doesn’t have to suffer alone with her memories, garnering a even better respect for Onizuka. 

As for this arc, I will admit that it isn’t the greatest arc in the entire original series, I’m saving that for another day, but it’s one of my favorite because getting to know Kanzaki, I felt really concerned for her. Near death experiences isn’t uncommon in this series, but this is one of the few times where the tension of rescuing her and seeing Onizuka furiously riding his motorcycle actually sat with me. It made me truly respect this series with how dark it can get without ever going on melodramatic. Like its main character, it always see to be real with its readers and this arc honestly put set the stakes and only went better from there. Like it’s main character, the story puts the pedal to the medal and just gives ya the most driving ride of your life.

It was the best

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