Great Teacher Onizuka

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Great Teacher Onizuka
Original title グ レ ー ト ・ テ ィ ー チ ャ ー ・ ・ オ ニ ヅ カ
transcription gurēto tīchā onizuka
genre Comedy , action
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Tōru Fujisawa
publishing company Kodansha
magazine Shōnen Magazine
First publication February 1997 - April 2002
expenditure 25th
Television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 1999
length 27 minutes
Episodes 43 in 1 season
First broadcast June 30, 1999 on Fuji TV
synchronization

Great Teacher Onizuka ( Jap. グレート·ティーチャー·オニヅカ , gurēto Ticha onizuka ), also known by the acronym GTO is a completed manga series of Japanese cartoonist Tooru Fujisawa , also known as anime series and a so-called drama was implemented. The series is about the adolescent Eikichi Onizuka, who after his time as a rocker wants to become the best teacher in Japan. Great Teacher Onizuka is the sequel to Tōru Fujisawa's manga series Shōnan Jun'ai Gumi! from 1991, which tells of the youth of motorcycle rocker Eikichi Onizuka.

action

Eikichi Onizuka, 22 years old, has no permanent job and lives in Musashino , Tokyo. He is a former leader of a motorcycle and rocker gang and only has a degree from the "third-rate" Eurasia University, and that in a country where the name of the university is almost more important than grades or the subject. So he gets by with odd jobs until he watches a young girl adore her old teacher.

Initially driven only by the idea that as a teacher he would have a secure position, simply earned salary and the chance to be able to approach young girls even as an old man, he decided to become a teacher. Onizuka soon realizes, however, that he is closer to the young people he is supposed to teach than to the teachers he used to not particularly like. Onizuka then decides not only to want to be a better teacher, he wants to be the best right away : The G reat T eacher O nizuka, the best teacher of all time.

During a two-week legal traineeship, Onizuka realizes that the coolest cannot live in peace if he is not accepted. After an attempt to blackmail his students, Onizuka takes revenge in a somewhat unusual way. Assuming this is the premature end of his career, however, he realizes that his unorthodox methods and ideas about teaching are bearing fruit in his class of bully. These are now peaceful and obedient.

In order to continue working as a teacher, Onizuka would have to take a state teaching examination. The firm belief that he doesn't need it is quickly followed by disillusionment. All that remains for him to do is to apply for a teaching position at a private school . Onizuka does not qualify for an interview at the renowned Seirin Institute , as he previously exposed the senior student council; However, due to the intervention of the headmistress, he still gets the desired job.

Onizuka's real job is to bring a better mood to the school's biggest problem class. Little by little he conquers the class, which feels deep hatred for all teachers because of an earlier incident. But besides his problems with the students, he has to deal with various other difficulties.

Conception

The action follows a recurring pattern, but progresses in development. In the stories that build on one another, Onizuka usually witnesses an injustice or even a crime, against which he then proceeds with his unorthodox methods. Afterwards he destroys his hero role again through a stupid act. The fact that he regularly gets the opportunity to sexually assault (mostly) his schoolgirls, but despite the great temptation, out of good-heartedness or because of the circumstances, does not do it, develops into a running gag .

Publications

Manga

Great Teacher Onizuka appeared in Japan from February 1997 to the end of 2001 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Shōnen Magazine of the Kodansha publishing house. These individual chapters were also summarized in 25 anthologies. In German, the series of Egmont Manga and Anime was published in full from July 2002 to June 2006. GTO also appears in France , Italy , Poland , Sweden , Thailand , Indonesia and the USA . The American version was published by Tokyopop and was one of their first series to be published in Japanese pocket book format and in the Japanese reading direction, making it one of the first manga ever published in the USA.

From June 2009 to November 2011, Shōnen Magazine published a spin-off called GTO: Shonan 14 Days , which is based on the Teshigawara incident. This manga has also been translated into several languages ​​and comprises a total of nine edited volumes. 2012 followed in the same magazine GT-R , which tells of Onizuka's friend and motorcycle salesman Ryūji Danma. It also appeared in an anthology and was translated into French. The series GTO: Paradise Lost , which tells new stories about Onizuka as a teacher, has been published in Young Magazine since 2014 .

Anime

Based on the manga series, Studio Pierrot produced a 43-part anime series directed by Noriyuki Abe . The main author was Masashi Sogo and the character design was created by Koichi Usami . Yūji Ikeda was the artistic director . Up to volume 14, the anime sticks relatively to the manga template. Some individual panels were taken over into the animation unchanged. But then the anime caught up with the template so that a separate ending was created for the anime. The series was broadcast from June 30, 1999 to September 24, 2000 on the Japanese television station Fuji TV .

The anime series was released completely on DVD by Anime Virtual in Germany . The total of 10 DVDs contain the original audio track in Japanese, as well as subtitles in German, French, Dutch and Polish. In addition, 2 collector's boxes, each with a slipcase for Vol. 1–5 and Vol. 6–10, including the T-shirt included.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Eikichi Onizuka Wataru Takagi
Azusa Fuyutsuki Fumiko Orikasa
Miyabi Aizawa Junko Noda
Kunio Murai Tomokazu Seki
Mrs. Sakurai Yoshiko Okamoto
Hiroshi Uchiyamada Yūichi Nagashima

music

The music for the series was composed by Yusuke Honma . The soundtrack consists mainly of blues pieces with rock and funk interludes. The music is used cautiously in the series. Both in Japan and in Germany, here at Tokyopop , the soundtrack was released on CD. and the songs Driver's High by L'Arc ~ en ~ Ciel and Hitori No Yoru by Porno Graffiti were used for the opening credits . The closing titles are:

  • Last Piece by Kirari
  • Shizuku from Miwaku Okuda
  • Cherished Memories from Hong Kong Knife
  • Driver's High by L'Arc ~ en ~ Ciel

Actual filming

From July 7, 1998 to September 22, 1998 Fuji TV broadcast a GTO real series with twelve episodes of 45 minutes each. The main characters Onizuka and Azusa were played by Takashi Sorimachi and Nanako Matsushima , directed by Masayuki Suzuki . In order to adapt the theme to the TV series format, the plot has been changed a lot. On August 28, 1999, a 90-minute television film with the same cast was broadcast. In the same year, a 140-minute GTO film was released in Japanese cinemas, again with Takashi Sorimachi as Onizuka.

In 2012, a remake of the television series was broadcast in Japan from July to September. Akira took on the leading role and the series was followed by three television films. A four-episode mini-series came out in March 2014, and another television series followed from July to September of the same year.

reception

The manga won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Prize in the Shōnen category. In the USA, the first edition was sold out after a few weeks, similar to other series of the series first published in Japanese format at the time.

Jason Thompson describes the series as "shameless, often sexist and hilarious". Although the scheme of the plot repeats itself over and over again, the series would stay fresh thanks to the funny pictures, detailed drawings and “dingy, pop-cultural allusions” dialogues. In some stories, the manga goes beyond the level of dirty comedy and shows real social satire. The series was written "fearlessly honest and with twisted humor," an addicting, eye-opening look at Japanese high school life, according to Helen McCarthy. The German magazine Mangaszene compares GTO with Golden Boy , who is similarly “self-deprecating and realistic” and causes fits of laughter in both sexes. The series is therefore not only something for the usual male readership of easy eroticism, especially since with Eikichi it also offers an attractive male protagonist for female readers. The drawing style, reminiscent of slam dunk , is realistic and combines “really cute girls with repulsive grimaces”.

The Anime Encyclopedia names the film version as a dorama with Takashi Soramachi in the lead role as the perfect GTO version, but the anime version also has “bite” - mainly because it was allowed a little more representation of violence than the real version. The animations are made cheaply, but the computer animations are used discreetly and cleverly enough to distract attention. The dark opening credits summarize the sardonic mood of the series well. The German magazine Funime also describes the animations as “below average”, while the soundtrack and German subtitles “are okay”. The Animania, on the other hand, calls the animation quality solid. The stories told are "remarkably real and shockingly commonplace", the series combines "the needs of students and teachers with plenty of humor and action".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gilles Poitras: Below the Surface . In: Newtype USA, June 2003, Volume 2 Number 6, p. 59.
  2. ↑ a b Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , p. 132. (English)
  3. ↑ a b Tokyopop Manga sells out. Anime News Network, August 1, 2002, accessed December 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Animania 11/2003, p. 8f.
  5. ↑ Manga scene No. 14, p. 69.
  6. ↑ Helen McCarthy: A Brief History of Manga . ILEX Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78157-098-2 , pp. 66 .
  7. ↑ Manga scene No. 3, p. 34.
  8. ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 253 f .
  9. ↑ Funime No. 40, p. 33.