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: Not Rated
: Tokyopop
: Anime, Comedy Anime
: 125 min.
: English, Japanese
: English
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Onizuka is finally starting to get the hang of teaching and settles in for the long run but some of his students have other plans for the sex-starved gamer! When a group of girl bullies take out their frustrations on Onizuka's favorite game guru, Yoshikawa, he takes matters into his own hands to teach them an after school lesson. Too bad for Onizuka that he didn't happen to check the girls' family connections first one of the girl's mothers is the head of the PTA! Now she's irate and out to get him fired! Will Onizuka be the one to learn the real lesson?
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| GTO 2 : Why can't we get shows like this on MY TV?
by Fangs
August 19, 2003 - 11:14 AM PDT
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3 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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"Why can't we get shows like this on MY TV?" asked my friend after seeing GTO for the first time. GTO is a good series for newbies because you can start anywhere in the series and still understand what is going on.
GTO is a fun, extremely non-politically correct show. Onizuka, the main character in GTO, is a lecherous, virgin, ex-biker gang leader who has good intentions and the most hilarious facial expressions. Onizuka acts more like a kid than his students, but occasionally comes up with some very adult observations. The first episode starts out with him telling a horror story entitled, "Terror of Shumai". (Shumai is a type of very non-scary Chinese food.)
Our favorite scenes involved the vice principal and his white Cresta (that's a car). He believes this car will change his life. It will make his wife love him more, and his daughter respect him again. If only he could get it home in one piece! It's all that Onizuka's fault that his (the vice principal) life is a mess. Yeah, right...
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| Smart dialog and subtleties in character
by hneline1
December 2, 2002 - 9:45 PM PST
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5 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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While watching the first disk, I couldn't decide whether I really liked this series or not. Onizuka is not the most appealing protagonist, being a womanizer and lazy and not the brightest, and I couldn't pinpoint whether this series was optimistic or pessimistic about those disgruntled teens.
I realized in the middle of this second disk that I do like it -- a lot. I'm impressed with the smart dialog and the subtleties in the teenagers that make them much more than cardboard cutouts of bad kids. The classroom dynamics are fascinating to watch as Onizuka slowly influences one teen, then another teen, and the remaining bullies create fluctuating alliances against the teacher. Onizuka himself shows heroic qualities as he saves a teen from suicide and his immaturity is not that grating when it works to befriend his students. In other words, GTO is becoming a great character-driven, situational drama with an optimistic bend.
Of course, there are still bumps. The adults are not as fleshed out as the teens. Onizuka's success may be a bit too optimistic for real life. His extreme facial expressions continue to be shockingly ugly. But I look forward to this series improving and will definitely keep watching. |
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