GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka

While peeping up girl’s skirts at a local shopping mall, Onizuka meets a girl who agrees to go out on a date with him. However, Onizuka’s attempts to bed her fails when her current “boyfriend”, her teacher, shows up at the love hotel they were in and asks her to come back. This teacher is old and unattractive, but she is so under this teacher’s power that she leaps from a window two stories up and lands in his arms. Onizuka, seeing this display of a teacher’s power over girls, decides to become one himself, and discovers three important things:

He has a conscience and a sense of morality. This means taking advantage of impressionable schoolgirls is out . . . but their unusually attractive mothers (see Kunio Murai, below) are a different matter. He enjoys teaching. He hates the systems of traditional instruction, especially when they have grown ignorant and condescending. With these realizations, he sets out to become the greatest teacher ever, using his own brand of philosophy and the ability to do nearly anything when under sufficient pressure. One example being taking standardized test in one hour instead of the normal five, while having three bullet wounds in him from using the other four hours to rescue the daughter of a famous government official from a yakuza hideout. Hired as a long-shot teacher by a privately operated school to tame a class that has driven one teacher to a mysterious death, one to nervous breakdown, and one to joining a cult, he embarks on a mission of self-discovery via breaking through to each student one by one, and helping each student, ranging from the busty bimbo to the oedipal rebel, to learn to genuinely enjoy life.