GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (series)
GTO- User score: 8.4
- Production country: Japan
- Production companies: Kansai Television, Fuji Television Network
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Release date: 7/7/1998
- Release date of last episode: 9/22/1998
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 12
- Run time: 45 min.
Series description
Eikichi Onizuka, former gang leader, becomes a teacher of a class of students who torment their teachers and fellow students. Of course they do not do this out of whim, they have their reasons. Onizuka is charged by the chairlady to help these troubled students into a more healthy adulthood, and help rehabilitate the teachers in the process as well.