The popularity of this series is rising, as DVDs sell out in retail stores around the Bay Dwelling. In this fourth installment of the Immense Teacher Onizuka saga, Onizuka chases after a kidnapped student, putting at risk his beget future career; achieves fame at the expense of his skin; and encounters Urumi, the “teacher-eater,” and comes up with a special therapeutic class for said student that most definitely does NOT reach recommended by the PTA.
As in previous DVDs of GTO, the strength lies not in the animation so grand as it does in the storyline. There’s an urban survey to the animation, which concentrates more on storytelling rather than aesthetics. CGI makes its first appearance here in the body of the Vice-Principal’s fourth Cresta, but the exhaust of what could be a jarringly inconsistent medium is oddly appropriate given the object in examine and frenetic quality of the animation.
Once more, the exact strength is in the character of GTO, that off-beat, off-his-rocker gang member-turned-teacher. His current ways of caring for the damaged goods that are his students would give most people discontinue. For all his wild, reckless and seemingly irresponsible ways, he’s somehow exactly what his students need. The characters and storylines constantly remind us that there’s a lack of innovative, involved teachers in the schools. In the magical world GTO lives in, reprecussions are, if not absent, at least avoidable. The stories seem to suggest that the state in the schools has become shameful, thanks to well-intentioned but blind parents and indifferent administration and teachers, and that only grievous measures have any chance of success.
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As in the previous disks, the writer mostly avoids the trap of stereotypes and cliches. There are no dreadful people, unbiased damaged ones; children are not inherently tainted, they’re simply misdirected, misunderstood, or overburdened with parental baggage. In short, humans are human. GTO’s erratic maneuverings through the shoals of teenage cliques, antagonistic administrators, jealous colleagues, and self-righteous parents are a joy to examine. If his activities are disconcerting at times, they’re also bright, and more than once the viewer gets a suspicion he’s a caricature of himself.
I heartily recommend this one, for those looking for something more than big-eyed, big-boobed babes. Be warned for a lot of unsubtle sexual innuendo, some pointedly fuzzed-out anatomy, and Onizuka’s ongoing hunt for a bit of honey. (“Over the age of 19, a pity about that inconvenient law…!”)
This fourth volume in the extremely addicting GTO series is by far the best, having watched the subsequent volumes.
The location is simple enough: Eikichi Onizuka, a customary bike gang member, college karate champ, 22 years ancient and a bachelor, has taken it upon himself to be the world’s greatest teacher. with runt or no qualifications, he somehow gets celebrated into a prestigious school, is assigned the worst class of delinquents ever, and proceeds to work on taming the adolescent beasts.
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Simple station, complex protagonist. Onizuka is the definition of “man-child,” the battle with the man and the child within him always in conflict. This is key as the series plays up the ongoing battle between the students and adults, be it teachers, administrators, parents or politicians. Onizuka is into videogames, internet porn, costumes, launching bottle rockets and ogling schoolgirls. At the same time he has a better sensitivity toward the exact causes of the students problems, be it parental conflict, unpleasant past experiences with teachers, money or bullying. Then again, he likes to deal with his problems in the most unorthodox methods, i.e. beating up students.
Just like standard fighting animes, Onizuka has to deal with various opponent-students during the course of the series. By now you’ll have been introduced to bully Aizawa Miyabi, shapely shiny Kikuchi, ditzy Tomoko, and fierce Kunio Murai.
This time, Onizuka must face super-hot super-genius Urumi Kanzaki, a blonde-haired, brown-and-blue eyed angel, who gets special treatment from the school, lustrous that with such intelligence, her future success means tons for the school’s reputation. Her thing is to “ask a ask” from the teachers–traslating into humiliating them by showing them she knows more, far more about their subject than they do.
The sub-story line includes a girl from another school with a foot-fetish, who also has sway in getting Onizuka possibly fired.
This volume is mountainous for so many reasons: the introduction of Kanzaki, the extremely fleet chase and noble level of humor, as well as the ending…guaranteed frosty.
The art is on a par with Dragonball Z, and watching this series in Japanese is *necessary*! Not only are their numerous word jokes (that a student is suffering a trauma, pronounced “tora-uma” evokes an image of a giant tiger-horse animal in Onizuka’s mind), or that the English teacher struggles with and forces English, the record has glorious considerable differences from the English to the Japanese version. The Japanese vocal cast is far apt, and the vocal intonations better match the facial expressions; the storyline and what they say are far more risque and naughtier than the English dub as well.
This volume is what GTO is all about, why the series is as favorable and addicting as it is. Vast chronicle, side-splitting humor, favorable action, well-felt tension and sadness as well. If I could bear only one (which isn’t possible) this would be it.
