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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka #2

GTO : Great Teacher Onizuka, Tome 2

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Former gangster Onizuka is ready to put aside his punkish ways and join the working world as a teacher. All that stands between him and a regular paycheck and dozens of hot girls to flirt with is the big teaching exam. Oh, wait he accidentally used his study book as toilet paper! Now, without credentials, the only place he can land a job is at the Holy Forest Academy where he only barely gets hired after humiliating the Vice Principal. He'll have to use his street smarts to deal with students and faculty alike if he's ever going to become a Great Teacher.

190 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 1997

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Tōru Fujisawa

515 books123 followers
Tōru Fujisawa (japanese: 藤沢とおる; also Toru, Tôru Fujisawa or Tooru Fujisawa) began his career as mangaka in 1989 with Adesugata Junjou Boy serialized in the Weekly Shonen Magazine.

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455 reviews4,667 followers
January 7, 2022
The sexism is really dated and cringe, but the manga's premise is amazing and it's so damn funny.
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Author 0 books2 followers
July 28, 2018
-Oye profe... ¿Crees que algún día me vaya a gustar la escuela como a ti?
-¡Por supuesto! Yo me encargaré de todo.

Los mangas del 6 al 14 de GTO nos va confirmando el carácter de Onizuka. Un sujeto que quiere ser el profesor que no tuvo, y que por ende, más se necesita. El camino no será fácil, ya que, como se desarrolla en este tomo, la burocracia, la institucionalidad y el carácter festivo y descuidado de Onizuka no son una buena combinación.

Y sin embargo, en las páginas finales, precisamente por ese mismo carácter que choca con la institucionalidad, es que es necesario que el Great Teacher entre en acción, tanto así, que la vida de un estudiante parece cambiar radicalmente para bien.
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12 reviews
March 25, 2023
J’ai préféré ce tome au précédent. Onizuka commence à se développer humainement. Comme quand il donne la leçon au directeur. Puis quand il aide le garçon à la fin. Ce qui marque aussi son character. Il a aussi enfin trouvé une femme de son âge, enfin ! Mais l’aspect sexuel et la place des femmes me dérange quand même. Je trouve que ça fait dater le manga. Je suis pas contre l’humour beauf mais là c’est juste gratuit. Mais ses réactions restent toujours autant drôle
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1,324 reviews4 followers
June 7, 2022
I read this for a book club. This was better than the first volume, but it's still super icky. I can see the author figuring out what he wants to do with the work. Onizuka clearly sees worth in his students that others don't. It's basically School of Rock at high school level, but the teacher wants to bang the kids. I am upset that anyone wanted that. Definitely not reading any more of this.
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240 reviews3 followers
October 31, 2017
Mais um volume muito bom. Divertido e absurdo .
Estou ansioso para ler o Volume 3.
#torufujisawa #gto #onizuka
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410 reviews11 followers
November 14, 2017
beautiful chapter with. I loved how this crazy man handled the small boy, hope it will continue with the same rhythm.
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47 reviews
August 14, 2018
Damn, Onizuka is a fucking badass. I want to know how is going to be his first day in the school as a teacher.
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299 reviews
February 10, 2020
This is such a great series. I watched the anime a decade or so ago and finally decided to check out the manga. I'm Enjoying it.
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278 reviews
May 31, 2020
Just a classic fun read. The facial expressions are hilarious as always.
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2,446 reviews6 followers
November 9, 2022
This volume describes how Onizuka becomes a teacher. For me, it's on the low side of 4 stars. I hope it gets better because I have 23 more volumes to plow through.
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62 reviews1 follower
June 5, 2023
Why this is so hilarious, I love it.😂😂
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210 reviews33 followers
April 24, 2025
Xem 2 bản live action r đọc truyện vẫn rất cuốnnnnn
Profile Image for June Delcroix.
17 reviews
November 22, 2025
mouai c'était à peu près la même idée dans ce livre. toujours aussi répulsif et toujours aussi ennuyant. le seul point fort c'est les dessins qui sont quand même très bien faits
Profile Image for Regalia Lenzi.
698 reviews
September 3, 2025
Mmm, kara za podszczypywanie w metrze może i nie była natychmiastowa, ale za to jak boleśnie satysfakcjonująca. Onizuka to naprawdę ma farta, że bez papierów może pracować.
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Author 1 book44 followers
March 31, 2016
The art & story are better than in Volume 1 overall.

This picks up where Vol. 1 left off, where Onizuka is helping the female student with her parent issues. That allows him to realize that he actually does want to teach and help those who are otherwise verbally abused and labeled as "losers" by the teachers. He misses the exam though and scrambles to get a job at a private school while waiting for his teaching certificate.

During his slump, he's incredibly whiny and annoying. "The world doesn't need another 22-year-old virgin." He's so focused on that and it drives me crazy. I understand the depression and feeling worthless, but then he doesn't even attempt to make amends for things until his friends help him out.

He does eventually get hired at a school with more than 3600 students - and the number of teachers is less than 300. I'm at a school with about 600 fewer students and 400 more teachers, so I am very aware of the issues that can arise at such a school - and the school director tells Onizuka from the start that despite being a private school there are a lot of problems (and even names a few). The one stipulation is that he must live at the school; it's a condition that he learns carries many more responsibilities than he initially realizes.
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466 reviews64 followers
October 11, 2007
Eikichi Onizuka (22), old virgin and ex-biker. crude, foul-mouthed, and very temperament.
He has a dream to be the Greatest High School Teacher in the World!!! but the thing behind that great dream is to score with the hot students ^_^"
Onizuka may think he’s the toughest guy on school, but when he meets his class full of bullies, blackmailers, and scheming sadists .... huwaaa. Honestly, I'm not really like this book. But there is available in Dorama, and the dorama is more interesting to watch.
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299 reviews22 followers
June 30, 2014
I kind of wish, in terms of the narrative, Onizuka had gotten his certification and taught at the high school he'd substituted at. We spent a bit of time in the first volume focusing on that school, and I would like to have spent more time there. As it is, putting the rest of the series in a private school and having Onizuka live there means that, hopefully, Fujisawa will be able to make the school as much of a character as some of its students.
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Author 5 books5 followers
November 21, 2019
Read this series first back in adolescence, and as I go through the same books this present day I find how resonant some themes that the author touches upon remain. Surely at face value the series might come across as silly or over the top; but it is in fact deeply rooted in everyday themes, troubles, vulnerabilities, passions among other threads. A real depiction of human connection as a manga can get.
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183 reviews
December 23, 2024
Dans ce tome nous assistons à la fin de l'arc stagiaire. Néanmoins, la négligence de Onizuka va le mener à des situations difficiles. Va-t-il devenir professeur ?
L'auteur met en avant les pervers dans le métro et brise les apparences : les grandes écoles regorgent de problèmes, les directrices se camouflent et Onizuka est toujours aussi efficace car vrai, même si ses méthodes sont discutables. Absurde et marrant, un plaisir de continuer GTO.
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