GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka, Vol. 20

GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka #20

by Tōru Fujisawa

When former gangster Onizuka decides to become a teacher, the only job he lands is a student teacher position at the Holy Forest Academy where he must rely on his street smarts to deal with the difficult students.

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comics Manga, Comedy, Shonen, Komik

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2001

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funniest Series EVER! My absolute favorite!! The new principal shows up and is passive agressively trying to get Oni sensei to leave by installing a point-based pay program tilted out of Onizuka's favor. In an attempt to earn badly needed points, Onizuka brings back a truant student which turns out to be more trouble than he bargained for since the students father is a Yakuza boss and the boy weilds a gun. Two transfer students arrive, one being a plant by the new principal whose mission is to secretly clean the school of undisirable male students by using her Tae Kwon Do skills against them. A pretty good volume. Plenty of laughs.

[Yoshiro · Rating 4 out of 5]

POPKULTUROWY KOCIOŁEK: The twentieth volume brings with it a very clear, even palpable, reset of the current status quo and opens another major chapter in the story. After the powerful emotions of the previous volume, the plot shifts its focus to the struggle against a heartless bureaucratic machine and a new vice principal who completely changes the dynamics at the school.

The idea for a new opponent is a good one. Onizuka spent most of the series fighting people who acted more or less directly. The new director plays differently. All she needs is a position, appropriate regulations, and the ability to exploit the system against someone she considers a problem. Onizuka excels at dealing with people who can be provoked. It's much more difficult for him to fight someone who remains cool, calculating, and able to make their actions seem entirely justified.

The point system that influences Onizuka's earnings is a simple but effective plot device. It allows the author to throw the protagonist into a series of absurd problems, while also showing the conflict between a teacher acting in his own way and an institution that wants to control everything.

The problem is that this trope is sometimes overused. Onizuka finds himself in a situation where practically everyone wants to stop him. Again, he has a point to prove. Again, he tries to help a student who turns out to be a much bigger problem than initially expected. Once again, the school reality is turned upside down. It can still be funny, but it's not as fresh as before.

This is most evident in the story of a student who hasn't shown up at school for a long time . The concept itself isn't bad. It allows Fujisawa to once again tell the story of a young man pushed outside the school system and of a teacher trying to reach someone who has long since stopped believing that education has any meaning for them. However, after the previous stories, this pattern no longer makes the same impression.

The problem isn't the concept itself, but rather a lack of sufficient character strength. Not every difficult student in GTO can be the next Mayu or another character who immediately grabs your attention. In the twentieth volume, you can feel the author using a proven method, but not always providing it with the same powerful fuel. At the same time, it's not to say that everything here is predictable. Fujisawa introduces several characters who have the potential for significant development. The new student is particularly interesting, as her presence suggests from the outset that there's more behind her calm appearance......

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[Daniel Mosalev · Rating 1 out of 5]

Очередной абсурдный том. Прибыл новый завуч, цель которого - уволить главного героя. Ощущение, что вокруг него вертится весь мир, потому что все хотят ему помешать работать.
Завуч вводит систему поощрительных баллов, которые могут, как уменьшить, так и увеличить зарплату. Не знаю, как в Японии, но в цивилизованных странах запрещено понижать зарплату ниже минимально допустимой. А здесь из этого строят такую проблему, будто работодатель царь и бог.
А ещё появляется очередной школьник-прогульщик. Он не ходил в школу уже два года, но почему-то состоит в списках. Это как вообще?
В конце, внезапно, из воздуха появились ещё два ученика. Один суицидник, а вторая подставляет всех, а ей верят. Почему? Потому что она девочка. Этого достаточно.
Глупость.

[Stephen Nagy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ms Daimon is an interesting, yet demotivating character that both has a way stealing the spotlight away from Onizuka's usual light hearted adventures. Here he is also portayed as more cowardly in this volume, wetting his pants twice in the same book. That and the two "new" students are just about as fun. You got yet another spineless wimp who gets bullied into doing everything (leading up to my favorite scene where Onizuka pranks those bullies into submission) and yet another slease who spends the cliff hanger giving the most intelligent character her panties. Not my favorite volume but I do want to see Ms. Daimon get hers.

[Abeer Albossany · Rating 2 out of 5]

Along with Kanzaki and Miyu we get introduced in this volume to three new characters. Two of whom are already in the class but had just get back to school, and a bitch "literally" who's a transferred student.

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 5 out of 5]

😂👌❤️

[✨Sky✨ ♏ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5 stars

[TK · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a fan of the new arc so far but hopefully it gets better.

[Dylan Church · Rating 5 out of 5]

New principal, new rules, same teacher, same hilariously awesome story!

[David Doel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I hope it's because a new story arc is starting because this volume was not as enjoyable as the previous 3. Hopefully, things will get better for the final 5 volumes.

[Paulo Sousa · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Course, you'll never know about those kinds of people, because you just want to spend your life in your room"

[Carta Book · Rating 4 out of 5]

On est clairement sur le début d'un arc : nouveaux personnages dans le corps enseignant, nouveaux élèves, beaucoup de changements dans l'établissement du GTO. L'auteur utilise encore la carte de l'élève qui ne vient pas en cours depuis le début de l'année, mais ça fonctionne moins : histoire atypique, mais ça fait redondant et il n'a pas le même charisme que Mayu. Un autre problème, c'est la découverte loufoque d'un nouvel élève qui tombe quelque peu comme un cheveu sur la soupe… Même si GTO est irréaliste, c'est peut-être un peu trop gros.
Les ennuis se succèdent pour Onizuka. Quelques plans intéressant notamment dans sa lutte contre la nouvelle directrice. Les deux se livrent un duel à distance. Mais est-ce qu'Onizuka résistera aux coups bas de ce nouveau personnage ? À voir...
Le tome se clos sur une nouvelle élève qui va être problématique… En bref, on repart pour un nouvel arc. Intensité dans le duel Onizuka, directrice, mais un peu fade et redondant. Un peu peur pour cet arc final.

[William Hayman · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Karl Kindt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious satirical take on teaching, filled with irony.

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best mangas ever made. One of the very, very few that I would genuinely call 'inspiring'.