Product Details

• Actors: GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: September 18, 2007
• Run Time: 625 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000OPOAHA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,518 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A classic series among anime and manga entusiasts! Former juvenile delinquent Onizuka finds himself thrust into a role of high school teacher facing students who behave just as he used to and an administration that doesn't trust him. Using the brash and unorthodox methods he picked up in his youth Onizuka manages to reach through to his kids and help them with their problems.Format: GTO Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM UPC: 704400086427 Manufacturer No: 1-4210-1035-6

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a GTO box set that is not rare!!, October 5, 2007

By 

Sousuke "Alex Lawson" - See all my reviews

This review is from: GTO - Semester 1 Box Set (DVD)

Starting off, the amazon synopsis says this set is just one disc. Well, it isn't, it is five disc. The first five disc of the series in fact, just as if you're buying them separatly but definitly more cheaper.
Now on to the review, the series is about a former biker leader, Onizuka, who wants to be not only a teacher but the best teacher japan has ever seen. Of course their are obstacles such as other teachers, pta, and of course students that want to get rid of Onizuka because of his juvenile behavior, and the students have student-teacher complexes. The animation is quite old school, meaning it has like Lupin animation; nothing like the action animes out. The series is a comedy but does have serious parts, and most episodes have a deep lesson that has been taught. A definite recommendation!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My personal favorite, January 4, 2011

By 

Bryan White (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GTO - Semester 1 Box Set (DVD)

Great Teacher Onizuka is one of the most underated anime's to be licensed in America. If you expect a series about a car driver or biker you are on ball... sorta. In this quirky anime Biker Eikichi Onizuka, 22 years old, stumbles onto a job teaching at an academy called Holy Forest. There a whole lot of insane antics occur and you begin to warm up to what is "Great Teacher Onizuka" he is stupid, he is a man of action, and he is cool. If you like Initial D then you will like this series as jokes are made about Initial D in this anime on occasion. The language and nudity in this show are very tame, not too much is seen throughout. This series caught my attention when I was in the 8th grade, I randomly picked up volume 1 of it on DvD at Sam Goody and I was pleased; so pleased I bought the whole series overtime(I recently got semester 2 of this showGTO Box Set - Semester 2 it was just as good.)

5.0 out of 5 stars The Life leasons only a teacher can give., April 25, 2010

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MTM "OtakuGamer" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GTO - Semester 1 Box Set (DVD)

This is a great series. It has some life lessons and makes you think a little. Caution though, there are some suggestive themes seeing that the main character is a slight perv.