Great Teacher Onizuka/YMMV

• Cargo Ship: At times the only thing that seems to prevent Uchiyamada from marrying his Cresta is the unfortunate fact that it's kinda sorta... unconventional.
• Complete Monster:
  • Sho Shibuya has built up quite the resume. Insanely goading Miyabi into committing suicide despite no one else supporting him, savagely beating up the rest of the Angels who have decided he had gone too far, and "killing" Eikichi.
  • In Shonan 14 Days, the boyfriend of Seiya's mother would regularly beat around Seiya and his mother, and he was responsible for branding Seiya with a tattoo as a reminder that he can never escape his grasp. It's small wonder then that Seiya would want to kill him.
• Crazy Awesome: Onizuka.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Lots of them. See the page.
• Crowning Moment of Funny: Too many to count.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Lots of them. When Onizuka isn't fooling around he is busy warming people's hearts, may they be his students, colleagues, friends, or complete strangers.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: The first opening theme, Driver's High by L'arc en Ciel.
• Family-Unfriendly Aesop:
  • If violence doesn't do the trick, more violence will. It's perfectly okay to put your colleagues' and students' life in danger when you're a teacher if there is a moral lesson behind the action. Also, some examples of Onizuka "resolving" problems of his students fall into this.
  • Be Yourself, Tokiwa. When you've been gang-raped, lost your trust in the men and humanity as a whole, when you feel insecure and seen mainly as a sexual object by the opposite sex... remember that you're a girl. You can always cry. Admittedly, when put in context his suggestion is actually better than her solution. Baiting guys and beating them up. It nearly got her gang-raped a second time.
• Fan Disservice: Onizuka spends an awful lot of time with his ass exposed.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Onizuka and Urumi, at least as far as the majority of the western fanbase first introduced to the series through GTO is concerned. The pairing tends to get more support due to the opinion that Urumi has more of a developed personality, while Fuyutsuki too obviously fills in the role of obligatory love interest.
• Fridge Logic:
  • Think about the last middle schooler you saw. Now picture them pregnant, buying a house, and holding a job. How exactly would a disowned 13 year old buy an apartment without a credit history, raise a child by herself, and in the most expensive city in the world, all with no outside help or child services intervention? Either Japan has the world's greatest and most beneficial welfare system, she had the world's nicest landlord, or the writers are greatly exaggerating for dramatic purposes.
  • Why didn't the school just let Urumi skip a few grades? They knew she was a prodigy. It's not like the Japanese school system doesn't allow that, as they did it in Azumanga Daioh. Or send her on a foreign exchange program to give her a challenge of learning in a different country, like they usually do with advanced students? But then we wouldn't have a plot, now would we?
• Large Ham: Onizuka, again.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Kikuchi has his moments, being one of the geniuses of Class 3-4.
  • He pales in comparison to Urumi though. Selling the virginity of the girls who tried to frame 'her' Onizuka to a bunch of perverts scores fairly high on the Bastardry scale.
• Marty Stu / God Mode Sue / Anti-Sue: Onizuka. Superhuman strenght and endurance? Check. Never lose a fight or an argument? Check. Able to seduce countless girls despite his disgusting habits and hobbies? Check. Is so cool a class normally full of hate for teachers start to love him in several weeks? Check. Every person who dislike him or go against him is humiliated repeatedly? Check. Can humiliate them and get away with it? Check. Do they all admit he was right in the end? Check. Succeed in exams despite being depicted as an idiot? Check. Center of attention at any time? Check. People starting to imitate his way of living? Check. Survive 4 bullets in the guts before unleashing a Humiliation Conga against the shooter? Check!
  • Well, he's a virgin, while he thinks A Man Is Not a Virgin, though. But that's it.
  • On the test, it is outright stated that Sakurai fixed it so that he would get top score (though we never get to see Kikuchi's calculation of his real score). On getting away with things, it's also implied that Sakurai is covering him (and it is shown that her connections allowed arson and attempted murder to be swept under the rug). Beyond that, Refuge in Audacity and Rule of Cool are attempted to cover up his rather advanced abilities to tie up the plot.
• Moral Event Horizon: See Urumi's Magnificent Bastardry. Among the other things.
• Nightmare Fuel: Onizuka is mistakenly forced into a marriage with a Kuchisake-Onna; her family share the same trait of a Stepford Smiler with saw teeth. Onizuka also encounters one in Okinawa, though it was a young girl and actually quite nice.
• Sequel Displacement/Surprisingly Improved Sequel:
  • Many people may not realize that GTO was an almost direct sequel to a lesser-known manga series, Shonan Junai Gumi. They most likely assumed that GTO started in media res, though it could just be the fault of TokyoPop for Americans.
  • Shonan Junai Gumi was marketed as GTO: The Early Years in North America and UK, but it was marketed as Young GTO in France.
• Shallow Love Interest: Fuyutsuki, to some readers, due to a less-than-adequate amount of screen time for her to fully flesh out her character.
• Squick:
  • All the talk of wanting to, ahem, go with high school girls. Especially coming from the minds of Dirty Old Men.
  • In the manga - Pubic hair cookies. It makes sense if you read it.
  • Onizuka's shit. Literally.
• Tear Jerker: While Onizuka is dying of his Game-Breaking Injury, his old Nakama Ryuji refuses to believe that Onizuka could be hurt in any way and says that he can not die. When Onizuka's heart stops beating, he punches him in the chest hoping to wake him up, crying.
  • In the live-action drama episode 11, Onizuka was being forced apart from his students. As he was being dragged away, he tells each of his students something relating to their interests (showing just how well he got to know them) or a final piece of advice.
• The Woobie:
  • Vice-principal Uchiyamada sometimes gets into this territory. Chapter 107 is his greatest moment.
  • Noboru fits this too. He took so much crap from Anko and her gang and still saves her anyway because it was the right thing to do.