A new principal, Ms. Daimon, has arrived and she is not charmed with Onizuka. She institutes a merit system based on points that has our hero struggling to stay above zero. He's demoted to assistant teacher and evicted from the school's storage room. Onizuka has to convince some truant students to return to school before he loses even more points ... and maybe his job!

Eikichi Onizuka
A 22-year-old ex-biker, Onizuka's goal is to be the Greatest Teacher in the World ... and in the process meet a few cute coeds, too ...

Azusa Fuyutsuki
Japanese studies teacher at Holy Forest. She is Onizuka's love interest.

Miyabi Aizawa
One of Onizuka's students. She tries to make her teacher's life as miserable as possible.

Yoshito Kikuchi
Another of Onizuka's pupils. He is the class president and a computer genius.

By Tohru Fujisawa

Fujisawa-san made his manga debut in 1989 with 'Love You' in a magazine called Magazine (Magajin) FRESH January issue. His other works include 'Adesugata Junjo Boy,' 'Shonan Jun-ai Gumi,' and 'Bad Company.'

'GTO' made its appearance in 1997 in the Weekly Shonen Magazine, and the following year, Fujisawa-san was awarded the 22nd Kodansha Manga award for the series. A live-action GTO TV drama also began in 1998 and a live-action movie followed in 1999. The GTO TV anime began running in Japan in 2000.