Title:
GTO Great Teacher Onizuka (グレート・ティーチャー・オニヅカ)
Date Aired:
July 3, 2012
Genres:
Comedy, Action, Drama
Original story:
GTO, Shonan Junai Gumi and GS 14 Days by Fujisawa Tohru
Producers:
Hideyuki Kasai (河西秀幸), Yoshihiko Yamamoto (山本喜彦)
Director:
Kazuhisa Imai
Screenplay:
Masaki Fukazawa (深沢正樹)
Network:
Fuji TV, KTV
Main Theme:
"24karats TRIBE OF GOLD" by EXILE TRIBE
Main Cast:
Eikichi Onizuka (鬼塚 英吉) played by Akira of JPop band Exile
Azusa Fuyutsuki (冬月 あずさ) played by Miori Takimoto
Ryuji Danma (弾間 龍二) played by Yu Shirota
Toshiyuki Saejima (冴島 俊行) played by Yusuke Yamamoto
Teachers:
Ryoko Sakurai (桜井 良子) played by Hitomi Kuroki
Hiroshi Uchiyamada (内山田 ひろし) played by Ryosei Tayama
Shoko Moritaka (森高 尚子) played by Saori Takizawa
Suguru Teshigawara (勅使河原 優) played by Yano Masato
Ayame Shiratori (白鳥 あやめ) played by Ayano Fujisawa (藤沢あやの)
Hajime Fukuroda (袋田 はじめ) played by Sugi-chan (スギちゃん)
Saki Katayama played by Nao Nagasawa
Tetsuo Hashimoto played by Noboru Takachi
Noriko Sawada played by Yumi Kobayashi
Hiroko Sannomaru played by Eri Fuse
Students:
Noboru Yoshikawa (吉川 のぼる) played by Taishi Nakagawa
Anko Uehara (上原 杏子) played by Yua Shinkawa
Kunio Murai (村井 國男) played by Shintaro Morimoto
Tomoko Nomura (野村 朋子) played by Karen Miyazaki
Koji Fujiyoshi (藤吉 晃二) played by Yuki Yamada
Miyabi Aizawa (相沢 雅) played by Haruna Kawaguchi
Yoshito Kikuchi (菊地 善人) played by Sho Takada
Urumi Kanzaki (神崎 麗美) played by Tsubasa Honda
Tadaaki Kusano (草野 忠明) played by Nobuyuki Suzuki
Ai Tokiwa (常盤 愛) played by Nozomi Bando
Yuki Miyamori (宮森 勇気) played by Akiyoshi Utsumi
Fuyumi Kujirakawa (鯨川 冬美) played by Hikari Takara
Gunji Mishima (三島 軍人) played by Aoi Shimoyama
Takumi Ishida (石田 拓海) played by Gaku Sano
Seiya Dojima (堂島 誠也 played by Aran Shirahama
Miki Katsuragi (葛城 美姫) played by Mariya Nishiuchi
Keiichi Satomi (里見 圭一) played by Hiroki Machida
Mayuko Asano played by Anna Ishii
Haruka Kuwae played by Sara Takatsuki
Ryoichi Mizuhara played by Akihisa Shiono
Naomi Izumi played by Ayaka Sayama
Chikako Shirai played by Rikako Sakaguchi
Hiroyuki Kurokawa played by Ouho Sato
Megumi Asakura played by Hitomi Miyake
Yumi Nakanishi played by Hidemi Hikita
Umanosuke Ueda played by Shota Komori
Suzuka Morishita played by Seia Yasuda
Hidemi Ota played by Natsuo
Daisuke Suzuki played by Hiromu Yayama
Erika Nakajima played by Nanami Mitsuhashi
Mayumi Otsuka played by Chiho Fujii
Tamotsu Sugawara played by Hikaru Nagayama
Yukiko Iwata played by Miyu Kirishima
Synopsis: Through the introduction of his friend Ryuji Danma, Eikichi Onizuka, the ex-legendary biker member of a gang, visits the Meishu Academy to take care of the garden trees as a half-time gardener. After noticing that Noboru Yoshikawa, a student of Azusa Fuyutsuki's class is being bullied by Anko Uehara and other classmates, Onizuka turns into his friend and saves Yoshikawa. Watching Onizuka without precedents but reckless, the strong answer to solve the school problems, the chairman and principal Ryoko Sakurai nullifies the resistence of head teacher Hiroshi Uchiyamada and makes Onizuka a teacher. Onizuka enters to face many problems as teacher in charge of the most troublesome class, the 2-4 classroom.
Necropinion: so far I'm liking this version with not only more but better adapted characters than
the 1998 live action series and 1999 film which I enjoyed too when both were subbed many years ago, besides is based from the manga with the same title (1997-2002) it'll take part of the story from the mangas Shonan Junai Gumi (1990-96) and the recent GTO Shonan 14 Days finished last year... the SJG OVAs (1994-97) and TV series GTO (1999-00) are great anime adaptations but sadly the story was incomplete with an original ending instead because the manga wasn't finished back then, if this drama reboot is successful I hope they release a new anime series soon completing the rest of the story ^^ this is the first thread I make in the drama section and what better choice than the new GTO