Great Teacher Onizuka Episodes: 43 Categories: Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, High School, School Life, Shounen Directed by: Naoyasu Hanyu & Noriyuki Abe Produced by: Studio Pierrot, SPE Visual, Fuji TV Year: 1999-2000 Encoded by: Baka-Anime \[B-A\] Video: 640x480 (4:3) | XviD | 23.98 fps | ~1250 kBit/s Audio: English + Japanese | 2.0 AAC | ~55 kBit/s Subtitles: English (SRT) - has OP/ED translation With a history of leading a motorcycle gang and getting bad grades in school, why would 22 year old Onizuka ever want to become a teacher? Is it to educate young minds or spread the joy of education? Sure, if it involves being able to look up high school girls' skirts! Watch as this would-be educator uses his own life lessons and unconstituted methods as a means to control a delinquent class of students -- students who certainly aren't as happy to have him as a teacher as he is happy to be teaching... Source: Anime-Planet Based on the manga written and illustrated by Tohru Fujisawa. The 5 episode OVA Shounan Jun`ai-gumi can be seen as a prequel to this series; it revolves around Onizuka Ekichi in his days as a youth. The anime closely follows the manga plot up to volume 14. However, it ran past the story arc of the manga, resulting in a new ending.