I read many reviews praising this manga and speaking on how it changed them, well, I'm very sorry then, but as an adult reading this it was too flawed to enjoy any of it.

I guess I'll start by talking about what, I guess, most people find appealing about GTO, the messages. Now, some of them are nice, not all of them, some of them. "Face up to your past mistakes." Great! "Everyone has their own problems." Very true. "If somebody sexually attacks someone, sexually assault them in return." Uuuuuuuuuuuum, no.

About the art, it's not good. It's not so bad (for the time), but it's also not impressive and it doesn't really improve throughout the series. There were so many unmemorable character designs I confused everyone with anyone and it became unbearable as more characters joined in.

If I'm on the subject of characters, it's a weird one. Most characters are boring and dumb and everytime I saw them I sighed. But some of them, I liked, until they sexually assaulted someone, or tried to get someone raped, did terrible things in general. Now, if the series addressed these terrible actions as terrible, it might find ways of redeeming it's characters, but most of the horrible things people do just come off as funny or quirky, and that just grossed me out thinking the author might agree with these actions.

The plot, I'm not sure how to talk about something that's just not there. There are only two types of arcs in GTO, someone tries kicking onizuka out of school, and onizuka stops someone from killing themselves. That's it! And it repeats itself and repeats itself and repeats itself, Everytime a character declared they're about to get onizuka fired I wanted to die, Everytime someone jumped off the school roof and onizuka jumped after them (for someone who's so good at helping people an awful lot of them actually try and kill themselves) I started pulling hairs out. I know it's a comedy, but still. And the ending, it just ended! The last arc didn't feel all that special, was it cancelled or something?!

And, worst part of all, the humor. I did not laugh once, I sometimes wasn't even sure where the the jokes tried to go. Onizuka looks up his student's skirt after she tells him she's depressed, it's an old series, it's fine. Onizuka makes a funny face all the time, it's for children, they like funny faces, it's fine. She wants onizuka to like her so she dyes her hair blond and tans, where the fuck is the joke?!!

Overall, it might save been a 2/10 if I didn't think the treatment of women and rape in this series was terrible. I really hope no kids ever read it again and especially not taking any life lessons from it.