Watch GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka with English subtitles or dubbed versions in North America.
Netflix added the GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka anime to its North American library. You can watch it with either English subtitles or an English dub.
Crunchyroll first offered the anime with Japanese audio and English subtitles in January 2015. In August 2016, they added the English dub for viewers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Crunchyroll's description of the anime:
Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old former biker and college karate champion. He's rough, speaks his mind, and easily gets angry. His ambition? To become the best high school teacher ever! However, the only teaching position he can get is at Holy Forest Academy, where no teaching certification is needed. There, he relies on his streetwise skills to handle both colleagues and students.
Great Teacher Onizuka first aired in Japan in 1999. Tokyopop licensed the anime in 2001, releasing it on DVD singles and two box sets. Discotek later licensed the anime and released it on home video in September 2013.
The anime is based on Tohru Fujisawa's manga series, also called Great Teacher Onizuka. The original manga concluded in 2002, but it continued with the sequel GTO: Shonan 14 Days, the upcoming spin-off GT-R, and its precursor Shōnan Junai-gumi. Tokyopop and Vertical released different GTO manga titles, including the prequel GTO: The Early Years, in North America.
The series inspired a live-action GTO series, several TV specials, and a film in 2000. GTO: The Early Years led to a new live-action series in February 2020. A new TV special called GTO Revival, starring Sorimachi as Eikichi Onizuka, will premiere on April 1 on Kansai TV, Fuji TV, and their affiliates.
