With most students going back to school lately, it’s a fitting coincidence that today I begin retroblogging Great Teacher Onizuka. Back in the last round of voting it tied with Kare Kano, and due to the popularity and enthusiasm displayed for both I promised to blog each in turn. GTO just happened to lose the dice roll and so had to wait until now. So, here again we return to the end of the 20th century but in a very different form. Former bousouzoku member Onizuka Eichi has come a long way since his days of being a tough, crazy biker…well he’s come some of the way anyway. Still being a pervert and acting like a delinquent, he’s enrolled in a teaching college and is about to start his first two weeks of student teaching. But he ends up in the middle of a class of delinquents and conniving blackmailers, not the best start to his goal of becoming the “greatest teacher in Japan.”
Amagami SS episode 10, Sae arc part II – Junichi the Sorcerer
And now for near a moon has passed,
with ceaseless training and practiced oratory before vending machines.
And soon the day of the fated interview to join the ranks of House Crab Gratin would be upon them.
Seeing the dire need of his charge, Junichi III drew upon all his powers,
revealing himself to be a powerful wielder of magicks,
and summoning to her side five great heroes and the Nishishi.
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