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The Best Episodes of Great Teacher Onizuka

Every episode of Great Teacher Onizuka ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Great Teacher Onizuka!

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A former gang member wants to be Japan's best teacher. When he's hired to supervise a class of hopeless cases, it's his chance to prove himself.

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    Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 43 - Onizuka's Final Battle
    8.7/10(335 votes)

    #1 - Onizuka's Final Battle

    S1:E43

     Without any solid evidence, the battle between Onizuka, the students of the 3rd grade and 4th grade, and the teachers of Seirin Gakuen began against the domineering board of education who decided that the criminal of the Saito teacher stab injury case was elegant. ..  Onizuka, who bets his life as a teacher and pursues the board of education with a flashy performance, makes a ridiculous remark about the incident this time.

    Director:Noriyuki Abe

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  2. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 19 - Private Investigations
    8.5/10(312 votes)

    #2 - Private Investigations

    S1:E19

     Seirin Gakuen panics due to Reimi's radical class terrorism. Onizuka goes to Fujimori's house to see what happened between Reimi and Fujimori. After hearing from Fujinomori, Onizuka takes Reimi out of the school with the cooperation of Ryuji and her old friends, and gives a ridiculous extracurricular lesson.

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  3. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 41 - Confessions
    8.5/10(288 votes)

    #3 - Confessions

    S1:E41

     As a special event to decorate the last night of the trip to Okinawa, Onizuka proposes a pair of men and women, "Swimsuit liver test and stunning". Moreover, the pair is Onizuka's dogma and prejudice. Naturally, Kyoko will pair with Yoshikawa due to Onizuka's strategy (?).  Kyoko begins to try herself alone in a dark place and gradually becomes obedient to her own heart. However, on the way, the two are entwined by the Yankees for some reason.

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  4. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 15 - The Great Sacrifice
    8.4/10(331 votes)

    #4 - The Great Sacrifice

    S1:E15

     On the day of the nationwide mock exam, Onizuka, who accidentally witnessed the kidnapping of Mrs. Ota's daughter Hidemi, heads for rescue after the exam. The purpose of the kidnappers was to take a behind-the-scenes video of Hidemi to put pressure on the public works projects of her father, a member of parliament.  At that time, Fuyutsuki and Murai were screaming at Onizuka, who never appeared at school.

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  5. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 33 - Search and Rescue
    8.2/10(253 votes)

    #5 - Search and Rescue

    S1:E33

     Reimi, who is sharp at last, comes up with a ridiculous revenge for the over-the-top tricks of Ya and others.  They are trying to kidnap Ya and others and get 8 million yen. As expected, Kikuchi and Murai cannot agree with that. Onizuka, who was contacted by Kikuchi who couldn't collect, heads for the hotel where Masa and his friends are captured, but Onizuka doesn't even try to help the frightened Masa and his friends ...

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  6. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 17 - Falling for the Great Onizuka
    8.1/10(296 votes)

    #6 - Falling for the Great Onizuka

    S1:E17

     Onizuka desperately tries to open her heart when she learns of Reimi's loneliness with her eyes closed. However, Reimi confuses Onizuka by deliberately entwining her with a yakuza, perhaps because she can't believe her heart.  When Reimi finally thought she was about to open her heart, Onizuka accidentally pushed her off the roof of the building with a donketsu!

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  8. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 31 - Destination: Okinawa
    8.0/10(244 votes)

    #7 - Destination: Okinawa

    S1:E31

     With the cooperation of Kikuchi and Reimi, evidence was found that it was Ya who organized the series of incidents.  However, Onizuka destroys Kikuchi's denunciation strategy by saying, "I can't look good if I'm a big adult and I'm trapped in a junior high school student." On the contrary, if you take all the angry third graders to a trip to Okinawa, you will get a great deal.

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  9. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 1 - GTO – The Legend Begins
    7.9/10(516 votes)

    #8 - GTO – The Legend Begins

    S1:E1

    Eikichi Onizuka begins his career as a teacher-in-training expecting that he will get a class of attractive, nubile high school girls. When he is assigned the problem "Class O", a group of delinquents and blackmailers, only his tough love is able to win them over.

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  10. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 23 - Superstition
    7.9/10(261 votes)

    #9 - Superstition

    S1:E23

     "Letter of misfortune" becomes popular at Seirin Gakuen. A mountain of misfortune letters arrive at Onizuka, but Onizuka, who does not believe in the curse of curse at all, burns it all. However, from that day, ominous things began to occur around him, and finally Onizuka fell into poor physical condition.

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  11. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 24 - Compromising Positions
    7.9/10(258 votes)

    #10 - Compromising Positions

    S1:E24

     Hiroshi Uchiyamada, 51 years old. Vice-principal of the prestigious Seirin Gakuen. He works as a middle manager and is stressful. The only place where I could feel at ease was Iruma's home ... but recently Onizuka has come in and out of that home as a tutor for my daughter Yoshiko.  One day, Dr. Sannomaru brought a picture of an enkou dating site in Onizuka in a hotel district in Shibuya. However, that person is ...?!

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  12. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 32 - The Law of Probability
    7.9/10(235 votes)

    #11 - The Law of Probability

    S1:E32

     Onizuka desperately tries to earn 8 million yen for the help of Kikuchi and Murai in order to take all the third graders to Okinawa as promised. However, such a large amount of money cannot be earned so much. Onizuka, who was in trouble, tried to borrow money from Ryuji because he lived and died a long time ago, but Ryuji gave him only one Fukubiki ticket. Onizuka pulled Fukubiki without motivation, but what he did was ...!

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  13. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 37 - Living Together
    7.9/10(234 votes)

    #12 - Living Together

    S1:E37

     Students enjoying the first day of the mobile classroom to Okinawa. However, Yoshikawa seems to be being squeezed by the apricots as usual.  That night, Onizuka, who hadn't decided on the room allocation for the students, completed an unprecedented shared room for men and women! Unfortunately (?) Yoshikawa, who has become the same room as Kyoko, is beaten up by them on the balcony.

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  14. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 40 - Matters of the Heart
    7.9/10(232 votes)

    #13 - Matters of the Heart

    S1:E40

     Since Yoshikawa helped me in the sea, Kyoko's appearance has been strange. Yoshikawa appears in a dream, and his eyes are anxious.  Around that time, the vice-principal, who was dying in the sea, was struck by the kind heart of the girl student who came all the way to visit him, and once again decided to return to his original intentions.

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  15. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 42 - Old Wounds Revisited
    7.9/10(227 votes)

    #14 - Old Wounds Revisited

    S1:E42

     Last year's 2nd year and 4th group teacher "Noboru Saito" stabbed his chest and was hospitalized. Saito is the person who created the cause of the current 3rd grade and 4th class teacher bullying.  At the same time as the incident, Ya stopped coming to school. Kikuchi and Murai are suspicious that "Maybe Masa stabbed Saito?"

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  16. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 5 - An Eye for an Eye, a Butt for a Butt
    7.8/10(345 votes)

    #15 - An Eye for an Eye, a Butt for a Butt

    S1:E5

     Noboru Yoshikawa, a student of 3rd grade and 4th grade, has come in and out of Onizuka's room recently. Onizuka and Yoshikawa had become game friends.  One day, Yoshikawa is called by a girl in the same class, Anko Uehara, and her friend, and is bullied to be naked and take a picture of her lower body. Onizuka, who helped Yoshikawa jump off the roof and try to commit suicide with regret and incompetence, takes Yoshikawa and makes a ridiculous revenge on Uehara and his friends.

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  17. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 16 - Beauty + Brains = A Dangerous Mix
    7.8/10(276 votes)

    #16 - Beauty + Brains = A Dangerous Mix

    S1:E16

     A beautiful woman named "Urumi Kanzaki" appeared in front of Onizuka who lamented that she wanted a lover. The two stop by a laundromat to dry their soaked clothes, but Onizuka gets caught up in her tricks and is suspected of being molested.  The next day, Reimi appears again in front of Onizuka, who teaches with a moody face. Reimi hasn't attended school yet, but she is a student of 3rd grade and 4th class, and has been a genius child since the beginning of the school, which boasts an IQ of 200 or more.

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  18. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 30 - Money Talks, GTO Walks
    7.8/10(232 votes)

    #17 - Money Talks, GTO Walks

    S1:E30

     Fujiyoshi, who has lost an important collection of money somewhere, is blamed by everyone in the class. Onizuka, who couldn't see it, said that he would work on the money, but he was impatient when he heard that the amount was 1.12 million yen. Apparently, the 1.12 million yen that Onizuka spent last night seems to be the money.  Onizuka does everything in his power to get rid of the money he has spent, but it's totally useless. At that time, Fujiyoshi disappears.

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  19. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 3 - Late Night Roof Diving
    7.7/10(368 votes)

    #18 - Late Night Roof Diving

    S1:E3

    In the new semester, Onizuka was able to become a teacher at Seirin Gakuen on a sunny day, but the first class he was in charge of was not the high school he admired, but the middle school. Onizuka is disappointed to hear that he is a homeroom teacher for junior high school students, but rumor has it that the class that Onizuka is in charge of, the 4th class in the third grade of junior high school, was a problem class in which there were three homeroom teachers who had quit school due to mental stress.

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  20. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 6 - Conspiracies All Around
    7.7/10(326 votes)

    #19 - Conspiracies All Around

    S1:E6

     Uehara's mother, the PTA chairman of Seirin Gakuen, boarded the school. Uehara, who was terrified by the revenge of the Yoshikawa bullying, told his mother, who is also an education critic. Onizuka, in a crisis of desperation, Yoshikawa, who is usually weak, makes a decision after worrying that "Is it because of me that Onizuka was in a pinch?"

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  21. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 8 - Bungee Jumping Made Easy
    7.7/10(313 votes)

    #20 - Bungee Jumping Made Easy

    S1:E8

     Onizuka, Murai, Fujiyoshi, and Kusano who will be bowling at the setting of Juria. However, on the way, Juria, who was urgently needed, disappears and the game continues in a terrible mood.  Meanwhile, Murai's mischief prevents Onizuka's fingers from coming out of the ball. Murai and his friends left the impatient Onizuka and left the bowling alley as they were, and on their way home, they were entangled by the Yankees and fell into a big pinch.

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  22. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 11 - To Be Idolized by a Nation
    7.7/10(301 votes)

    #21 - To Be Idolized by a Nation

    S1:E11

     Toroko will participate in the audition as told by Onizuka, but she still fails because she is a nerd. Ya, who participated in the same audition with such Toroko as a slapstick, goes through the selection steadily without connecting. Toroko becomes sad. Then, Onizuka says to Toroko, who is trying to escape from the final selection acting section, "Why don't you talk to him again in a way that only you can do?"

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  23. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 14 - Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    7.7/10(281 votes)

    #22 - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    S1:E14

     If you don't get the first place in the national mock exam, you will get fired. Fuyutsuki, thinking that he wouldn't let Onizuka get fired, invites Onizuka to his apartment and tries to hold a study session. Onizuka had a delusion that didn't meet Fuyutsuki's offer, but for a short while, a hellish week began.

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  24. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 28 - Whatever Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong
    7.7/10(237 votes)

    #23 - Whatever Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong

    S1:E28

     Toroko will appear in the "Shonen Magazine Gravure Princess Contest", but her rivals are all strong opponents, and Onizuka's efforts are empty, and the number of postcard votes continues to be the lowest. On the contrary, the address of Toroko's home was published in the magazine as the address of the fan letter, and the swimsuit for shooting was gone, and disasters occurred one after another.

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  25. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 39 - Alone in the Dark
    7.7/10(228 votes)

    #24 - Alone in the Dark

    S1:E39

     Yoshikawa jumped into the sea to help Kyoko who had fallen into the sea. Although he managed to save his life, Kyoko's anxiety about getting lost in a maze-like cave is only increasing. Yoshikawa peels off such an apricot.  At that time, Onizuka, who thought that "Yoshikawa and Kyoko must have found the buried treasure" in Notenki, was running through the jungle-like rainforest with Reimi in order not to be overtaken by them? !!

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  26. Great Teacher Onizuka Season 1 Episode 2 - Enter Uchiyamada!
    7.6/10(397 votes)

    #25 - Enter Uchiyamada!

    S1:E2

    On the day of the teacher employment exam, Onizuka, who failed to take the exam due to a misunderstanding, feels like a dong. At that time, my best friend "Danmari Ryuji" will be interviewed by the prestigious "Seiringakuen", a private school where you can become a teacher even if you fail the teacher employment exam. Is recommended.

    Director:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Onizuka's Final Battle" is the best rated episode of "Great Teacher Onizuka". It scored 8.7/10 based on 335 votes. Directed by Noriyuki Abe and written by Masashi Sogo, it aired on 9/17/2000. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Private Investigations".