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Live-Action GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka Show Gets New Series in July – News
Fuji TV and Kansai TV announced on Thursday that they are producing a new live-action series based on Tohru Fujisawa‘s GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka manga that will premiere on Kansai TV, Fuji TV, and affiliated channels on July 20 at 10:00 p.m. (9:00 a.m. EDT). Takashi Sorimachi reprises the role of protagonist Eikichi Onizuka 28 years after his first outing, while Satoru Nakajima and Kazuhiko Yukawa return as director and scriptwriter, respectively, for the new series. The series is a sequel to earlier live-action adaptations, moving the time period from the Heisei era to the modern Reiwa era.
© Fuji TV
In the new series, the now 52-year-old Onizuka works as a teacher at Seishin Academy, which aims to “raise the leaders of the future.” At Seishin, both students and teachers carry tablets through which the school disseminates information. Students anonymously rank teachers through the “Teacher Feedback System,” where teachers constantly ranked low lose their homeroom teacher status. Teachers and students both chat using the tablet, though neither side see it as a place to air their true feelings.
Onizuka’s direct teaching methods, where he puts himself on the line, are now seen as problematic, and it has led him to losing a string of teaching jobs prior to arriving at Seishin Academy. Now he must deal with the commercialization of education, being bound by rankings and oversight, and a school that seems to show no interest in others’ well being and relies on social media.
Fujisawa published the original GTO manga in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1997 to 2002. Other works in the franchise include the manga sequel GTO: Shonan 14 Days, the discontinued spin-off GT-R, and the predecessor series GTO: The Early Years. Tokyopop and Vertical published various GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) manga titles, including the GTO: The Early Years prequel, in North America. The GTO: Paradise Lost manga launched in Weekly Young Magazine in April 2014. After going on hiatus in February 2023, the manga moved to Kodansha‘s Magazine Pocket website under the new name GTO: Paradise Lost Kai and resumed in April 2024, and ended in October 2024.
The main manga inspired the first live-action GTO series adaptation in 1998, various television specials over the years, a remake series starring Exile member Akira in 2012 with its own spinoffs, and a live-action film in 2000. GTO: The Early Years inspired a new live-action series adaptation in February 2020. GTO Revival, a new live-action television special, premiered in April 2024.
The manga also inspired a television anime adaptation that aired in Japan in 1999. Tokyopop initally licensed the anime series in 2001, releasing it on DVD singles and two boxsets. Discotek licensed the anime and released it on home video in September 2013.
Sources: Kansai TV, Oricon via Hachima Kikō
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Side story to focus on Iris
Cygames‘ Cycomi platform published the final chapter of An Ogura‘s The Margrave’s Daughter and the Enemy Prince manga on July 11. Ogura also announced a side story for the series focused on the character Iris.
Tokyopop publishes the series in English and describes the story:
Anna, daughter of the Margrave of Halmich, is tired of the expectations placed on women in court. She has no interest in marrying a nobleman because society expects it of her. Instead, she works hard on her swordsmanship and dreams of joining her father on the battlefield someday. Unfortunately, fate deals her a heavy blow: when the hostile forces of the Kingdom of Albion invade and take the Halmich heir prisoner, she is given to the enemy prince in exchange for her brother’s life.
But even in the face of these tragic circumstances, Anna still has plans of her own: “I’ll infiltrate their ranks as a tribute, and then… I’ll defeat the man who killed my father.”
Ogura launched the series on Cygames‘ Cycomi platform in October 2022. Futabasha shipped the 14th compiled book volume on July 10. Tokyopop shipped the eighth volume on May 12.
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Side story to focus on Iris
Cygames‘ Cycomi platform published the final chapter of An Ogura‘s The Margrave’s Daughter and the Enemy Prince manga on July 11. Ogura also announced a side story for the series focused on the character Iris.
Tokyopop publishes the series in English and describes the story:
Anna, daughter of the Margrave of Halmich, is tired of the expectations placed on women in court. She has no interest in marrying a nobleman because society expects it of her. Instead, she works hard on her swordsmanship and dreams of joining her father on the battlefield someday. Unfortunately, fate deals her a heavy blow: when the hostile forces of the Kingdom of Albion invade and take the Halmich heir prisoner, she is given to the enemy prince in exchange for her brother’s life.
But even in the face of these tragic circumstances, Anna still has plans of her own: “I’ll infiltrate their ranks as a tribute, and then… I’ll defeat the man who killed my father.”
Ogura launched the series on Cygames‘ Cycomi platform in October 2022. Futabasha shipped the 14th compiled book volume on July 10. Tokyopop shipped the eighth volume on May 12.
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Series debuted in June 2022
© Shinshokan, Shuu Katayama
The official X/Twitter account for Shinshokan‘s Wings magazine announced on Monday that it will publish the final chapter of Shuu Katayama‘s Fujōri Zakkaten Unreal (Absurd Variety Shop Unreal) manga in this year’s October issue on Friday. The manga’s fifth compiled book volume will ship in late November.
The manga centers on an unusual variety shop that sells people’s “thoughts.” Customers that come by have their lives changed greatly by the shop’s strange products. The shop’s owner Yagio looks upon what happens in the store with cold, unfeeling eyes. Muneya Hamaie, a high school boy who works at a nearby cafe, looks out for Yagio’s well-being.
Yodaka and Katayama launched the manga in Shinshokan‘s Wings magazine in June 2022. Shinshokan published the manga’s fourth compiled book volume in September 2025.
The series inspired a live-action television series in 2025, which aired on TV Osaka, TV Aichi and BS TV Tokyo.
The stage play debuted in January.
Katayama’s Gakuen Benriya manga inspired the Antique Heart OVA in 1988, while her Dragon Heart manga inspired a 1991 OVA.
Source: Wings magazine’s X/Twitter account
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