{"id":36679,"date":"2014-12-26T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=36679"},"modified":"2014-12-26T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T15:01:15","slug":"gto-14-days-in-shonan-vols-3-9-by-tohru-toru-fujisawa-translated-by-ko-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/gto-14-days-in-shonan-vols-3-9-by-tohru-toru-fujisawa-translated-by-ko-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"GTO: 14 Days in Shonan (vols. 3-9) by Tohru\/Toru Fujisawa, translated by Ko Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GTO<\/a>Okay, so don’t be too confused: the two slightly different phoneticized spellings of creator Tohru\/Toru Fujisawa\u2019s name both appear on the various volume covers seen here. That ‘o’-sound is\u00a0a long vowel \u2013 as in T\u014dru\u00a0(it’s\u00a0\u3068\u304a\u308b in Japanese)\u00a0\u2013 but diacriticals can often get lost in translation, so\u00a0be assured, you’ve come to the right series.<\/p>\n

In whatever\u00a0language you get to know the titular GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka, you’ll be making quite the rambunctious, yet inspiring choice. Since you’re here mid-series, to\u00a0find out why GTO is spending his two-week summer break in the resort town of Shonan, you’ll have to catch up with the first two volumes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vacation spot that Shonan might be for most, our GTO is most definitely not getting much of a holiday. He’s\u00a0instantly become the White Swan Children’s Home’s defacto third (and only male) parent\u00a0\u2013 which means he will stop at nothing \u2013 never mind laws, police, uhhh … possible death\u00a0\u2013\u00a0to keep the troubled teens safe, even if they’re\u00a0hell-bent on\u00a0harming themselves and others.<\/p>\n

Nine volumes cover GTO Eikichi Onizuka’s 14 days during which he reunites a once-angry\u00a0daughter with her father who completely reprioritizes his\u00a0life to become an available parent, saves a son from murdering his neglectful mother’s brutally abusive boyfriend, stops a pair of thrown-away\u00a0twin teens from arson and worse in spite of their\u00a0Mafia backup, disbands the vengeful Oedipus Club, takes to the skies, and takes down the disgustingly corrupt mayor who sends a girl back to her mother to almost die of torture.<\/p>\n

When Onizuka’s\u00a0not fighting, bleeding, passing out, and doing that all over again and again, he’s got his own prurient hopes of finally losing his virginity with someone age appropriate (he’s 22) \u2013 some lines, though, he never ever approaches. His GTO antics get him in constant trouble but his superhuman successes\u00a0on behalf of the kids always earn him immunity, not to mention the admiration, even adoration of his fellow White Swan family.<\/p>\n

As improbably\u00a0wild, goofy, illegal, and dangerous as the episodes are, what’s soberingly accurate\u00a0amidst all the entertainment\u00a0is the very real suffering children endure at the hands of their own parents. Far beyond\u00a0neglect from a young age, too many sons and daughters of violent, selfish, damaged\u00a0mothers and fathers, have somehow managed to survive. When they’re threatened yet again, GTO elects himself their savior, at least for the short time that he can be there. Out of empathetic recognition, his bond to them is instant \u2013 because his “parents were no good either. [He] understands wanting to kill them.” Ouch. Whatever his bad habits\u00a0\u2013 and he’s got plenty\u00a0\u2013 his tunnel-vision determination to protect\u00a0the children with little concern for himself makes him indeed the Great Teacher Onizuka. He also manages leave quite a surprising legacy behind …<\/p>\n

According to a publishing insider, GTO: Shonan<\/em> is slotted to go out print. Surely such swashbuckling adventures shouldn’t get relegated to the remainder heaps, then disappear altogether?!\u00a0That’s too disappointing\u00a0to contemplate! For now, I’m suspending all doubts\u00a0and believing in GTO’s determination to put\u00a0children first. \u2019Tis always<\/em> the season for that, right?<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2009, 2012 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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