Eikichi Onizuka

Eikichi Onizuka is the 22 year old teacher and the central protaganist of the GTO series. A former leader of the Onibaku bike gang who controlled Shonan, Onizuka was heavily involved in a life of juvenile deliquency before graduating from a fifth rate university and aspiring to be a teacher. He is currently a teacher at Kissho/Holy Forest Academy because of his unconventional teaching methods towards Class 3-4, nicknamed the "problem class" because of their deferential attitude towards authority figures and their constant habit of hazing teachers one former teacher ended up having a mental breakdown and ended up committed to a mental institution.Onizuka's success with class 3-4 mainly stems from the fact that he is a child at heart and also had a problem with people who abuse their positions for personal gain, allowing him to relate to and emphasize with what the students are experiencing.