A lot of series that have become cult classics recently got some reboots, the most prominent example is Urusei Yatsura. But there's one beloved anime that absolutely needs a reboot, and it's Great Teacher Onizuka.
It's a great series plot-wise and character-wise: it's a comedy about a former gang member becoming a teacher who tries to help a class of delinquent kids not follow his path and get their heads straight. It's based on a manga of the same name, but adapts only a part of it, stopping at Chapter 106, roughly in the middle. When the anime was released in 1999, the manga wasn't finished yet, so the ending may feel a bit abrupt — and that's one of the reasons why this series needs a reboot: to be adapted properly.
It starts with a simple premise: Onizuka Eikichi decided to become the greatest teacher in the world, and in order to do that he takes care of some problem children. But later the manga introduces a more serious overarching plot that is resolved in the second half, the one that the anime didn't get to. So despite quite faithfully adapting whatever was available to animators, the anime version of GTO still leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
The other reason lies in the specifics of the production. GTO was released on the brink of the millennia, and that was when anime studios were adapting to the digital production process, introducing more computers and replacing the traditional cel animation with digital drawings. The perk of the cel animation is its infinite scalability: the original drawings can be rereleased in any resolution fitting the modern criteria of high-quality cinema. That's why we can get a 4K version of Akira, for example, but GTO doesn't have cels: it only has low-resolution (by modern standards) digital drawings as its originals. So the series that looked fine on 17-inch CRT monitors cannot be properly upscaled and meet the quality standards of modern large-screen TVs.
Modern anime has already adapted to the digital world and solved this problem by using future-proof software, but these early works, like GTO, were the pioneers testing out the barely known waters of digital production and didn't know how their product would withstand the test of time from a technical point of view.
Though the plot itself seems a bit iffy and too perverted by modern standards, too, and that is probably also one of the things that should be tackled in the remake. But honestly, we just want to see Onizuka's screaming face in 4K and follow his story until the actual end.
It was created at a wrong time.
A lot of series that have become cult classics recently got some reboots, the most prominent example is Urusei Yatsura. But there's one beloved anime that absolutely needs a reboot, and it's Great Teacher Onizuka.
It's a great series plot-wise and character-wise: it's a comedy about a former gang member becoming a teacher who tries to help a class of delinquent kids not follow his path and get their heads straight. It's based on a manga of the same name, but adapts only a part of it, stopping at Chapter 106, roughly in the middle. When the anime was released in 1999, the manga wasn't finished yet, so the ending may feel a bit abrupt — and that's one of the reasons why this series needs a reboot: to be adapted properly.
It starts with a simple premise: Onizuka Eikichi decided to become the greatest teacher in the world, and in order to do that he takes care of some problem children. But later the manga introduces a more serious overarching plot that is resolved in the second half, the one that the anime didn't get to. So despite quite faithfully adapting whatever was available to animators, the anime version of GTO still leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
The other reason lies in the specifics of the production. GTO was released on the brink of the millennia, and that was when anime studios were adapting to the digital production process, introducing more computers and replacing the traditional cel animation with digital drawings. The perk of the cel animation is its infinite scalability: the original drawings can be rereleased in any resolution fitting the modern criteria of high-quality cinema. That's why we can get a 4K version of Akira, for example, but GTO doesn't have cels: it only has low-resolution (by modern standards) digital drawings as its originals. So the series that looked fine on 17-inch CRT monitors cannot be properly upscaled and meet the quality standards of modern large-screen TVs.
Modern anime has already adapted to the digital world and solved this problem by using future-proof software, but these early works, like GTO, were the pioneers testing out the barely known waters of digital production and didn't know how their product would withstand the test of time from a technical point of view.
Though the plot itself seems a bit iffy and too perverted by modern standards, too, and that is probably also one of the things that should be tackled in the remake. But honestly, we just want to see Onizuka's screaming face in 4K and follow his story until the actual end.
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