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Great Teacher Onizuka
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Both stories follow two delinquents on the road towards redeeming themselves, yet they still find themselves a mess of trouble. The fight scenes are also quite intense.
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Recommended by Yemi_Hikari
One is a high school comedy-drama while the other's a supernatural action series that has only a teeny bit of high school related drama early on. In spite of these different premises however, the characters of both shows' leads are remarkably similar. Both Onizuka and Yusuke are slightly perverted street smart tough guys, though they're also good guys deep down and often wind up helping others out in their own unique fashion. The two aren't exactly the brightest and often rush head first into trouble without thinking, yet despite that both of them somehow manage to always triumph even when the odds
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Recommended by ReijiAzuma
One of the joys, to me at least, of GTO is the cultural significance, and by that I mean the fact that it was airing nearly 19 years ago from the date of writing this review. While I think it is dangerous to assume to understanding Japanese culture strictly from watching anime, I also often argue that you can definitely get a feel for real-life historical issues, especially in slice-of-life, of course. Yu Yu Hakusho does a similar job, complete with silly "Yankee" pompadour hairdos, and 90's aesthetics for hair, cars, and color-pallets.
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Recommended by CosmicOwlDream