Is Great Teacher Onizuka good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Great Teacher Onizuka is a TV series from Summer 1999 by Pierrot Co., Ltd.: 43 episodes, about 18 hours in total, finished, 8.64/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 18 hours for the run, 22 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 43
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 18 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Summer 1999
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Pierrot Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.64/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, crime, slice of life, drama, ecchi, episodic, friendship, school, martial arts, nudity, parody, detective, revenge, romance, shounen, tragedy, violence, workplace
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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More like this: manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · crime · slice of life · drama · friendship · school · martial arts · parody · detective · revenge · romance · shounen · tragedy · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Great Teacher Onizuka?
- About 18 hours for all 43 episodes at 25 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 22 evenings.
- How many episodes does Great Teacher Onizuka have?
- 43 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Great Teacher Onizuka finished?
- Yes, Great Teacher Onizuka is finished (43 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Great Teacher Onizuka good for a group?
- Yes. Great Teacher Onizuka is tagged comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Great Teacher Onizuka listed?
- Great Teacher Onizuka is on AniList (id 245) and MyAnimeList (id 245); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists