BEST SHOW EVER! (and esotaric ideas about names)
The thing that stuck me the most, second only to enjoying the show itself, was one part at the end where Teshigawara, the math teacher, notices that if you take the first character of Onizuka, and put one character before it, it changes the meaning to soul. I love things like that in stories because it gives great incite into the symbolism of the character when you know the meaning of their name. In this case, Onizuka represents the soul being restored to those around him. And if you watch the show, this becomes quite obvious. The thing is, if a show or book, anything actually is good, I mean real good, then invariably, the characters, and places will have names that are extremely descriptive of the purpose that they fulfill in the story. Take Harry Potter: The Mirror of Erised, which sounds like some mysterious magic name is a simple palindrome; it is desire backwards. Or the best of all, Lord of the Rings, where every name is a multi-lingual pun. Baggins, an English name with its own coat of arms (http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/baggins-coat-arms.htm) with the motto "we trust in god" and also meaning thief, or something to do with bags. There are lots of other meanings, but I lost the book. Even great computer games, e.g., Final Fantasy 10, have great names. The name of the world, spira, means spiral in latin, and is representative of the "spiral of death" that surrounds the main enemy, Sin. (they say so in the game)
Another thing: have you noticed that sequals always suck? Probably. I think this is because after a story is finnished, that is, brought to complete resolution, anything added on is superflous and will be crap. I mean would you want to spend an evening with your date watching Lion King 2, or Lion King 1/2 for that matter?
On a closing note: Dubya, as in George W. Bush, is one of the many conjugations in latin of the word dubium, which means doubt. Take THAT biznitch! (You can download Onizuka [search GTO] with bittorrent at http://japan-tv.afraid.org:6969/)
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