Tohru Fujisawa

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Tohru Fujisawa (藤沢とおる Fujisawa Tōru) is a Japanese manga author. His name is romanized as Tohru Fujisawa on the TOKYOPOP English-language Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) books, while it is romanized as Toru Fujisawa on the Kodansha bilingual releases.

[edit] Works

Fujisawa's most well known work is Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO), a 25 volume series about a biker, Eikichi Onizuka, and his attempt to become and remain a teacher.

GTO is in fact a sequel to a larger, but lesser known series called Shonan Junai Gumi and its side story Bad Company.

Shonan Junai Gumi originally talks about the legendary biker duo Eikichi and his partner Ryuuji and their constant struggle to pick up young girls and finally lose their virginity. In order to do this, they decide to pose as fashionable, nice guys with no association to gangs or street fighting. However the story soon becomes more fight orientated as they can't help but make new enemies. In this manner, they soon enough get in even deeper trouble with the local street gangs, bosozoku and even yakuza.

Bad Company tells how Eikichi met Ryuuji, and despite taking place before Shonan Junai Gumi (which in turn took place before GTO), it was written during the final stages of the series, as a prequel.

Other well known titles that he's published are Rose Hip Rose, Rose Hip Zero and Tokko.

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