Great Teacher Onizuka (TV Series) Onizuka's Final Battle (2000) User Reviews

Great, but not perfect

[Malcom-Funk · 8/10 · 26 November 2013]

Wow, just great. This last episode managed to put (almost) every string together! It's an appropriate ending for one of the best anime out there. Every character get's his goodbye (Even Tomo-Chan) and in the end you fell like everything is how it should be. Almost. I'm just a little annoyed that they didn't make it clear, whether Fukutsuki and Onizuka got together or not. Yes, they want to avoid a cheesy ending, but that would have fit! Now, I'm left wondering. I don't like that at all, especially when it's just completely unnecessary.

The fact that Onizuka goes on to be a teacher at another school is something that I feel a little ambiguous towards. Of course, he has "done his job" and made his students feel happy one more, but still, you just want to see him continue teaching Aizawa and all the other students.

Still, all that aside, I liked the episode just like I liked almost every other episode. This is just a great anime!

Not a bad ending

[Sabre_Wolf · 10/10 · 12 January 2014]

This was a good if a bit rushed ending likely because the makers were under pressure to wrap things up. Either way I liked how the series was left on an ambiguous end but I don't think its likely Fuyutsuki will follow Onizuka because well she ain't some lost puppy that's for sure.

So a decent end to a series its only drawback was it was somewhat rushed but nevertheless it was pretty good.

Sometimes its best to leave things open ended and leave everything about what happens from then on or in between to the audience's imagination at least that's my humble opinion.

Another opinion of mine is well Onizuka and Azusa are not as obvious a couple in the anime as most think for one thing Onizuka's flirting with her was pretty low key compared to his flirting with Julia Murai and a few other things.

Also contrary to what some people think, this was NOT a filler ending but it was more a RUSHED ending, because at the time the manga was not complete also very likely there were time and budget considerations that came into place. Also it was very probable that Fuji TV wanted the series wrapped up and the anime writers were forced to rush things.

Overall the anime was far better written then the manga, which had one of the worst story structures ever. The approach of the writers was to give characters more stories and not to add more characters which did much to make the manga confusing.

At the same time the ending does give you the feeling that Onizuka may at least meet some of his old class well at least that's how it felt to me.