The final chapter of Fujisawa Tohru’s GTO: Paradise Lost manga was published on October 15, 2024, on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket website.
Fujisawa (Kamen Teacher, Rose Hip Rose, Soul Reviver, Ino-Head Gargoyle) started the manga as a spinoff of his original Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) manga. He started GTO: Paradise Lost in the Weekly Young Magazine in April 2014, and Kodansha released the manga’s first tankoubon volume in August 2014. The latest volume, number 20th, was published in November 2022.
The manga went into hiatus in February 2023, and it resumed serialization in April 2024 on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket website under the new title GTO: Paradise Lost Kai.
Great Teacher Onizuka is back, and the next stage for his legend is… prison?! The trouble magnet of a teacher reveals that this stint behind bars is thanks to a particular incident with the class he became assistant homeroom teacher of half a year earlier: Kissho Academy’s new class for high school-aged celebrities! Does he regret the exploits that landed him in the slammer? Heck, no. He’s all too happy to calmly tell his fellow prisoners how the whole thing went down—if they’re willing to listen to his story from the beginning…
