The second season of Great Teacher Onizuka is set to air in July. This season is going to have a new cast of students, as well as a new heroine. New, young actors are appointed this time to play the role of Students. 

Manami Higa is going to be the heroine of GTO, Honami Fujikawa, who is the sub-teacher of 2nd Year Class A. She has also commented that she had got a trademark haircut of the teacher where, for the first time in 16 years of her acting, she had made her hair short by 30 cms.

Some of the Tokusatsu Stars who are going to appear in GTO are Ryo Ryusei (Daigo Kiryu / Kyoryu Red) and bump.y member Mio Miyatake (Misuzu Isurugi from Ultraman Ginga). Mio Miyatake is going to play Tomomi Mizuta and Ryo Ryusei is going to play Kohei Serizawa.

Mayu Matsuoka who is known for playing Shiori Iruma in Asadora (“Ama-chan”) is going to play Ayuna Kokorozashijo. SEXY ZONE Member Fuma Kikuchi (Kinzo Takehara in Kamen Teacher) is going to play Ryuichi Katsuragi.  Fuka Koshiba from Kiki’s Delivery Service is going to play Tsugumi Naruse.

Cast (Reprising) 

• Onizuka Eikichi – AKIRA (EXILE)
• Toshiyuki Saeijima – Yusuke Yamamoto (Tsurugi Kamishiro / Kamen Rider Sasword)
• Ayame Shiratori – Ayano Fujisawa (She had previously played Yui Kanzaki in Kamen Rider Ryuki and later Ayumi Honda in Kamen Teacher)
• Hiroshi Uchiyamada – Ryousei Tayama
• Ryuji Danma – Yu Shirota
• Ryoko Kuroki – Hitomi Kuroki

New Cast

• Manami Higa – Honami Fujikawa
• <Unknown> – Takehiko Ono
• <Unknown> – Shingo Kazami (He played a member of Kido in Ultraman Cosmos)
• <Unknown> – Tomomi Maruyama
• <Unknown> – Erika Mabuchi (She had previously played Yoshiko Uchiyamada in 1998’s GTO)
• <Unknown> – Atsuko Anami

2nd Year Class A – Boys

• Ryuichi Katsuragi – Fuma Kikuchi (Kinzo Takehara in Kamen Teacher) from SEXY ZONE
• Kohei Serizawa – Ryo Ryusei (Daigo Kiryu / Kyoryu Red) from MEN ON STYLE
• Yu Kiratani – Ryota Katayose (GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE)
• Shin Morino – Kota Kinzato (Performed One Piece’s Theme Song “HANDS UP!”)
• Ryouto -Yuzawa Atsushi Arai (Miharu Minato / Kamen Rider Poseidon / Kamen Rider Aqua) from D2
• Taichi Usami – Reo Sano (GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE)
• Takuya Ohba – Kauan Okamoto from Sexy Boyz
• Tsukasa Kokubu – Shunsuke Nishikawa (Won 2nd Grand Prize in Junon Superboy Contest)
• Takaaki Shamoto – Hirohiko Machiyama
• Kei Numajiri – Akashi Takei (Masahiko Okumura in Kamen Rider Decade’s World of Amazon as child actor)
• Eita Hashimoto – Ikeda Eikichi

2nd Year Class A – Girls

• Ayuna Kokorozashijo – Mayu Matsuoka
• Ayaka Miyoshi – Meiri Miyaji
• Tsugumi Naruse –  Fuka Koshiba
• Satsuki Yurihara – Yuria Kizaki from AKB48 / SKE48
• Sana Hiragi – Natsumi Okamoto
• Mariko Hatano – Miyabi Matsuura
• Tomomi Mizuta – Mio Miyatake (Misuzu Isurugi / Ultraseven in Ultraman Ginga) from bump.y
• Kaeko Furuya – Airi Matsuo
• Kanako Kusumi – Sairi Ito
• Nozomi Sumiyoshi – Mizuki
• Yua Maehata – Ikumi Hisamatsu
• Maede Hirano – Natsuho Takada

Are you excited for the return of GTO? Will you be watching? Let us know in the comments below what you think of the show’s cast, and if you are looking forward to the show!