Vertical published GTO: The Early Years in North America, and the manga inspired both a five-volume 1994-1997 original video anime (OVA) series and a five-part 1995-1997 live-action series.
GTO: The Early Years is the prequel to Fujisawa’s GTO manga.
Amazon Prime Video announced on Thursday that Tohru Fujisawa’s GTO: The Early Years stars in the series as Eikichi Onizuka, while Daichi Kaneko stars as Ryuji Danma.
Fujisawa and Shinsuke Takahashi launched Shonan Seven, a manga billed as the “true sequel” to GTO: The Early Years in Shōnen Champion in February 2014, and ended it last July.