Miyabi Aizawa (相沢 雅 Aizawa Miyabi) is the main antagonist, and although not active, a troubled heroine of GTO. She is a student of the Holy Forest Academy and attends class 3-4. A model student and leader of 3-4 in early aspects, she was in fact the orchestrator of teacher bullying of her fellow students. And found herself in more constant conflict with tough Eikichi Onizuka.
DOB: April 19
History[]
Aizawa was a kind and friendly girl in her younger years, who began not to trust teachers anymore when someone dear to her got involved in a scandal due to an affair of their former instructor. From this, she and her cohorts began their quest of kicking out any teacher who will be assigned to their class. They were successful in making these teachers resign, except for Eikichi Onizuka.
Miyabi is the only one who keeps hating Onizuka until the very end, obsessed with getting him fired. She often goes over the limits to reach her goal.
She kicks Tomoko Nomura out of her group, after the girl's clumsy mistake in one of the plans against Onizuka.
While apparently very diligent at home, Aizawa is full of rage and can be merciless towards anyone that is between her revenge on instructors, using any way to reach her purposes. Despite Tomoko's loss on the contest, Aizawa became very saddened after hearing of Tomoko's hard feelings during the acting contest.
In the anime, her revenge on instructors is revealed in Episode 42 when Miyuki Yokoyama (Aizawa's late best friend) commits suicide after Miyuki reveals to Aizawa that she is pregnant by Mr. Saito (Miyuki's former homeroom teacher), who abandons her in which she visited his apartment upon discovering that he continues teaching. She even attempted to stab one of the Board Members of Education with a small knife used to stab Mr. Saito, only to be stopped by Onizuka, due to her mistrust towards grownups. Her personal convictions are shattered, when she was accused of attempting to murder the aforementioned teacher, as well as assaulting a member of the Japanese Board of Education (who she sees as taking only the teacher's side). She is shocked when Onizuka takes the fall for her, by announcing he committed all of the crimes she was accused of. Arriving in time to see Onizuka being led away in handcuffs, Miyabi finally asks Onizuka to forgive her for everything she had done. One would assume that this event has restored in Miyabi the capacity to trust in adults again.
In the manga, Miyabi had a crush on their former, homeroom teacher, Ōgi, and started to believe that her feelings may be reciprocated, when he invites her to dinner. However, Ōgi already had a fiancé, whom he wanted to introduce to Miyabi. Crushed, she takes illicit photographs of herself (knowing that his hobby was photography) and tells the class that he took advantage of her. Things get out of hand when classmate Takumi Ishida takes matters into his own hands and assaults Ōgi. Distraught over the events (Ōgi and Takumi were fired and expelled, respectively), Miyabi decides to turn the class against all teachers, thus beginning class 2-4's rebellion.
Miyabi's guilt, as well as her deteriorating family situation, makes her colder and distant to friends and classmates, leading to the events in the carnival and her rivalry with Urumi, mentally breaking her down. Her guilt is further compounded when she discovers just how much her friends still care for her. Things take a turn for the worse when she returns to her already broken family, forcing Onizuka to intervene, which results in him and a few students holding Miyabi "hostage", on the condition that her father demonstrates his love for her. The plot works, but this doesn't please Misuzu Daimon and her Angels, who then expose Miyabi's secret, forcing her to attempt a suicide from the school roof, but before that happens, Takumi, who had flown in from Okinawa, appears on the roof, to try convincing her not to jump, despite the guilt she feels for all she's done. However, Onizuka accidentally bumps her off the ledge. Miyabi, not willing to end her life, after having settled her guilt, calls out to him, who leaps after her, landing on Uchiyamada's Cresta.
After Onizuka helps with all her problems, she began to warm up to him and wanted to apologize for all the trouble she caused. She, along with Azusa, was first to know about Onizuka's cerebral aneurysm.
Relationships[]
Parents[]
Miyabi has a strained relationship with her parents. She knows that they don't love each other and are cheating on each other, and doubts that they love her either. It goes so far that Onizuka stages a kidnapping to get her father's attention.
Mr. Ōgi[]
Miyabi had a crush on Mr. Ōgi, but he didn't reciprocate her feelings. This led her to ruin his life and hate all teachers.
Tomoko Nomura[]
Miyabi, Tomoko, and Urumi used to be friends in elementary school. After Tomoko messes up one of her plots to get Onizuka fired, Miyabi kicks her out of the friend group. However, Tomoko never stopped thinking of Miyabi as her friend, being overjoyed when Onizuka brought a runaway Miyabi to stay at her apartment.
Urumi Kanzaki[]
Miyabi and Urumi used to be friends, and Miyabi is the one who convinced Urumi to come back to school, as part of her plot against Onizuka. Miyabi regards Urumi as a traitor once she goes over to Onizuka's side, and the rivalry between them gets more violent. As punishment for framing Onizuka for stealing the class trip money, Urumi arranges for Miyabi and her friends to be gang-raped by rich perverts (only averted at the last second by Onizuka). Miyabi retaliates by exposing the secret of Urumi's parentage to the entire school. Urumi threatens Miyabi by setting up a website with a countdown to release supposedly explicit photos of her; though it turns out to be a bluff, Miyabi still tries to kill herself by overdosing on pills.
Kouji Fujiyoshi[]
Kouji has a crush on Miyabi and visits her every day when she's in the hospital, even stealing a fancy car to take her on a joyride to the beach. Onizuka asks Kouji to tail her when she starts meeting older men for dates.
Eikichi Onizuka[]
Despite her constant efforts to get him fired, Onizuka treats Miyabi like the rest of his students, and keeps her under his protection.
Anime & Manga Differences[]
Manga[]
- Miyabi's hate against teachers begins with a past experience involving her fell in love for a teacher, but only to discover later that he was already with another woman, which made her feeling abandoned and caused a scandal leading them to be against every teacher.
- Miyabi painted her original black hair to blue and later blonde as the series progressed, reflecting her increasingly darker and unstable personality.
Anime[]
- The girl in love with the teacher was a friend of Miyabi's who killed herself after discovering that she was pregnant and the teacher had abandoned her.
Etymology[]
- The name Miyabi means "elegant, graceful" (雅).
- Miyabi's surname Aizawa means "phase, aspect, countenance, mutually, fellow" (相) (ai) and "swamp" (沢) (sawa/zawa).
