Character Profile: Miss Ryoko Sakurai

Miss Sakurai is the highest authority at Holy Forest Academy. She has a sharp eye and a very forward-looking mentality, and she is willing to take chances on unconventional means. Though chairwoman of the academy, she likes to spend her time at the humble sales counter...so she can observe the goings-on of the school for herself. This is how she came to recognize Onizuka's unique abilities and his true desire to make things better for students. She personally invited him back for an interview and waited for him to come back (around midnight), eventually hiring him on one condition: that he take up residence at the school (Onizuka later learns that his "room" is the storage room at the top of the main building).

You see, Sakurai has a problem. It is year three, class four (class 3-4). For some reason, the entire class has begun a focused but intelligent war on their teachers that has already claimed the sanity of several teachers. She realizes that to win this fight she needs to look for someone who doesn't teach in the usual way, someone who seems to come up with the most unconventional solutions to problems he encounters. It's her hope that Mr. Onizuka will be that chance she's been seeking...and she's willing to do whatever it takes to see that Onizuka gets his chance.