Toru Fujisawa is a Japanese mangaka best known for creating Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO), a hit manga series about a former gangster-turned-teacher. He was born on January 12, 1967, in Hokkaido, Japan. Fujisawa began his manga career in the early 1990s and gained popularity with Shonan Junai Gumi, the prequel to GTO. He has also created other notable series such as Tokko, Reverend D, and Kamen Teacher.