Birthday: September 25, 1985
A student in Eikichi Onizuka's class, Tomoko Nomura has a large chest (her cup size is F), but she isn't very bright, leading to people calling her Toro-ko (which means "slow" in Japanese; she is nicknamed Slo-mo-ko in the English version). After initially messing up her role in one of Miyabi Aizawa's plans to get Onizuka fired, she is cut off from Miyabi's group. Seeing her slow and clumsy nature, Onizuka enters her into a local beauty contest. He even arranges for two porn producer friends to dress her up for the competition. Rather than reading the given script for the acting category, Onizuka gives her a couple of action figures, and she ends up doing an excellent improvised piece (with Vice-Principal Uchiyamada getting an accidental role). In the anime, Onizuka throws a cellphone on stage, and she leaves a sentimental message on Miyabi's answering machine instead. She doesn't win, but she gets noticed by several television producers and begins starring in various commercials. Her young male manager, impressed with her natural beauty and having fallen in love at first sight, makes it his lifetime goal to help her succeed.
She was friends with Urumi Kanzaki since childhood, and their close bond likely arose out of their opposite personalities (Tomoko is clumsy and rather docile with a heart of gold, compared to Urumi's intellect and potential to be savagely cruel).
A side-story in the manga features Tomoko and her manager, also called GTO, though here it stands for Great Tomoko Oppai (Oppai meaning breasts). In it, Tomoko's manager embarks on a madcap adventure to save her from dubious producers. In the live-action version, instead of dramatically succeeding in subsequent episodes, she parts for an Okinawa acting school.
