Onegai Teacher
| Onegai Teacher | ||||
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| Original title | お ね が い ☆ テ ィ ー チ ャ ー | |||
| transcription | Onegai ☆ Tīchā | |||
| genre | Romance, science fiction | |||
| Anime television series | ||||
| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese | |||
| year | 2002 | |||
| Studio | Thumb | |||
| length | 25 minutes | |||
| Episodes | 12 | |||
| Director | Yasunori Ide | |||
| First broadcast | Jan 10, 2002 on Animax , WOWOW , Bandai Channel | |||
| Manga | ||||
| country |
Japan
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| author | Shizuru Hayashiya | |||
| publishing company | MediaWorks | |||
| magazine | Comic Dengeki Daiō | |||
| First publication | January 2002 - February 2003 | |||
| expenditure | 2 | |||
| Light novel | ||||
| country |
Japan
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| author | Go Zappa | |||
| illustrator | Taraku Uon , Hiroaki Gōda | |||
| publishing company | MediaWorks | |||
| First publication | March 2003 - ... | |||
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Onegai Teacher ( Japanese お ね が い ☆ テ ィ ー チ ャ ー , Onegai Tīchā ), in English-speaking countries as Please Teacher! known, is his - anime and - manga from 2001. It is about a boy who falls into a coma-like state due to a rare illness . He himself calls this state “standstill”. He gets into this, among other things, through emotional fluctuations that occur especially in the relationship with his extraterrestrial teacher, who is also his wife. In 2003, the anime offshoot Onegai Twins was released .
action
Before the series begins, a 15-year-old boy who goes by the name Kei in the series and is the main character of the series falls into a "standstill". This lasts 3 years. After he wakes up again, he leaves home to avoid the social problems that would arise due to this three-year time difference. He moves in with his uncle, a doctor, and his wife. He keeps the time difference a secret from his new friends and tries to start a new life there. During the first acts of the plot, he meets a handsome semi-alien person who is observing Earth and who - as it turns out later - becomes his teacher, Mizuho Kazami. Both are found one day in a school closet. Due to some misunderstandings, the two are forced to marry in order not to have to leave school and Mizuho's identity is not exposed. So they move in together and during all of the chaos their friends and relatives are about to create in their home, they are slowly beginning to really fall in love with each other.
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The story takes place - in both the manga and the anime itself, although it is not named - on Lake Kizaki , which is located on the main island of Honshu in Nagano Prefecture in Japan . This can be seen especially in the anime at the stops of the local rail line, at place names like Inao . In the novel, the school is referred to as the Kizaki Prefectural High School.
Characters
main characters
Kei Kusanagi (草 薙 桂, spoken by: Sōichirō Hoshi )
- is an 18 year old boy posing as a 15 year old. Due to a rare mental illness, he has spent 3 years of his life "at a standstill". He is the main character in the series.
Mizuho Kazami (風 見 み ず ほ, voiced by: Kikuko Inoue )
- is half alien, half human. She is a Level C Planetary Inspector for the Intergalactic Union. It was sent out to examine the human species more closely and to guide its development in the right direction. Mizuho becomes Kei's teacher and his wife as the story progresses.
Supporting characters
Matagu Shido (四 道 跨, voiced by: Hiroaki Miura )
- is an astronomy student. He has no luck with women until the end of the series.
Koishi Herikawa (縁 川 小石, voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi )
- one day confess her love to Kei. At this point, Kei was already in love with and married to his teacher Mizuho. For this reason, Koishi is rejected by him. It is very difficult for them to cope with this rejection. One person who helps her deal with the pain is Yamada-sensei . Over time, she realizes that she has fallen in love with him. Your parents own a large grocery store.
Ichigo Morino (森 野 苺, voiced by: Yukari Tamura )
- also suffers from the same "stagnation sickness" as Kei. However, she was in this coma-like state for 6 years. Her real age would be 21, although like Kei she also pretends to be 15 years old.
Kaede Misumi (水 澄 楓, voiced by: Sayaka Ohara )
- has Irish ancestry. She is tall and has red hair. Although she is very shy and reserved, she starts a love affair with her boyfriend Hyosuke.
Hyosuke Magumo (間 雲 漂 介, voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata )
- is a hyperactive and extremely cheeky student. He becomes Kaede's boyfriend. His main goal is to be allowed to go to Tokyo University so that one day, as a great politician, he can fight corruption in politics.
Marie (ま り え, voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda )
- is the control and steering program of Mizuho's spaceship. He is absolutely self-repairable and maintenance-free and always wears a red rubber swimming ring around his stomach. He also has a kind of love affair with Miruru.
Masami Yamada (山 田正臣, spoken by: Tomokazu Sugita )
- is a rather calm guy. By profession he is a teacher at the same school as Mizuho. His big hobby is building planes without engines. Koishi always supplies him with food from his parents' shop during construction. During the construction work on the aircraft he developed far more far-reaching feelings than a normal teacher-student relationship would allow.
Maho Kazami (風 見 ま ほ, voiced by: Satomi Kōrogi )
- is Mizuho's little sister. At first she doesn't like Kei because, unlike Mizuho, he is far too young. After getting to know him better, she accepts him. She also gradually develops feelings of love for kei.
Hatsuho Kazami (風 見 は つ ほ, voiced by: Yumi Takada )
- is Mizuho's mother and mother-in-law Keis, who reminds her of her late husband. She is a pure alien.
Shirou Kazami (風 見 士 郎)
- is Mizuho's father. He was an astronaut and traveled in space on behalf of the earth. When his ship got lost in space, Hatsuho saved him. They married and had two children, Mizuho and Maho. He died when Mizuho was a young child.
Miruru (み る る)
- is the ship computer of Hatsuho's and Maho's spaceship. She is dressed like a woman and begins a kind of love affair with Marie.
Minoru Edajima (江 田島 み の る, voiced by: Naoya Uchida )
- He is Kei's uncle. He works as a doctor in his home practice. He develops strong feelings of envy over the relationship between Kei and Mizuho. Nevertheless, he takes care of his nephew Kei and helps him wherever he can. Minoru is more than a little perverted.
Konoha Edajima (江 田島 こ の は, voiced by: Rei Sakuma )
- is Kei's aunt and works as a nurse in her husband's practice. With her influence, she stops her husband on one or the other perverse thought journey.
Origin and publications
Anime
The series consists of 12 episodes that were produced by Studio Daume . Directed by Yasunori Ide and the screenplay was written by Yōsuke Kuroda . The character design comes from Hiroaki Gohda and the artistic direction was with Sotaro Hori . The music for the series comes from Kazuya Takase , Shinji Orito and Tomoyuki Nakazawa . The biasing song Shooting Star of Kotoko and the two closing titles are Sora no Mori de of Kawada Mami and, for the last episode, Love a Riddle of Kotoko.
The anime aired January 10 through March 28, 2002 on Animax , WOWOW and Bandai Channel in Japan. In Anime House the series was published in German and Animax showed an English version. French, Korean, Italian and Chinese versions have also been published.
A 21 minute long 13th episode was released in October 2002 as OVA . It was produced by the same team and also translated into English, Korean and Chinese.
Manga
A manga for the anime, designed by Shizuru Hayashiya , was published from January 2002 to February 2003 in the magazine Comic Dengeki Daiō . The MediaWorks publishing house also brought out the chapters in two edited volumes. The English language version of the manga was published by ComicsOne under the name Onegai Teacher . A French translation was published by Soleil and a Portuguese translation in Brazil by JBC.
A light novel about Onegai Teacher was published by MediaWorks in March 2003. It was written by Gō Zappa and illustrated by Taraku Uon and Hiroaki Gōda . It was later also published in English by ComicsOne. The story picks up some core elements of the series and reproduces them in a new form. It also contains other episodes that only exist in this written form and that have been omitted from the series.
In October 2003 an official fan book with illustrations and background information on the series was published. In addition, an art book with large-format illustrations as well as character and costume studies and a 1 m cardboard display was created by Mizuho.
radio play
A radio play offshoot of the anime was also published in Japan. The piece, entitled Onegai Friends , was released on CD.
continuation
The sequel to Onegai Teacher was born due to the great success that the series enjoyed internationally. It is called Onegai Twins and contains the same characters as its predecessor. However, the series is based on a completely new plot.
reception
Despite the crazy idea, reminiscent of similar already known crazy love stories, Newtype USA describes the anime as "surprisingly good". Although the reason for this is difficult to describe, the series is recommended for the enjoyment of romantic comedies. The German manga scene also writes that the story is less hackneyed than it initially appears, because it focuses heavily on relationships and credible character development. Animation and music were also successful.
Jason Thompson describes the manga as unrealistic, boring and with “listlessly applied science fiction elements”. The protagonist is unusually grumpy and bitter, the drawings seem hasty and arbitrary.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Entry on Anime News Network
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manga scene No. 17, p. 40.
- ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 495 .
- ^ Newtype USA Ju 2003 Vol 2 No 6, p. 152.
- ↑ Manga scene No. 12, pp. 10ff.
- ↑ Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0345485908 , p. 254. (English)