XXV: "Onegai, Teacher!"

It's been a while since I reviewed anything, so here we go. Hm... Onegai, Teacher!, or Please, Teacher! or Onegai, Sensei! (whichever you prefer) deals with... well, something not normally seen. To be more precise, the theme is the relations between a teacher and student, outside acceptible standards, normally. Now before you get all grossed out, let me review what's going on before you get all negative about rejecting it (or otherwise, but who am I to decide a viewer's taste?) Anyway, there's a little strangeness to the couple in question.

First off is the titular character, Mizuho Kazami. At first glance, she seems human enough, around 23 years old. Well, she's actually half-human and half-alien, and she's a planet observer from the Galactic Federation sent to Earth to observe humans, which around this time the male lead, Kei Kusanagi, happened to notice. Eventually, she becomes a teacher to his school, and happens to move in next to him. To top it off, after being seen by the director of the school, ends up being married to Kei. While initially not mutual, she does end up having feelings for him, but has this knack of outbursts and misunderstandings, which seems to happen more when her family, also extraterrestrials, come to visit her and Kei. Speaking of Kei, he's a human, as you may have guessed, but he has a disease about him, which we learn early in the anime. Somewhat frail, he has this condition known as Teitai, where his body seems to "stop" for a while. In fact, this caused him to miss school for a while. In spite of being a 10th grader, he is actually 18 years of age. As with Mizuho, his feelings for her weren't that of love initially, in fact, he feared her when he first encountered her. Over time however, he started to have feelings for her, which led to some conflicts, one of which dealing with a classmate who was also after his heart.

Bandai Visual produced this in the Daume studio, with American license by Bandai Entertainment. The episode count is 12, attached with 1 OVA. KOTOKO, who is known for an insert track for Kannazuki no Miko and the themes for Aksys game Blazblue (both Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift, which I'll cover later in my other blog), did the opening and episode 12's ending of this anime, while fellow artist Mami Kawada provided the main ending theme. Supposedly, Onegai, Twins! is the spinoff sequel to it, but I'll check that out once I give my verdict here.

Onegai, Teacher! didn't have me screaming that, but I did enjoy it. I score this a 7 of 10 (like I said, I'm probably a sucker dealing with anime containing weird teachers.) Well, a few things before I go: while there is little to no perversity in it, it does have its brief mentioning, but don't get your hopes up for that (well, perhaps some in the OVA). Well, that and... you'll be seeing Pocky... A LOT! So if you're one of those that crave it, like I do, I suggest you grab a box to keep you occupied when watching. Otherwise you'd probably go crazy for some. Anyway, until next review!