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* Kuroi-sensei from ''Anime/LuckyStar''. Like some of her students, she spends a lot of her free time on {{MMORPG}}s. Unlike them, she's at least mature enough to not sacrifice sleep for gaming time. This is lampshaded in the manga.

* ''Manga/TamamoChansAFox'' is about a {{kitsune}} who poses as a high school girl. While the student body can see right through her magical disguise, most of the adults at school don't notice anything out of the ordinary except Reiko-sensei, who's described as "a kid at heart".

** Yukari is a temperamental WomanChild who gradually becomes OneOfTheKids (to the point of being on FirstNameBasis with them as "Yukari-sensei") and [[ChristmasCake gets jealous when one of her friends gets married]]. She actually still lives with her parents and doesn't (or at least ''[[DrivesLikeCrazy shouldn't]]'') have a driver's license; she might as well still be 15! As for the "attractive" part, that can be slightly {{justified|Trope}} by the fact that Kiyohiko Azuma recycled her design from [[BleachedUnderpants an old hentai two-shot of his]].

** Irina Jelavic (a.k.a. [[EmbarrassingNickname Bitch-sensei]]) is a more volatile example due to her temper, but she qualifies nonetheless; she's young, seductive, beautiful, and slowly becomes close to her students. She also an infamous FemmeFatale assassin and is only ''[[ImprobableAge twenty]]''.

* Minamo "Nyamo" Kurosawa and Yukari Tanizaki from ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' are probably the {{Trope Codifier}}s.
** Yukari is a temperamental WomanChild who gradually becomes OneOfTheKids (to the point of being on FirstNameBasis with them as "Yukari-sensei") and [[ChristmasCake gets jealous when one of her friends gets married]]. She actually still lives with her parents and doesn't (or at least ''[[DrivesLikeCrazy shouldn't]]'') have a driver's license; she might as well still be 15! As for the "attractive" part, that can be slightly {{justified|Trope}} by the fact that Kiyohiko Azuma recycled her design from [[BleachedUnderpants an old hentai two-shot of his]].
** Nyamo is more mature and tries to keep Yukari in line. [[BerserkButton But don't remind her]] [[ChristmasCake that she's still unmarried.]]

* Sawako "Sawa-chan" Yamanaka from ''Manga/KOn'', who is actually addressed on occasion as "Sawa-chan-sensei" (the original title was cooked up by Ritsu and the “Sawa-chan-sensei” name from Yui). To most of the students, she's a kind, mature and responsible teacher, but when she's alone with the main characters she shows a completely different side as an immature CosplayOtakuGirl who often [[ChristmasCake laments her lack of a love life]]. In this case there’s a bit of justification: Ritsu and the rest of the club are holding Sawako’s past as a hard rocking light music club member over her head, which would spoil the serene image she’s trying to portray to the other students. So in exchange for their silence on her past, they get to enjoy a more casual relationship with her.
* Kuroi-sensei from ''Anime/LuckyStar''. Like some of her students, she spends a lot of her free time on {{MMORPG}}s. Unlike them, she's at least mature enough to not sacrifice sleep for gaming time. This is lampshaded in the manga.
* Koigakubo Yuri-sensei from ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''. [[FirstNameBasis Frequently referred to by her students as "Yuri-chan"]], [[ChristmasCake she often laments about her lack of success in love and her age]]. [[KicktheDog Her students even go so far as to write a play]] in which her RedStringOfFate was to be cut, causing her to go [[BerserkButton berserk]].
* Played with by Hinako Ninomiya from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. She's got a weird condition (caused by Happōsai doing something odd to her when she was a sickly child to help alleviate her illness) where she oscillates between a sweet-cute child form and a voluptuous adult form depending on how much battle aura/ki she's drained from her students recently. The interesting part is that she undergoes a personality change with the size change -- she's mentally a child when in child form, and far more sophisticated as an adult. If she stays in her adult form for too long, though, she starts acting like her child form.
%% * Yokoshima-sensei from ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'', also from the perverted TeacherStudentRomance kind.
* Yukari in ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret''. Acts very immature, constantly hits on the male students -- particularly the main character, who's the younger brother of her best friend and drinking-buddy -- and they all [[ChristmasCake completely ignore her]].
* Mika-sensei from ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours'' (whose original manga version predated ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' by a few years) is probably one of the more extreme examples: Despite being 27, she looks and (for all intents and purposes) acts like a twelve-year-old, and as such her students have a hard time taking her seriously.
%% * There is Hibiki-chan from ''Anime/IMyMeStrawberryEggs''. Of course, ''she'' is a WholesomeCrossdresser.

* Negi Springfield from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is a gender-inverted exaggeration of this, being a ten-year-old male teaching a class of 31 fourteen-year-old girls. In some areas the trope is inverted entirely as he's far more mature than them, while in others he acts his age (he has the work ethic and emotional maturity of an adult, but still avoids taking baths and is easily flustered). The "-chan" suffix is actually never used for him, but the masculine "-kun" and "-bouzu" are often used by some of his students, even when addressing him directly.
* Rebecca "Becky" Miyamoto from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' is another exaggerated parody; she's already graduated from MIT and teaches high school, but [[ChildProdigy she's only eleven years old]]. While she tries to be mature, she'll sometimes break down and act as immature as a kid her age would.
%% * Vera Collins from ''Manga/{{Heroman}}''.
* Naru-chan from ''Manga/GirlFriends''. Actually referred to AS "Naru-chan-sensei," though not to her face. She's actually somewhat annoyed that her students don't really respect her.
* The [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep nameless]] Teacher ("Komon-sensei", or "Ms. Advisor") from ''Eiken''.
%% * Uzuki Shitenno of ''Manga/HappyLesson''.
%% * Yoshinoya-sensei from ''Manga/HidamariSketch''.
* [[{{Valkyries}} Rossweisse]] in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' becomes a civics teacher at Kuoh Academy after being reincarnated as a Devil. She hits pretty much every box for the trope: [[HotTeacher attractive]], [[OneOfTheKids barely a couple years older than her students]], [[ChristmasCake and fretting over not having a boyfriend]]. Oh, and she gets HotForStudent when she falls in love with Issei.
* Kyouko "[[GagBoobs Boin]]-sensei" Houin from ''Kodomo no Jikan'' fits most of the characteristics. She's definitely the most popular teacher (especially among the boys), but the students don't respect her much. She has more success on the net, though. From here, [[CharacterDevelopment she also learns the dichotomy between "What parents/society expect from children" and "What is the best for children".]]
* Haruna Sakurada from [[YouLookFamiliar both]] ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' and ''Manga/TheCherryProject'' is a good and early example. The Creator/DiC English dub of the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] turned her into another cranky teacher, so this aspect of her personality was gone.
* Usami-sensei in ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'', like, more afraid of blood donations than her students. This is kind of justified in-universe as she's just in the second year of teaching.

* Remi from ''Manga/SketDance'', who is a cute, cheerful and ditzy teacher, formerly a children TV show host, who insists that the students call her [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology "oneesan"]].

* Kazuko Saotome in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is complaining about her love life to her class before introducing the NewTransferStudent... Too bad the poor "girl" lives in a CrapsaccharineWorld. [[spoiler: Which costs her her life in the AlternateUniverse ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'', as she's ''[[EatenAlive eaten alive]]'' by a witch's minion.]]
* The alternate universe scenario in the final episode of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' put Misato into this role, rather appropriately. This is later carried over into both ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionAngelicDays'' and ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject''.
* Sakurai-sensei from ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'', who seems far too timid to be in a teaching job. She's also the school guidance counselor so she can improve herself, but that doesn't seem to work out for her most of the time.
* Marie Mjolnir from ''Manga/SoulEater'' fits the bill in most respects. She's such a ChristmasCake that she ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} tries to marry a toilet]]''! She does have a dose of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, though, and makes an effective TeamMom.
%% * Ritsuko Takahashi from ''Manga/HellTeacherNube''.
%% * Hitomi Shimonome from ''Manga/{{Loveless}}''. [[DeconstructedTrope It's not pretty, though.]]
* Kyouko Ono from ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''. She's very young and rather inexperienced, looks very cute when she cries, and she really doesn't know how to handle her rowdier students, but she's very caring and is able to help [[AntiVillain Boris]] come out of his shell.
%% * Yukiji Katsura from ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler''.

* Ayane "Ayanecchi" Tezuka from ''Manga/RougeNoir'' is the very rare ''protagonist'' example. She's also [[BrokenBird quite more tragic]] than the standard example.
* Yomiko Readman of ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' occasionally becomes this, given her cover identity as a substitute schoolteacher. This doesn't turn up in the [=OVAs=] or anime, though she had been one to Nenene.
%% * Machiko-sensei from ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne''.
* Kisaragi-sensei of ''Manga/UmiNoMisaki'', another teacher who looks and acts like a twelve year-old and constantly hits on the main character. She is [[ObfuscatingStupidity rather brighter]] than she acts.
* Tsubame-sensei from ''Manga/AiKora'' mostly fills this trope. Young, unmarried, and hangs out with the girls in the dorm as well as part of the main characters harem. However, she does not want to get married. Her character development has her [[spoiler: letting go of her deceased boyfriend and admitting interest in a new man.]]
* Mitsuka-sensei from ''Manga/DearS'' ''wants'' to be this. However, while she has the "young, attractive and immature" part down, she completely overdoes the TeacherStudentRomance part and [[FanDisservice the whole thing just leaves her students disgusted]].
%% * Namie Sasaki from ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure''.
* Chihiro-sensei from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', who decides that making one of her students look after her IdiotSavant cousin is a good idea...
* Miho Amakata from ''Anime/{{Free}}''. She is referred to as "Ama-chan-sensei" by her students (or simply Ama-chan by Nagisa) and is usually upbeat and quirky but tends to get [[TranquilFury quite mad]] when suggested to wear a swimsuit. She uses old and confusing literature phrases to make a point to her pupils and fellow teachers. It was implied that [[spoiler:she was once a swimsuit model called Marin Nishikujo in her youth, but she became a teacher instead, which is why the boys initially asked her to be the swim club's advisor (though they don't know what she did exactly).]]
%% * Nekonome from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire''.

* The self-proclaimed Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka is a RareMaleExample. Onizuka spends more time goofing off with his students and even cutting class with them than he does actually teaching. Despite the overly familiar relationship, it doesn't stop him from being a PapaWolf when it comes to his students.

* Downplayed with ''Manga/CaseClosed'''s Sumiko Kobayashi. She does show some traits of the trope when she tries to be the manager of the Detective Kids whether they want it or not, but otherwise she's pretty competent in her job and the kids from the 1-B class think she's rather cool. [[spoiler: And after she gets a boyfriend (or better said, [[ChildhoodFriendRomance a young man she met years ago "returns" to her life]]), there's nothing to worry in regards to the ChristmasCake part.]]
** Sumiko's assistant Rumi Wakasa seems to fit in more in the stereotype, as she's very gentle and sweet but also ''quite'' clumsy. [[spoiler: She's actually a subversion, as she has a BadassTeacher side that [[ObfuscatingStupidity only comes out when it's needed]] and implied to have had a DarkAndTroubledPast linked to the murder of a chess and shogi player that took place 17 years ago.]]

* ''Manga/FoodWars'': Jun Shiomi is this in spades. Is 34, looks like 16, acts like 12. In spite of being Tootsuki's resident spice expert and a leading authority on the chemistry of aromatic compounds, as well as the Shiomi Seminar's leader, she is excitable, scatter-brained, tends to ramble and holds a grudge against the main character for things his dad did when they were at school together. In fact, her 16-year-old adopted son Akira takes care of her as much as she takes care of him (if not more), something she is deeply emotionally conflicted about.

* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'':
** Aguri Yukimura, who was Class 3-E's teacher before Koro-sensei arrived. She was an adorable and energetic young teacher, with an endearingly bad fashion sense and a great eagerness to teach and help her students.
** Irina Jelavic (a.k.a. [[EmbarrassingNickname Bitch-sensei]]) is a more volatile example due to her temper, but she qualifies nonetheless; she's young, seductive, beautiful, and slowly becomes close to her students.
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' has Akari Koumoto, who gets caught up in her students' [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] fairly often; when she's not sharing protagonist Asahi's role as the OnlySaneMan, she's calling on her past as a [[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent]] to be utterly badass and intimidating. Her primary sources of humor are the clashes between her and her {{Troll}}ish great-grandmother Akane (who's also the principal and, oh yeah, a demon), and her inability to get a boyfriend, which mostly comes from her unrealistic fantasies about being swept off her feet by a prince on a white horse. [[spoiler:Once Asahi's friend Sakurada admits [[TeacherStudentRomance he's got feelings for Akari]], '''the entire cast''' (minus Akane) becomes [[ShipperOnDeck Shippers on Deck]] and does everything they can to help get the two together. They ultimately succeed -- complete with Sakurada confessing while on a white pegasus.]]
* Played with in ''LightNovel/AndYouThoughtThereIsNeverAGirlOnline'' with Yui Saitou. While she is fairly good at her job, her mannerisms as "Nekohime" (her OnlineAlias at playing MMORPG's) would occasionally seep in, such as her unconscious habit of sometimes ending her sentences with "~nyaa~".

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': Despite her façade of maturity, young Professor Ursula Calistis often gets wrapped up in the hijinks of main character Akko Kagari, such as covering for Akko when Akko accidentally flushes a teacher down the toilet (said "teacher" being a sentient goldfish). At episode's end, Akko specifically praises Ursula by saying, "You almost acted like you were our teacher!" to which Ursula sternly reminded her that she '''''is''''' their teacher. Further justified because [[spoiler: "Ursula" is actually Akko's idol, Shiny Chariot, in disguise, and Akko & Chariot are very similar personality-wise.]]
* Mizuho Kazami of ''Anime/PleaseTeacher'' and ''Anime/PleaseTwins'' is an odd case of this, though much of her characterization seems to stem from the fact that she's a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-alien]] who is rather new to Earth's customs, and circumstances forcing her into a [[TeacherStudentRomance marriage with one of her students]]. It becomes more prevalent during the second series.

* Hina Tachibana from ''Manga/DomesticGirlfriend''. A young teacher who still lives with her mother and younger sister and acts like she's still a sorority girl in college, flirting with her students and drinking constantly. [[spoiler: After getting caught having an affair with a student, she eventually decides she isn't fit to be a teacher anymore and quits.]]
* In ''Manga/HitoribocchiNoOOSeikatsu'', Teruyo Oshie, the main characters' homeroom teacher, tries to be respectable, but her rather meek personality gets in the way. Most of her students call her "Teru-chan" despite her insistence that they call her "sensei." Nako shows Teruyo the appropriate respect, but Teruyo is irrationally scared of Nako. Her personality ends up causing her problems during the fire drill, since Teruyo's students don't take her seriously and thus take the longest time to get out of the building, resulting in a senior colleague chewing Teruyo out.
* All the teachers in ''Manga/WhyTheHellAreYouHereTeacher'' are young, attractive, and (mostly) get along with their students (the first teacher, Kana Kojima, was known as "Kojima the Demon Teacher" among the students, but she mellows out).
* In ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'', Minami Toba, a teacher who becomes club advisor for the OEC, is reasonably polite and professional while on the clock, but also is a rather hard drinker who turns out to be much less professional when she's drunk.
* Aiko Hatayama from ''LightNovel/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'' is a twenty-five year old high-school teacher that looks like a middle-schooler, and who appears more childish the more she attempts to do her job. Her students love 'Ai-chan' and consider her the class pet.

%% * Machiko-sensei from ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange''.

* Aiko Hatayama from ''LightNovel/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'' is a twenty-five year old high-school teacher that looks like a middle-schooler, and who appears more childish the more she attempts to do her job.

* A female [[PlayerCharacter Byleth]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' zigzags this. On one hand, she's barely older than her mostly teenage students and is rather popular with said students, to the point of even being able to invite them over for a casual tea party. On the other hand, she's a rather stoic and stern ex-mercenary who commands genuine respect from her students even after [[spoiler:she technically stops being a teacher]].

* In ''Manga/HitoribocchiNoOOSeikatsu'', Teruyo Oshie, the main characters' homeroom teacher, tries to be respectable, but her rather meek personality gets in the way. Most of her students call her "Teru-chan" despite her insistence that they call her "sensei." Nako shows Teruyo the appropriate respect, but Teruyo is irrationally scared of Nako. Her personality ends up causing her problems during the fire drill, since Teruyo's students don't take her seriously and thus take the longest time to get out of the building.

* Quistis Trepe from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that ''she's the same age as her students'', but managed to graduate several years early, and was insane enough to get a job teaching her former classmates soon after.

* Sonou Tsukuyo from ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'' is a 24-year-old classical literature teacher, but has the appearance of a girl half her age. This is what ends up drawing the affections of her 16-year-old student Kiri, who is obsessed with cute things. Surprisingly, she notably averts the childlike mannerisms of similar characters, and other characters note throughout the game just how mature and responsible she is.

* Yui Kanakura in ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}''. To list just some tropes concerning her: ChildhoodFriends, TeenGenius (she is one year older than her students), TheDon (not really), part of a BalancedHarem and one has to wonder if she isn’t a MarySue, but luckily, she can only make [[OneNoteCook gyouza]]. And [[HollywoodToneDeaf she can't sing]]. She keeps a teacherly attitude during class, but only because she believes that's the proper thing to do.

* Downplayed with ''Manga/DetectiveConan'''s Sumiko Kobayashi. She does show some traits of the trope when she tries to be the manager of the Detective Kids whether they want it or not, but otherwise she's pretty competent in her job and the kids from the 1-B class think she's rather cool. [[spoiler: And after she gets a boyfriend (or better said, [[ChildhoodFriendRomance a young man she met years ago "returns" to her life]]), there's nothing to worry in regards to the ChristmasCake part.]]

%% * Nekonome from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire''.

* In ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'', Minami Toba is reasonably polite and professional while on the clock, but also is a rather hard drinker who turns out to be much less professional when she's drunk.

* Chihiro-sensei from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', who decides that making one of her tenents to look after her IdiotSavant cousin is a good idea...

%% * The self-proclaimed Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka is a RareMaleExample.

* Negi Springfield from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is a gender-inverted exaggeration of this, being a ten-year-old male teaching a class of 31 fourteen-year-old girls. In some areas the trope is inverted entirely as he's far more mature than them, while in others he acts his age (he has the work ethic and emotional maturity of an adult, but still avoids taking baths and is easily flustered). The "-chan" suffix is actually never used for him, but the masculine "-kun" and "-bouzu" are often used by some of his students, even when addressing him directly.

* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze''

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[[caption-width-right:350:[-If you are a teacher in {{Animeland}}, and you wouldn't fit on this picture, you probably don't exist.-][[note]]Pictured, clockwise from top left: [[Manga/LuckyStar Kuroi-sensei]], [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Tsukuyomi-sensei]], [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Taiga]], [[LightNovel/{{Toradora}} Koigakubo-sensei]], [[Manga/KOn Sawa-chan]], and [[LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret Yukari-sensei]], Center: [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Yukari-chan]].[[/note]]]]

* In ''Manga/SketDance'', there Remi, who is a cute, cheerful and ditzy teacher, formerly a children TV show host, who insists that the students call her [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology "oneesan"]].

** Yukari is a temperamental WomanChild who gradually becomes OneOfTheKids (to the point of being on FirstNameBasis with them as "Yukari-sensei") and [[ChristmasCake gets jealous when one of her friends gets married]]. She actually still lives with her parents and doesn't (or at least ''[[DrivesLikeCrazy shouldn't]]'') have a driver's license; she might as well still be 15!

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* Becky from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' is another exaggerated parody; she's already graduated from MIT and teaches high school, but [[ChildProdigy she's only eleven years old]]. While she tries to be mature, she'll sometimes break down and act as immature as a kid her age would.

* ''Manga/HighSchoolInariTamamoChan'' is about a {{kitsune}} who poses as a high school girl. While the student body can see right through her magical disguise, most of the adults at school don't notice anything out of the ordinary except Reiko-sensei, who's described as "a kid at heart".