History Main / SenseiChan

[[caption-width-right:349:[-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]], [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Tsukuyomi-sensei]], [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Taiga]], [[Literature/{{Toradora}} Koigakubo-sensei]], [[Manga/KOn Sawa-chan]], and [[LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret Yukari-sensei]], Center: [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Yukari-chan]].[[/note]]]]

* 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 completely ignore her.

* 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".]]

* Played with in ''LightNovel/AndYouThoughtThereIsNeverAGirlOnline'' with Yui Saitou. While she is fairly good at her job, her mannerisms as "Nekohime" (her OnlineAlias at playing [=MMORPGs=]) would occasionally seep in, such as her unconscious habit of sometimes ending her sentences with "~nyaa~".

* [[{{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]], [[OldMaid and fretting over not having a boyfriend]]. Oh, and she gets HotForStudent when she falls in love with Issei.

[[caption-width-right:349:[-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]], [[Literature/{{Toradora}} Koigakubo-sensei]], [[Manga/KOn Sawa-chan]], and [[LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret Yukari-sensei]], Center: [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Yukari-chan]].[[/note]]]]

* Ko{{moe}}-sensei from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' definitely seems like this, since she looks like a ten-year-old girl who sleeps in cute pajamas, is friendly with her students, and is implied to be a bit [[TeacherStudentRomance hot for her "Kamijou-chan"]]. However, she also smokes heavily, drinks beer heavily, is implied to be at least in her 30s (and possibly much older), and most importantly of all, is an actually smart and competent teacher who acts as a mentor for [[UniqueProtagonistAsset Touma]].

* Instructor Sara in ''VideoGame/TheLegendofHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' fits the bill being a young HotTeacher, however it is a bit of a DeconstructiveParody in that Very much so. She is lazy, childish, manipulative, and tends to remind her students to pick up the pace in class or not cause problems else she'd get blamed for them. Naturally, her students have frequent sweat-drop actions and comment how they have little respect for her personality. However, as a combat instructor, she is quite the BadassTeacher being a former [[spoiler: Bracer and Jaeger.]]

On the other hand, she is still unmarried, and [[ChristmasCake very conscious about it]], as well as about [[DudeWheresMyRespect the lack of respect she gets]]. She is usually [[OneOfTheKids extremely childish, such that even her own students appear more mature than her]].

Their frequent complaints about being unable to settle down in a proper relationship are probably based on traditional Japanese culture's conflicting expectations [[CareerVersusFamily that a married woman shouldn't work]] and [[ChristmasCake a woman over 25 should be married]]. For the intended audiences of many anime, schoolteachers provided the first childhood exposure to women with this dilemma, enforcing the stereotype that teachers are the sort of women who can never get married.

** Yukari is a temperamental WomanChild who gradually becomes OneOfTheKids (to the point of being on FirstNameBasis with them as "Yukari-sensei"), can [[ApatheticTeacher easily become bored with her own classes]], 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!
** Nyamo is more of a downplayed case, being more mature and getting more respect from the students than Yukari does, and often tries to keep Yukari in line. [[BerserkButton But don't remind her]] that she's [[ChristmasCake still unmarried.]]
* 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 about in regards to the ChristmasCake part.]]

* 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.

* Nanako Kuroi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is the main characters' world history teacher (as well as Konata, Tsukasa, and Miyuki's homeroom teacher). She's also attractive, fun-loving, and spends a lot of her free time playing {{MMORPG}}s. Unlike Konata, who she plays the same MMO with, she's at least mature enough to not sacrifice sleep for gaming time, and she'll even use the MMO's chat function to remind Konata to do her homework. She's also secretly [[ChristmasCake insecure about still being single at 27 years old]], and mistakenly assumes Konata's cousin Yui is single as well while trying to bond with her over it.

* 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.

* Manabu from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is a friendly, somewhat immature (but not in a ManChild way) young teacher. He's also a male ChristmasCake who can't get a date (though [[TeacherStudentRomance one student likes him]], [[AbhorrentAdmirer much to his dismay]]).

* 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]].
* [[{{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.

* Koigakubo Yuri-sensei from ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''. Frequently [[FirstNameBasis referred to by her students as "Yuri-chan"]], she often [[ChristmasCake laments about her lack of success in love and her age]], and she becomes increasingly bitter about it as the story goes on. 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]].

** Jinguuji's students in the ''[[VisualNovel/MuvLuvExtra Extra]]'' part all call her [[FirstNameBasis Marimo]]-chan, and the usual ChristmasCake jokes get played. In the Unlimited alternate universe, she is not amused by the protagonist addressing her as Marimo-chan and demands to be addressed properly.

* Miss Grotke from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has some shades of this trope. She's pretty much loved by all her students (and takes a CoolBigSis role to Spinelli), young and unmarried (not a ChristmasCake really, but it's hinted that she's in her early 30s).

This trope can also overlap with MisplacedKindergartenTeacher, HippieTeacher or CoolTeacher. May preside over a WackyHomeroom.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.

* Nanako Kuroi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is the main characters' world history teacher (as well as Konata, Tsukasa and Miyuki's homeroom teacher). She's also attractive, fun-loving and spends a lot of her free time playing {{MMORPG}}s. Unlike Konata, who she plays the same MMO with, she's at least mature enough to not sacrifice sleep for gaming time, and she'll even use the MMO's chat function to remind Konata to do her homework. She's also secretly [[ChristmasCake insecure about still being single at 27 years old]], and mistakenly assumes Konata's cousin Yui is single as well while trying to bond with her over it.

* 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.

* 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"]].

* 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.

* Y/N, the main character of ''Fanfic/TowardABrightFuture'' is a young woman who becomes the TA to Class 1-A (and the rest of the school to a minor extent). She is well-liked, gives out tutoring, snacks and stickers to her students, and is perfectly willing to play video games and make pillow forts with the two that are living in the same dorm as her. It's mentioned that she is an AmnesiacHero, so [[VagueAge she doesn't know her exact age]] other than being around 5 years older than her class.

* 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~".
* Aiko Hatayama from ''Literature/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.
* Ko{{moe}}-sensei from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' definitely seems like this, since she looks like a ten-year old girl who sleeps in cute pajamas, is friendly with her students, and is implied to be a bit [[TeacherStudentRomance hot for her "Kamijou-chan"]]. However, she also smokes heavily, drinks beer heavily, is implied to be at least in her 30s (and possibly much older), and most importantly of all, is an actually smart and competent teacher who acts as a mentor for [[UniqueProtagonistAsset Touma]].

* 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]].

** Ohsugi-sensei is halfway between this and a SadistTeacher: nobody takes him seriously, he's chronically hard-up for dates, and eventually admits that he has no friends. Once, he even tries to force Gentaro to hang out with him because he's lonely.

* Instructor Sara in ''VideoGame/TheLegendofHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' fits the bill being a young HotTeacher, however it is a bit of a DeconstructiveParody in that Very much so. She is lazy, childish, manipulative, and tends to remind her students to pick up the pace in class or not cause problems else she'd get blamed for them. Naturally, her students have frequent sweat-drop actions and comment how they have little respect for her personality. However as a combat instructor she is quite the BadassTeacher being a former [[spoiler: Bracer and Jaeger.]]

* Wakaouji from ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide 2'' is very carefree and playful when it comes to his students, so that many (including the protagonist by default) refer to him simply as 'Waka-chan'. Some take it even further, teasingly calling him 'Waka-chan-sensei'.

* Ringo Tsukimiya from ''VisualNovel/UtaNoPrinceSama'' is a subversion (as well as being a ''male'' WholesomeCrossdresser). He's cute, friendly and even tells his students to call him "Rin-chan", but he takes his job as a teacher seriously and he won't easily grant his students special favors.
* 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. That doesn't stop many of her students from calling her "Sonou-chan" (or in Kiri's case, "[[FirstNameBasis Tsukuyo]]-chan"), when they should be using "-sensei" on her.

* Maria Takayama from ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'' is an exaggerated version of this trope, since she's only ten years old (with the immaturity to match) and yet somehow she's a teacher at a high school. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out she's not even a qualified teacher at all. There was nobody to take care of Maria at home, resulting in her older sister Kate taking her to school with her and Maria just began calling herself a teacher. Then double subverted when, in a ploy to save the Neighbors Club from Aoi, Sena calls her father to have her officially declared as a teacher.]]

* Maria Takayama from ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'' is an exaggerated version of this trope, since she's only ten years old (with the immaturity to match) and yet somehow she's a teacher at a high school. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out she's not even a qualified teacher at all. There was nobody to take care of Maria at home, resulting in Kate taking Maria to school with her and Maria just began calling herself a teacher. Then double subverted when, in a ploy to save the Neighbors Club from Aoi, Sena calls her father to have her officially declared as a teacher.]]

* 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.

* Koigakubo Yuri-sensei from ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''. [[FirstNameBasis Frequently referred to by her students as "Yuri-chan"]], she often [[ChristmasCake 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]].

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* 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~".
* 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.

* Ko{{moe}}-sensei from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' definitely seems like this, since she looks like a ten-year old girl who sleeps in cute pajamas, is friendly with her students, and is implied to be a bit [[TeacherStudentRomance hot for her "Kamijou-chan"]]. However, she also smokes heavily, drinks beer heavily, is implied to be at least in her 30s (and possibly much older), and most importantly of all, is an actually smart and competent teacher who acts as a mentor for [[UniqueProtagonistAsset Touma]].

* 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]].

* [[{{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.

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

* Oka-chan of ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' wanted to become the kind of teacher that her students could relate to, so she got involved in hobbies such as manga and video games. Students found her easy to befriend but deep down she worried that she'd built a fake persona and was failing as a teacher.

* Koigakubo Yuri-sensei from ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''. [[FirstNameBasis Frequently referred to by her students as "Yuri-chan"]], she often [[ChristmasCake 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]].

* 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]].

[[caption-width-right:349:[-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]]]]

* Tomita "Tonchan/Tom-Tom" Mari, from ''Manga/AirGear'', is so young that one of her colleagues, who's in his mid-40s at the most, was her teacher when ''she'' previously attended the school. And she's incredibly childish and naive. By the way, she's definitely of the TeacherStudentRomance kind.

** Nyamo is more of a downplayed case, being more mature and getting more respect from the students than Yukari does, and often tries to keep Yukari in line. [[BerserkButton But don't remind her]] [[ChristmasCake that she's still unmarried.]]

** Nyamo is more mature and gets more respect from the students than Yukari does, and often tries to keep Yukari in line. [[BerserkButton But don't remind her]] [[ChristmasCake that she's still unmarried.]]

* Mayuko Shiraki in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', teacher of Tohru's class. Invoked when some of her female students address her as "Mayu-chan-sensei", and she demands (jokingly) that they call her "Mayuko-daisensei-sama" ("Great Teacher Mayuko"). Aside from that, she's actually more of a downplayed example, often acting as a usually-stern CoolBigSis towards her students (while also frequently getting on Kyo's case about his orange hair, [[MistakenForDyed which she thinks is dyed]]) rather than an immature {{Womanchild}} like most examples.

* ''Manga/TamamoChansAFox'' is about a {{kitsune}} who poses as a high school girl. While the student body can see right through her magical disguise, [[InvisibleToAdults 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".

** Nyamo is more mature and tries to keep Yukari in line. [[BerserkButton But don't remind her]] [[ChristmasCake that she's still unmarried.]]

* 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!

* Nanako Kuroi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is the main characters' homeroom teacher, and she's also attractive, fun-loving and spends a lot of her free time playing {{MMORPG}}s. Unlike Konata, who she plays the same MMO with, she's at least mature enough to not sacrifice sleep for gaming time. She's also secretly [[ChristmasCake insecure about still being single at 27 years old]], and mistakenly believes Konata's cousin Yui is single as well while trying to bond with her over it.