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* [[Dawson Casting]]: Avoided. High school seniors 17-18 are played by actors aged 18-22.

* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: Kumiko always unties her pigtails along with removing her glasses before a fight.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Yankumi, her family, ''and'' her students have all had their edges filed off. In fact, the whole [[Yakuza]] element seems to have been swept under the rug entirely. On the other hand...

** [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]] : Serious beatdowns are given to high school students almost [[Once an Episode]], with little recourse to the [[Battle Discretion Shot]]. On the third hand...

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Yankumi pulls off a Stealth Hi at least once an episode. Shin and the others occasionally get in on the act.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Each season begins with Yankumi going in to teach at class 3-D of a new school, which is filled with bishounen delinquents who she inevitably wins over, helping them with their troubles over the course of the season, culminating in their graduation. Each season also features new love interest for Yankumi, with the old ones disappearing without a trace except Baba in seasons 2 and 3. Seasons 2 and 3 also have Yankumi being fired from a different teaching job for teaching her students yakuza phrases, before going to that season's class 3-D. Each class also seems to feature one student who acts as the [[Only Sane Man]] and has father issues and an implied crush on Yankumi (Shin in Season 1, Ryu in Season 2, and Yamato in Season 3).

* [[True Companions]]: In the second season, [[The Hero|Yabuki]], [[The Lancer|Odagiri]], [[The Big Guy|Tsuchiya]], and [[The Chick|Takeda]] are rarely seen without each other, and when they are it usually means something bad is going down.

* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]: Strangely, Yankumi.