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[[File:Maicchingu_Machiko_Sensei_449.jpg|frame|Shameful!]]

 

{{quote|''New science teacher, Machiko Mai, is a young and attractive woman with healthy mind and body. Being around her makes everyone happy. Students like to play practical jokes on her, but no matter how many times they cause troubles, she does not get upset. She always tries hard to understand her students.''|Studio Pierrot's description of the series}}

 

 

 

Add a cast of ninnies and perverts, a standard children's show plot, and you have one of the most infamous [[Ecchi]] series in history.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Despite being a victim of a ''lot'' of pranks, Machiko often gives back as much as she takes. She's more athletic than the rest of the staff (including the phys ed teachers), able to pick up skills like skateboarding in one or two tries, and knows martial arts of some kind -- several episodes involve her beating the crap out of someone who goes too far. (One memorable instance of this involved her breasts popping free from her shirt from a thief who had taken her as a hostage, which she used as a the start of a breast-and-karate-chop combo.)

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: The entire school seems to be perverted.

* [[Beach Episode]]: Of course.

* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: It does not matter how, it does not matter where, it does not matter when -- somehow, someway, Machiko ''will'' lose her clothing, usually in the most humiliating way possible.

* [[Big Ball of Violence]]: One episode ends with all the characters getting into a fight with this effect. And, of course, [[Once an Episode|Machiko loses her top in the melee]].

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Maichchingu" ("Shame!"). Something she says after something happens to make her lose an article of clothing, get groped, or have her skirt flipped up. Which happens [[Once an Episode]] (at least).

* [[Censor Steam]]: Completely averted, as in [[Values Dissonance|most shows of the era.]] ''Kids' show!''

* [[Children Are Innocent]]: [[Averted Trope|They really, really aren't.]] Some of them aren't up to speed on the [[Ecchi]] parts of her situations, but all of her students at least think it's ''[[Naked People Are Funny|funny]].''

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Kenta and Fukuoka-sensei. Special note goes to Fukuoka-sensei, who is ''teaching elementary students nude figuring drawing.''

* [[Clothing Damage]]: The [[Running Gag]] of the show -- the entire universe seems to have it out for Machiko's modesty.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Yamagata-sensei, who frequently ends up getting mixed up with the student's plans, and [[Cannot Spit It Out]] about his attraction towards Machiko.

* [[Ecchi]]: One of the first TV Ecchi series. Relatively tame by today's standards, it still manages to do some things that would simply not fly on Japanese TV today -- like showing animated nipples<ref>(Although it could be said the censoring isn't for any particularly moral reasons, but to create [[DVD Bonus Content]].)</ref>. ''In the opening credits.'' ''[[Doraemon]]'', which was shown around the same era, was the same way (kids' show, mild [[Fan Service]] -- and infamously, the rename added [[Censor Steam]], amongst other things.

* [[Fan Service]]: If you took out all of the fanservice, there would be very little of the series left.

** Although in some episodes, the fanservice honestly comes completely out of nowhere. For instance, at the end of one episode, a student [[All Cloth Unravels|pulls a thread on her sweater]] and exposes her in a skating rink, all within the last 15 seconds of the show. It was a typical cartoon up until that last moment.

* [[Flanderization]]: Machiko, particularly in the manga, ''particularly'' in the "Box" series of bonus comics the author released. Machiko goes from being a somewhat naive, good natured young teacher who accidentally gets stripped and groped a lot to being easy to talk into stripping ''herself'', and who often [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|doesn't even notice anything's wrong unless someone points it out to her,]] (and even then, she is more bemused than anything else).

* [[Fridge Horror]]: The students rarely get punished for groping, flipping skirts, and undressing women (it's not always Machiko). What will these boys turn into when they get older?

** Worse still when you realize that one of the major complaints about the show were that students were emulating the kids in real life.

* [[Hypno Fool]]: Episode 8 involves Machiko going under hypnosis for some reason or other. Kenta attempts to mess with her, only to leave her with a mental [[Gender Bender]]. She then goes to the men's room and ''uses the urinal.''

** Similarly, one of Manga!Kenta's favorite tricks is to convince a just-woken up Machiko, whom he has almost inevitably stripped while she was asleep that she was going to go do something she previously refused to do. Examples from the manga include teaching class in the school pool, wearing a [[Naked Apron]] to her class's cultural festival [[Maid Cafe]], or tormenting Yamagata-sensei in some way.

** Special note goes to the "Box" series of bonus works (Pink Box, Black Box, etc) -- they are filler from the anime in manga form and retellings of the early chapters after [[Characterization Marches On]] took hold, and dial the [[Fan Service]] up to eleven. Notably, Machiko is either much [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|more]] or [[Ms. Fanservice|less]] innocent depending on how you interpret certain scenes.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: In some episodes, Kenta and his friends get stripped by the female students, sometimes with Machiko herself helping out. In one episode, Machiko had Kenta's mother called after Kenta took pictures of her in the bath. His mother stripped him down and spanked him in front of an audience, which was [[Played for Laughs]]. And yes, no one bats an eye to that either so at least there's no [[Double Standard]].

* [[Sarashi]]: She wears it once due to being in a festival as a drummer. Kenta takes it as an opportunity to get her on a bike before she can tighten her robe, and the resulting bouncing causes the sarashi to come undone. He doesn't stop the bike, leaving her bouncing around complaining and a large horde of shocked and happy neighborhood men looking on.

* [[Shower Scene]]: Even in the opening sequence... Much like Shizuka from ''[[Doraemon]]'', even the kids join in on these, and [[Censor Steam]] is completely averted.

* [[Vapor Wear]]: Her bra was stolen by a crow once, and her shirt was...[[Nipple-and-Dimed|different.]]

 

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