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A common Japanese media character type, the [[Hot Teacher|female high school teacher who is fairly young, attractive]], even [[Moe|cute]], and on friendly terms with her students.
 
On the other hand, she is still unmarried, and [[Christmas Cake|very conscious about it]], as well as about [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|the lack of respect she gets]]. She is usually [[AdultOne Childof the Kids|extremely childish, such that even her own students appear more mature than her]].
 
If the story's emphasis is [[Fundamentally Female Cast|on the female students]], she will act like [[One of the Kids|one of the girls]], a teenager in spirit. In [[Harem Series]] with a male protagonists, she is more likely to be a bit [[Hot for Student]], as a comical [[Supporting Harem|side-character of the harem.]] A common character flaw [[Played for Laughs]] is being a [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]].
 
Their frequent complaints about being unable to settle down in a proper relationship, are probably based on the traditional Japanese culture's conflicting expectations, [[Career Versus Family|that a married woman shouldn't work]], and [[Christmas Cake|a woman over 25 should be married]], and for the intended audience of 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.
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** Nyamo is more mature and tries to keep Yukari in line. [[Berserk Button|But don't remind her that she's still unmarried.]]
* Tomita "Tonchan/Tom-Tom" Mari, from ''[[Air Gear]]'', 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 [[Hot for Student]] kind.
* Sawa-chanSawako Yamanaka from ''[[K-On!]]'', who actually is addressed on occasion as "Sawachan-sensei" by members of Hokago Teatime.
* Kuroi-sensei from ''[[Lucky Star]]''. Like some of her students, she spends a lot of her free time on [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s. Unlike them, she's at least mature enough to not sacrifice sleep for gaming time. This is lampshaded in the manga.
* Koigakubo-sensei from ''[[Toradora!]]''.
* Played with by Hinako Ninomiya from ''[[Ranma ½]]''. She's got a weird condition (caused by Happosai 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.