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[[File:Sensei-chan-montage2_1400.jpg|frame|If you are a teacher in [[Animeland]], and you wouldn't fit on this picture, you probably don't exist. <ref> pictured, clockwise from top left: [[Lucky Star (Anime)|Kuroi-sensei]], [[To Aru Majutsu no Index|Tsukuyomi-sensei]], [[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight|Taiga]], [[Toradora (Light Novel)!|Koigakubo-sensei]], [[K-On! (Manga)|Sawa-chan]], and [[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu|Yukari-sensei]], Center: [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Yukari-chan]].</ref>]]
 
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
* Minamo "Nyamo" Kurosawa and Yukari Tanizaki from ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'' are probably the [[Trope Codifier|Trope Codifiers]], especially the latter. Yukari actually still lives with her parents and doesn't have a driver's license; she might as well still be 15!
** 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 (Manga)|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-chan from ''[[K-On! (Manga)|K-On!]]'', who actually is addressed on occasion as "Sawachan-sensei".
* Kuroi-sensei from ''[[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]]''. Like some of her students, she spends a lot of her free time on [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]]. 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 (Light Novel)|Toradora!]]''.
* Played with by Hinako Ninomiya from ''[[Ranma One Half]]''. 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.
* Yokoshima-sensei from ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'', also from the perverted [[Hot for Student]] kind.
* Yukari in ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]''. 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 [[Christmas Cake|completely ignore her]].
* Taiga Fujimura from ''[[Fate Stay Night|Fate/Staystay Nightnight]]''.
* Mika-sensei from ''[[Doki Doki School Hours]]'' (whose original manga version predated [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]] 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 ''[[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs]]'', of course ''she'' is a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]].
* Ko[[Moe]]-sensei from ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' 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 [[Hot for Student|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 [[The Hero|Touma]].
* Negi Springfield from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' would definitely be a gender-inverted <s>version</s> 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).
* Becky from [[Pani Poni Dash!]] is another exaggeration / parody, she's eleven years old, has graduated from MIT, and teaches high school.
* Vera Collins from ''[[Heroman]]''.
* Naru-chan from ''[[Girl Friends]].'' Actually referred to AS "Naru-chan-sensei," though not to her face.
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* Uzuki Shitenno of ''[[Happy Lesson]]''.
* Yoshinoya-sensei from ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''.
* Kyouko "[[Gag Boobs|Boin]]-sensei" Houin from ''[[Kodomo Nono 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.
* Haruna Sakurada from [[You Look Familiar|both]] ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' and ''[[The Cherry Project]]'' is a good and early example. The English dub turned her into another cranky teacher, so this aspect of her personality was gone.
* Usami-sensei in ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'', 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.
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* In ''[[Sket Dance]]'', there is a cute, cheerful and ditzy teacher, formerly a children TV show host, who insists that the students call her [[Japanese Sibling Terminology|"oneesan"]].
* The teacher from ''[[FLCL]]'' is trying to be this... not especially doing that well, though.
* Kazuko Saotome in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]. Her [[Establishing Character Moment]] is complaining about her love life to her class before introducing the [[New Transfer Student]]... Too bad the poor "girl" lives in a [[Crap Saccharine World]]. {{spoiler|Which costs her her life in the [[Alternate Universe]] ''[[Oriko Magica]]'', as she's ''[[Eaten Alive]]'' by a witch's minion.}}
* The alternate universe scenario in the final episode of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' put Misato into this role, rather appropriately.
* Sakurai-sensei from ''[[Nichijou]]''.
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* Ritsuko Takahashi from ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]''.
* Hitomi Shimonome from ''[[Loveless]]''. [[Deconstructed Trope|It's not pretty, though.]]
* Kyouko Ono from ''[[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple]]''. 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 [[Anti-Villain|Boris]] come out of his shell.
* Yukiji Katsura from ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]''.
* Mayuko Shiraki in ''[[Fruits Basket]]''; teacher of the students in Tohru's class. After some of her female students address her as Mayu-chan-sensei, she demands(jokingly) that they call her Mayuko-daisensei-sama.
* Ayane "Ayanecchi" Tezuka from [[Rouge Noir (Manga)|Rouge Noir]] is the very rare ''protagonist'' example.
* Yomiko Readman of ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|Read or Die]]'' 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 [[Rinne no Lagrange (Anime)|Rinne no Lagrange]].
* Kisaragi-sensei of ''[[Umi no Misaki]]'', another teacher who looks and acts like a twelve year-old and constantly hits on the main character. She is [[Obfuscating Stupidity|rather brighter]] than she acts.
* Tsubame-sensei from ''[[Ai Kora]]'' mostly fills this trope. Young, unmarried, and hangs out with the girls in the dorm as well as part of the main characters harem. Can be considered partially subverted because she does not want to get married, in fact her character development has her {{spoiler|letting go of her deceased boyfriend and admitting interest in a new man.}}
* Mitsuka-sensei from ''[[Dear SDearS]]'' ''wants'' to be this. However, while she has the "young, attractive and immature" part down, she completely overdoes the [[Hot for Student]] part and [[Fan Disservice|the whole thing just leaves her students disgusted]].
 
 
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* Quistis Trepe from ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''. [[Justified Trope|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.
* Misato in [[Snow Sakura]].
* Played with in ''[[Muv -Luv]]''. Jinguuji's students in the Extra part all call her [[First-Name Basis|Marimo]]-chan, and the usual [[Christmas Cake]] 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.
** And then there's ''Alternative'', which not only plays with this trope but uses it as part of a horribly soul-crushing plot twist. ''Twice''.
 
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