Please Teacher?

[Jran]

wondering if it was a good or bad anime i have heard of it from a dvd i have of .hack sign so plz tell.
btw i am 13.

[Sami_jane]

oh lol sorry bout that. i read the post wrong. :p

[eva-boy7985]

Please Teacher (aka Onegai Sensei) is a great romance anime. The development and progression of the character, specifically the first two, is really well done in this show; just as well, there are some good points made here and there about love and relationships. There is also some good humour at times as well. As a side note though, there is some suggestive dialogue at times, and some of the humour is a little bit crude at times, but nothing overbearing. Near the the show's ending, there are some scenes of innuendo, but not really any straight up offense-minded nudity. Overall, has a very sweet demeanor and is definitely worth seeing if that kind of show is in your interests :-) Hope this helped!

[aule1701]

love all the please series i highly recommened them please teacher was great as was please twins go buy now

[Rev. Doc]

It's not one I would really recommend for a 13 year old. I would give this a 16+ age rating. While nothing is shown there is a pre-marital relationship that develops between two of the characters, although brief, it's still present. The OAV in the last volume is very over the stop in fanservice and overall content.

[EricTheFred]

It's not one I would really recommend for a 13 year old. I would give this a 16+ age rating.

I have to agree with this post. Please Teacher is actually a "guilty pleasure" favorite for me, because it IS actually a very sweet love story (of the "love overcoming any obstacle" variety), good enough that I tolerated the marginally excessive fan service in order to finish the series. It isn't the level of fan service so much as the following that makes it slightly problematic:

1) It was obviously conceived of by someone who remembered having a serious crush on a teacher when they were a student. Probably was based upon some fantasy they concocted about that teacher (this is just MHO, based upon the content, not upon some extra information.) In the real world, we generally frown very strongly upon any teacher returning such attention.

2) It uses the unfortunate device of making a child who is obviously not of age "really 18, so it's okay." I'm always very uncomfortable with this device.

3) As also mentioned, after wrapping up the TV series (in a very pleasant and heart-warming way, actually) they turned around and did the "OVA full of everything the censors wouldn't let us put on TV." This is the last episode in the Box Set. It was completely extraneous to the story, contributed nothing but fan service, and I would have been very happy if they had left it out.

So much so, in fact, that I hesitated for a long time letting my 14 year old see this series, finally relenting by watching it together on a supervised basis only, and keeping the OVA episode strictly off limits.

4)

While nothing is shown there is a pre-marital relationship that develops between two of the characters, although brief, it's still present.

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, this happens twice (i.e. there are two such pairings, although IIRC, one is only implied as beginning to develop at the very end of the TV series, but confirmed in the OVA.) I think the only saving grace to these is that in both cases, this has the feeling of actually being "pre-marital" (i.e., these people could realistically be paired for life, not just the moment) but I recognize that isn't much of a "saving grace". It is still pre-marital.

On the positive side, my normally non-anime-fan wife loved "Please, Teacher." She's a sucker for a good love story.

[Tenshi no Ai]

love all the please series i highly recommened them please teacher was great as was please twins go buy now

...Twins seem to REALLY turn me off, because the 2 girls are supposed to be the guy's brother, yet are both in love with him aren't they? Series like Cardcaptor Sakura and they're "crushes on cousins" don't really bother me like these because there's like no fanservice involved. Even in Elfen Lied since Yuka is Kouta's cousin gets me to go "oy..."

[Nightshade X]

I loved the series. I probably would have liked it even more if there wasn't as much fanservice in it... as little as there was (if I remember correctly...).

Twins... I couldn't get into at all.

[Eric]

It was the first anime series I ever got, and I love it.

[Kenshin17]

I own this series. I liked it.

My two objections have already been noted and expounded upon.

1) Fanservice. A little to much. I had the same problem with Twins

2) The "he is older then he looks device" I love a good love story, but it was sorta uncomfortable for me to watch them together. But overall it was pretty easy to overlook, and it does have some funny stuff.

Ok so I have three objections:

3) the pre-marital relationships.

But I still own it and list it among the anime I like, but definatly not for anyone under 13.

[Bobtheduck]

I wrote up a pretty extensive review way back when, but it got lost in the sands of time, or was it the legend of the precursors? In any case, you'll find at least 6 cans, but I digress...

I love this show... I hate the last episode, and I hate the sequal. Episodes 1-12 are good on their own.

Content: Ok, pretty hefty fanservice in it... That being said, the story is actually rather good. It is not a topic you'd likely find in American movies, but in a nation with a history of arranged marriage, it is a very familiar topic with a sci-fi twist. The question with Arranged marriage is always, in the presence of "love" marriages, which one is better? Will you fall in love with someone you didn't chose to be with?

This was like an arranged marriage between two people who would have rather married for love. The begining of their married lives was very awkward, because they didn't have the relationship up to that point, and they [spoiler]don't even consumate the marriage right away[/spoiler] They had to grow to love each other because they were essentially "arranged" to keep the (alien) teacher safe legally and keep questions from being asked... That's the primary plot.

The secondary plots vary, one being more interesting to me than the primary one. It's about his blackouts. The main character (Kei?) has blackouts (Taitei) when he gets really stressed out, and one of his blackouts left him in a sort of a trancelike state for 3 years. He had to move, and has to fake his age. They eventually uncover the reasoning for the blackouts, which is one of those breakthrough moments. I cry every time I see that scene. [spoiler=Nearly the last episode]Basically, he watched his sister commit suicide, and he wanted to hide from real life when real life threatened him, so he shut down in a very extreme way[/spoiler]

There is another side story involving two of kei's friends having a sexual encounter... The way it is treated in the story is that it causes problems, but they don't ever say it was wrong... So, it's not just "whatever" like most things on American TV would do, but it isn't treated as an absolute mistake either... Better than nothing, i guess...

If you can handle a good amount of fanservice, this is a very good show. The spinoff, Onegai Twins (please twins in the US), on the other hand, I would avoid... Something wrong about the whole thing, for me... I stopped about episode 5... The idea of incest and the increased level of fanservice was too much...