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* ObfuscatingStupidity: You may think [[spoiler:Shinohara completely doesn't notice Kumiko's crush on him]]. You would be wrong. He has his reasons, though.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: You may think [[spoiler:Shinohara completely doesn't notice Kumiko's verrry obvious crush on him]]. You would be wrong. He has his reasons, though.though.
* ObliviousToLove: [[spoiler:Or so it would seem.]]

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List of important characters in the series ''{{Gokusen}}''.''Manga/{{Gokusen}}''.



* TalkingAnimal: Only to Shin in the special chapters of the manga. To everyone besides Shin, it just sounds like barking. Even outside the special chapters, though, Shin seems to know what Fuji is thinking.

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* TalkingAnimal: Only to Shin in the special chapters of the manga. To everyone besides Shin, it just sounds like barking. Even outside the special chapters, though, Shin seems to know what Fuji is thinking.thinking.
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* DistaffCounterpart: Kumiko is the Distaff Counterpart to [[GreatTeacherOnizuka Eikichi Onizuka]]. Only difference is Onizuka is a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]] while Kumiko is the {{Ojou}} to a tough as nails {{Yakuza}} clan.

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* DistaffCounterpart: Kumiko is the Distaff Counterpart to [[GreatTeacherOnizuka [[Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka Eikichi Onizuka]]. Only difference is Onizuka is a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]] while Kumiko is the {{Ojou}} to a tough as nails {{Yakuza}} clan.
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* RedHeadedHero: Shin's died red hair, as well as his enrollment in Shirokin, is a symbol of his disdain for his father's pushiness. His hair's color and shaggy quality earn him the nickname "Young Master Red Lion" from Kyo.

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* RedHeadedHero: Shin's died dyed red hair, as well as his enrollment in Shirokin, is a symbol of his disdain for his father's pushiness.oppressiveness. His hair's color and shaggy quality earn him the nickname "Young Master Red Lion" from Kyo.
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* RedHeadedHero: Shin's died red hair, as well as his enrollment in Shirokin, is a symbol of his disdain for his father's pushiness. His hair's color and shaggy quality earn him the nickname "Young Master Red Lion" from Kyo.

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->Has much more involvement in the anime than in the manga.



* AscendedExtra: Again, in the anime.
* AsianBuckTeeth



-->'''Vice-principal:''' FINE! I'LL GET A HOLD OF HIM AND PERSUADE HIM MYSELF! *leaves office* Shawada-kuuuun! <3

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-->'''Vice-principal:''' FINE! I'LL GET A HOLD OF HIM AND PERSUADE HIM MYSELF! *leaves office* [[TermsOfEndangerment Shawada-kuuuun! <3<3]]

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* TheDitz: He is apparently so dumb that he didn't remember that he was a senior, and unwittingly dropped a year to be in Kumiko's class.

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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: His ideology is, "The weak must obey the strong."
* BerserkButton: Insulting his looks is asking for an ass-kicking.
* BigOlUnibrow:
* TheDitz: He is apparently so dumb that he didn't couldn't remember that what class he was a senior, in and unwittingly dropped a year to be in Kumiko's class.




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* DumbMuscle



* [[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy]]

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* [[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy]]
[[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy]]: In the anime.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He becomes this in the Shibata arc and concedes that Kumiko's [[ToughLove unorthodox teaching methods]] are sometimes effective.
* NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: He's desperate to make Shin take the entrance exams for prestigious universities in order to raise Shirokin's reputation. He's apoplectic when he hears Shin doesn't want to go to college.
-->'''Vice-principal:''' FINE! I'LL GET A HOLD OF HIM AND PERSUADE HIM MYSELF! *leaves office* Shawada-kuuuun! <3
-->'''Fujiyama:''' Oh my... Poor Sawada Shin.
-->'''Kumiko:''' It's all right. He won't be caught.

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->A Shirokin student who was expelled in his third year for bullying.
* TheBully: What he was when still in school.
* BoxedCrook: A variation; [[spoiler:After he fails to kill Kumiko a third time, he's captured and brought back to the Ooedo compound, where he's kept as a servant. This is to reform him, and he actually does [[CharacterDevelopment get a lot better]] because he realizes the Kurodas are keeping him in to protect him from all the people he's angered]].
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He goes up against Kumiko three times and fails three times.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Not all that grown up, but even after being expelled from Shirokin, he's fixated on continuing to make the students' lives a living hell.




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->Kudoh's right hand man from Shirokin.
* TheDitz: He is apparently so dumb that he didn't remember that he was a senior, and unwittingly dropped a year to be in Kumiko's class.
* TheDragon: To Kudoh.

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* GrumpyBear

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* GrumpyBear
TheHedonist: Exemplified when he gets mad that his friends are trying to get him to think about his future since he has no plans. He ends up taking up a job that earns a lot of money doing very little work without thinking about [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub what kind of organization it might be, and gets in trouble]].




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->Friend and classmate of Shin. Marginally more calm and thoughtful than the others.
* NeverBareheaded: He's always wearing a baseball cap.
* TheNicknamer: He was the one who came up with "Yankumi" as a nickname for Kumiko.

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* CloudCuckooLander: Definitely the silliest amongst his friends.

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* CasanovaWannabe: He succeeds near the end of the manga because the girl thought it was cute how he would [[LovableCoward faint all the time]].
* CloudCuckooLander: Definitely the silliest amongst his friends.Mildly.




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->Friend and classmate of Shin.
* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler:He's the one who ultimately outs Kumiko to the entire school, not out of malevolence, but because he was shocked]].
* DelinquentHair: Has a tall, blond mohawk.
* {{Gonk}}: With his protuberant eyes, chubby face, and mohawk, he closely resembles a fish.
* GrumpyBear

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->Shin's best friend and classmate since middle school.




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->Part of Shin's circle of friends at Shirokin.
* CloudCuckooLander: Definitely the silliest amongst his friends.
* HairTriggerTemper: If there's a fight involving a Shirokin student, expect Uchi to have compulsively instigated it somehow. And he will lose these fights, because he's also a...
* MilesGloriosus
* UglyGuyHotWife: He finally gets a girlfriend late in the series, a beautiful girl named Shiori who's a [[NightmareFetishist horror fanatic]].
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* CuckooCloudLander: He does a lot of silly things, like putting on a magic show for some visiting teachers, or posing dramatically while saying something cool-sounding.

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* CuckooCloudLander: CloudCuckooLander: He does a lot of silly things, like putting on a magic show for some visiting teachers, or posing dramatically while saying something cool-sounding.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: You may think [[spoiler:Shinohara completely doesn't notice Kumiko's crush on him]]. You would be wrong. He has his reasons, though.
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->The short, bald principal of Shirokin.


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->Kumiko's dog. Half Tosa dog, half... horse?


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* FunnyAnimal: In the anime, it's almost as if he's a human in a dog's body.
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* BoisterousBruiser


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* LargeHam: '''KNOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DEFEATED BY ORE-SAMA!'''

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* DirtyOldMan:

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* DirtyOldMan:
CuckooCloudLander: He does a lot of silly things, like putting on a magic show for some visiting teachers, or posing dramatically while saying something cool-sounding.
* DirtyOldMan: He sometimes drools over Fujiyama or lets slip something perverted.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As troublesome as the students of Shirokin are, he still believes in them and backs them up.
* ObfuscatingStupidity




!Fuji

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\n!Fuji* [[spoiler:AdaptationalVillainy]]

!Fuji
* AscendedExtra: He shows up for some silliness in bonus chapters and occasionally provides some help in the manga, but in the anime, he shows up every single episode and even has some [[IntellectualAnimal important acting and speaking roles]] (though no one can understand him except the audience).
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: In the special chapters of the manga, he wears a sweatsuit jacket similar to Kumiko's, though when he shows up in the main story, he's naked except for the ribbon on his tail. In the anime, he wears the jacket all the time.
* IntellectualAnimal: In the anime, where you can hear his thoughts.
* InterspeciesRomance: It's unknown who Fuji's father is, but judging by his tail, many have presumed it was a horse.
* TalkingAnimal: Only to Shin in the special chapters of the manga. To everyone besides Shin, it just sounds like barking. Even outside the special chapters, though, Shin seems to know what Fuji is thinking.

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* ShipperOnDeck: Probably the biggest supporter of Shin's crush on Kumiko.




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->A teacher sent by the chairman to spy on Kumiko.
* ButtMonkey
* CampGay: He becomes this after he gets some CharacterDevelopment and forms some kind of weird club with two CampGay freshmen.
* {{Ephebophile}}: Played for creepiness.
* SadistTeacher: Combined with a literal {{BDSM}} fetish. He tries to force Shin to become his "[[{{Squick}} pet]]".
* ScaryShinyGlasses




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* AccidentalPervert: He sometimes forgets to put his pants on before letting people see him.
* DirtyOldMan:
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* OneManArmy: All those who have tried to take her on have been taken down. Except [[AmbiguouslyHuman Yvegney]].

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* OneManArmy: All those who have tried She has been able to take down any opponent in front of her on have been taken down.easily and singlehandedly. Except [[AmbiguouslyHuman Yvegney]].
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Kuma really loves his mother, though he's not really that bad. There was even an arc in the manga devoted to Kuma considering dropping out of high school to take care of his mom, with his whole class pitching in to help so he wouldn't have to.

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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: More rough around the edges than bad, but Kuma really loves his mother, though he's not really that bad.mother. There was even an arc in the manga devoted to Kuma considering dropping out of high school to take care of his mom, with his whole class pitching in to help so he wouldn't have to.

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->Kumiko's student and the smartest student at Shirokin. He quickly figures out Kumiko's background and eventually develops a crush on her.

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->Kumiko's student and the smartest student at Shirokin. student. He quickly figures out Kumiko's background and eventually develops a crush on her.her.
* BigManOnCampus: Incredibly smart, popular, and athletic, he's loved by everyone in the school. Not that he cares.




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-> Female music teacher at Shirokin.
* BigBreastPride: Apparently she's an F-cup, and she doesn't mind people mentioning it. She also drew herself with GagBoobs on her flyer for her choir club.
* BuxomIsBetter: The students of Shirokin certainly think so.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: During her previous teaching job at a middle school, [[spoiler:one student attempted to commit suicide due to bullying]], and Fujiyama, as his teacher, was blamed for not noticing it. She went on an [[JourneyToFindOneself aimless journey]] (i.e. she took a vacation), and since then has been determined not to let the same thing happen to one of her students again.
* {{Ephebophile}}: She jokes about it, but she might not be serious. She does like her boys young and thin, though.
* InLoveWithLove: She claims she used to be called "Love's Busty Savior."
* ShipperOnDeck: For Shin and Kumiko.

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->Our heroine. High school math teacher and granddaughter of one of the most powerful yakuza bosses in Japan.



* OneManArmy: All those who have tried to take her on have been taken down.

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* OneManArmy: All those who have tried to take her on have been taken down. Except [[AmbiguouslyHuman Yvegney]].



* {{Bishonen}}: Shin. Normally, this would have every female character lusting after him, but Kumiko scarcely notices and Fujiyama has her own peculiar tastes.

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->Kumiko's student and the smartest student at Shirokin. He quickly figures out Kumiko's background and eventually develops a crush on her.
* {{Bishonen}}: Shin. Normally, this would have every female character lusting after him, but Kumiko scarcely notices and Fujiyama has her own peculiar tastes.



-->Kumiko's grandfather and the head of the Kuroda family and Ooedo Clan.

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-->The Ooedo Clan's lawyer.

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-->The ->The Ooedo Clan's lawyer.




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->Kumiko's "younger brothers." You rarely see one without the other.
* AnimalMotifs: Tetsu is sometimes referred to as "octopus," Minoru sometimes as "squid."
* FaceOfAThug:
-->'''Kumiko:''' Stop crying! You both have faces that could kill a cow!
* FatAndSkinny: Tetsu and Minoru, respectively.
* UglyCute: At least Kumiko thinks so.

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* OneManArmy: All those who have tried to take her on have been taken down.



* {{Yakuza}}: Of course.

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* {{Yakuza}}: Of course.



* BenevolentBoss



* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He was incredibly popular with the girls in his youth.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He According to the Kuroda's councilor, Ryuichirou was incredibly popular with the girls such a man in his youth.youth, "Even a guy could fall in love with him."




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* PapaWolf: When Kumiko comes home extremely ill after being kidnapped by [[spoiler:Kudou]], Ryuichirou orders the destruction of ''the entire Nekomata kumi.'' The kumi had enough sense to scatter before the Kurodas came after them.




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->The young boss of the Kuroda group.
* BigBrotherMentor: He acts as this toward most of the Kuroda group, but especially Kumiko. He was the one who taught her how to fight. He also tries to be this to Shin, though Shin is strongly against it.
* ChivalrousPervert
* KavorkaMan: He's approaching middle age and it shows, but somehow women are all over him.
* OneManArmy: He ''is'' the man who taught Kumiko how to fight, after all.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He was incredibly popular with the girls in his youth.




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* OnlySaneMan



* DistressedDude: He gets rescued in his youth by Ryuichirou, and later has to get rescued by Kumiko.
* NonActionGuy

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* DistressedDude: He gets rescued thrown into harm's way quite a bit.
* NonActionGuy: Shinohara is the only man
in this series who can't hold his youth by Ryuichirou, own in a fight. He got in trouble with some gangsters he was still in college and later has had to get be rescued by Kumiko.
Ryuuichirou, Kumiko's grandpa.
* NonActionGuy
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-->Kumiko's grandfather and the head of the Kuroda family and Ooedo Clan.
* BadassGrandpa
* CoolOldGuy
* FatherToHisMen




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-->The Ooedo Clan's lawyer.
* {{Bishounen}}: One of few.
* DistressedDude: He gets rescued in his youth by Ryuichirou, and later has to get rescued by Kumiko.
* NonActionGuy
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* {{Gonk}}: Mildly. He drifts into UglyCute territory after the ArtEvolution.

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* GentleGiant: After some CharacterDevelopment.
* {{Gonk}}: Mildly. He drifts into UglyCute territory after the ArtEvolution.ArtEvolution.

!Haruhiko "Uchi" Uchiyama

!Youichi Minami

!Takeshi Noda

!Ryuichirou Kuroda

!Tomoya Shinohara

!Kyotaro "Kyo" Ooshima

!Tetsu Asakura and Minoru Tatsukawa

!Shizuka Fujiyama

!Hiroki Kudoh

!Ichiro Tsuruta

!Gonzou Shirakawa (The Principal)

!Goro Sawatari (The Vice-Principal)

!Fuji

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List of characters in the manga, anime, and live-action series ''Gokusen''.''{{Gokusen}}''.



* SurroundedByIdiots: He was able to convince his friends that his bruises and cuts were from a cupboard falling on him after a huge earthquake... until Minami points out that there hadn't been an earthquake recently.

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* SurroundedByIdiots: He was able to convince his friends that his bruises and cuts were from a cupboard falling on him after a huge earthquake... until Minami points out that there hadn't been an earthquake recently.recently.

!Teruo "Kuma" Kumai
* TheBigGuy: His nickname, "Kuma," means "bear" in Japanese.
* BookDumb: He somehow managed to get a ''zero'' on his math test.
* TheDitz
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Kuma really loves his mother, though he's not really that bad. There was even an arc in the manga devoted to Kuma considering dropping out of high school to take care of his mom, with his whole class pitching in to help so he wouldn't have to.
* {{Gonk}}: Mildly. He drifts into UglyCute territory after the ArtEvolution.

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* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangster: Her and the rest of the Kurodas.

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* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangster: NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: Her and the rest of the Kurodas.



* {{Yakuza}}: Of course.

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* {{Yakuza}}: Of course.course.

!Shin Sawada
* {{Bishonen}}: Shin. Normally, this would have every female character lusting after him, but Kumiko scarcely notices and Fujiyama has her own peculiar tastes.
* DeadpanSnarker: Often.
* DistressedDude: On occasion. He saves Kumiko just as often, though.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Shin's police chief dad isn't too happy about his son liking a [[MafiaPrincess Yakuza Princess]].
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He has his share of admirers, within and without Shirokin.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shin is very aloof and cold, but he goes to great lengths to help and protect his friends. He even saves Kumiko a few times, though that's arguably after the probable time he started developing a crush on her.
* LikesOlderWomen: If his crush on Kumiko is anything to go by.
* OnlySaneMan
* TheStoic: Shin very rarely changes his expression of casual disinterest for anything or anyone.
** So when he shows anger when he hears [[spoiler: Kimiko has been tricked to get ambushed by her students]], you can see why OOCIsSeriousBusiness.
* SurroundedByIdiots: He was able to convince his friends that his bruises and cuts were from a cupboard falling on him after a huge earthquake... until Minami points out that there hadn't been an earthquake recently.
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* BadassTeacher: Of course, since she's incredibly strong, brave, and protective.

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* BadassTeacher: Of course, since she's incredibly strong, brave, and protective.protective.
* DistaffCounterpart: Kumiko is the Distaff Counterpart to [[GreatTeacherOnizuka Eikichi Onizuka]]. Only difference is Onizuka is a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]] while Kumiko is the {{Ojou}} to a tough as nails {{Yakuza}} clan.
* GirlishPigtails: Part of her playing the docile, feminine teacher.
* LargeHam: Whenever she passionately starts talking about honor and blood brothers and such.
* LoveCanMakeYouGonk: Kumiko does this whenever she is fawning over Shinohara. Her eyes go from their usual fixed glare to big, sparkly, bishojo-standard and can flick back and forth between panels when the situation calls for it.
* {{Meganekko}}: Kumiko tries very hard to [[ObfuscatingStupidity fit this trope]], but the harder she tries, the less convincing it is.
* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangster: Her and the rest of the Kurodas.
* NerdGlasses: Kumiko's glasses are actually arguably multipurpose, and are sometimes used as MaskPower or ScaryShinyGlasses.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: She acts like a ditz to cover up her yakuza mannerisms.
* ObliviousToLove: Kumiko puts so much of herself into her work and helping her students that she doesn't notice Shin's feelings towards her at all.
* TheOjou: Kumiko's yakuza family often calls her Ojou.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: If her glasses go opaque, brace yourself.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Kumiko. She wears a sweatsuit and NerdGlasses with her hair in pig tails at school, but she's beautiful when wearing a kimono, a little black dress, or even a girlish nightgown.
* {{Yakuza}}: Of course.
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!Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi
* ActionGirl: Kumiko was trained to fight by her uncles and is ''very'' effective at it.
* BadassTeacher: Of course, since she's incredibly strong, brave, and protective.

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