History Manga / Gokusen

** Tsuruda doesn't like to fight people weaker than him, but insult his appearance and all bets are off.

* {{Noodle Incident}}: Between Kuma and Shin.
** "And when we were on Mt. Hane, I took the bento . . ."

* Noodle Incident: Between Kuma and Shin.

* Noodle Incident: Between Kuma and Shin. -> "And when we were on Mt. Hane, I took the bento . . ."

* HotForStudent / HotForTeacher: Besides the Shin and Kumiko hijinks, Miura-sensei's obsession with Shin, and, arguably, Fujiyama-sensei, as she always jokes about which of the cute boys she would sleep with.

* HoYay: The manga can probably get away with [[http://www.mangareader.net/1664-53004-7/gokusen/chapter-77.html stuff like this]] because the characters involved are {{gonk}}s.
** Or [[http://www.mangareader.net/1664-53057-9/gokusen/chapter-130.html this]], though less extreme.

* EpicFail: In the Live Action series, her over-enthusiam often scares away the non-delinquent classes she teaches.

* [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything|The Yakuza Who Don't Do Anything]]: Yankumi's yakuza family are never involved in organised crime. In fact, their only source of income appears to be from a small roadside food stall.

* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Early in the manga, Tetsu and Minoru see Kumiko mooning over Shinohara-sensei. Wanting to help, they offer to hold him down so she can rape him, but Kumiko just smacks them.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Each season begins with Yankumi going in to teach at class 3-D of a new school, which is filled with bishounen delinquents who she inevitably wins over, helping them with their troubles over the course of the season, culminating in their graduation. Each season also features new love interest for Yankumi, with the old ones disappearing without a trace except Baba in seasons 2 and 3. Seasons 2 and 3 also have Yankumi being fired from a different teaching job for teaching her students yakuza phrases, before going to that season's class 3-D. Each class also seems to feature one student who acts as the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Man]] and has an implied crush on Yankumi (Shin in Season 1, Ryu in Season 2, and Yamato in Season 3).

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Each season begins with Yankumi going in to teach at class 3-D of a new school, which is filled with bishounen delinquents who she inevitably wins over, helping them with their troubles over the course of the season, culminating in their graduation. Each season also features new love interest for Yankumi, with the old ones disappearing without a trace except Baba in seasons 2 and 3. Seasons 2 and 3 also have Yankumi being fired from a different teaching job for teaching her students yakuza phrases, before going to that season's class 3-D.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Kumiko's ditz-acting seems to work on almost everyone in the series, even though she always slips into "yakuza mode". She passes this off as being a big fan of yakuza movies and TV shows.

** Or http://www.mangareader.net/1664-53057-9/gokusen/chapter-130.html this, though less extreme.

* LoveTriangle: Shin -> Kumiko -> Shinohara [[spoiler: Manga Canon points to Shin and Kumiko getting together]]

* TheOjou: Kumiko's yakuza family often calls her Ojou

Schools aren't tolerant of gangs and people of dangerous backgrounds, so Kumiko's relationship to her yakuza family must remain a secret. Unfortunately for her, there is one extremely smart and disgruntled {{Bishonen}} -- Sawada Shin -- in her class full of idiots. He sees through her very poor cover-up and realizes that she is an ActionGirl. His demands for a fight are mocked by Kumiko, after which Shin's respect and passing interest only grows.

University graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko's first teaching assignment is at Shirokin High School not a TwoTeacherSchool, an all-boys school renowned for being full of [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquents]]. She is put in charge of the worst class in the school -- class 2-D. Fortunately, teaching and helping delinquents has always been her dream, and as she is heiress to a {{Yakuza}} group, she is more than equipped enough to handle any trouble a bunch of snot-nosed kids can cause.

University graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko's first teaching assignment is at Shirokin High School not a TwoTeacherSchool, an all-boys school renowned for being full of {{Delinquents}}. She is put in charge of the worst class in the school -- class 2-D. Fortunately, teaching and helping delinquents has always been her dream, and as she is heiress to a {{Yakuza}} group, she is more than equipped enough to handle any trouble a bunch of snot-nosed kids can cause.

* ColourfulThemeNaming: The high school of the first series is named ''Shirokin'' or "white gold" as in the manga, but the second series' school is ''Kurogin'' "black silver" and the third's school is ''Akadou'' or "red copper".

* TheRedSonja: Kumiko pulls this trope to get out of an attempted arranged marriage. However her tactics only make the prospective groom fall more in love with her and determined to win the fight and her hand.

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* BadBadActing: Kumiko and her {{Yakuza}} family couldn't act their way out of a wet paper bag, the only reason she can fool most of her students is that they range from [[TheFool simple]] to the [[RalphWiggum borderline retarded]].

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University graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko's first teaching assignment is at Shirokin High School not a TwoTeacherSchool, an all-boys school renowned for being full of {{Delinquents}}. She is put in charge of the worst class in the school - class 2-D. Fortunately, teaching and helping delinquents has always been her dream, and as she is heiress to a {{Yakuza}} group, she is more than equipped enough to handle any trouble a bunch of snot-nosed kids can cause.

Schools aren't tolerant of gangs and people of dangerous backgrounds, so Kumiko's relationship to her yakuza family must remain a secret. Unfortunately for her, there is one extremely smart and disgruntled {{Bishonen}} - Sawada Shin - in her class full of idiots. He sees through her very poor cover-up and realizes that she is an ActionGirl. His demands for a fight are mocked by Kumiko, after which Shin's respect and passing interest only grows.

Gokusen is fairly similar to ''GreatTeacherOnizuka'' in premise - become trustworthy to the delinquents and teach them lessons through "{{tough love}}". However, Kumiko is properly educated and her secret background plays a large part in the series - for example, her students think she is in debt to yakuza because of one of her poor cover-up excuses, and she brings in a rather conspicuously shady fellow when she suddenly needs to tutor her students in boxing.

* BadBadActing: Kumiko and her {{Yakuza}} family couldn't act their way out of a wet paperbag, the only reason she can fool most of her students is that they range from [[TheFool simple]] to the [[RalphWiggum borderline retarded]].

* {{Delinquents}}

* TheGlassesComeOff: Live action version. Kumiko always unties her pigtails along with removing her glasses before a fight.
** Also happens in the anime and manga whenever she switches from her demure teacher persona to her yakuza one. It shows in her speech, too: her "civilian" self speaks formally in a cutesy voice, but when she gets mad she suddenly starts growling in coarse, macho Japanese.

* LoveMakesYouGonk: 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.

* SelectiveObliviousness

* {{Yakuza}}: Kumiko's family, of course

* AdaptationalAttractiveness : No two students are not {{bishonen}}.
* AesopAmnesia : It takes a little while for the students to become savvy to the fact that Yankumi's not going to look down on them or mistrust them out of hand.
* BigDamnHeroes : Yankumi. Sometimes the {{nakama}} attempt it, but they often get thumped for their trouble.
* BishieSparkle : In the second series, Kujo-sensei from the girls' school across the road.
* CatchPhrase : The head teacher frequently demands to know whether Yankumi is "doing something unnecessary". Yankumi calls her students ''daiji na seito'' my precious students.
* ColourfulThemeNaming : The high school of the first series is named ''Shirokin'' or "white gold" as in the manga, but the second series' school is ''Kurogin'' "black silver" and the third's school is ''Akadou'' or "red copper".
* CoolOldGuy : Kuroda Ryuuichiro.

* DawsonCasting : Avoided. High school seniors 17-18 are played by actors aged 18-22.
* HotBlooded : Yankumi.
* LighterAndSofter : Yankumi, her family, ''and'' her students have all had their edges filed off. In fact, the whole {{yakuza}} element seems to have been swept under the rug entirely. On the other hand...

* {{Nakama}} : In the second season, [[TheHero Yabuki]], [[TheLancer Odagiri]], [[TheBigGuy Tsuchiya]], and [[TheChick Takeda]] are rarely seen without each other, and when they are it usually means something bad is going down.
* OnceAnEpisode : Or near to it. Yankumi's students get beaten up by guys who are nastier than they are, then those guys get beaten up by someone who is nastier than ''they'' are: Yankumi. Also, Yankumi consults with her grandfather for advice on what to do over copious amounts of sake.
* RecurringRiff : A distinctive piece plays when Yankumi performs her signature hair-band-and-glasses-removal preparation to start beating on some thugs.
* RousingSpeech

* StealthHiBye : Yankumi pulls off a Stealth Hi at least once an episode. Shin and the others occasionally get in on the act.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute : Each season begins with Yankumi going in to teach at class 3-D of a new school, which is of course filled with bishounen delinquents who she inevitably wins over, helping them with their troubles over the course of the season, culminating in their graduation. Each season also features new love interest for Yankumi, with the old ones disappearing without a trace except Baba in seasons 2 and 3. Seasons 2 and 3 also have Yankumi being fired from a different teaching job for teaching her students yakuza phrases, before going to that season's class 3-D.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself : Second-season's Takeda challenges a college-level boxer to a fight over a girl and gets the tar kicked out of him. Yankumi and the {{Nakama}} don't intervene, even though Takeda is getting [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown wiped out]] and thrown down on sharp, pointy rocks.
* WideEyedIdealist : ...strangely, Yankumi. See also HotBlooded.

* TenMinutesInTheCloset: Shin's friends lock him and Kumiko together in a storage room to encourage intimacy
* TheOjou: Kumiko's yakuza family often calls her Ojou
* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: ''Gokudo no Sensei'' - translates to Gangster Teacher
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Miura-sensei
* SecretIdentity: Kumiko tries to keep her Yakuza background secret at work, although eventually everyone knows. It turns out that it was the reason the school director hired her, figuring she'd be tough enough for the job.
* SelectiveObliviousness
* SittingOnTheRoof: A large amount of scenes take place on the roof of the school.

* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The Kurodas engage in illegal activity but nothing appears to be all that immoral or cruel

University graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko's first teaching assignment is at Shirokin High School (not a TwoTeacherSchool), an all-boys school renowned for being full of {{Delinquents}}. She is put in charge of the worst class in the school - class 2-D. Fortunately, teaching and helping delinquents has always been her dream, and as she is heiress to a {{Yakuza}} group, she is more than equipped enough to handle any trouble a bunch of snot-nosed kids can cause.

The manga was serialized in YOU, a {{josei}} magazine, and while it does have many {{shonen}} elements it is noticeably geared more towards females and fanservice is kept to a minimum (though there are some notable exceptions). The anime adaptation has been licensed for release in North America and can be found in retail outlets with larger anime sections. The multiple seasons of the live-action television drama, however, remains locked behind the language barrier.

* ActionGirl (Kumiko was trained to fight by her uncles and is ''very'' effective at it)
* BadassTeacher (Kumiko; Fujiyama is also very protective in her own way, though she's no ActionGirl like Kumiko)
* BadBadActing (Kumiko and her {{Yakuza}} family couldn't act their way out of a wet paperbag, the only reason she can fool most of her students is that they range from [[TheFool simple]] to the [[RalphWiggum borderline retarded]].
* BigFancyHouse (Shin's residence)
* {{Bishonen}} (Shin. Normally, this would have every female character lusting after him, but Kumiko scarcely notices and Fujiyama has her own peculiar tastes)

* EvenTheGuysWantHim : Believe it or not, Kumiko's grandfather was [[http://www.mangareader.net/1664-52963-12/gokusen/chapter-36.html described as this in his youth]].
* EvilTeacher (Miura, at first, although he's undergone some character development.)
* TheGlassesComeOff (Live action version. Kumiko always unties her pigtails along with removing her glasses before a fight.)

* {{Gonk}} : So many that you can actually tell which characters are genuinely attractive, rather than leaving it up to InformedAttractiveness.
* HotForStudent / HotForTeacher (Besides the Shin and Kumiko hijinks, Miura-sensei's obsession with Shin, and, arguably, Fujiyama-sensei, as she always jokes about which of the cute boys she would sleep with.)
* HoYay : The manga can probably get away with [[http://www.mangareader.net/1664-53004-7/gokusen/chapter-77.html stuff like this]] because the characters involved are {{gonk}}s.

* LoveTriangle (Shin -> Kumiko -> Shinohara) [[spoiler: Manga Canon points to Shin and Kumiko getting together]]
* ManlyTears : Frequently indulged in by the men of Kuroda.
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters (the Kurodas engage in illegal activity but nothing appears to be all that immoral or cruel)
* NerdGlasses (Kumiko's glasses are actually arguably multipurpose, and are sometimes used as MaskPower or ScaryShinyGlasses.)
* NorioWakamoto (voices Kuroda second-in-command Ooshima in the anime)
* ObfuscatingStupidity (Kumiko's ditz-acting seems to work on almost everyone in the series, even though she always slips into "yakuza mode". She passes this off as being a big fan of yakuza movies and TV shows.)
* 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. It takes her a moment to process his confession to her and is floored when it turns out EveryoneCanSeeIt.
* OnlySaneMan: (Shin, Shinohara, Ryuuchirou, and mostly Yankumi. Mostly.)
* OverprotectiveDad (the Kurodas kept scaring off our heroine's boyfriends when she was younger)
* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale (Early in the manga, Tetsu and Minoru see Kumiko mooning over Shinohara-sensei. Wanting to help, they offer to hold him down so she can rape him, but Kumiko just smacks them.)
* TheRedSonja (Kumiko pulls this trope to get out of an attempted arranged marriage. However her tactics only make the prospective groom fall more in love with her and determined to win the fight and her hand.)
* TalkingAnimal (Fuji, but only to Shin in comic-interlude episodes of the manga)
* TenMinutesInTheCloset (Shin's friends lock him and Kumiko together in a storage room to encourage intimacy)
* TheOjou (Kumiko's yakuza family often calls her Ojou)
* PortmanteauSeriesNickname (''Gokudo no Sensei'' - translates to Gangster Teacher)
* ScaryShinyGlasses (Miura-sensei)
* SecretIdentity (Kumiko tries to keep her Yakuza background secret at work, although eventually everyone knows. It turns out that it was the reason the school director hired her, figuring she'd be tough enough for the job.)

* SittingOnTheRoof (A large amount of scenes take place on the roof of the school.)
* {{Yakuza}} (Kumiko's family, of course)

* CatchPhrase : The head teacher frequently demands to know whether Yankumi is "doing something unnecessary". Yankumi calls her students ''daiji na seito'' (my precious students).

* DawsonCasting : Avoided. High school seniors (17-18) are played by actors aged 18-22.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute : Each season begins with Yankumi going in to teach at class 3-D of a new school, which is of course filled with bishounen delinquents who she inevitably wins over, helping them with their troubles over the course of the season, culminating in their graduation. Each season also features new love interest for Yankumi, with the old ones disappearing without a trace (except Baba in seasons 2 and 3). Seasons 2 and 3 also have Yankumi being fired from a different teaching job for teaching her students yakuza phrases, before going to that season's class 3-D.

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