History YMMV / Gokusen

* EarWorm: The "Mingenhina" song from Ms. Fujiyama's [[{{Bishounen}} bishie]] harem/choir club.

* AcceptableLifestyleTargets: Averted. The students are all decent kids who look after each other [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas and their families]], but adults call them trash all the time. The show's overall theme is that they're only {{delinquent}}s because they're living down to adults' (especially teachers') low opinions of them.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Many famous j-drama actors appeared in the live-action drama series as Kumiko's students (before their acting careers' popularity skyrocketed), such as Jun Matsumoto, Shun Oguri, Yuma Ishigaki, and Hiroki Narimiya, who all starred in the first season of ''Gokusen'', in 2002.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Shin Sawada in the live action drama, who is nowhere to be seen or heard of after the first season, whereas [[spoiler:he gets a lot of CharacterDevelopment throughout the manga (as do some of his classmates) and starts a relationship with Kumiko in the manga after graduating]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Many famous j-drama actors appeared in the live-action drama series as Kumiko's students, before getting well known in other dramas (or even movies), such as Shun Oguri, Jun Matsumoto, and Hiroki Narimiya, who all starred in the first season of ''Gokusen'', in 2002.

** In one of the extra chapters, an old samurai's spirit has a crush on Shin, because he is good looking (and the samurai was actually homosexual).

* {{Squick}}:
** Ms. Fujiyama and Miura's ''taste'' in young male high-schoolers. Take account, that they are not only still ''minors'', but also ''students'' in the same high school they work in. And while Ms. Fujiyama's situations get ''creepier'' if the reader doesn't know the context of them (and she doesn't actually do ''anything'' to them), it's Miura who has acted more straightforward towards the idea... on Shin Sawada, who becomes his obsession and threats him in making him his "pet", as a way to get Kumiko fired.
** The initial idea of a TeacherStudentRomance between Shin and Kumiko would sound like this... but gets averted considering that at first, Yankumi is [[ObliviousToLove oblivious to Shin's crush]] and she has an unrequited crush [[spoiler:(or so it seems)]] on Shinohara, and that [[spoiler:they eventually end up as a couple, once Shin graduates from high school]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Many famous j-drama actors appeared in the live-action drama series before getting well known in other dramas (or even movies), such as Shun Oguri, Jun Matsumoto, and Hiroki Narimiya, who all starred in the first season of ''Gokusen'', in 2002.

** Ms. Fujiyama and Miura's... taste in young male high-schoolers. Take account, that they are not only still ''minors'', but also ''students'' in the same high school they work in. And while Ms. Fujiyama's situations get ''creepier'' if the reader doesn't know the context of them (and she doesn't actually do ''anything'' to them), it's Miura who has acted more straightforward towards the idea... on Shin Sawada, whom he becomes obsessed with and threats him in making him his "pet", as a way to get Kumiko fired.
** The initial idea of a TeacherStudentRomance between Shin and Kumiko would sound like this... but gets averted considering that at first, Yankumi is [[ObliviousToLove oblivious to Shin's crush]] and she has an unrequited crush [[spoiler:(or so it seems)]] on Shinohara, and that [[spoiler:they eventually end up as a couple... once Shin graduates from high school]].

!!This series provides examples of:
* AcceptableLifestyleTargets : Averted. The students are all decent kids who look after each other [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas and their families]], but adults call them trash all the time. The show's overall theme is that they're only {{delinquent}}s because they're living down to adults' (especially teachers') low opinions of them.
* 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.
** Though [[https://www.otakusmash.com/read-manga/Gokusen/135.147/16/ this]] isn't too bad.
* {{Padding}}: With hints of LeaveTheCameraRunning and BigLippedAlligatorMoment, the running montage in episode 7 of the anime. It lasts for over a minute and is completely unnecessary, uncomfortable, and... bizarre; the weird song Fujiyama has her choir club sing is playing in the background, sung by out-of-tune falsetto voices.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Shin in the live action series, who is nowhere to be seen or heard of after the first season, whereas he starts a relationship with Yankumi in the manga after graduating.

* UglyCute: When [[{{Gonk}} Tetsu and Minoru]] first come to the kumi:
-->'''Kumiko:''' I've always wanted cute little younger brothers!
-->'''Wakamatsu:''' I think you're the one and only person in the world who'd say that...

* AcceptableLifestyleTargets : The students are all decent kids who look after each other [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas and their families]], but adults call them trash all the time. The show's overall theme is that they're only {{delinquent}}s because they're living down to adults' (especially teachers') low opinions of them.

* NeedsMoreLove

-->'''Wakamatsu:''' I think you're the one and only person in the world who'd say that...

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Shin in the live action series, who is nowhere to be seen or heard of after the first season, whereas he starts a relationship with Yankumi in the manga after graduating.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Shin in the live action series, who is nowhere to be seen or heard of after the first season, whereas he starts a relationship with Yankumi in the managa after graduating.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: When Kumiko and Kyo go to free Shin from house arrest, Kumiko climbs onto Shin's balcony and makes a reference to RomeoAndJuliet:
-->'''Kumiko:''' *hanging off the balcony* You know... aren't these roles usually reversed?
-->'''[[TheStoic Shin]]:''' *[[LuminescentBlush blushes]]*
** In the anime, he even goes {{Tsundere}} and mutters some kind of [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike complaint]].
** Let's not forget [[spoiler:the confession]]! This troper teared up a little... and then was laughing a few seconds later.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Both chapters with the fundoshi in their entirety. Poor Shin!

** In the anime, he even goes {{Tsundere}} and mutters some [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike complaint]].

!!The manga provides examples of:

!!The anime provides examples of:

!!The LiveActionAdaptation provides examples of:
* AcceptableLifestyleTargets : The students are all decent kids who look after each other [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas and their families]], but adults call them trash all the time. The show's overall theme is that they're only {{delinquent}}s because they're living down to adults' (especially teachers') low opinions of them.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Shin, who is nowhere to be seen or heard of after the first series whereas he starts a relationship with Yankumi in the managa after graduating.

* TheThingThatGoesDoink: Never shown on-screen, but the distinctive sound is heard whenever the scene is the Ooeda compound.

* AcceptableLifestyleTargets : The students are all decent kids who look after each other [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas and their families]], but adults call them trash all the time. The show's overall theme is that they're only {{delinquent}}s because they're living down to adults' (especially teachers') low opinions of them.

* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: ''Gokudo no Sensei'' - translates to Gangster Teacher