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11	[[caption-width-right:349:[-If you are a teacher in {{Animeland}}, and you wouldn't fit on this picture, you probably don't exist.-][[note]]Pictured, clockwise from top left: [[Manga/LuckyStar Kuroi-sensei]], [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Tsukuyomi-sensei]], [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Taiga]], [[Literature/{{Toradora}} Koigakubo-sensei]], [[Manga/KOn Sawa-chan]], and [[Literature/HarukaNogizakasSecret Yukari-sensei]], Center: [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Yukari-chan]].[[/note]]]]
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13	->''"Why do female teachers in anime always seem to think they're one of their students?"''
14	-->-- '''Sawyer Wallace'''
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16	A common Japanese media character type, the [[HotTeacher female high school teacher who is fairly young, attractive]], even [[{{Moe}} cute]], and [[CoolTeacher on friendly terms with her students]].
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18	On the other hand, she is [[OldMaid still unmarried and very conscious about it]], as well as about [[DudeWheresMyRespect the lack of respect she gets]]. She is usually [[OneOfTheKids extremely childish, such that even her own students appear more mature than her]].
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20	If the story's emphasis is [[ImprobablyFemaleCast on the female students]], she will act like one of the girls, a teenager in spirit. If the protagonist is male, she's more likely to be a bit into a TeacherStudentRomance, as a comical [[SupportingHarem side-character]] in a HaremSeries. A common character flaw PlayedForLaughs is [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl drinking enthusiastically]].
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22	Their frequent complaints about being unable to settle down in a proper relationship are probably based on traditional Japanese culture's conflicting expectations [[CareerVersusFamily that a married woman shouldn't work]] and [[OldMaid a woman over 25 should be married]]. For the intended audiences of many anime, schoolteachers provided the first childhood exposure to women with this dilemma, enforcing the stereotype that teachers are the sort of women who can never get married.
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24	The trope's name is a combination of two honorifics, "-sensei" is used for teachers, like "Miss", and "-chan" is an informal affectionate diminutive. While the combined usage is grammatically correct, and it reflects the characters in spirit, it's unlikely that anyone would use it for a RealLife teacher either in this form, or as "-chan-sensei", since it would be about as conflicting and disrespectful as "Miss-baby", or "Teacher chick" in English.
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26	On the other end, they tend to be on a FirstNameBasis by their students, which is incredibly rare in real life. "-sensei", like its western equivalents, is normally associated to the last name, but these characters may as well not have one.
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28	This trope can also overlap with MisplacedKindergartenTeacher, HippieTeacher, or CoolTeacher. May preside over a WackyHomeroom.
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35	* Tsubame-sensei from ''Manga/AiKora'' mostly fills this trope. Young, unmarried, and hangs out with the girls in the dorm as well as part of the main character's harem. However, she does not want to get married. Her character development has her [[spoiler: letting go of her deceased boyfriend and admitting interest in a new man.]]
36	* Tomita "Tonchan/Tom-Tom" Mari, from ''Manga/AirGear'', 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. She's also very immature and ditzy, and is somehow [[CovertPervert a little too into the idea]] of her male students wanting to take advantage of her.
37	* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'':
38	** Aguri Yukimura, who was Class 3-E's teacher for a few weeks before Koro-sensei arrived. She was an adorable and energetic young teacher, with an endearingly bad fashion sense and a great eagerness to teach and help her students. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Koro-sensei decided to become a teacher to honor Aguri's [[LastRequest dying wish]]. Furthermore, Kaede is actually Aguri's little sister who embarked on a revenge quest against Koro-sensei while falsely believing that he murdered her]].
39	** Irina Jelavic (a.k.a. [[EmbarrassingNickname Bitch-sensei]]) is a more volatile example due to her temper, but she qualifies nonetheless; she's young, seductive, beautiful, and slowly becomes close to her students. She's also an infamous FemmeFatale assassin and is only ''[[ImprobableAge twenty]]''.
40	* Chisato Higuchi from ''Manga/AsobiAsobase'' is a sweet, kind teacher who's also a pushover, has [[OldMaid a huge complex about being unmarried]], and still hasn't grown out of her love for romantic shoujo manga. The members of the Pastimers Club like her a lot, but at the same time they don't have much respect for her as a teacher since they're quick to bring up that she's still single.
41	* Yukari Tanizaki and Minamo "Nyamo" Kurosawa from ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' are widely considered to be the {{Trope Codifier}}s, especially Yukari.
42	** Yukari is a temperamental WomanChild who gradually becomes OneOfTheKids (to the point of being on FirstNameBasis with them as "Yukari-sensei"), can [[ApatheticTeacher easily become bored with her own classes]], and [[OldMaid gets jealous when one of her friends gets married]]. She actually still lives with her parents and doesn't (or at least ''[[DrivesLikeCrazy shouldn't]]'') have a driver's license; she might as well still be 15!
43	** Nyamo is more of a downplayed case, being more mature and getting more respect from the students than Yukari does, and often tries to keep Yukari in line. [[BerserkButton But don't remind her]] that she's [[OldMaid still unmarried.]]
44	* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/BoysAbyss'' with Ms. Shibasawa. She started out as one of these and was close with all of her students, but seeing so many younger girls form sexual relationships only fuelled her fear of becoming an OldMaid and led to her starting a TeacherStudentRomance with LoserProtagonist Reiji, and becoming an EvilTeacher {{yandere}} out of fear of him leaving her behind.
45	* Downplayed with ''Manga/CaseClosed'''s Sumiko Kobayashi. She does show some traits of the trope when she tries to be the manager of the Detective Kids whether they want it or not, but otherwise she's pretty competent in her job and the kids from the 1-B class think she's rather cool. [[spoiler: And after she gets a boyfriend (or better said, [[ChildhoodFriendRomance a young man she met years ago "returns" to her life]]), there's nothing to worry about in regards to the OldMaid part.]]
46	** Sumiko's assistant Rumi Wakasa seems to fit in more in the stereotype, as she's very gentle and sweet but also ''quite'' clumsy. [[spoiler: She's actually a subversion, as she has a BadassTeacher side that [[ObfuscatingStupidity only comes out when it's needed]] and implied to have had a DarkAndTroubledPast linked to the murder of a chess and shogi player that took place 17 years ago.]]
47	* Subverted in ''Manga/CodeBreaker''. The homeroom teacher is a ditzy HotTeacher who seems to be one of these. Then it's revealed that she's actually TheHandler, and the ditziness is [[ObfuscatingStupidity an act]].
48	* Mitsuka-sensei from ''Manga/DearS'' ''wants'' to be this. However, while she has the "young, attractive and immature" part down, she completely overdoes the TeacherStudentRomance part and [[FanDisservice the whole thing just leaves her students disgusted]].
49	* The teacher in ''Anime/DenNohCoil'' is not as extreme as some examples, but she's clearly regarded as TheBabyOfTheBunch by the rest of the faculty, was the one to organize a sleepover at the school for the kids, and after she [[CantHoldHisLiquor gets drunk (on whiskey bonbons!)]] she insists on joining in on the kids' games.
50	* Mika-sensei from ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours'' (whose original manga version predated ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' 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.
51	* Hina Tachibana from ''Manga/DomesticGirlfriend''. A young teacher who still lives with her mother and younger sister and acts like she's still a sorority girl in college, flirting with her students and drinking constantly. [[spoiler: After getting caught having an affair with a student, she eventually decides she isn't fit to be a teacher anymore and quits.]]
52	%%* The [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep nameless]] Teacher ("Komon-sensei", or "Ms. Advisor") from ''Eiken''.
53	* The teacher from ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' is trying to be this... not especially doing that well, though. She best exemplifies the trope when she's teaching her students how to use chopsticks. And failing. ''Horribly''. [[EpicFail A grown Japanese woman who can't use chopsticks]]. To underline the ridiculousness, every single member of her class of elementary-school students has zero difficulty using chopsticks.
54	* ''Manga/FoodWars'': Jun Shiomi is this in spades. Is 34, looks like 16, acts like 12. In spite of being Tootsuki's resident spice expert and a leading authority on the chemistry of aromatic compounds, as well as the Shiomi Seminar's leader, she is excitable, scatter-brained, tends to ramble and holds a grudge against the main character for things his dad did when they were at school together. In fact, her 16-year-old adopted son Akira takes care of her as much as she takes care of him (if not more), something she is deeply emotionally conflicted about.
55	* Miho Amakata from ''Anime/{{Free}}''. She is referred to as "Ama-chan-sensei" by her students (or simply Ama-chan by Nagisa) and is usually upbeat and quirky but tends to get [[TranquilFury quite mad]] when suggested to wear a swimsuit. She uses old and confusing literature phrases to make a point to her pupils and fellow teachers. It was implied that [[spoiler:she was once a swimsuit model called Marin Nishikujo in her youth, but she became a teacher instead, which is why the boys initially asked her to be the swim club's advisor (though they don't know what she did exactly).]]
56	* Mayuko Shiraki in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', teacher of Tohru's class, invokes this when some of her female students address her as "Mayu-chan-sensei", and she demands (jokingly) that they call her "Mayuko-daisensei-sama" ("Great Teacher Mayuko") instead. Aside from that, she's actually more of a downplayed example, often acting as a usually-stern CoolBigSis towards her students (while also frequently getting on Kyo's case about his orange hair, [[MistakenForDyed which she thinks is dyed]]) rather than an immature {{Womanchild}} like most examples.
57	* Usami-sensei in ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass'', 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.
58	* Naru-chan from ''Manga/GirlFriends2006''. Actually referred to AS "Naru-chan-sensei," though not to her face. She's actually somewhat annoyed that her students don't really respect her.
59	* The self-proclaimed ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' is a RareMaleExample. Onizuka spends more time goofing off with his students and even cutting class with them than he does actually teaching. Despite the overly familiar relationship, it doesn't stop him from being a PapaWolf when it comes to his students.
60	%%* Uzuki Shitenno of ''Manga/HappyLesson''.
61	%%* Yukiji Katsura from ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler''.
62	%%* Vera Collins from ''Manga/{{Heroman}}''.
63	%%* Ritsuko Takahashi from ''Manga/HellTeacherNube''.
64	%%* Yoshinoya-sensei from ''Manga/HidamariSketch''.
65	* In ''Manga/HitoribocchiNoOOSeikatsu'', Teruyo Oshie, the main characters' homeroom teacher, tries to be respectable, but her rather meek personality gets in the way. Most of her students call her "Teru-chan" despite her insistence that they call her "sensei." Nako shows Teruyo the appropriate respect, but Teruyo is irrationally scared of Nako. Her personality ends up causing her problems during the fire drill, since Teruyo's students don't take her seriously and thus take the longest time to get out of the building, resulting in a senior colleague chewing Teruyo out.
66	* ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' has Satomi Tachibana, the World History teacher at Koyo Women's Academy. She's often seen hanging out with her students and exercising together, to the point she can easily be mistaken for one of them. On top of it, she secretly loves to cosplay under the name Riko Yuria, but constantly frets about being found out since she tries to keep her work life and private life separated.
67	%%* There is Hibiki-chan from ''Anime/IMyMeStrawberryEggs''. Of course, ''she'' is a WholesomeCrossdresser.
68	* Kyouko Ono from ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''. 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 [[AntiVillain Boris]] come out of his shell.
69	* Karasuma in ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'', which gets {{lampshaded}} in Alice's "cast as a family" dream in Episode 11. In the dream, Karasuma was Shinobu's sister, while Aya is the ''mother'' and Youko is the ''grandfather''. Aya and Youko are her ''students''.
70	* Kyouko "[[BuxomBeautyStandard Boin]]-sensei" Houin from ''Kodomo no Jikan'' fits most of the characteristics. She's definitely the most popular teacher ([[DudeMagnet especially among the boys]]), but the students don't respect her much. She has more success on the net, though. From here, [[CharacterDevelopment she also learns the dichotomy between "What parents/society expect from children" and "What is the best for children".]]
71	* Sawako "Sawa-chan" Yamanaka from ''Manga/KOn'', who is actually addressed on occasion as "Sawa-chan-sensei" (the original title was cooked up by Ritsu and the “Sawa-chan-sensei” name from Yui). To most of the students, she's a kind, mature and responsible teacher, but when she's alone with the main characters she shows a completely different side as an immature CosplayOtakuGirl who often [[OldMaid laments her lack of a love life]]. In this case, there’s a bit of justification: Ritsu and the rest of the club are holding Sawako’s past as a hard-rocking light music club member over her head, which would spoil the serene image she’s trying to portray to the other students. So in exchange for their silence on her past, they get to enjoy a more casual relationship with her.
72	* In ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'', Minami Toba, a teacher who becomes club advisor for the OEC, is reasonably polite and professional while on the clock, but also is a rather hard drinker who turns out to be much less professional when she's drunk.
73	%%* Machiko-sensei from ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne''.
74	* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': Despite her façade of maturity, young Professor Ursula Calistis often gets wrapped up in the hijinks of main character Akko Kagari, such as covering for Akko when Akko accidentally flushes a teacher down the toilet (said "teacher" being a sentient goldfish). At episode's end, Akko specifically praises Ursula by saying, "You almost acted like you were our teacher!" to which Ursula sternly reminded her that she ''is'' their teacher. Further justified because [[spoiler: "Ursula" is actually Akko's idol, Shiny Chariot, in disguise, and Akko & Chariot are very similar personality-wise.]]
75	%%* Hitomi Shimonome from ''Manga/{{Loveless}}''. [[DeconstructedTrope It's not pretty, though.]]
76	* Nanako Kuroi from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is the main characters' world history teacher (as well as Konata, Tsukasa, and Miyuki's homeroom teacher). She's also attractive, fun-loving, and spends a lot of her free time playing {{MMORPG}}s. Unlike Konata, who she plays the same MMO with, she's at least mature enough to not sacrifice sleep for gaming time, and she'll even use the MMO's chat function to remind Konata to do her homework. She's also secretly [[OldMaid insecure about still being single at 27 years old]], and mistakenly assumes Konata's cousin Yui is single as well while trying to bond with her over it.
77	* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' has Akari Koumoto, who gets caught up in her students' [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] fairly often; when she's not sharing protagonist Asahi's role as the OnlySaneMan, she's calling on her past as a [[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent]] to be utterly badass and intimidating. Her primary sources of humor are the clashes between her and her {{Troll}}ish great-grandmother Akane (who's also the principal and, oh yeah, a demon), and her inability to get a boyfriend, which mostly comes from her unrealistic fantasies about being swept off her feet by a prince on a white horse. [[spoiler:Once Asahi's friend Sakurada admits [[TeacherStudentRomance he's got feelings for Akari]], '''the entire cast''' (minus Akane) becomes [[ShipperOnDeck Shippers on Deck]] and does everything they can to help get the two together. They ultimately succeed -- complete with Sakurada confessing while on a white pegasus.]]
78	* Negi Springfield from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is a gender-inverted 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). The "-chan" suffix is actually never used for him, but the masculine "-kun" and "-bouzu" are often used by some of his students, even when addressing him directly.
79	* The alternate universe scenario in the final episode of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' put Misato into this role, rather appropriately. This is later carried over into both ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionAngelicDays'' and ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject''.
80	* Sakurai-sensei from ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'', who seems far too timid to be in a teaching job. She's also the school guidance counselor so she can improve herself, but that doesn't seem to work out for her most of the time.
81	* Yui Kanakura in ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}''. To list just some tropes concerning her: ChildhoodFriends, TeenGenius (she is one year older than her students), TheDon (not really), part of a BalancedHarem; luckily, she can only make [[OneNoteCook gyouza]]. And [[HollywoodToneDeaf she can't sing]]. She keeps a teacherly attitude during class, but only because she believes that's the proper thing to do.
82	* Kazuho Miyauchi from ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'' is [[{{Schoolmarm}} the lone teacher of the main characters' one-room countryside school]], and she's also the elder sister of Renge, who is the youngest student in school. While she's fairly young and attractive, she's also not very mature and prone to [[{{Sleepyhead}} sleeping on the job]] (though since she also manages her family rice farm, it's implied that she's just tired out from working both jobs). However, the only person who calls her "Kazu-chan" is the Hoshigaya siblings' mom.
83	* Sumire from ''Manga/OsananajimiwaOnnanokoniNaare'' is a bitter but no more mature variant. An attractive woman in her late twenties whose boyfriend recently left her for a young woman, Sumire tries to use her class (or anyone else) to feel better about her looks. Usually this leads to her resenting Iori for [[AttractiveBentGender turning into a cuter girl than her]] and wasting all the class time on personal frivolity.
84	* Rebecca "Becky" Miyamoto from ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' is another exaggerated parody; she's already graduated from MIT and teaches high school, but [[ChildProdigy she's only eleven years old]]. While she tries to be mature, she'll sometimes break down and act as immature as a kid her age would.
85	* Mizuho Kazami of ''Anime/PleaseTeacher'' and ''Anime/PleaseTwins'' is an odd case of this, though much of her characterization seems to stem from the fact that she's a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-alien]] who is rather new to Earth's customs, and circumstances forcing her into a [[TeacherStudentRomance marriage with one of her students]]. It becomes more prevalent during the second series.
86	* ''Anime/PowerOfHopePrecureFullBloom'': As an adult, [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi Yumehara]] has become a teacher at a private elementary school. In class, she makes jokes about ice cream during a lesson about climate change, and many of her students are on a FirstNameBasis with her. She's even more of a [[{{Manchild}} Womanchild]] off the clock, as shown when she's hanging out with Rin.
87	* Kazuko Saotome in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is complaining about her love life to her class before introducing the NewTransferStudent... Too bad the poor "girl" lives in a CrapsaccharineWorld. [[spoiler:Which costs her her life in the AlternateUniverse ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'', as she's ''[[EatenAlive eaten alive]]'' by a witch's minion.]]
88	* Played with by Hinako Ninomiya from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. She's got a weird condition (caused by Happōsai 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. If she stays in her adult form for too long, though, she starts acting like her child form.
89	* Yomiko Readman of ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' 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.
90	* Shizuka Nekonome from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire''. She's excitable, cheerful and friendly, often hanging out with the protagonists (mostly justified as she's also the Newspaper's Club advisor), and giving in to [[CatGirl her feline instincts]].
91	* Ayane "Ayanecchi" Tezuka from ''Manga/RougeNoir'' is the very rare ''protagonist'' example. She's also [[BrokenBird quite more tragic]] than the standard example.
92	* Haruna Sakurada from [[YouLookFamiliar both]] ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' and ''Manga/TheCherryProject'' is a good and early example. The Creator/DiC English dub of the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] turned her into another cranky teacher, so this aspect of her personality was gone.
93	* Megumi Sakura from ''Manga/SchoolLive''. The protagonists even call her "Megu-nee", instead of "Sakura-sensei" like she wants. She's a cute, young teacher with ''giant'' IdiotHair. However, Megumi is less of an immature ManChild than other examples, as she [[spoiler:sacrificed herself protecting the three main characters from zombies]] and generally acts as a responsible adult figure. [[spoiler:Almost all of her childish ButtMonkey moments are due to [[UnreliableNarrator Yuki's]] [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness delusions]] and aren't a real indication of what she was really like.]]
94	* Yokoshima-sensei from ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'', also from the perverted TeacherStudentRomance kind.
95	* Remi from ''Manga/SketDance'', who is a cute, cheerful, and ditzy teacher, formerly a children's TV show host, who insists that the students call her [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology "oneesan"]].
96	* The art-club advisor Kasugano-sensei in ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}''. A [[GenkiGirl energetic]] teacher, who is just [[WackyHomeroom as quirky]] [[OneOfTheKids as her students]] and has WomanChild tendencies.
97	* Namie Sasaki from ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure''.
98	* Marie Mjolnir from ''Manga/SoulEater'' fits the bill in most respects. She's so insecure about being single at her age that she ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} tries to marry a toilet]]''! She does have a dose of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, though, and makes an effective TeamMom.
99	* ''Manga/TamamoChansAFox'' is about a [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]] who poses as a high school girl. While the student body can see right through her magical disguise, [[InvisibleToAdults most of the adults at school]] don't notice anything out of the ordinary except Reiko-sensei, who's described as "a kid at heart".
100	* Kisaragi-sensei of ''Manga/UmiNoMisaki'', another teacher who looks and acts like a twelve-year-old and constantly hits on the main character. She is [[ObfuscatingStupidity rather brighter]] than she acts.
101	* Manabu from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is a friendly, somewhat immature (but not in a ManChild way) young teacher. He also can't get a date (though [[TeacherStudentRomance one student likes him]], [[AbhorrentAdmirer much to his dismay]]).
102	* ''Manga/WeNeverLearn'': Played with in the case of Mafuyu Kirisu. As a SternTeacher, she averts this normally despite her age (mid-late 20s), but when she first became a teacher, she tried to be this and a CoolTeacher, which led to her breakdown [[MyGreatestFailure for harming a student's future]].
103	* All the teachers in ''Manga/WhyTheHellAreYouHereTeacher'' are young, attractive, and (mostly) get along with their students (the first teacher, Kana Kojima, was known as "Kojima the Demon Teacher" among the students, but she mellows out).
104	* Downplayed in ''Manga/YuriMoyou''. Ryou, the eldest of the Sakimiya sisters, works as a teacher and tries to be "a respectable adult" for her students. Despite that, she often gets held back by her personality and her crush on Hikari, one of her students.
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108	* ''Fanfic/ACertainUnknownLevel0'': As said in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8918264/6/A-Certain-Unknown-Level-0 the sixth chapter]], Tsukuyomi Komoe is a teacher who doesn't look like one:
109	--> as she was a short girl of 135cm
110	* ''Fanfic/FateReachOut'': This story deconstructs the trope with [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Taiga Fujimura]]. Taiga became a teacher in her old high school because she didn't really fit in anywhere else after graduating. Unfortunately, her childish behavior didn't earn her the respect she wanted from her students and Taiga felt mocked anytime they called by her nickname.
111	* Y/N, the main character of ''Fanfic/TowardABrightFuture'' is a young woman who becomes the TA to Class 1-A (and the rest of the school to a minor extent). She is well-liked, gives out tutoring, snacks, and stickers to her students, and is perfectly willing to play video games and make pillow forts with the two that are living in the same dorm as her. It's mentioned that she is an AmnesiacHero, so [[VagueAge she doesn't know her exact age]] other than being around 5 years older than her class.
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115	* Played with in ''Literature/AndYouThoughtThereIsNeverAGirlOnline'' with Yui Saitou. While she is fairly good at her job, her mannerisms as "Nekohime" (her OnlineAlias at playing [=MMORPGs=]) would occasionally seep in, such as her unconscious habit of sometimes ending her sentences with "~nyaa~".
116	* Aiko Hatayama from ''Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'' is a twenty-five-year-old high-school teacher that looks like a middle-schooler, and who appears more childish the more she attempts to do her job. Her students love 'Ai-chan' and consider her the class pet.
117	* Ko{{moe}}-sensei from ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' 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 [[TeacherStudentRomance 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 [[UniqueProtagonistAsset Touma]].
118	* Maria Takayama from ''Literature/{{Haganai}}'' is an exaggerated version of this trope, since she's only ten years old (with the immaturity to match) and yet somehow she's a teacher at a high school. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out she's not even a qualified teacher at all. There was nobody to take care of Maria at home, resulting in her older sister Kate taking her to school with her and Maria just began calling herself a teacher. Then double subverted when, in a ploy to save the Neighbors Club from Aoi, Sena calls her father to have her officially declared as a teacher.]]
119	* Yukari in ''Literature/HarukaNogizakasSecret''. 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 completely ignore her.
120	* [[{{Valkyries}} Rossweisse]] in ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' becomes a civics teacher at Kuoh Academy after being reincarnated as a Devil. She hits pretty much every box for the trope: [[HotTeacher attractive]], [[OneOfTheKids barely a couple years older than her students]], [[OldMaid and fretting over not having a boyfriend]]. Oh, and she gets HotForStudent when she falls in love with Issei.
121	* Kaori Iba from ''Literature/{{Maburaho}}'' is the young and attractive teacher of the main characters' homeroom class, but she's also rather [[ApatheticTeacher apathetic]] and would rather play video games than teach.
122	* Chihiro-sensei from ''Literature/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', who decides that making one of her students look after her IdiotSavant cousin is a good idea...
123	* Oka-chan of ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' wanted to become the kind of teacher that her students could relate to, so she got involved in hobbies such as manga and video games. Students found her easy to befriend but deep down she worried that she'd built a fake persona and was failing as a teacher.
124	* Koigakubo Yuri-sensei from ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''. Frequently [[FirstNameBasis referred to by her students as "Yuri-chan"]], she often [[OldMaid laments about her lack of success in love at her age]], and she becomes increasingly bitter about it as the story goes on. Her students even go so far as to write a play in which her RedStringOfFate was to be cut, causing her to go [[BerserkButton berserk]].
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128	* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'':
129	** Sonada Sarina. [[spoiler: Subverted in that her Sensei-Chan personality is just an act to hide her true identity as the Scorpion Zodiarts]]
130	** [[spoiler: [[IdiotHero Gentaro Kisaragi]] becomes a teacher five years after the series ends (as seen in the crossover ''Movie Wars Ultimatum''; he's mellowed out a little since his days as a student...but only a little.]]
131	** Ohsugi-sensei is halfway between this and a SadistTeacher: nobody takes him seriously, he's chronically hard up for dates, and eventually admits that he has no friends. Once, he even tries to force Gentaro to hang out with him because he's lonely.
132	* There is also the character of Miss Titley in ''Series/TheGrimleys'', who has all the described qualities of ''sensei-chan'' about her and who takes a strong (platonic) pastoral concern in young Grimley.
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136	* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
137	** Isako Toriumi from ''VideoGame/Persona3'' is a downplayed example; though she's fairly understanding and talks surprisingly casually to her students, she's still fairly strict as a teacher. [[spoiler:Her immaturity mostly emerges outside of school, most noticeably through her DigitalAvatar Maya]].
138	** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Noriko Kashiwagi seems to think she's this, right down to a tendency to flirt with her male students, despite being apparently in her 40s. [[FanDisservice She isn't]]. [[DeconstructedTrope Her students think it's pathetic]]. And it makes the murder of [[SadistTeacher Mr. Morooka]] sting that much more.
139	** Also downplayed with Sadayo Kawakami in ''VideoGame/Persona5''; as a teacher, she's fairly professional, if somewhat laid-back and outspoken. However, as you progress her Confidant, she becomes a lot more casual with the protagonist, in part because he's the only one of her students who's aware of her moonlighting as a [[PlatonicProstitution "health delivery" girl]].
140	* Chloe Genus of ''VideoGame/Conception2ChildrenOfTheSevenStars'' is this, mainly because she's super popular with her students, the same age as most of them (she graduated from college at age 14!) and is a very cheerful person. She does get a little miffed about being this trope though.
141	* Quistis Trepe from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. [[JustifiedTrope 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. She ends up losing that job early on in the game due to failing to properly discipline Seifer.
142	* Towa Kokonoe from ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'' does her best to avert this, given that she's 23 but looks much younger. It doesn't help that she's the main character's cousin, and he just so happens to be in her homeroom. As a result, she sometimes slips up and refers to him as "Kou-kun" during lessons, much to both of their embarrassment.
143	* A female [[PlayerCharacter Byleth]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' zigzags this. On one hand, she's barely older than her mostly teenage students [[note]]At twenty, she's younger than Mercedes (22), Balthus (26), [[spoiler:and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Flayn]]]][[/note]] and is rather popular with said students, to the point of even being able to invite them over for a casual tea party. On the other hand, she's a rather stoic and stern ex-mercenary who commands genuine respect from her students even after [[spoiler:she technically stops being a teacher]].
144	* Instructor Sara in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' fits the bill being a young HotTeacher, however it is a bit of a DeconstructiveParody in that Very much so. She is lazy, childish, manipulative, and tends to remind her students to pick up the pace in class or not cause problems else she'd get blamed for them. Naturally, her students have frequent sweat-drop actions and comment how they have little respect for her personality. However, as a combat instructor, she is quite the BadassTeacher being a former [[spoiler: Bracer and Jaeger.]] At one point when two of her students refuse to cooperate despite her instruction to, she personally forces them to work together by going against her in a sparring session. This is a HopelessBossFight that puts the fear of God into both students and firmly establishes her authority among the class.
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148	* Misato in ''VisualNovel/SnowSakura''.
149	* Ms. Walsh from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' is young, not a very good teacher, and according to Dr. Mosely, she’s not well-adjusted. She gets into an insult contest with Lauren upon running into her at a nightclub, and she opens up occasionally to the protagonist about her struggles, asking him for suggestions about how to fix things with her class. She becomes more of a friend than a teacher to the students as the year goes on.
150	* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuv'': Played with:
151	** Jinguuji's students in the ''[[VisualNovel/MuvLuvExtra Extra]]'' part all call her [[FirstNameBasis Marimo]]-chan, and the usual OldMaid 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.
152	** And then there's ''[[VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative Alternative]]'', which not only plays with this trope but [[spoiler:uses it as part of a horribly soul-crushing plot twist. ''Twice''.]]
153	* Wakaouji from ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide 2'' is very carefree and playful when it comes to his students so that many (including the protagonist by default) refer to him simply as 'Waka-chan'. Some take it even further, teasingly calling him 'Waka-chan-sensei'.
154	* Taiga Fujimura from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' plays with this trope; while she's rather immature when off-duty at home, she's generally responsible in her duties as a teacher. She plays it dead straight in the alternate universe spinoff ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'' though where she's teaching Illya in primary school rather than Shirou in High School.
155	* Ringo Tsukimiya from ''VisualNovel/UtaNoPrinceSama'' is a subversion (as well as being a ''male'' WholesomeCrossdresser). He's cute, friendly, and even tells his students to call him "Rin-chan", but he takes his job as a teacher seriously and he won't easily grant his students special favors.
156	* Sonou Tsukuyo from ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'' is a 24-year-old classical literature teacher, but has the appearance of a girl half her age. This is what ends up drawing the affections of her 16-year-old student Kiri, who is obsessed with cute things. Surprisingly, she notably averts the childlike mannerisms of similar characters, and other characters note throughout the game just how mature and responsible she is. That doesn't stop many of her students from calling her "Sonou-chan" (or in Kiri's case, "[[FirstNameBasis Tsukuyo]]-chan") when they should be using "-sensei" on her.
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160	Miss Binnie Bivvins from ''WebAnimation/OllieAndScoops'' is Ollie's 29-year-old teacher, and she's one of the friendliest and most attractive characters in the series. Her crush, Miss Wendy Whippleworth, also qualifies.
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164	* Cody's mom, Judy from ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' has this role in The Substitute Teacher.
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168	* Miss Grotke from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has some shades of this trope. She's pretty much loved by all her students (and takes a CoolBigSis role to Spinelli), young and unmarried (not really a OldMaid, but it's hinted that she's in her early 30s).
169	* Sun Park from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' is on a FirstNameBasis with her high school students, is young and pretty, and is a gentle mentor to Haley.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When she's not portrayed as an ApatheticTeacher, Mrs. Krabappel comes across like this, particularly when outside of the classroom (though occasionally in it), mostly with her angst about being divorced. [[spoiler: Or at least until she married Ned Flanders.]]
171	* An odd equine example of this is Cheerilee from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. To illustrate her status further, she's one of the biggest [[EnsembleDarkHorse Ensemble Dark Horses]] in [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japan]].
172	* Miss Deer Teacher from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kiff}}'' is a young, spiritual and unmarried teacher, although Kiff ''has'' mistakenly assumed her to be significantly older, to which Deer Teacher defensively responded that she's 33.
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176	* In April 2016, the "tutor character" [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ellen-baker-new-horizon Ellen Baker]] from the Japanese New Horizon English textbook became a trend on the internet due to her surprisingly {{moe}} design and personality, especially when compared to the blander designs that the earlier versions had.
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