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2[[caption-width-right:350: The AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil and The Disciplinary Club ]]
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4Kurosaki Mafuyu is an [[ActionGirl ex-delinquent]] who was expelled from her school and shipped off to a new school by her mother. Now that she has transferred to a new high school, she's determined to become an [[NiceGirl ultra-shiny]], [[GirlinessUpgrade super feminine]] high school student and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends make as many friends]] as she can!.
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6But with a new friend like [[HotBlooded Hayasaka-kun]], and a homeroom teacher like [[ForgottenChildhoodFriend Saeki]] [[SadistTeacher Takaomi]], who forces her and her new friend into the Disciplinary Club...
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8Will Mafuyu be able to live a [[NaiveEverygirl girly-girl high school life]]!?... [[TenMinuteRetirement Or once again]] she will have to stand up and fight for [[TrueCompanions her friends]]!?.
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10''Ore-sama Teacher'' is a long running shoujo manga penned by Creator/IzumiTsubaki. Beginning in 2007, the series was serialized monthly in ''Magazine/HanaToYume'' for all of its run until its conclusion in 2020.
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12Not to be confused with the 2004 film ''Film/{{Oresama}}''.
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15!!This series provides examples of:
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17* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: The main enemy of the Disciplinary Club. They're attempting to win the chairman's bet by taking down the school's popularity or shutting down the Disciplinary Club.
18** [[spoiler: It turns out half of the bet was a ruse, the schoolmaster did bet with Saeki on the school's popularity, but the council chairman's posing in trying to oppose the Disciplinary Club was merely as means to help his Student Council members, by letting members of the Disciplinary Club befriending them and solve their individual troubles. The band of Student Council members is actually but a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, each with their personal problems making them vulnerable to "the witch"'s advances, who prey upon schoolmates to break them and drive them out school. The chairman appointed the witch as vice chairman in order keep surveillance.]]
19* ArtShift: Komari, who shifts between her "blank-eyed doll" look and her more "realistic" look, which is closer to everyone else's art style.
20* AttractiveBentGender: Mafuyu as Natsuo, and Sakurada when dressing as a girl.
21* BalancedHarem: Although it's more because how little romance is paid attention to in the series. The focus is more on the PowerOfFriendship rather than love.
22* TheBet:
23** What kicks off the main plot. Takaomi bets 5 years of salary that he can double the number of applicants to Midori ga Oka within 3 years. [[spoiler: It's actually a lie. The real reason and reward for the bet between Takaomi and the chairman are the rights for the entire school.]]
24** Another bet going on with [[spoiler: Hanabusa Miyabi and Momochi Runa. As it turned out, the current student council is formed by Hanabusa to protect them from being 'eaten' by Momochi. They then made a bet: pit the student council members against the Disciplinary Club, and during the bet, neither could do anything. If Momochi wins, then she gets to 'eat' Hanabusa, but if she loses then she won't do anything to any other students.]]
25* BewareTheSillyOnes: All the good guys are side-splittingly hilarious idiots. Most are also former or current delinquents who know how to use GoodOldFisticuffs.
26* BigBrotherInstinct: Ayabe is made of this.
27* BigBrotherMentor: [[SadistTeacher Takaomi]] towards [[ChildhoodFriends Mafuyu]] and to [[BadassTeacher the rest of the Disciplinary Club]]. Quite evident as Takaomi kind of molded Mafuyu's delinquent mindset.
28** And [[{{SweetPollyOliver}} Natsuo]] is regarded as such by [[HeroWorshipper Hayasaka]].
29* BirdsOfAFeather: Discussed by Mafuyu. When she was talking about her new school life with Kangawa, she mentioned how she bonded with Okegawa over a shared interest (Morse code). Of course, she was giving a skewed account to present herself as a normal popular girl rather than a delinquent who's always fighting.
30* BitchInSheepsClothing: It was strongly hinted and then confirmed for [[spoiler: Runa Momochi.]]
31* BookDumb: A great part of the cast, being some form of delinquents.
32** Mafuyu may actually take the cake in the dumb department. She's extremely proud of only having one notebook for all her subjects. Later on, Yui finds a way for Mafuyu to learn things very fast exactly precisely because her head is completely empty.
33** Subverted with Hayasaka who seems dumb in a lot of ways but actually pays attention at school. Mafuyu remarks on how meticulous his notes are or how there are no doodles in his school books.
34* BreakingTheFellowship: Momentarily in Volume 6.
35* BrickJoke: Several. Including the time Mafuyu and Hayasaka went to look for Okegawa (the school's 'banchou') in the OldSchoolBuilding. They see a few cockroaches and Mafuyu instinctively squishes them with the closest possible object she could reach, which happens to be Okegawa's school bag that had been lying on the floor. In a later scene the two are face to face with Okegawa who is incidentally carrying his bag with him and they can't help staring at it. Naturally Okegawa thinks they are staring at something else.
36* BoardingSchool: Midori ga Oka Academy is usually it. But since their dorms are full when Mafuyu transfers in, she has to stay in an outside apartment.
37* {{Bruiser With A Soft Center}}: Banchou. Probably the first and only person to cry over a Nekomata movie.[[spoiler: His pen name is Strawberry Love for God's sake!]]
38* ButNotTooForeign: [[spoiler:Hayasaka's mother was an American woman called Lydia.]]
39* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Until the appearance of the student council this manga had a total of one [[{{Tomboy}} female character]] who sometimes does not even register as a [[{{Bifauxnen}} girl]].
40* ChasteHero: Basically everyone in the main cast excluding [[HandsomeLech Takaomi Saeki]]. They are too focused on fighting to understand normal high school stuff like going to karaoke, so naturally romance is out of their league. Hayasaka’s feelings for Usachan-man may be love or just a childish admiration, but Shinobu is a perfect example as [[ObliviousToLove he is too dense to notice a certain person’s feelings for him.]]
41* ChekhovsGun: The fortune Okegawa got in the New Year's chapter that warned him about not being late (very subtle, one needs to look closely to decipher it). [[spoiler: In chapter 66 he is, conveniently for the Disciplinary Club, being held back a grade because he was late for his exam.]]
42* ChekhovsGunman: Two guys from Mafuyu's Higashi High School gang have brief speaking lines in her flashback from Chapter 1. Those two guys are properly introduced later in the manga when she returns home and are established to be actually important -- namely, the current Numbers 1 and 2 of the Higashi gang (formerly Numbers 2 and 3 back when Mafuyu was Number 1/banchou), Kangawa and Maizono. The two play relatively vital parts in their introductory arc, having become involved with yet another battle with Nishi High and Kangawa having to lead Higashi High to victory as their new banchou.
43* TheChessmaster: Miyabi & his father. Kousaka tries to be this, but fails miserably. May also apply to Takaomi.
44* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most Student Council members, as well as Hayasaka. The degree varies for each one.
45* DefeatMeansFriendship: Happens every so often. Okegawa is the earliest and most conventional example... And given Mafuyu's tendency to help everyone it just keeps happening.
46* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Mafuyu as [[{{Bifauxnen}} Natsuo]]; girls describe "him" as a prince, and it's ''heavily'' implied that[[spoiler: [[DoesNotLikeMen Nonoguchi]] [[{{Tsundere}} Kanon]]]] likes her too... Though she doesn't know that [[AttractiveBentGender "he" is a "she"]].
47* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Mafuyu and Okegawa.
48* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In contrast to her gang leader/yankee days where she had dyed long blond hair, present time Mafuyu sports a short cut and her natural(?) hair color.
49* FacialDialogue: Komari has this down to the point it's a virtual superpower. Since she always says the wrong thing while talking, she's developed her body language to the point she can get most anyone to do what she wants.
50* FirstNameBasis: Takaomi prefers that Mafuyu calls him by his first name, as she did when she was a child. Them referring each other by first name caused a small misunderstanding to other characters who didn't know they were childhood friends.
51* AFriendInNeed: Mafuyu lives by this trope.
52* FriendlyEnemy: Most members of the Student Council, even Miyabi.
53* GenderBlenderName: It's has been recently revealed that [[spoiler: Hayasaka's first name is Kaori, a common name for ''girls'']].
54* GirlishPigtails: Kanon has her hair tied in two cute pigtails.
55* HandsomeLech: Hinted ''strongly'' that Saeki is one. Mafuyu wonders why she has seen several beautiful women leaving Saeki’s apartment in the morning. His answer to her inquiry: an arrogant smile.
56* HeroWorshipper: Hayasaka worships the ground where Usa-chan Man walks... And he also looks up to Natsuo. Aki tends to do this in some way too, as he likes "strong people". [[spoiler: And ends up being Mafuyu's first "follower" in Midori ga Oka.]]
57* HonoraryTrueCompanion: Okegawa is friends with the Disciplinary Club and occasionally helps them out even. He's no longer this as [[SixthRanger he later formally joined the club]].
58* HotBlooded: Hayasaka in particular. He just loves to fight and Mafuyu/Natsuo has to use shounen manga-style power diagrams to get him to learn how to dodge in a fight (he never used to dodge his opponents' hits because he considered this to be cowardly).
59* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Everyone is at least [[OneHeadTaller one head]] if not two heads taller than Mafuyu.
60** Komari too; she's shorter than most of the ''girls'', let alone the boys.
61* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Mafuyu. She wants to be a girly girl and have actual female friends since she only used to hang around guys during her time as banchou. (No girl would dare to come close to her.) This results in a total misconception on her side on how girls act and she ususually ends up seeming like a CasanovaWannabe when trying to approach girls. Needless to say, all her attempts to obtain female friends [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption fail horribly]]. Unless you count [[spoiler: [[BruiserWithASoftCenter Okegawa]]]]. The corniness totally works on [[spoiler: him]].
62* InLoveWithYourCarnage: [[TooKinkyToTorture Yuuto Maizono]] just ''really'' wants Mafuyu to beat him... It's hinted that he joined her gang because of this.
63* InSeriesNickname:
64** Okegawa calls Mafuyu "Morse girl"
65** "Banchou" for Okegawa, even after he gets beaten by Mafuyu and stops being the actual Banchou for a while.
66** Mafuyu calla Ayabe "Ayaben".
67** "Ninja" or "Glasses" for Yui.
68** Ayabe once called Mafuyu "Mafu-Mafu".
69** Yui starts calling Okegawa "Kyon-Kyon" after [[spoiler: he joins the Disciplinary Club.]]
70** Arisugawa, the boy who wanted to dress as a maid, is called "Alice".
71* IWasBeatenByAGirl: Seeing how devastated Okegawa was at getting beaten by a smaller guy, Mafuyu suspects he would be even more devastated if he found out that it was in fact a girl that took his position as Banchou from him. He later ends up finding out the truth, but at that point he doesn't seem to care about it.
72* JapaneseDelinquents: The cast is full of them. Pretty much everyone either used to be a delinquent, is a delinquent or is trying to quit being a delinquent. The internal justification being, although being an ElaborateUniversityHigh, Midori ga Oka has a serious enrollment issue. As a result, it accepts nearly any transfee, a lot of them being previously expelled due to this trope.
73* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
74** Mafuyu forgot about Takaomi due to head injury, and she still has missing pieces in her memory. Usually for this trope, the flashbacks of their childhood days are from Saeki's point of view.
75** [[spoiler: Momochi Runa]] inflicts this to [[spoiler:Hayasaka]] by using hypnotism and suggestions. Additionally [[spoiler:Hayasaka can subconsciously do this to himself to prevent remembering bad memories]].
76* LegacyOfService: When Wakana first meets Hanabusa and is asked to help him/look out for him, she thinks of this trope since her parents work for his parents.
77%%* LethalChef: Takaomi. Mafuyu is ''barely'' better than him.
78%%* LonelyRichKid: [[spoiler: Hayasaka]] is this. [[ShelteredAristocrat He is quite clueless about common issues of social life]].
79%%* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Mafuyu and Hayasaka, Mafuyu and Okegawa, Mafuyu and Ayabe...
80%%* MistakenForGay: "Natsuo", briefly. Poor Hayasaka.
81%%* MuggingTheMonster: Takaomi invokes this whenever he wants to.
82* NewTransferStudent: Parodied. Mafuyu is a new transfer student, but she is such a CloudCuckoolander that everything associated with this trope is turned upside-down. She's so excited that she dons a new school uniform a day before the school starts, her well-practised introductory speech is so out-of-character that Saeki bursts out laughing, and when ordinary classmates (non-delinquents) talk to her [[SociallyAwkwardHero she is deeply moved]]. Her FriendlessBackground is only her imagination; in fact, her friends from Higashi High appear from time to time and have their own sub-plots.
83* {{Nephewism}}: [[spoiler:Kouichi Hayasaka ends up adopting and raising the daughters of his older sister Akiko after she dies.]]
84* TheNicknamer:
85** Mafuyu uses either "Ninja" or "Glasses" for Shinobu.
86** After some DefeatMeansFriendship Mafuyu starts calling [[spoiler:Reito Ayabe "Ayaben".]]
87* NoNameGiven: Hayasaka still has no first name several volumes in and nobody has even so much as remarked upon it so far. Later it's revealed [[spoiler: his first name is Kaori, a name more commonly used for girls.]]
88* ObliviousToLove: Yui Shinobu [[ComicallyMissingThePoint aka Ninja]]... just ask poor Wakana.
89** And Mafuyu, ''[[{{Irony}} who is the one who notices that]]'', is painfully oblivious of [[spoiler: [[{{Bruiser With A Soft Center}} Okegawa's]], [[SubordinateExcuse Kangawa's]] and [[AttractiveBentGender Kanon's]]]] feelings for her...
90* OfficialCouple:
91** Ookubo and Minato, Kangawa's sister, in the omakes/extras.
92** Count two with [[spoiler:[[SexyManInstantHarem Aki]] and [[CovertPervert Komari]].]]
93* OneNoteCook: Just like Takaomi, Mafuyu [[LethalChef can not cook.]] But as the series progresses she learns how to do [[RuleOfFunny cup noodles!]]
94* OneOfTheBoys: Mafuyu, before and after her expulsion.
95* PaperThinDisguise: Played straight and lampshaded quite often with Mafuyu's 'Usa-chan Man' mask and her Natsuo disguise. Also when Mafuyu does not have her mask with her and tries to mask herself by wearing her t-shirt over her head (unfortunately it has her name on it) or wearing her wallet chain and a pack of tissues as an eyepatch over one eye.
96* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Even though most of the cast are delinquents, they never do delinquent things except fighting and skipping classes.
97* PoorCommunicationKills: It certainly strained the relationship between [[spoiler:Hayasaka's parents, Kouichi and Lydia, for a long period of time.]]
98* PrincelyYoungMan: Miyabi Hanabusa.
99* PromotionToParent: Ayaben is the oldest of six children, and since his parents are busy with heir jobs, he has always been the main caretaker of his younger siblings.
100* ThePsychoRangers: Downplayed. Each Student Council member is paired with a Disciplinary Club member, but other than that, they don't have much resemblance.
101* RaisedByGrandparents: Takaomi was raised by his paternal grandparents.
102* TheRival: Sakurada claims to be this to Mafuyu, although he never won and she only regards him as a nuisance.
103* RummageSaleReject: Some of Mafuyu's and Banchou's fashion choices.
104* SchoolFestival: The first incident from the student council's side is trying to rope delinquents to ruin the festival.
105* SecretIdentity: Mafuyu has two: [[AttractiveBentGender Natsuo]] and "Usa-Chan Man".
106* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Subverted with Mafuyu and Okegawa. Both are incredibly strong, but Banchou's all [[BruiserWithASoftCenter soft at the center]]. He even keeps imagining her as his [[KnightInShiningArmor prince]].
107* ShoutOut: There are some here and there, like in one omake Hayasaka is handed a hat with a badge with a picture looking like a ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' mushroom, or actually even more like a [[WebVideo {{Vinesauce}}]] 'shroom, but that's probably just a coincidence. Unless [[WordOfGod sensei]] is a Vinesauce fan.
108* ShroudedInMyth: When Maizono came came to Midorigaoka to look for his former Banchou, Mafuyu, he gave such a wildly exaggerated account of her that Hayasaka and Okegawa had a completely wrong idea about what this person is supposed to be like (they even got the wrong gender).
109* SociallyAwkwardHero: Mafuyu, hands down. Jumping through the window when tied into a chair is nothing compared to the terror of speaking to normal girls.
110* TallDarkAndHandsome: Takaomi, Okegawa, Kawauchi, Ookubo... the list goes on. Even Arisugawa, the cat-eared tsundere maid guy, fits the description.
111* ThreePlusTwo: The Disciplinary Club started with only Mafuyu and Hayasaka, with Yui joining early on. A few volumes later, Aki joined, followed by [[HonoraryTrueCompanion Okegawa]] formally joining.
112* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Played for drama with Lydia [[spoiler:(Hayakawa's mother)]], whose obssession with soap operas and romance dramas caused a huge misunderstanding with her husband/lover. She saw him hanging around [[spoiler:his two nieces/adoptive daughters and immediately assumed that he's already married with kids, while keeping her as his mistress]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills The misundestanding wasn't cleared until shortly before her death]].
113* TrueCompanions: Mafuyu truly believes in this, to the point that she is pleased to know that her former "enemy" Sakurada also does. And obviously the members of the Disciplinary Club value their friendship greatly and would do anything to help each other.
114* UnwantedHarem: Lampshaded (by Yui) but completely avoided so far despite there being only one [[{{Tomboy}} girl]] in the main cast in the first few volumes. Although Mafuyu does have several people "in love" with her or with one of her two secret identities.
115* WholesomeCrossdresser: [[spoiler: Sakurada]]. Even Mafuyu admits he's [[AttractiveBentGender cute]]. Poor [[spoiler: Aoi]] even falls for "her"...

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