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2	[[caption-width-right:259:Fight Monsters, Save the School, [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Go to Lunch]] ]]
3	''The School Nurse Files'' is a 2020 UrbanFantasy {{Creator/Netflix}} original series starring Jung Yu-mi and Nam Joo-hyuk. This series is based on the novel by Chung Serang, and directed by Lee Kyoung-mi.
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5	Ahn Eun-young (Jung Yu-mi, Creator/MaayaSakamoto in the Japanese dub) is a school nurse who can see fantastic beings called "jellies". Some of these jellies are benign, but others are not. Eun-young must protect her students from the harmful jellies, by killing them with a plastic toy sword and a BB gun. She is joined by the classical Chinese teacher, Hong In-pyo (Nam Joo-hyuk, Creator/GregChun in the English dub), who has a force field around him that protects him from the jellies and radiates magical energy.
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7	You can watch it on Netflix [[https://www.netflix.com/kr-en/title/80209129 here]]
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10	!! ''The School Nurse Files'' contains examples of:
11	* AcademyOfAdventure: Mong-lyeon High school, which was built on top of the site of a pond where monsters live.
12	* AdaptationalVillainy: Han Areum, the biology teacher, was not a villain in the original book.
13	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: When Eun-young was in middle school, the other children refused to sit next to her because she was rumored to see ghosts.
14	* BadassLongcoat: Eun-young wears a white lab coat, which flutters behind her as she fights.
15	* BroughtDownToNormal: When [[spoiler: Kang-sun disappeared]], Eun-young stopped seeing jellies, causing her to resign.
16	* BullyingTheDisabled: In the last episode, the other teachers make fun of Mr.Hong because he walks with a limp.
17	* CanonForeigner: Hwa-su, Eun-young's friend does not appear in the book.
18	* ClusterFBomb: Eun-young swears a lot, and she gave out a string of curses when she destroyed the school with In-pyo.
19	* CureYourGays: In the finale, some teachers suggest that [[spoiler: Radi and Hye-min]]'s lesbianism should be cured early, upon discovering that they are going out.
20	* CuteSlimeMook: The jellies.
21	* DefensiveFailure: Eun-young points her pistol at Mckenzie, but he snatches it from her hand and pokes her with it.
22	* FemaleFighterMaleHandler: Eun-young is the ActionGirl in this series, while the handicapped In-pyo supplies her with energy
23	* GenderFlip: Lucky was a boy in the original novel, but she became a girl in the series.
24	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Eun-young just wants to be a normal person, who doesn't have to save other people. When she lost her powers, she thought that the world was beautiful when she doesn't see the jellies.
25	* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: Two of them in the first episode. The jellies start acting up because the Hoop Squid was going to ask Ara out, while Seung-kwon tried to preempt him. The jellies interrupted both of their attempts.
26	* ISeeDeadPeople: Eun-young can see the dead, such as her classmate Kang-sun who died in a construction accident.
27	* LimitedUseMagicalDevice: Eun-young can only swing her sword and shoot her pistol a limited number of times a day. She can however, recharge her magic by touching In-pyo.
28	* MagicalGirl: In-universe. The flipbook cartoon that Kang-sun shows to Eun-young shows Eun-young as one.
29	* OnlySaneMan: In-pyo is this, when the evil spirits of the basement make the teachers homophobic, he is the only one to defend his students.
30	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The evil spirits from the basement make the students and teachers homophobic, and the teachers make fun of In-pyo's disability.
31	* SchoolForScheming: Mokryeon High was founded by In-pyo's grandfather with the intention of harnessing the jellies' power, hence the bizarre school rules.
32	* SchoolNurse: The titular Ahn Eun-young is one.
33	* SequelHook: The last episode ends with Radi asking Eun-young to come to her house because her mother sees ghosts.
34	* SirSwearsaLot: Ahn Eun-young drops the f-bomb a lot. Yumi Jeong said that she decided to take on the role because Eun-young swears a lot, and so the director added more f-bombs.
35	* SwordAndGun: Eun-young carries a plastic sword and a BB gun as her weapons against the jellies.
36	* TreadmillTrauma: Hoop Squid does this to Ji-hyeong, speeding up the treadmill and putting a plastic bag on Ji-hyeong's head.
37	* UrbanFantasy: The series takes place in a high school in modern-day Seoul.
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