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1[[quoteright:214:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/onegai_teacher.jpg]]
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3Kei Kusanagi, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, has just seen an alien.
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5Problem is, she's just announced herself as his new Homeroom teacher, Mizuho Kazami. And she just moved in next door.
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7And the last time he saw her, she tried to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia wipe his memory of her existence]].
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9One would think a situation like this would not end well, but a few hijinks later they end up married after Kei reveals that he's [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]] to prevent [[NotWhatItLooksLike a potentially compromising situation]] from being taken [[TeacherStudentRomance the wrong way]].
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11Unfortunately, now they have to keep his age, her origins, and [[SecretRelationship their marriage]] a secret from Kei's friends, which is going to be difficult, as one of them is starting to get aggressive in trying to catch Kei's attention.
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13''Anime/PleaseTwins'' is a SpinOff involving different characters at the same school. ''Anime/WaitingInTheSummer'', the third anime series of the franchise, is either a sequel or a reboot with new characters.
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16!!Tropes:
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18* AccidentalPervert: Kei can't help but see up Ichigo's skirt when she catches him trying to hide on a stairway. Naturally she [[TheUnfairSex teases him for it]].
19* AlienNonInterferenceClause: along with a rare example of a protagonist being punished for violating it
20* AngstComa: They have the power to suspend aging.
21* AnticlimacticParent: Mizuho worries what her family will say about her being married to a student. Her mother Hatsuho has no complaints, though slyly implies to the reader both of them show an interest in younger men.
22* BeachEpisode: Episode 5, which is also Kei and Mizuho's honeymoon. No one they know is supposed to be there, but of course, Kei's friends and one of the other teachers all just also happened to be there as well...
23* BlandNameProduct: Famous Brands such as "Pochy". A poster for the movie [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} Titania]] can also be seen in episode 4.
24* BromanticFoil: Hyosuke
25* ButNotTooForeign: Kaede is one quarter Irish.
26* CatchPhrase: Mizuho's "This is a Priority One!"
27* ChainedToABed: Happens to Kei in the OVA [[spoiler:by Hatsuho.]]
28* ClingyJealousGirl
29** Konoha, Kei's aunt, acts this way too whenever her husband talks about how jealous he of Kei's romances. She usually hits him since he often says it within hearing range of her.
30** Maho isn't too happy that her sister Mizuho is married to Kei either. Although she accepts his relationship later, she steals a kiss from him, while in sight of Mizuho. Mizuho responds by crying.
31* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Happens ALL the time, once with Kei to [[spoiler:Ichigo]], and quite frequently, Mizuho to Kei [[spoiler: due to Kei's AngstComa disorder]].
32* CrapolaTech: Marie is ''supposedly'' self-repairing, but apparently the Galaxy Federation should get a better warranty. After Kei whacks him in the first episode, he becomes permanently scrambled and he stops working or randomly activates ship tech whenever this will cause more grief for Kei and Mizuho.
33* DatePeepers: Mizuho spies on Kei during his "date" with Koishi. Ichigo and Kaede also spy on them separately.
34* DeliberatelyBadExample: Parodied and {{Lampshaded}} with Matagu.
35* DespairEventHorizon: For Kei, it's the cause of his AngstComa disorder. For Ichigo, it's one of the effects. Triggered by their sisters in both cases.
36** For Ichigo, [[spoiler: it was coming out of her long coma to discover her little sister was now a married adult.]]
37** For Kei, [[spoiler: it was watching his older sister commit suicide by jumping off the school roof.]]
38* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Hatsuho [[spoiler:attempts to sexually assault Kei in the OVA, tying him to a bed in a love hotel with a blurred vibrator in her hand. This is seemingly played for laughs, and all is forgiven in the end.]]
39* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Mizuho kisses Kei for the first time while he's in a standstill (it was Kei's first kiss too!)
40* {{Ecchi}}: The OVA is officially categorized as ecchi on most anime sites. Not only is it considerably more frank about sex then the main series, but there are multiple instances of barely obscured nudity, including [[spoiler:Kei and Mizuho beginning to have sex.]]
41* EmotionlessGirl: Ichigo appears to be so, but she has her reasons...
42* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Both the girls and the guys are ahhing when they first see Mizuho.
43* EyesAlwaysShut: Kei's aunt.
44* FanService: Happens on occasion in the main series, though considerably less then you might expect from the promotional artwork. The OVA, on the other hand...
45* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler: Mizuho]]
46* HalfHumanHybrid: Mizuho and Maho.
47* HappilyMarried: Subverted, but eventually affirmed as Kei and Mizuho's initially rocky relationship slowly develops
48* HenpeckedHusband: Minoru, Kei's uncle. Any time he mentions being jealous of Kei's romances, his wife tends to hit him.
49* HopelessSuitor: Poor [[spoiler: Koishi. Her only possible chance would've been to act in episode 1, but after that, it's obvious who Kei is going to have to end up with.]]
50* HotTeacher: Guess who.
51* HumanAlien / InterspeciesRomance: While it's never made clear which trope is in play, Mizuho's half-human ancestry implies the former.
52%%* IChooseToStay: You knew it would come to this
53* IgnoreTheFanservice: When Koishi comes up to Kei at the swimming pool, she has to ask Kei what he thinks about her new bikini before he even remotely notices it.
54* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Perhaps not fully applied given as how each remotely attractive female on the show (that is to say, all of them) has at least some idea of the influence her looks have, but there are plenty of times where they don't realize the effect they have.
55* KeepingSecretsSucks: It can be difficult for normal newlyweds to negotiate the ins and outs of cohabitation and intimacy. Kei and Mizuho have to do it in secret while being forced to spend a lot of time together in public. Even their honeymoon is interrupted.
56* LittleMissSnarker: Ichigo.
57* LoveAtFirstSight: The little girl with the dog at the beach has this with Kei, only to get immediately heartbroken when Mizuho approaches him.
58* LoveHotels: Kei gets dragged to one against his will by Hatsuho.
59* LoveHurts: Both Mizuho and Kei have to deal with this, due to their inability to show their feelings in public and the angst it causes them. [[spoiler:Towards the end, Mizuho breaks Kei out of his AngstComa by convincing him that this is also an important part of loving someone, and he should embrace it instead of running away from it]].
60* LoveObstructingParents: Zigzagged.
61** Mizuho's little sis Maho is the very model of [[ObnoxiousInLaws Obnoxious In Law]]. Meanwhile, her mom Hatsuho...
62* MarriageBeforeRomance: Kei Kusanagi marries the alien who is posing as his home room teacher in order to protect her secret identity. They move in together and quickly fall in love with each other.
63* MarriageOfConvenience: Kei and Mizuho's marriage is not for love, it's to keep Mizuho out of trouble after a NotWhatItLooksLike moment.
64* TheMatchmaker: Ichigo attempts to be this for Kei and Koishi.
65* ModernStasis: Although it's stated that it's years since the first manned mission to Mars in 2009, the world at large still looks like the present.
66* MomentKiller: You'll lose track of how often this happens.
67* MySisterIsOffLimits: Maho just can't accept that her sister's married.
68* {{Nephewism}}: Kei himself, though it’s not clarified if it’s his uncle and aunt who are related to his mother or father, or which one is that parent’s sibling.
69* NotWhatItLooksLike: Used at least [[OnceAnEpisode once]] (if not more) in practically ''every single episode.'' Not to mention that it basically fuels the plot 90% of the time. (The rest of the time it ''is'' what it looks like and they have to pretend it isn't.)
70* OlderThanTheyLook: Kei and [[spoiler:Ichigo]].
71* OpenMindedParent: Kei's uncle (and de facto adoptive father) Minoru is actually the one who gets him and Mizuho married in the first place. His aunt Konoha is the one who arranges for them to have a wedding too.[[note]]In Japan, filing the appropriate paperwork creates a legal marriage - any ceremony is optional.[[/note]]
72* ParanormalRomance: Mizuho's alien technology certainly qualifies as "paranormal" to us, and it's mainly there just so it can malfunction at the absolute worst moment possible, dropping her into yet another awkward-looking situation that imperils her relationship with Kei and/or their public masquerade.
73* ParentalAbandonment: Kei and Ichigo, though it's less abandonment than mutual estrangement.
74* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: Your aunt and uncle do, anyway; such as when you've just [[ItMakesSenseInContext accidentally teleported into their bathtub with the hot new teacher]] in the rather skimpy tights with open cleavage that make up her space uniform, and your legal guardians there were just about to take a bath in that same tub. To make things worse, the startled Mizuho then seizes up in panic and starts screaming while [[MarshmallowHell shoving Kei's face into her cleavage]].
75* PersonalSeals
76* {{Pixellation}}: Often used with alien artifacts.
77* PlatonicLifePartners: By the end, Kei and Ichigo seems to be this.
78* PrimalScene: Done for Maho for ''humor'', possibly due to alien biology causing her to be OlderThanTheyLook. She makes ''films'' of Kei and Mizuho's night life and blackmails him using them. Apparently Hatsuho doesn't know this as she does ''the exact same thing'' when she sets them up in a Love Hotel and Maho says she wants to see the video chips, which the former says are for "adults only."
79** An alternative possibility is that Maho ''didn't'' film anything, but Hatsuho told her to blackmail Kei by pretending she had. Maho is shown later asking Hatsuho why her scheme was so elaborate that she actually had a script for it, to which her mother's reply is also rather cryptic. Maho may not have had any idea what was actually supposed to be on the video chips she showed Kei.
80* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Mizuho in teacher mode. An Onegai trademark.
81* RelationshipUpgrade: Happens to [[spoiler: Kaede and Hyosuke]]
82** In the manga version: [[spoiler: Ichigo and Hyosuke]]
83* ResetButton: [[spoiler: The Federation forces everyone to forget Mizuho and puts Earth under a quarantine. Mizuho sneaks back and breaks through Kei's WistfulAmnesia. Then they get to redo their relationship from the beginning, with the implication that it all went much smoother this time.]]
84* SadisticChoice: Mizuho, forced to choose between Kei and her career, makes an impassioned plea to be allowed both on humanitarian grounds. She's convicted of violating the AlienNonInterferenceClause instead.
85* SecretRelationship: Kei and Mizuho can't be open about their marriage largely because it'll be seen the [[TeacherStudentRomance wrong way]] by both the faculty (aside from the principal who already knows but tells the two not to openly show feelings for each other in public), and Kei's friends. HilarityEnsues a lot due to this trope.
86* SenseiChan: Mizuho has shades of this. She's fairly competent at her teaching job, but barely (if any) more mature than her students. Unlike most examples, she's married -- [[SecretRelationship not that most people in-universe are aware]].
87* ShipperOnDeck:
88** Ichigo does this for Kei and Koishi. And later Kaede and Hyosuke.
89** Maho briefly ships Kei and Hatsuho as an alternative to Kei and Mizuho.
90** Marie goes rogue to bring Kei and Mizuho together at one point.
91* ShoutOut: To [[Manga/GetterRobo Shin Getter Robo Vs. Neo Getter Robo]], of all things.
92* StepfordSmiler: Kei himself as he’s plagued by the guilt of [[spoiler: not saving his older sister from committing suicide.]]
93* StrongFamilyResemblance
94* TeacherStudentRomance: Obviously the title characters and the plot of the series. Furthermore, they get away with this because not only is Kei really 18 (and therefore legally old enough to marry the teacher), the ''school principal'' married a student as soon as she graduated and sympathizes with them. [[DoubleStandard Kei gets creeped out]].
95* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The heroine, Mizuho, is obviously the "[[YamatoNadeshiko sensible and capable]]" Wife, her "[[BrattyHalfPint innocent childlike]]" sister Maho is obviously the Child, and the "HotterAndSexier" Hatsuho is the Seductress, despite the fact that she's their mother.
96* TokenMiniMoe: Ichigo
97* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mizuho's "Pochy" sticks.
98* {{Tsundere}}: Maho is just kissing Kei because she wants to make up for her actions towards him. It's not like she actually has a thing for him. Really!
99* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Mizuho's human father was a member of the first attempted manned Mars mission, which is stated to have occurred in 2009. Assuming she ages the same as normal humans, the earliest this series could take place would be the early 2030s.
100** Which is weird due to the apparent lack of [[TechnologyMarchesOn cellphones]].
101* WistfulAmnesia: Kei just can't shake the feeling that something (or someone) is missing from his life.
102* YamatoNadeshiko: Subverted by Konoha. She ''looks'' the part and is a very good HouseWife and nurse, but she's too aggressive about keeping her husband under control to really fit.
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