Doki Doki School Hours | |
せんせいのお時間 (Sensei no Ojikan) |
|
---|---|
Genre | Comedy, High School, Slice of Life |
Manga | |
Written by | Tamami Momose |
Published by | Takeshobo |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Manga Life Manga Life Original Manga Life Momo |
Original run | February 1997 – April 2013 |
Volumes | 12 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Yoshiaki Iwasaki |
Music by | Yoshihisa Hirano |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | April 4, 2004 – June 27, 2004 |
Episodes | 13 |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Yoshiaki Iwasaki |
Music by | Yoshihisa Hirano |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Licensed by | |
Released | August 4, 2004 – February 2, 2005 |
Episodes | 7 |
Doki Doki School Hours (せんせいのお時間? Sensei no Ojikan: Doki Doki School Hours) is a four panel manga series and anime series by Tamami Momose.
Sensei no Ojikan was serialised in Bamboo Comics from 1997, published by Takeshobō. A 13 episode anime television series adaptation was created by J.C.Staff. It was aired on TV Tokyo from April 4, 2004 to June 27, 2004, A 7 episode OVA, Sensei no Ojikan Gold (せんせいのお時間 ご~るど), was also produced by J.C.Staff. These episodes were released onto the DVDs of the TV series, one episode for each DVD. Both the TV series and OVA were dubbed into English by The Ocean Group using their Blue Water Studios and have been licensed for release in North America by Geneon Entertainment. However, the OVA was folded onto the TV series and released together as simply Doki Doki School Hours. Thus, for the release in that region, the 14th episode is actually the first episode of the OVA and so on.
The series is centered on 27-year-old homeroom teacher Mika Suzuki (who only looks about half her age) and the eccentric and colorful students of her class. The anime, coming two years after J.C.Staff had success with Azumanga Daioh, inherits a lot stylistically from that series, however the original manga predates Azumanga Daioh by two years. Additionally, before the recent anime incarnation, the manga spawned a series of drama CDs.
A very short 27 year old teacher has an interesting time trying to teach her class. She has to deal with the eccentricities of her students as they present themselves over the school year. When you have an insane class (which includes a cross-dressing narcissist, an otaku, a dumb jock, a boy-band obsessed girl, a lesbian in love with the teacher, a homosexual in love with the jock, a guy who looks like a middle-aged man, a girl obsessed with material items and the vain rich girl), what's a person to do but hope?