Series Synopsis
One night, high schooler Kei Kusanagi (voiced by Soichiro Hoshi) is lying peacefully by the side of a lake. Suddenly there is a bright flash of light and something crashes into the water. Taken aback, Kei is shocked by the mysterious appearance a young red headed woman. The events of the night are too much for the kid and he falls unconscious.
The next morning, Kei wakes up in his own bed and believes the night was only a dream. At school, news spreads of a beautiful new teacher. Lost in thought, Kei is not paying attention when a young redheaded woman named Mizuho Kazami (voiced by Kikuko Inoue) walks into the class. Kei instantly recognizes her as the person he saw at the lake.
Once school lets out, Mizuho confronts Kei and tells him that she is an alien sent to observe the Earth. Instead of being afraid, Kei takes pity on Mizuho who is now alone in her new surroundings.
Kei promises to keep Mizuho’s identify a secret and offers one of his own. While he might look like a fifteen-year-old, due to a disease he has dubbed standstills, Kei is actually eighteen. The two quickly become close, even to the point where it is mistaken that they are in a relationship.
To save her job as a teacher, which could potentially reveal her secret, Kei agrees to disclose his true age and marry Mizuho.
Does that sound completely stupid? Well it gets much worse.Series Positives
I honestly thought about skipping this segment.
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There’s not a whole hell of a lot to like or enjoy or highlight or even justify the time you’ll be losing should you choose to watch this show.
If there was anything positive I could say about this series, it would be two things.
The first is Mizuho. She’s cute and adorable enough to just barely be passively tolerable; and I mean ever word of that. Don’t get me wrong, she’s as flat, stereotypical, and unoriginal as you can imagine. Despite that, she’s not as bad as every other character.
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The second thing is episode thirteen, the OVA. This is what the series should have been. It’s nothing special, but there is a definite energy that the rest of the show lacks. Everyone seems to have an actual personality rather than be boring or inconsequential. There was a little bit of humor to help levitate the previous attempts at comedy. Most importantly however, I actually felt a connection between the two main characters.
Unfortunately for Onegai Teacher, one OVA doesn’t make up for twelve episodes of complete bull s@#$.Series Negatives
Let’s have some fun shall we.
I have seen my fair share of bad anime and Onegai Teacher is one of the worst. It became a chore to watch the next episode and at no time would I call the experience enjoyable.
Then again, I guess that’s not entirely true. By the end, the shear absurdity of what was going on became a joke on to itself.
Kei
Kei is one of the most annoying characters I have come across. His main personality traits are…well that’s the thing, he doesn’t have any. All of his actions and entire state of mind are determined solely on convenience. If the story needed him to be calm and rational, which was rare, he was calm and rational. If the story needed him to be charming and compassionate, which was frustratingly uncommon, he was charming and compassionate. And if the story needed him to be whinny, wimpy, and awkward, which was damn near always, he was whinny, wimpy, and awkward.
The Supporting Cast
Kei was pretty bad, but his friends were an anomaly.
First you have Koishi (voiced by Ayako Kawasumi). She’s a girl who, for some reason, has strong feelings toward Kei. I have no idea why she likes this guy. It’s not that I don’t understand her reasoning, she just never gives one. While her feelings for Kei are a mystery, she is by no means the worst of the group. I will admit there was one scene that the show managed to do surprisingly well. It is the moment where she finally tells confesses her feelings. It’s not a very long scene, but it was the only time where I felt the slightest bit of interest. Sadly, the show doesn’t take long before completely undermining it.
Next there’s Ichigo (voiced by Yukari Tamura). Her character is so disappointing because she’s the kind of character I usually like. The issue with her was that she had the ability coming to certain, albeit correct, conclusions without any sort of justification.
Then there’s Hyosuke (voiced by Mitsuo Iwata). He has a total lack of understanding of the concept of personal space and the show also put a lot of unneeded attention on him.
There were also two other members of Kei’s group, but they were so unremarkable and forgetful that I’m not even going to waste my time on them.
While all of these people have their own individual problems, as a whole they had an annoying habit of being everywhere. Seriously, Kei and Mizuho could be on an isolated island in the middle of the ocean on a completely different planet and these people would show up somehow.
Standstills
I’ve gone over why I don’t like Kei, but I failed to mention my biggest issue with him. It’s also one of the main reason I hate this show. Kei is an annoying little twat because he blames all of his problems on a condition that simply doesn’t exist.
Kei suffering from standstills is complete nonsense because he is the only one in the world that has such a condition. The core idea of this isn’t all that bad, but how it was executed was terrible. Its only purpose was so the story could have a hint of tragedy in it.
Oh, you know how I said Kei was the only person in the entire world that suffered from standstills? That’s a complete and utter lie. There was another person in the entire pool of humanity, six billion people, that has this disease and it just so happens to be a really close personal friend of Kei. Bull s@#$, f@#$ you, this series was making stuff up as it went along.
One Last Thing
The reason, the absolute reason Onegai Teacher was so insufferable was because it didn’t make any damn sense. It’s not that the story wasn’t unclear, it was fairly straightforward. No…no, no, no, no, no. Nothing in this show had a reason. Nothing led to anything.
First it was Kei’s friends showing up in places they had no Earthly business being at. Next it was Kei actively making things worse by doing the dumbest things possible. This series is filled with sub-plots that serve no purpose, side characters that have no bearing on the plot, and horribly shoehorned conveniences that should not exist.
And to sum up all of that, the very gimmick of this show can be taken out entirely. The fact that Mizuho was an alien from f@#$ing outer space can be completely removed from the story and nothing, f@#$ing nothing would change.
Final Thoughts
Don’t; simply do not watch this show.
The characters are annoying, the plot is a joke, nothing works. I am so glad that I am done with this series.
There is nothing more I can say.
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