Doki Doki School Hours

Doki Doki School Hours
せんせいのお時間
(Sensei no Ojikan)
GenreComedy, Slice of life
Manga
Written byTamami Momose
Published byTakeshobo
MagazineManga Life
Manga Life Original
Manga Life Momo
DemographicSeinen
Original runFebruary 1997April 2013
Volumes12
Anime television series
Directed byYoshiaki Iwasaki
Music byYoshihisa Hirano
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run April 4, 2004 June 27, 2004
Episodes13
Original video animation
Directed byYoshiaki Iwasaki
Music byYoshihisa Hirano
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
  • US: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Released August 4, 2004 February 2, 2005
Episodes7

Doki Doki School Hours (せんせいのお時間, Sensei no Ojikan, "Teacher's Time") is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Tamami Momose. The manga was serialized in Manga Life and published by Takeshobo from 1997 to 2013.

An anime television series adaptation was animated by J.C.Staff and aired on TV Tokyo from April 4, 2004 to June 27, 2004. An OVA series, titled Sensei no Ojikan Gold (せんせいのお時間 ご~るど), was also animated by J.C.Staff and continued from where the TV series left off. 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 Ocean Productions 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.