| Please Teacher! | |
 Onegai Teacher Vol 1 DVD cover featuring Mizuho Kazami | |
| おねがい☆ティーチャー (Onegai ☆ Tīchā) | |
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| Genre | |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yasunori Ide |
| Written by | Yōsuke Kuroda |
| Music by |
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| Studio | Daume |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Animax, WOWOW, Bandai Channel |
| English network | |
| Original run | January 10, 2002 – March 28, 2002 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Yasunori Ide |
| Music by | Shinji Orito |
| Studio | Daume |
| Licensed by |
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| Released | October 25, 2002 |
| Runtime | 21 minutes |
| Manga | |
| Onegai Teacher | |
| Written by | Shizuru Hayashiya |
| Published by | MediaWorks |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Dengeki Daioh |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | January 2002 – February 2003 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Light novel | |
| Onegai Teacher: Mizuho and Kei's Milky Diary | |
| Written by | Gō Zappa |
| Illustrated by | |
| Published by | MediaWorks |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Dengeki Bunko |
| Demographic | Male |
| Published | March 2003 |
| Sequel | |
Please Teacher! (Japanese: おねがい☆ティーチャー, Hepburn: Onegai Tīchā, Onegai ☆ Teacher) is a 2002 science fiction and romantic comedy anime television series directed by Yasunori Ide, written by Yōsuke Kuroda, and produced by Bandai Visual. It was later adapted into a manga and light novel and centers on a group of friends and the odd things that happen to them after they get a new teacher.
The Please Teacher! anime series premiered in Japan on the WOWOW satellite television network between January 10 and March 28, 2002, spanning a total of 13 episodes, including twelve originally premiering on television plus an OVA episode released on DVD on October 25, 2002. It was adapted very soon into a manga, serialized in MediaWorks's shōnen manga magazine, Dengeki Daioh, in January 2002, and was also later adapted into a light novel, entitled Onegai Teacher: Mizuho and Kei's Milky Diary, published in March 2003.
The Please Teacher! anime series was soon continued with a spin-off sequel,[3] Please Twins!, which premiered on WOWOW between July 15 and October 14, 2003.
The setting of the series, though left unsaid in either anime or manga, is Lake Kizaki, located in Nagano, Japan, and the region and its surrounding locations are featured prominently and accurately across the series.[4] The novel states that the school the characters attend is the Nagano Prefectural Kizaki High School. This school is based upon the Old Matsumoto High School located in Agatanomori Park of Matsumoto, about an hour south of Lake Kizaki on the JR Ōito Line. The tower on which Kaede and Hyosuke stand upon can be found in Joyama Park on the northwest part of the city.
- ^ "Ima, kore ga hoshiin da! - Onegai Teacher and Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu". Anime News Network. June 21, 2002. Archived from the original on September 11, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- ^ "Please Teacher! DVD Collection". Nozomi Entertainment. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- ^ Bandai Entertainment - What's New Archived 2007-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, Bandai Entertainment official website
- ^ Comparison denoting the similarities between animation featured in the series, especially Please Twins!, to actual images of the region Archived 2024-09-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)