Please Teacher!

Please Teacher!
Onegai Teacher Vol 1 DVD cover featuring Mizuho Kazami
おねがい☆ティーチャー (Onegai ☆ Tīchā)
Genre	Romantic comedy[1] Science fiction[2]
Anime television series
Directed by	Yasunori Ide
Written by	Yōsuke Kuroda
Music by	Kazuya Takase Shinji Orito Tomoyuki Nakazawa
Studio	Daume
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
Original network	Animax, WOWOW, Bandai Channel
English network	SEA: Animax Asia
Original run	January 10, 2002 – March 28, 2002
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed by	Yasunori Ide
Music by	Shinji Orito
Studio	Daume
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
Released	October 25, 2002
Runtime	21 minutes
Manga
Onegai Teacher
Written by	Shizuru Hayashiya
Published by	MediaWorks
English publisher	NA: ComicsOne
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	Taraku Uon Hiroaki Gōda
Published by	MediaWorks
English publisher	NA: ComicsOne
Imprint	Dengeki Bunko
Demographic	Male
Published	March 2003
Sequel
Please Twins!

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. A reference to Mizuho’s father places the series some time after 2009; given her age of 23, the story occurs no earlier than 2034.^{[original research?]}