“First Period”
What They Say:
Ichiro Sato is about as average as a student can get… except for his above-average ability to land himself in totally awkward, intensely risqué situations with his no-nonsense teacher, Kana Kojima!
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Based on the manga by Soboru known as Nande koko ni sensei ga!?, this half-length episode series is planned for a twelve episode run plus an OVA from Tear Studio. The original work began in 2016 in Weekly Young Magazine and Soborou has six volumes out for it so far. The anime adaptation has Toshikatsu Tokoro as the hands-on director and episodes clock in at about twelve minutes in length, which there are a few like that this season. I’m not a huge fan of that length but it’s something that allows comedy series to work a bit better than trying to extend gags or manga chapters out for too long in a full-length episode. We’ve had a number of these over the years and they’re able to breathe more than the real short-form series and have a good bit of running time to work with.
The show focuses on Ichiro Sato, your typical average male lead student that populates many a series. What he has, however, is the uncanny ability to just end up in the worst situations with his teacher. Kana Kojima is on the younger side for teachers and absolutely attractive in a way that you know would drive men of most any age bonkers. And while this kind of ability may be something that you’d think would be fun it’s actually pretty terrifying since you could land into some serious trouble. We see this at the start as Kana uses the men’s restroom since there are problems with the women’s and Ichiro just goes right into the stall as she’s working through things. A stall whose lock doesn’t work, hence becoming a more complicated problem than it would be if it worked. Kana’s a tough teacher that’s even able to put parents in their places so you know Ichiro is going to get dealt with pretty harshly. Opening on a story about her doing her best to hold it in while he stands there? Oh, he’s potentially a dead man in a situation that just gets worse and worse.
Later in the episode, we see him head to the infirmary as he’s struggling a bit and figuring it’ll be empty only to discover that Kana is in there as she’s dealing with a cold. Of course, that means she’s dressed down a bit in a way that ups her attractiveness even more and Ichiro finds himself now doing his best to help her with whatever she needs. Of course, rifling through a medicine cabinet leads to some awkward moments as what she needs can’t be taken… Orally. She’s in desperate need so she lets him handle it but you know how ridiculous the whole thing is. The censoring of such moments is amusing and thankfully not just a big line of white light. I do like that Ichiro really is frantic and frustrated by everything, generally not coming across as aroused or anything, but the situations are just so far past the realm of reality that you can only treat it as pure comedy mixed with male wish fulfillment in what they’d want to have happen.
In Summary:
Why The Hell Are You Here, Teacher? is the kind of show that will turn away a lot of people because it’s all about sexual misadventures. It’s going to bring up a lot of uncomfortable moments while trying to play it for comedy. But it’s also basically just fantasy and something that will make a lot of people laugh with how awkward and unrealistic it is. I can see some problematic material coming up and totally get why it won’t work for a lot of people, but for those that like to mix something utterly ridiculous into their queue outside of the series stuff or the heartwarming stuff, this definitely fits the bill. It’s basically a softcore hentai series playing out with what are essentially comedy scenes “cut” from something else. I’m curious to see where some of the gags will go and if it really pushes any envelopes or not or if it plays it kind of safe overall, relatively speaking.
Grade: B
Streamed By: HIDIVE
