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As a guy who watched all 24 episodes of Love Hina, all 48 episodes of Kimagure Orange Road, and all 96 episodes of Maison Ikkoku (plus some Tenchis) and liked them all, I feel qualified to rate this series as utter crap. Please Teacher takes the lamest and most overused aspects of those shows -- primitive accident-based humor (i.e. tripping and falling on a girl), pointless plot devices, forced drama, slow story development -- and throws it on top of weak characters that give little reason to care.

Main guy Kei is the exact copy of Love Hina's Keitaro in both appearance and attitude (and name), and Mizuho (the teacher) embodies every clichéd frail female anime stereotype. Scenes meant to make us think of love, laughter, jealousy, etc., all miss the mark and fall flat, and even accounting for what might be lost in translation, the writing is pitiful. All of which make this the only anime series that clocks in at a tidy 13 episodes that I didn't have the willpower to finish.

Don't be seduced by the high-quality cover art or the clever website preview. Instead, redirect your rental/purchase money into one of the classics I mentioned.

After Reading so many enthusiastic reviews I expected something really good. Unfortunately, Onegai teacher happened to be one of the worst series I have ever seen. First of all, the plot is very infantile and sadly unfunny. It gets boring after two or three episodes, as the characters repeat the same sentences all over again. Nothing moves, they just sit and think. Besides, the whole relationship with an alien teacher seems so weird and untrue. There were just a couple of moments when I laughed, as for the rest, I wish I could just forget about it. To compare, Love Hina has much more comedy moments in it, and the synopsis is much better. Onegai teacher could be as well summarized into three episodes, the action is so slow and it leads to nowhere. If you wanna something better, go for "Now and there, here and there", Cowboy Bebop or Witch Hunter Robin. Or even "I, me my, strawberry eggs"...