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Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? Special

Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? Special

Special Overview

Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? (Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!? / なんでここに先生が!?) is an ecchi series made up of 12-minute episodes. I originally reviewed the series when it finished airing, and now I’m coming back to the series to review the special.

Reviewing specials and OVAs separately from their main series is something I’ve tried to limit doing more recently. Usually, there isn’t all that much to discuss in regards to the single episode or few episodes that make up Specials and OVAs on their own.

But since it’s been so long since I watched the main series (almost a year), there’s a major update to the series I’ll be addressing in the final section of this review. And if you couldn’t guess, it’s the fact that the uncensored version was released with this special.

Anyway, this special follows all four couples from the main series as they go on a trip together to celebrate the end of the year — and graduation of two of the students. They take a trip to an onsen (hot springs) hotel, and once there the couples all split up and do their own thing.

Chizuru and Kou

Chizuru Tachibana is the school nurse, and her boyfriend Kou Tanaka is one of the two graduating seniors. Chizuru is your typical dandere character, which means she’s very shy, reserved, and somewhat incompetent when it comes to social interactions involving anyone other than Kou.

Chizuru Tachibana smiling from the Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? anime special
Chizuru Tachibana smiling

After finding out that their original hotel reservation was improperly made, Chizuru and Kou head off in search of another hotel to stay at. Chizuru ends up selecting a love hotel without knowing it, and true to its name (and purpose), the two of them do the deed multiple times.

Hikari and Takashi

Hikari Hazakura is the gym teacher, and her boyfriend Takashi Takahashi is one of the two underclassmen. Although their relationship is romantic (and potentially sexual) in nature, they have a big sister/little brother vibe due to their history with one another.

Hikari Hazakura and Takashi Takahashi from the Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? anime special
Hikari Hazakura and Takashi Takahashi

Like Chizuru and Kou, Hikari and Takashi leave the original hotel they planned to stay at and instead head to an internet cafe to play video games all night long. Unlike Chizuru and Kou, nothing happens between Hikari and Takashi, though Hikari was preparing herself for it.

Mayu and Rin

Mayu Matsukaze is a teacher of some sort, and her boyfriend Rin Suzuki is the second of the two underclassmen. The relationship between Mayu and Rin is the most wholesome of all the couples, even more so than that of Hikari and Takashi.

While all the other couples are either doing exactly what you would expect them to under these circumstances, or at least thinking about it, Mayu and Rin are just having a nice, relaxing time. Mayu soaks in the onsen with Kana (because they’re staying at the original hotel) and then receives a back massage from Rin upon returning to their room.

As far as we know, nothing happened between them — although I kind of feel like they already went all the way in the main series. I could be wrong about that, though. I don’t actually remember.

Kana and Ichirou

Kana Kojima is another teacher and her boyfriend Ichirou Satou is the second of the two graduating seniors. Their relationship is the most mature of all the couples. And although some people would probably call Kana “vanilla,” I think she’s my favorite girl of the series. She’s cute, mature, and just a little bit mean.

Kana Kojima and Ichirou Satou sitting back to back from the Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? anime special
Kana Kojima and Ichirou Satou sitting back to back

Thanks to Japan’s infamously thin walls, after returning from the onsen, Kana and Ichirou hear some questionable noises coming from the room next door where Mayu and Rin are staying. Of course, these are simply the noises of Rin giving Mayu a massage, but Kana and Ichirou believe otherwise.

Not wanting to be left behind, they get down to business just like Chizuru and Kou — with the exception that Ichirou doesn’t embarrass himself as Kou did.

Uncensored Version

The special episode of Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? released with the Blu-ray/DVD release of the series. And with it came the uncensored version of the series as well. That means that this special episode was uncensored, as is the rest of the series if you were to look it up today.

But back when I originally watched the series, the uncensored version hadn’t been released. And to say that the censoring was a bit much is an understatement. I think there were a few instances of acceptable levels of censoring, but for the most part, the entire screen was censored whenever anything happened.

Now, I haven’t gone back and rewatched the main series since it’s been uncensored, but based on how the special is, I can give you an idea of what to expect.

It’s not a hentai, but it’s an uncensored ecchi. That means that you’re not going to see anything below the waist, but everything above is fair game. It also means that any time you would have seen something below the waist in the original series, there’s probably still some censoring involved.

There was one such scene in this special when Chizuru and Kou were in the bath, and that was used “natural” censoring. I’d imagine the main series would do the same thing.

Conclusion

The Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? Special episode is a 6/10 from me, which is one point higher than what I rated the series. I think with the series now uncensored, that’s probably a 6 as well too. I’m not typically someone to lower a score due to censoring, but the excessive nature of the censoring did impact this particular series.

However, one thing that hasn’t changed since I watched the main series is how good both the OP and ED are. The OP is now uncensored just like the actual content, but the ED remains the same. Either way, I love the art and music of both the OP and ED and I have no complaints about them.

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Why the hell are you here, Teacher!?

Why the hell are you here, Teacher!?

Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? anime series cover art
Why the hell are you here, Teacher!?

Overview

Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? (Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!? / なんでここに先生が!?) is an ecchi series with 12-minute episodes. However, rather than being a 12-episode ecchi series, I think it would have been better as a 4-episode hentai series with each episode being around 30 minutes in length.

The reason I think this is that the source material is a hentai manga, so obviously the contents of the series fits more in that category than ecchi. And unfortunately rather than slightly changing the events of the series, the anime simply censors them in one of the worst ways possible.

Typically there are two major ways to censor anime. The first is to use objects and camera angles to obscure things from view. This is the preferred method. The other is to use random shadows, beams of light, or steam. This method simply feels lazier to the viewer.

However, some series choose other methods of censorship. Chibi versions of characters’ faces covering things is another fairly popular option, and that’s part of what this series did. Another ecchi from the Spring season, Nobunaga-sensei’s Young Bride, did something similar.

But Nobunaga-sensei’s Young Bride also had an even more censored version which colored the bodies of the characters in question rainbow to censor the whole thing. Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? goes one step further and censors the entire screen when extremely explicit things are happening.

Chizuru Tachibana from the anime series Why the hell are you here, Teacher!?
Chizuru Tachibana

As a pure ecchi series, there are quite a few scenes that are completely censored in each episode. After all, this series follows four high school boys as they continuously get into “lucky pervert” situations with their female teachers.

The general layout of the series is that each of the four boys, and their respective teachers, have three episodes dedicated to each other in a row. However, there’s definitely crossover between them, and the final episode in particular features the entire cast.

Characters

Let’s go through the pairs of students and teachers in the order their arcs appear in. First up we have the best pair, Ichiro Sato and Kana Kojima. Sato is a third year student and Kojima is a Japanese language teacher who is known to her students as Kojima the demon because of her bad attitude.

However, when she’s alone with Sato, and in embarrassing situations, we see a very different side of her. Kojima is actually much more shy and bashful than the persona she puts on in front of her class. Sato meanwhile is what the kids would refer to as a “Chad.”

Ichiro Sato and Kana Kojima from the anime series Why the hell are you here, Teacher!?
Sato and Kojima

Next we have Rin Suzuki and Mayu Matsukaze. Suzuki is a second year student while Matsukaze is the school’s art teacher. Despite his massive size and intimidating appearance, Suzuki is actually a timid boy. His only real friend is Sato, whom he knew back in middle school.

Matsukaze is very similar to Suzuki in how she acts. She wants to get closer to her students (in more ways than one apparently), but doesn’t quite know how to express that desire. However, physically she is the opposite of Suzuki due to her small stature.

The third pair is Takashi Takahashi (great name) and Hikari Hazakura. Takahashi is a first year student who looks like a middle schooler. Hazakura is the physical education teacher, as depicted by the fact that she has a tan.

Of all the pairs, this is the only one which attends a different school, though it’s implied that the two schools are related somehow. Since they have always been neighbors, Takahashi refers to Hazakura as Hika-nee. While Sato and Kojima have also known each other for a very long time, their relationship isn’t as open as Takahashi and Hazakura’s.

Finally we have Ko Tanaka and Chizuru Tachibana. Tanaka is a third year student and close friend of Sato (though all of the boys seem to be friends to some extent). Tachibana is the school nurse, so I guess not exactly a teacher, but a faculty member.

In this relationship it’s the student who is the more forceful one, as Tanaka hopes to have a girlfriend by the time he graduates. Tachibana, on the other hand, doesn’t really know how to express her emotions. She’s also typically pretty shameless and sees everything from a logical perspective.

Conclusion

Overall I think Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? is a fairly solid 5/10. It probably would have been a 6 if it was uncensored just because the way it censored the entire screen was a bit obnoxious to say the least. And, as I previously mentioned, I think it should have just been a hentai.

Oddly enough, this series had one of the strongest OP/ED combinations of the season. The OP was great, though I still think I liked the one from Ao-chan Can’t Study! more. The ED, however, was definitely the best of the season.

There were actually at least four different versions of the ED. The teacher in each arc is the one singing the ED for that arc. I couldn’t find the actual ED videos, but here’s the full version of the song with all four teacher versions put together. My personal favorite is the Kojima-sensei version, though I know a lot of people liked the Matsukaze version.

Did you watch Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? If so, which teacher was your favorite? I suppose they all have their perks, but if I had to rank them I’d say Kojima > Hazakura > Tachibana > Matsukaze. Though Hazakura had the worst student paired with her so it’s impressive that she still ranks that highly.

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My review of the uncensored special episode is available here.