is a Japanese

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series written by Yamato Koganemaru (chapters #1–31) and Hiroyuki Yatsu (onwards) and illustrated by Namoshiro Tanahashi. It started in Kodansha's ''

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'' on November 15, 2006, and finished on January 8, 2009. Kodansha compiled the manga into eleven ''

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'' volumes released between. A sequel titled ''Hammer Session! In High School'' started in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' on May 26, 2010, and finished on November 2 of the same year. It was adapted as an 11-episode

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broadcast in 2010.

Cast

Main cast

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as Goro Hachisuka *

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as Kaede Tachibana * Manami Higa as Ryoko Mizuki * Fumiyo Kohinata as Kenichi Mizuki * Emiri Miyasaka as Reina Satonaka *Naomasa Musaka as Shohei Imamura *Kenji Murakami as Roku *Keisuke Horibe as Kouichi Tachibana *

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as Kiyoko Oota *Tatsuya Hino as Yuichiro Hattori *

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as Tetsuya Tsukamoto

Class 3-B

* Hideo Ishiguro as Yuusei Shiba * Jingi Irie as Tamotsu Kai *

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as Keisuke Fujii *Toshi Takeuchi as Masamune Kurosawa *

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as Yohei Sakamoto * Shogo Sakamoto as Kenta Nojima * Ryo Ryusei as Takumi Hirose * Shūhei Nomura as Ken Ebihara *Nobuhiro Nobuyama as Shingo Katsuragi *Rio Yamashita as Erika Sakiyama * Rina Aizawa as Mayu Mizuno *Mary Matsuyama as Yoko Saotome *

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as Mashio Nitta * Saaya as Yui Asakura *Yuko Masumoto as Ando Misaki *Izumi Fujimoto as Chinatsu Hasegawa *

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as Momoka Inoue * Erina Nakayama as Shiori Kawahara *Hidemi Hikita as Anna Fujimoto *Mao Katsume as Yuuki Ishida

Guests

Soundtrack

* Spyair - Liar * Shocking Lesson (only available at

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) * Tomorrow, also (only available at

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References

External links

Official site
* {{Weekly Shōnen Magazine - 2010–2019 Japanese drama television series Teaching anime and manga Shōnen manga