is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by Hiyoko Kobayashi. It started in the supplementary edition of

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's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''

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'', ''Young Jump Zōkan Mankaku'' in January 2001, before being transferred to the main magazine in October of the same year, and finished in April 2007. Its chapters were collected in 13 volumes. The series centers on a couple whose age difference makes it difficult for them to further their relationship, as one is a high school girl and the other is her physics teacher. A video game based on the series was released for the

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and later the

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as a "Director's Edition", both in 2002. A 13-episode

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

television series adaptation, produced by Avex Entertainment and Madhouse, was broadcast from July to September 2005, with each episode composed of two mini-episodes.

Plot

is a seventeen-year-old high-school student (voiced by

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) with a secret which has not been revealed to anyone: she is already married. Her husband, (voiced by

Mitsuaki Madono is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Osaka, Japan. He's known for voicing characters who are jokers, but sometimes hide a more insidious nature such as Emishi Haruki in ''GetBackers'', Loki in ''Valkyrie Profile'', Joker in ''Flame of Recca' ...

), is a physics teacher in the same high school as her. However, even though they are officially a married couple, Asami's father forbids them to have any sexual contact until after Asami has graduated. Asami has to hide the fact that she is married to Kyosuke while trying desperately to further their relationship, and it does not help when there are so many obstacles from her father and other third parties.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by , ''Oku-sama wa Joshi Kōsei'' debuted in the supplementary edition of

's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''

'', ''Young Jump Zōkan Mankaku'' on January 11, 2001. It was later transferred to the main magazine on October 4, 2001, and finished on April 19, 2007. Shueisha released first a limited ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...

'' volume on June 20, 2002, and started publishing it in '' wideban'' volumes on November 20 of the same year. The thirteenth and last volume was published on June 20, 2007.

Anime

Episodes

Notes

References

External links

Anime official website
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