is a gag manga

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 series by manga creator

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 Norio Sakurai about the adventures of the Marui triplets in sixth grade and their newly hired teacher Satoshi Yabe as he falls in love with the school nurse. It's serialized in Akita Shoten

Akita Shoten

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 Shōnen magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion

Weekly Shonen Champion

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since 2006 and the serial chapters collected into ten tankōbon

Tankobon

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. In July 2010, the manga was adapted into an anime

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 series, running for 13 weeks. A second series, titled , aired between January 9, 2011 and February 28, 2011.

Plot

Satoshi Yabe is just starting his new life as an elementary school teacher. Little does he know that in his assigned 6th year class, the law is made by the troublesome Marui triplets, Mitsuba, Futaba and Hitoha. The series showcases the everyday life of these sisters, their classmates and their unfortunate teacher.

The Marui Family

The eldest of the Marui triplets, enjoys causing mischief and is aptly described as a "precocious sadist". A textbook Tsundere

Tsundere

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 character, Mitsuba is easily embarrassed and quick to deny her feelings toward someone, when she really does care. A running gag in the anime is that her desk always gets destroyed by Futaba as well as getting injured by her too. She is pretty conscious about her weight, though this doesn’t stop her stuffing her face to a ridiculous degree - in the anime a high-pitched sound effect of mushakora accompanies her shovelling down any food items. She appears to have a superiority complex, always wanting her classmates to address her as Mitsuba-sama and serve her; she even tries to change the name of the series to Mitsubasama during the opening titles, before Hitoha stops her. Mitsuba typically wears a skirt, striped thigh-high socks, a t-shirt and a jacket. Her name means "three-leaf." In season 2 she eats more food than ever before.

The middle of the Marui triplets, she's energetic and airheaded but also can speak and act lecherously. She is mostly seen barefoot, and wears a vest and lycra cycling shorts. It's explained that while Futaba is goofy, she does have dedication when the topic is about breasts; she has a strange boob obsession. She is also very artistic. Futaba always thinks of others before herself but her common sense is a bit twisted. She is also by far the strongest out of the sisters and often ends her sentences in "ssu", a contraction for "desu". Out of the Marui sisters, she seems to be the only one close to their father. She gets along with the boys mostly due to their shared interest in boobs; the class pet, Nipples the Hamster, was unsurprisingly named by Futaba. Out of the boys, she is close to Shinya whom she call affectionately as Shin-chan. Due to their close friendship, many girls glare daggers at her. Her name means "two-leaf." She is the only one of the triplets whose outfit doesn't change daily.

The youngest of the Marui triplets, she tends to be quiet and mysterious. She always seems to be reading a book in class which has shown to be very erotic. She also shows a death glare at anyone who tries to take it away from her. She may not intend this glare to be so vicious, as it also appears when she's particularly nervous, embarrassed or uncertain, such as when giving in to her teacher and asking a few of her classmates to walk home together. She has a soft spot for Nipples (the class hamster) and gets jealous when other people play with him. She shows to be crueler than Mitsuba when she is disturbed. Out of the two sisters, Hitoha is kinder to Futaba as the little sister and always pulls pranks on Mitsuba. She appears to be deathly afraid of heights and cannot swim well, going as far as saying swimming is pointless. She happens to be a fan of Gachi Rangers (a parody of Super Sentai

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/Power Rangers

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), yet she doesn't say it out loud, even though she wants to. Hihota typically wears a plain dress with a button up sweater. Her name means "one-leaf."

The triplets father. In appearance, he looks very suspicious and is often mistaken as a pedophile or a thief resulting in being arrested as a running gag —in his younger years, he actually appeared to be pretty handsome, but changed a lot indeed. His daughters, Mitsuba is very embarrassed by him; Hitoha not so much; but Futaba is very fond of him. In the anime he is drawn sketchy and with darker lines.

Class 6-3

The new teacher at the triplets' school who has to endure all of the misadventures the girls and his classroom have. He tries his best to keep things under control but because of his good-natured and humble personality, he becomes a target for "bullying" of the girls. He bought a hamster, named Nipples by Futaba, for his classroom. He seems to have a crush on the school nurse. He is given the nickname "Yabecchi" by his classmates. Like Hitoha, he is a fan of Gachi Rangers, and misunderstands conversations with Hitoha about the matter (i.e. he was thinking that when she said "did you see them?" he thought she meant her panties due to a gust of wind blowing on her skirt.) He is known for often wearing a shirt that says "Cherry

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," which probably refers to the fact that he is a virgin (The Japanese slang term for a male virgin being "Cherry Boy"). In addition, he finds himself in situations to where he is noted to be disgusting or perverted.

He is Futaba's childhood friend and best friends with Chiba. Similar to Yabe, he's very good-natured and smart but still has to deal with the weirdness of his classmates, especially numerous girls who have a crush on him. He tries to do the right thing most of the time. Unfortunately, like Yabe-Sensei, he is often put into misunderstood situations where he's thought to be a pervert by the entire school (but he may very well be one). He is often pranked by Chiba due to Satou's popularity with girls (i.e. telling Futaba that he like panties and Futaba ended up giving Satou panties). He is often embarrassed by Futaba, even though unintentional (i.e. Futaba telling everyone he likes panties after numerous incidents). Out of everyone in the class, he is seen as the most observant and mature. Despite being liked by many girls, he tends to feel freaked out by them. Futaba is the only girl out of Marui sisters that he is close to. Even though he is put into awkward situations by her, he understands that it was out of good will.

He's friends with Satou but is the opposite of him. He shows to be a slack when doing homework and is more of a pervert than Satou. During the title sequence of the first series, he is standing behind Hitoha during the dance, and when he catches a glimpse of the book she’s reading he suffers a spontaneous explosive nosebleed, suggesting the book is of a Not Safe For School variety. He brings and reads manga in school, and desperately wants to read Hitoha's erotic book; he even went as far as begging on his knees (Hitoha rejected him though). He has a habit of messing with Satou due to Satou's popularity with girls. He's known to always wear a hat that has the number "69" on it.

A boisterous and preppy girl who loathes Mitsuba, although is known to secretly take hundreds of photos of her. The two are bitter rivals and are always competing with each other on various things. She's friends with Yuki and Miyashita. Miku is a bit of a egotist but none the less treats her friends with respect, such as giving them, including Mitsuba, some Valentine's Day chocolate as a symbol of friendship.

A shy and calm girl who’s trademark is her short brown hair and thick eyebrows. She loves romance stories and it looks like she’s wishing for her knight in shining armor to come. She usually gets carried away very easily about romance and tends to see a romantic plot in about anything going on. It is shown that her parents are very lovey-dovey, which may be where her interest in love stems from.

A seemingly tall girl with a laid back but sporty personality. Its described that she is the only student in Class 6-3 who is well adjusted but yet has learned that "no good deed goes unpunished". She apparently looks different with her hair down, but the class still somehow recognizes her if she has her hairpins on. She tries to be friends with Hitoha, but usually fails. For some reason and much to her chagrin, other kids, and more particularly Hitoha, keep forgetting the end of her name, getting "Miya--" right without being able to remember the rest.

A friendly and polite girl with an occult fetish who becomes overly excited whenever the possibility of ghosts or spirits arise. She's mistaken Hitoha as a novice exorcist and enjoys looking for ghosts or spirits with her much to Hitoha's chagrin. None the less, she may have formed a reluctant friendship with her. The twosome often misunderstand each other.

Along with Shiori Itou and Mayumi Katou, Airi is a hardcore love admirer of Shinya Satou, hopefully in love with him, often doing weird things such as breathing in his air. Out of the trio known as the Hopeless Squad, she is the leader. Airi in particular will become extremely jealous of anyone, or anything, that Shinya supposedly likes more than her. This usually leads to her and the rest of the squad getting into arguments with Futaba, who is simply Shinya's childhood friend. Surprisingly, Airi is shown to have some impressive athletic abilities. Her older brother is a police officer.

Another member of the Hopeless Squad, she is the one with the brown pigtails. She is actually very sly and selfish and will often look for ways to get Shinya's love all for herself, in spite of her friendship with Airi and Mayumi.

Another member of the Hopeless Squad, she is the tallest one and the only one with a pony tail. She appears to be the only one out of the Hopeless Squad that notices Shiori's true intentions, despite their friendship.

A girl with a forehead that constantly reflects light.

A boy with a dog-like face and personality. Has no speaking role.

Other Characters

The school nurse who is very clumsy and can't see anything when she has no glasses on. She sometimes finds Class 6-3 in situations where she thinks the class is perverted. She is given the nickname "Kuriyamacchi" by the triplets.

Miku's mother who happens to be a masochist. Upon hearing stories from Miku about Mitsuba being like a dominatrix, she begs the latter to punish her. It soon appears that she's interested in any weird person, thus interested in any weird pupil she could find among her daughter's classmates.

Miku's younger brother. He is in 1st grade and is first introduced in a joint recess with everybody. He's shown to be bratty and selfish but looks up to his sister. He is a fan of the Gachi Rangers and owns some of the show's merchandise; a blue jersey with the team printed on it and a belt. He may have developed a crush on Hitoha.

The 29-year-old teacher of class 6-1. She despises the wild kids of class 6-3 and also has a complex concerning her nearly-thirty age.

The school principal.

A cute brown and white hamster who is the class's pet. It is good friends with Hitoha and likes it when its tail is petted. Discussions involving it are usually misinterpreted by everyone, including Kuriyama and the Principal. Futaba taught it to pull backflips when she clicks her fingers - something which caused Hitoha no end of distress when she found out it wouldn’t do this for her, because she couldn’t click her fingers. Nipples exact gender is debatable: It is referred to as "she" by Hitoha and others, but was attracted to the female hamster on Mitsuba's panties.

Manga

The manga is written and illustrated by Norio Sakurai. It is serialized in Akita Shoten

Akita Shoten

is a Japanese publishing company established on August 10, 1948 in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its main editorial target has always been teenagers , and it currently publishes mostly manga...

 Shōnen magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion

Weekly Shonen Champion

is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published by Akita Shoten.- History :Shōnen Champion was first published 15 July 1969. It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Mizushima, and Keisuke Itagaki...

since 2006 and is still ongoing. As of September 2010 the serial chapters were collected into ten tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

with the first one released on January 9, 2006, and the tenth on September 8, 2010.

Outside Japan, the series is licensed by Doki Doki in France, and Tong Li Comics

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 in Taiwan.

Anime

In November 2009 an anime adaptation of the manga by the studio Bridge was announced, to be directed by Masahiko Ohta The first season aired on Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting

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 between July 2, 2010 and September 26, 2010. Others broadcast networks are BS11 Digital, AT-X

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, MBS

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 and Tokyo MX. New episodes are currently being subtitled by MX International and simulcast on Crunchyroll

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. The series began release on Blu-Ray and DVD from August 25, 2010. An originally unaired episode was included with the seventh volume released on February 23, 2011 and also aired on March 6, 2011 following the second season. A second season of the anime, titled was announced with the 10th volume of the manga and aired between January 9, 2011 and February 28, 2011. It is also being simulcast on Crunchyroll

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The first season use two pieces of theme music, one opening and one ending theme. The opening theme is by Ayahi Takagaki

Ayahi Takagaki

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, Satomi Akesaka

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 and Haruka Tomatsu

Haruka Tomatsu

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 while the ending theme is by Saori Atsumi

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. The second season uses four pieces of theme music, two opening themes and two ending themes. The main opening theme is by Takagaki, Akesaka and Tomatsu, while the main ending theme is by Nomiko. For the first episode, the respective opening and ending themes are and , both performed by Masaaki Endoh

Masaaki Endoh

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