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Season 1 · 12 episodes

E1
A zealous teacher goes on a rampage

Yamaguchi Kumiko, a new teacher at Shirokin High School, has been assigned to teach a class full of the school's most notorious delinquents. Unbeknownst to her fellow teachers, Yamaguchi is better equipped to deal with her rowdy students t…

E2
Don't abandon your friend

When the students create posters making fun of her and the head teacher, Yamaguchi learns that they have given her a nickname, "Yankumi", which she unexpectedly embraces. One of the students, Minami, is seeing a new girl. One day, he arriv…

E3
Don't judge only by appearance

A serial purse-snatcher is targeting women in the neighborhood near Shirokin High School, and Uchiyama, one of the students in Class 3-D, is a prime suspect. Determined to prove Uchiyama's innocence, Yankumi and a few of her students set o…

E4
If you fail, start over

Yamaguchi's fellow teacher Shizuka, who teaches English, is also working nights at a club in the Ginza district. One of Shizuka's students, Noda, who has developed a crush on her, gives her a necklace, and later follows her to the club, wh…

E5
To fight is different from violence

Sawada finds Yankumi's lost phone and sets out to return it. In doing so, he ends up in a house filled with Yakuza and learns the truth about Yankumi's family from her grandfather. Meanwhile, the teachers are on the lookout for a violent g…

E6
Don't let bullying get to you

It's time for Shirokin High School's annual sports tournament, and the initially reluctant students of class 3-D have been goaded into participation by dismissive remarks from the head teacher, but they need one more student to field a bas…

E7
Believe in your own child

Yankumi is struggling through parent-teacher conferences, but when it's time for Sawada's meeting, his parents don't show up. Later, he receives a visit from a girl who turns out to be his sister. Through these incidents, we learn that Saw…

E8
Aren't you his mother

Because of Shin's scary story, Yankumi is scared to walk alone to the school hallway. One time she left her phone and thinks that someone was following her only to find out that it was a little boy. The boy was Yuta Nakashima-sensei's step…

E9
Don't blame others for your own mistakes

Yankumi is happy for class 3-D will be hosting a volleyball tournament however they will not the playing.Yankumi thought of something to make them participate and thought of forming a cheer-leading group who will yell chants. Class 3-D are…

E10
I'll believe my own students

Everyone is lovelorn that day. 3-D went to a group date wearing formal clothes to keep the fact that they are from Shirokin but soon was revealed. Yankumi saw her long time crush with a girl, and Tetsu the guy who has a crush on Yankumi fo…

E11
No one is alone

As usual, Yankumi was called for her students got involved with cops but this time in a positive way. The 3-D became heroes and for some reason, Yankumi gave so much attention of herself although she didn't participate in the hero thingy. …

E12
Goodbye, Yankumi

FInally the magazine stating Yankumi's back ground came out and made a lot of commotions. Yankumi was forced to resign but she doesn't want to. The students on the other hand were so mad about the bad article and were force to meet the pre…