Class 3-D immediately tries to intimidate the geeky-looking Kumiko by ignoring her, throwing stuff at her, etc. But Kumiko takes it all in stride. After a rough first day of school, Kumiko goes home, and here we can see why Kumiko might just be the perfect teacher for class 3-D. Kumiko lives in a spacious traditional Japanese-style home. It turns out that her family is none other than the Kuroda group, a notoriously dangerous Yakuza family. Kumiko's grandfather is its leader, and Kumiko is lined up to be the 4th generation leader after him.
Her unusual upbringing has given Kumiko a toughness that can easily stand such pathetic efforts of harassment that her students try. She is used to much worse. However, in order to remain a teacher at Shirokin Gakuen, Kumiko must conceal her Yakuza background and pretend to be a normal girl. This is not easy, as she has a habit of lapsing into rough Yakuza slang language when she gets excited.
Trouble starts right away when Kuma, a student known for getting into fights, is accused of stealing the bag containing the money for the school's class trips. Kuma denies stealing it, and Kumiko stands up to the other teachers in his defense. But Kuma seems to be hiding something, and won't tell Kumiko what it is. Then, after that Kuma told her that he threw the bag that contained cigarettes in the river and Kumiko as of course search for it the whole day, but then Kuma told her the truth that he didn't throw anything at all and Kumiko then found out that the Vice Principal Sawatari was the one who lost it in his way to the washroom.
Kumiko's life as a teacher continues. She tries, as usual, to meet the really cute police detective Shinohara, and ends up running to school. At school a surprise awaits her. Posted on the public bulletin board is a picture of Kumiko's head pasted onto a naked female body with large breasts. Kumiko is outraged at first, but then covers her anger with laughter, comparing herself to Fujiwara Norika (a popular model/acress with a good figure). On the poster Kumiko is referred to as "YanKumi". Intrigued about this nickname, her students tell her it's based on her name: YA(N)maguchi KUMIko. (the m is changed to an n). Yankumi loves her new nickname. It's much better than the one she had as a child.... (Kumichou or Leader of Yakuza, the same as Ojou)
The vice principal's car is vandalized, and once again, someone from class 3-D is a suspect. However the vice-principal isn't sure who it is, and the class is not telling. Yankumi admires this bond between her students. Their friendship is so great that they won't sell each other out. However these bonds of friendship are about to be strained. Minami, the ultimate playboy, has a new girlfriend and he seems to be serious in it. However Shin doesn't think Minami should be dating her, and warns him away. They end up fighting over it, but Minami decides to date the girl anyway.Meanwhile, Yankumi's dreams of romance with Shinohara continue as she attends a 'Goukon' with her fellow female teachers. A 'Guokon' is sort of like a group blind date where one girl will gather some friends (often co-workers), and a guy will gather some friends, and they will all meet for dinner/drinks. The school nurse and Fujiyama-sensei both have their eyes on the handsome Shinohara too, so Yankumi has some serious competition.
Minami soon discovers why he shouldn't have dated the girl he was interested in, and he is forced to meet a group of guys after school to fight. Class 3-D seems willing to leave Minami to his fate, but a rousing speech about friendship helps them realize they shouldn't abandon a friend in need. And of course, there is no meaning in being a teacher if she can't protect her students, so Yankumi is set to kick some butt too....
The neighborhood surrounding Shirokin Gakuen is being plagued by a purse snatcher. Cops are very determined to capture him, wanted posters of the thief have been posted everywhere, and the person depicted on them looks surprisingly like Class 3-D's Uchiyama! Of course Yankumi is certain that Uchi is not the culprit, and in order to save him from being punished, as what the school wanted to do, she decides to join her students in trying to capture the real thief. Yankumi offers herself as bait (because she is the only girl in 3-D or not?), and even dress up herself in fashion wearing blonde hair wig (funny). Class 3-D's team and Yankumi ended the case without any fail and they also cleared up the name of Uchi.
Noda develops a little crush on the young and seductive English teacher Fujiyama-sensei, and gives her a necklace he bought for her. However his crush got worse when he found out that Fujiyama-sensei throw the necklace in the trashcan. Even worse, she is working at a hostess club! Noda got angry at what he sees as rejection, lets the school administration know that Fujiyama is working this second job in the evenings, landing her in hot water! Yankumi struggles to make peace between Noda and Fujiyama-sensei, and to save Fujiyama-sensei from getting fired class 3-D must get a 30 above points in the upcoming test in English, Yankumi tried her best to teach the students about what they needed to learn in English just to pass, on the day of the results, Fujiyama was the one handing the test papers, everyone passed and Shin got 100 but Kuma got only 29 points (1 point to success), everyone was then arguing about it that suddenly the principal of the school appeared and told them that the answer in one of the questions can be both a and c and since Kuma's answer was c so he was correct and plus 2 points Kuma got 31 points in all and that everyone really passed the test.
Yankumi has lost her cellphone. Meanwhile, Shin found a cellphone and he brings it to the address the one contacted the cellphone says, while on his way inside the house he found a sticker in the cellphone and it is Yankumi's photo. And he found out about Yankumi's family business and the reason why she is so strong at fighting. Elsewhere, the rest of the 3-D guys meet some cute girls at a restaurant, and Kuma becomes smitten with one of them. He ends with her handkerchief, and agonizes over how to return it. Meanwhile, the vice principal is all gung-ho about a new patrol he has started, and he has enlisted all the teachers to help him. Yankumi is stuck patrolling the popular night spots for teens (arcades, karaoke, etc) looking for Shirokin students. Things do not go well for Kuma and the girl he likes. Unfortunately, she has a boyfriend. And that boyfriend is the target of some attacks by some violent members of his own school. When the gang threatens the girl, her boyfriend takes off, leaving Kuma alone to defend her. However Kuma doesn't stand much of a chance against a huge crowd of students bearing steel pipes. Only one person can help him and it is his beloved, beautiful, boss, idealistic and passionate homeroom teacher Yankumi!
Its sports festival in Shirokin, and class 3-D is in dire straits! They need one more person so that they can play in the basketball game, and amazingly enough, Yankumi discovers that there is another student in class 3-D that she did not know about. Her class roster pages were stuck together, and she never before saw the name listed on the next page. Apparently the boy was a victim of bullying by Kuma and Minami a long time ago, and has refused to return to school ever since. Yankumi decides to convince him to return to school so that they can play the basketball game. However the boy is extremely reluctant, and it takes a little combat training and toughening up to get the boy to face his fears and play alongside his former tormentors. We also get to see some cute flashbacks of young Yankumi learning to fight!
Thanks to some ghost stories told by Shin, Yankumi feels spooked while walking the empty halls of Shirokin. However the noise that scares her isn't a ghost, it's a young boy, and amazingly enough, he belongs to Kawashima-sensei! No one knew she had a son, and in fact, she doesn't. The young boy is her stepson, Yuta. He is her husband's child from his previous marriage. Unfortunately, Kawashima-sensei's husband passed away, and now Yuta lives with his grandparents. However Yuta loves Nakashima-sensei, and considers her to be his 'mama'. Nakashima-sensei still has to come to terms with the idea that she and Yuta can be a family even though she is not his real mother. Yankumi helps out with a bit of babysitting because Kawashima-sensei will attend some nursing seminars and while she was away she asked Yankumi to take care of Yuta but Yankumi's house is not a normal house. Thats why Yankumi asked Shin to accompany her in taking care of Yuta since Shin is the only one who knew about her real identity. Suddenly it was revealed that Yuta came to look for his mother without the approval of his grandparents and got taken away, then news flew very fast and they learned that Yuta is missing and came to the park to master twirling so that he can see his mother again.
Yankumi is surprised and excited to learn that Shirokin Gakuen will be joining the national competition in volleyball. However, class 3-D will not be actually playing in the tournament, but only replacements. In order to get her class involved, Yankumi wants them to form an "ouendan", or organized cheerleading group. The group would perform very loud cheers and chants accompanied by a drum. Of course class 3-D is not all that thrilled about the Ouendan idea, and it takes a bit of bribery in the form of promises of meeting some college female cheerleaders to get her class to start practicing. Meanwhile an old friend of Shin and Uchiyama's is making trouble. His name is Kurosaki, and he is a former Shirokin student who got expelled at Shirokin and is now leading a gang. Kurosaki has a lot of bitter issues about Shirokin's volleyball tournament, and has a personal grudge against Iwamoto-sensei. He got expelled because he got involved in some kind of accident right before the volleyball competitions and in order to enhance the image of the school (like always) they expelled him for good. He is threatening to ruin the volleyball tournament, and vandalizes the large banner hanging in front of the school. It takes a bit of knocking around from Yankumi to set him straight!
As usual, Yankumi is drooling over the handsome detective Shinohara. Of course he is just nice and friendly to her, but shows no obvious signs of romantic interest. Well actually, he does give her a present: a cactus. Yankumi drools over the cactus and places great importance on it. (a sign he likes her!) Meanwhile the class 3-D guys are trying to get some dates of their own as they drag Shin to a 'Goukon' (group date) with some girls from a local girls school. The 3-D guys dress very preppy and try to hide the fact that they go to Shirokin, but the secret is soon revealed, and they are dumped by the girls. Yankumi is also sad because, after enjoying a private meal with Shinohara, she sees him meeting another girl, and believes he has a girlfriend.
Also, Yankumi's Yakuza friend Tetsu obviously has a crush on Kumiko, and may be on the verge of giving up on ever getting her. So now everyone is lovelorn. But help for Yankumi arrives when the vice principal's wife arrives and offers her a man to meet for an omiai. An omiai is a meeting you have with a prospective partner in an arranged marriage. Yankumi sees the omiai as a challenge, so she gets all dressed up and meets the guy. He turns out to be a teacher from a snobby boys school (sort of the opposite from Shirokin) and he likes Kumiko enough to want to continue seeing her.
Unfortunately at their next meeting, he expresses his views about Shirokin students, and Yankumi's career that Yankumi doesn't appreciate. Elsewhere, the 3-D guys get into trouble again when they run into a kid fleeing from a video store he just shoplifted from. The 3-D guys get blamed for the theft and they are about to get expelled, when Shinohara found out the real culprit by watching the hidden cameras in the store and found out that the shoplifter is from the school where Yankumi's omiai partner is teaching.
Yankumi is once again called about her students being involved with the police. However instead of being suspects, this time they are actually the heroes! While buying crepes after school, Kuma got into a fight with a stranger on the street who turned out to be a wanted criminal. For capturing him, the gang have become heroes! They even give a press conference, and Yankumi makes the most of the event, squeezing out as much attention for herself (even though she wasn't even a part of capturing the criminal). All the press exposure draws the attention of a weekly magazine reporter who wants to do an article about Yankumi. He brings along a photographer and observes Yankumi at school with her students. Of course Yankumi acts all out of character in front of the reporters, pretending to be be a demure, lovely teacher.
Meanwhile Kuma's father is extremely proud of his son's role in capturing the criminal. He feeds the school staff with food from his ramen shop, and shows everyone who passes by the shop the newspaper article with photos of his son from the press conference. Kuma is embarrassed and angry about all this attention his father is giving him, and lashes out angrily. He soon comes to regret his hateful words when his father suddenly passes away. Yankumi and his friends try to comfort Kuma, but he is very traumatized. He starts skipping school, and is soon looking for trouble to distract himself from his pain. Yankumi tries to help Kuma. Meanwhile, the reporters are so eager to know more about Yankumi and even followed her home, but... they found out something they shouldn't find.
The magazine featuring Yankumi has been released, but there is an unexpected photo and article in it, her secret has been revealed! 3-D found out about it and told Yankumi that she is still Yankumi whatever she is. The medias is in an uproar regarding Yankumi, and the board of director and vice principal Sawatari's father came to fix this big mess. 3-D got pissed off about the articles and revelations they are releasing about Yankumi and faced the media, but ends up getting into a fight with them.
This gave the reason to the director to force Yankumi to resign. Then Yankumi decided to resign in order to make her dream come true and that is the 3-D to all graduate together. Shin and the others got really pissed off and intrudes the meeting were parents and the school administration are, they entered the hall with a calm face and their fists clamped (they dont want to fight), they said that if they will not revoke Yankumi's resignation letter they will all quit school and that gave a big shock to all. Then Yankumi came rushing and give her sentimental and tearful speech and that made the vice principal to opposed his father for the first time and revoke Yankumi's resignation. Everyone felt really happy because of it.
Graduation is near and 3-D decided to have a graduation trip and they also decided to keep it a secret from Yankumi so that they can do whatever they want. At the same time Kawashima-sensei invited Yankumi and Fujiyama in a trip to Onsen and Onsen is also the same place where 3-D is heading to. Yankumi became all alone when Kawashima and Fujiyama hooked up with 2 guys, then she found out that 3-D was also there and scold them for bringing alcohols and cigarettes. Then Yankumi serves as the tour guide for them and prevents them to see unnecessary things whatever it takes. She suddenly asked Kawashima and Fujiyama to help her to make a wonderful plan so that 3-D will enjoy it. Meanwhile, Uchi has a date with the hot spring's attendant named Wakaba. But then... Uchi, Noda, Kuma and Shin got into a real big mess, but they are not fighting back, because they promised Yankumi that they will all graduate together, then the heroine came and fight them back.
The results for the entrance exams of Noda and the others are out and they found out that only 2 of them passed (not Noda). Noda got really pissed off and told Shin that he is different from him since he passed 2 elite schools, and that Shin is really genius, that made Shin pissed off and punch him. Because of it Uchi's job got cancelled because the owner thought that Uchi is the same as those bastards (Noda's team), but then friendship still prevails and made them all together again and rushing to the graduation ceremony, they received they diplomas happily and then Shin gave out his tearful valedictorian's speech.
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