I like this story, it's sad that they had to go through all this these tough tmes.

Is this the anime where the teacher is an alien while the male lead character doesn't grow old because of his comas?

interesting

Yes that's the one, holybell84. It's called a standstill, it's pretty similar.

This is the most sad/emotion anime for me. I always cry when I watch this anime. I listen to the soundtrack, I cry. I listen to the vocal album, I cry.

This is my #1 and nothing has toppled it yet.

Hmm... interesting. I never really considered Please Teacher "sad." It seems more like Romantic comedy/drama to me.

Sure, some sad events happen, but the overall mood is really upbeat and hopeful. *shrugs*

Larry

It's all subjective to the individual. You may have a different concept and threshold for such sensitivity.

LOL in other words, we're all different people.

How dare you say that Onegai Teacher isn't sad? It is a sad anime. A lot of people have shed their tears for such magnificent work of art. This is true, a lot of people do find Onegai Teacher to be moving, whereas there is the odd minority who just finds it to be a hilarious romantic comedy.

I classify Onegai Teacher to be a romantic drama with a hint of comedy. It's really drama, with really touching moments. Though that isn't the same for all of us.

The exact way that Onegai Teacher makes me feel is indescribable. It's difficult to describe the exact emotion that fills my heart.

True masterpiece.... well done Ide-san. *palm clap clap... bow*

Gohda-san is also to be thanked for his great designs.... superb! I thank you Hiroaki-sama for bringing us such great characters like Mizuho and Kei.

That guy is my fav.... the director of A!MG and character designer of OT, you can't get any better.

very nice said indeed.......Kei.....but like you said everyone does have there own perspectives........

I consider a "sad" anime one that does not have a happy ending. Please Teacher did. Even though the characters went through several trying and emotionally draining times, everything still worked out for all of them.

Kei ended up with the love of his life.
Ichigo got beyond her standstills.
Kaede and Hyosuke ended up together.
Koishi put her crush behind her and moved on.

None of them died. None of them were left with an endless life alone. Hardly a tragedy in my opinion. Yes, there were sad part and depressing scenes that tug on the heartstrings, but I think that was far outweighed by the drama and comedy aspects. If you're going to call something a "sad series", then you should look at the series overall. At the end of Please Teacher, I was personally left with a smile on my face.

To use AMG as an example, Keiichi and Belldandy win the race in the "Love Potion #9" TPB. Just because Bell runs out of power and falls asleep in the middle of the race, leaving them far behind their main opponents, does not make that race a loss. People have setbacks, and sometimes those setbacks are depressing, but as a whole, every character in Please Teacher is better off at the end than at the beginning.

*shrugs* When people talk about sad series, I think of stuff like Ninja Scroll, where Jubei loses the woman he loved at the end. One lap of a race is not the entire race. I consider a sad series something where, at the end, I can feel the character's loss. That simply isn't the case with Please Teacher, because nothing was really lost and a lot was gained.

I'm hardly knocking the series... I think Please Teacher is one of the best anime series of the past few years (probably in my top ten and at minimum my top 20 (I have about 500 anime DVDs, so that is a pretty darn good ranking from me). I just don't know that calling it a "sad series" is accurate. There are parts that were sad and move people to tears, but there were parts of the Lord of the Rings that were sad as well... I think few people would call it a "sad movie trilogy."

Hehehe... Who else is reminded of the old story of the blind men describing an elephant? The one who touched the trunk said it was like a snake, and the one touching its leg said it was like a tree, while the one touching the body said it was like a boulder. Yes, there are sad parts to Please Teacher, but a part is not the whole. Personally, I think it is greater than the sum of its parts.

Larry

Yeah indeed, overall Onegai Teacher is a happy and delightful romantic drama. But its dramatic and intense moments bring a lot of heartache and emotion to its viewers, and that's why I see it as sad. It may not be a 'sad' series per se, indeed it isn't, but the moments in there have made me treasure it deeply.
I cried at the end when they got together maybe because it reminded it of how much they've been through and how much loss and pain they went through. And then in the 12th episode they got together happily. I felt a quite similar emotion when I watched Suguru and Mahoro get back together in the ending of Mahoromatic 2, though not as strong as Onegai Teacher of course.
The music was an essence to Please Teacher! because it conveys a lot of feeling. Well to me anyway. I'd say it's a masterpiece of a soundtrack by I've.

Yeah of course it's all subjective to the individual on how they define the notion of a sad series. Some may only see a sad series when the result is really depressing, whereas some (like me) see a sad series when they find a lot of emotional intensity in the anime.

You don't see Full Moon o Sagashite as a non-sad series, in fact it very much is a sad, its' very depressive indeed. There are a lot of death related themes and losses, but in the end it's a happy ending. Don't you class that as a sad series?
I do.

For me, I think I'm pretty sensitive in my anime. I see a lot of emotion when it comes to things like Ah! My Goddess OVA and the Movie. I felt a lot of emotion there, and it made me sad. Indeed it may not be a sad series, but nevertheless I love it because it can make me shed my tears.

Like I said many times before it all boils down to the individual's concepts and specific boundaries of classifying stuff. Some may take an analytical holistic approach whereas some may assess the qualities carefully piecing together the whole image.

i think onegai teacher has sad moments, i don't really consider it a sad anime. (by sad i mean depressing). its really good how they made 3 eps in a row that made you want to cry. the only reason why tears didn't come to my eyes is cause i'm tired and stayed up all night and i was eating breakfast at the same time but still there are moments when i could feel an ache in my heart. any anime that achieves that goes in my awesome book ^_^

Onegai Teacher is one of the many that made me cry..thats why I would say that this anime is heartaching.....

Sadness:10/10
Love:10/10
Friendship:10/10
Story Line:10/10
Characters100000/10

Thats pretty much how I would rate the anime...

i wouldnt call Onegai Teacher a sad anime either, its has a very nice and satisfying happy ending. An emotional rollercoaster maybe but by no means a sad anime.

Ah, but Peng-kun feels that Onegai Teacher is the best in everything! And Mizuho-san has hung the stars while Inoue Kikuko-san has hung the moon. ^_^
Cute though, ne?

Why do you find it a sad anime, then, Peng-kun?

I just started watching this series

Is Mizuho's voice actress the same as Belldandy's. they sound exactly the same