Product Details

• Actors: Miyuki Ichijô, Mitsuo Iwata, Tomoko Kawakami, Hiromi Minami, Omi Minami
• Directors: Yoshiaki Iwasaki
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
• DVD Release Date: November 8, 2005
• Run Time: 24 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009ZE9RQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #309,613 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Doki Doki School Hours - 1st Hour" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Mika Suzuki, the central character of the fluffy comedy Doki Doki School Hours, has a problem: as she stands only 4' 10" and looks like a little girl, no one takes her seriously as a teacher. Unmarried at 27, she lives at home with her indulgent father and acidulous mother. No one takes Mika's students seriously, and with good reason. Tominaga loves slasher movies, Kobayashi lives for designer labels, and Kitagawa gushes about how cute the teacher is. Nor will the boys win any prizes--Watabe draws manga panels all over his exams, the heterosexual Seki dresses in drag, and Kudo nurtures a crush on athletic Suetake. These misfits stumble through the regular events of a Japanese high school year: athletic competitions, exams, homework, summer festivals. To compensate for the limits of the cartoon-y animation, the filmmakers crowd the screen with names, explanatory words, and other graphics. Even though it's played for laughs, Doki Doki School Hours makes Strawberry Eggs feel like Macbeth. (Rated 13 and older: risqué humor, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

Studio: Geneon Entertainment Release Date: 11/08/2005

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prejudice against fluffy anime?, October 25, 2005

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M. Reynolds (Las Vegas NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doki Doki School Hours - 1st Hour (DVD)

It seems to me that Amazon needs to get a new anime reviewer. The current reviewer does not seem to like, nor understand anime.

I personally love the series Doki Doki School Hours, or as I was intruduced to it as Sensei no Ojikan. It's relatively violence-free, which is rare, and it's open and friendly entertainment.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goes Down Easy, December 6, 2005

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Alan Smithee - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doki Doki School Hours - 1st Hour (DVD)

What do you get when you take an 8th grade student and force her to teach high school? Yelled at. Possibly fired. Who knows? people will do anything these days.

Mika Suzuki, our heroine, is 4'6" and has an almost impossibly young figure...which is to say, none at all. She looks about twelve. In actuality, she's a 27-year-old teacher at suburban high school in Japan, and her own students look older than she does! How will she get them to take her seriously? She has few friends outside of school, no energy, no stamina, frequent panic attacks, bouts of daydreaming and on top of that, she still lives with her parents!

Doki Doki School Hours follows the lives of Miss Suzuki and her overbearing students over the course of a year of school. Volume 1 (a.k.a. the First Hour) sets the stage and introduces Suzuki-san and the rest of the cast, including, but not limited to: the self-obsessed metrosexual boy; the dominating preppy girl who enjoys making Suzuki-san suffer; and the artistically inclined nerd that upsets Suzuki-san if he doesn't finish the comics he draws on the back of his tests.

The whole concept is just plain fun, and the shows themselves go down easy. Not just "hot soup" easy, either. we're talking "milk" easy. They're light and fluffy and delicious. I recommend Doki Doki School Hours very highly.

When I read a review for this title, the first thing that I thought of was Azumanga Daioh, an immensely popular sort of romp through high school seen through the eyes of several slightly psychotic female students. As it turns out, the original Doki Doki manga predates the Azumanga Daioh manga by more than two years.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars if young girls are into comedy this one's for you, October 25, 2005

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Ronnie Clay "R.C." (Winnsboro, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doki Doki School Hours: 1st Hour (DVD)

You've got love, friendship, weirdo's all mixed up in one classroom, with a teacher whom is 27 and doesn't look older then 10 years. It's hard to say what it is about, because there are there are so many different episodes. My favorite character is Seki. He's a guy who loves acting as a girl! There is a guy also known as old man and a girl whom is very dedicated to much actually to her childlike teacher. This was very fun to watch.