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Recommendation: Student-Teacher Shoujo Manga Part 1

Oh, student-teacher romance. One of the most common tropes in manga where the couples go through the challenge of making things work despite what society will say or think about them.

This may be morally wrong in real life, but the concept is still one of the best when it comes to entertaining our hopeless romantic hearts, regardless if the series is pure angst or just full-on gag.

Here’s a list of student-teacher stories I’ve compiled from 1996 to 2016. That’s 20 freaking years! I guess that’s one of the reasons why some plots tend to be repetitive for us.

Note: I don’t read nor considered series that are 1 volume short, so expect the series below to be at least 2 volumes long. No smuts included. The list is arranged based on the manga’s released date.

Sensei! by Kawahara Kazune

Sensei! Volume Cover

English Title: Sensei!
Year: 1996
Status: Volume 11 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Drama, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

It’s the story of a high-school girl, Hibiki, who falls in love with one of her teachers. The two start dating, but run into a lot of trouble. Hibiki’s friends cover for her, and part of the story is also about them.

Honey by Tachibana Yutaka

Honey Volume Cover

English Title: Honey
Year: 1999
Status: Volume 05-Digitally (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Drama, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Chizuru is the new school nurse and she’s eager not just to heal physical injuries but also injuries of the heart. She soon meets Kuga, a student whose father is a powerful yet sleazy politician who Kuga hates with a passion. At first, Kuga just tries to avoid Chizuru’s attempts to help him, but as time goes on he finds himself attracted to her. Yet Chizuru has her own demons that get in the way of her being able to fall in love again.

Switch by Mochizuki Karin

Switch Volume Cover

English Title: Switch
Year: 2000
Status: Volume 02 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Drama, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Kei is a quiet student who doesn’t really like adults or teachers too much. However, after getting to know her English teacher, she begins to fall for him.

Sugar Family by Hagio Akira

Sugar Family Volume Cover

English Title: Sugar Family
Year: 2006
Status: Volume 06 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Cohabitation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, School life, Step-Sibling Romance

Synopsis:

Because of their parent’s remarriage, high school student Satou Yuka, suddenly finds herself living together with her stepbrother, 23-year-old high school teacher Satou Taichi. Actually, their parents have not registered their marriage and therefore they aren’t even siblings by law; but since both parents aren’t around, they end up living together! Taichi who has a very serious case of sister complex wishes for Yuka to call him “Onii-chan”. But Yuka’s reaction is very cold?

Kinkyori Renai by Mikimoto Rin

Kinkyori Renai Volume Cover

English Title: Love’s Reach
Year: 2007
Status: Volume 10 (Completed)
Licensed: Yes
Genre: Age-gap, Comedy, Drama, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Haruka Sakurai is the substitute English teacher who takes over after Yuni Kurugi’s homeroom teacher goes on maternity leave, and genius-girl Yuni loves the way he looks—but she hates his flashy attitude. Thanks to that, her English grades have plummeted (everything else she has a perfect score on)! Now she has to take extra lessons with him after school, where she discovers Sakurai’s gentler side … ?!

Kiss Yori mo Hayaku by Tanaka Meca

Kiss Yori mo Hayaku Volume Cover

English Title: Faster than a Kiss
Year: 2007
Status: Volume 12 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Cohabitation, Comedy, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

After losing their parents, Fumino and her brother hop from one relative to another. Getting tired of all those moves, she finally decides to quit school and work to support her brother on her own. As they sat on a park bench, her teacher appears in front of her and agrees to her demands of marrying and supporting both her and her brother!! Is he serious or just playing around…?!

Otona Pink by Sato Zakuri

Otona Pink Volume Cover

English Title: Grown-Up PInk
Year: 2007
Status: Volume 02 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Cohabitation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, School life, Shoujo

Synopsis:

Senou Miku is a normal high-school girl. On the day that she had her first boyfriend, her mother had a job transfer. And then, her guardian, who came to live with her, turned out to be her homeroom teacher, Nishizono-sensei…

Ore-sama Teacher by Tsubaki Izumi

Ore-sama Teacher Volume Cover

English Title: Great Teacher of Mine
Year: 2008
Status: Volume 29 (Completed)
Licensed: Yes (Paperback Only)
Genre: Age-gap, Action, Comedy, Delinquent, Romance, Sadist ML, School life

Synopsis:

Mafuyu is the no-nonsense, take-charge, and hard-hitting leader of her high school gang. But when she gets expelled for being a delinquent, her mother, fed up with her daughter’s wayward ways, sends Mafuyu to an isolated school far off in the country.

Determined to make the best of the situation and make her mother proud, Mafuyu decides to turn over a new, feminine, well-behaved leaf. But her fighting spirit can’t be kept down, and the night before school starts she finds herself defending some guy who’s getting beaten up. One slip wouldn’t have been a problem, except the guy is…her teacher?! How can Mafuyu learn to be a good girl if her teacher won’t let her forget her wicked past?

Sensei to Watashi by Minase Ai

Sensei to Watashi Volume Cover

English Title: Sensei and Me
Year: 2008
Status: Volume 02 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Drama, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Yoshino Haruka, 16-years-old, substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with Kunihiro-san… To discover the day after that he is her new home room teacher! How are the two of them going to deal with this forbidden relationship?

Ichigo Jikan by Kumagai Kyoko

Ichigo Jikan Volume Cover

English Title: Strawberry Time
Year: 2009
Status: Volume 02 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Cohabitation, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Ichiko is all set to move into her new dorm… except there isn’t any space left! She ends up with a key to a small apartment nearby. But she’s not the only one assigned to it…! It happens to belong to a cool older guy, Ran, and he isn’t too happy with the new living arrangements!

Hirunaka no Ryuusei by Yamamori Mika

Hirunaka no Ryuusei Volume Cover

English Title: Daytime Shooting Star
Year: 2011
Status: Volume 12 (Completed)
Licensed: Yes
Genre: Age-gap, Blushing ML, Comedy, Drama, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

After arriving in Tokyo to live with her uncle, Suzume collapses in a nearby park where she had once seen a shooting star during the day. A handsome stranger brings her to her new home and tells her they’ll meet again. Suzume starts her first day at her new high school sitting next to a boy who blushes furiously at her touch. And her homeroom teacher is none other than the handsome stranger!

Sai x Ai by Mitsuki Kako

Sai x Ai Volume Cover

English Title: Be loved
Year: 2011
Status: Volume 02 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Romance, School life, Shoujo

Synopsis:

She loved a teacher. But that kind of love is forbidden! Still, she kept loving him.

One day, she met a boy in white clothes in the greenhouse of the school. She saw his kind eyes and she smelled the scent of wood coming from him. For the first time, Tsugumi felt her heart beating for someone.

But after that encounter, she understood that this guy was her teacher…!!

Kuzu no Honkai by Yokoyari Mengo

Kuzu no Honkai Volume Cover

English Title: Scum’s Wish
Year: 2012
Status: Volume 08 (Completed)
Licensed: Yes
Genre: Age-gap, Drama, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Mugi and Hanabi are the perfect high school couple…but their relationship is built on a single shared secret: They’re each in love with someone else.

Suki Yori mo Chikaku by Makino

Suki Yori mo Chikaku Volume Cover

English Title: Closer to Love
Year: 2011
Status: Volume 02 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Romance, School life, Shoujo

Synopsis:

She has a new neighbor who’s handsome! …but he’s also devilish. And the worst part is he’s also her homeroom teacher!!

Sensei Kunshu by Kouda Momoko

Sensei Kunshu Volume Cover

English Title: The Monarch Teacher
Year: 2013
Status: Volume 12 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Comedy, Romance, Sadist ML, School life

Synopsis:

The story revolved around Ayu, who constantly gets rejected by the person she confessed to. She then met someone whom she madly fell in love with but turns out to be her Teacher (the older brother of Hiromitsu from Heroine Shikkaku). A hilarious rom-com about the struggles of being in a student-teacher relationship.

Asami-sensei no Himitsu by Chika

Asami-sensei no Himitsu Volume Cover

English Title: Asami-sensei’s Secret
Year: 2014
Status: Volume 04 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

A promise of love that Sensei remembers. His young student, however, also his first/childhood love, has completely forgotten. He’ll make her remember with any means necessary.

Mikami-sensei no Aishikata by Aikawa Hiro

Mikami-sensei no Aishikata Volume Cover

English Title: Mikami-sensei’s Way of Love
Year: 2014
Status: Volume 08 (Completed)
Licensed: Yes
Genre: Age-gap, Comedy, Possessive ML, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Without a single boyfriend in sixteen years, Natsume has zero relationship experience … and it’s all thanks to her super overprotective neighbor—high school teacher, Mikami-sensei!! Whether at home or at school, Natsume is always being manipulated by his strangely overbearing affections. But while it may have seemed like sibling love at first, their relationship soon takes an unexpected turn … !

Sensei wa Warui Ko by Misaki Natsumi

Sensei wa Warui Ko Volume Cover

English Title: Sensei’s Rude
Year: 2014
Status: Volume 02 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Comedy, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

The kind homeroom teacher, Yoshino-sensei, actually has a black heart! Sensei is quietly meddling with Suzuki’s school life, who accidentally found out about his secret. This is a tsundere high school girl x wicked teacher, secret lovey-dovey school life!

Aoi-sensei wa Shishunki by Rinda Momo

Aoi-sensei wa Shishunki Volume Cover

English Title: Mr. Aoi is Adolescent
Year: 2016
Status: Volume 02 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Comedy, Romance, School life, Shoujo

Synopsis:

Hibari, a high school student, is actually dating the biology teacher, Aoi-sensei. A love between a teacher and student must be kept a secret! Mail, phone, dates, kisses…anything lover-like is all banned! It’s a relationship where they will break up if there’s even a rumor about them. Because of that, the feelings of love must be protected… But Sensei, aren’t you kind of red? It’s a pure and restricted love with the serious biology teacher, the love of a heart throbbing every day will begin!

Bishounen Itadakimashita by Seino Shizuru

Bishounen Itadakimashita Volume Cover

English Title: I’ll Have This Beautiful Boy
Year: 2016
Status: Volume 08 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Cohabitation, Comedy, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Yuka-sensei, is completely crazy about Reo Kajitani, one of her pupils that she finds all cute. But much to her surprise when she discover that under his appearance of a little lamb, hides a real wolf! Reo hides his game well and turns out to be a real playboy. But the surprises do not stop there, because after a blow of fate, Yuka finds herself sharing her roof with Reo. What will happen then?

Dramatic Irony by Namaco

Dramatic Irony Volume Cover

English Title: Dramatic Irony
Year: 2016
Status: Volume 09 (Ongoing)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Childhood friend, Drama, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Can you give me a happy ending? Komatsu Risa is in love with her childhood friend, Sano Chihiro. Although they have a very close relationship and are often mistaken for a couple, Chihiro is unaware of how Risa feels and accepts a confession from another girl… Heartbroken about her first love, she confides in her seemingly indifferent homeroom teacher, Natsuo.

Furuya-sensei wa An-chan no Mono by Kasumi Yuuko

Furuya-sensei wa An-chan no Mono Volume Cover

English Title: Furuya-sensei Belongs to An-chan!
Year: 2016
Status: Volume 12 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Comedy, Romance, School life, Soft ML

Synopsis:

One day, An was working at the restaurant and sees a young man propose to a woman but get rejected. His “girlfriend” says they were never dating in the first place. Soon, she meets this man again at school where he becomes her teacher! Thus begins the unexpectedly tender romance between An and Furuya!

Hajimete Koi o Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi by Mochida Aki

Hajimete Koi o Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi Volume Cover

English Title: A Story Read on the Day You’ve Fallen in Love
Year: 2016
Status: Volume 01 (Ongoing)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Comedy, Delinquent, Drama, Romance, School life, University

Synopsis:

Junko Harumi went through high school prioritizing her studies, in order to get into the University of Tokyo. Nevertheless, she failed her exams. In the end, she entered a lower-ranking university and ended up working as a teacher at an average cram school. And, by the age of 31, she hasn’t gotten married yet!

Since then, Junko’s become disheartened, and, despite how unpretentious her current employment is, she’s walking on thin ice because of her lack of productivity! Everything seems hopeless, but could it be that a delinquent student would turn her situation all around!?

Houkago Sensei to by Matsuzuki Kou

Houkago Sensei to Volume Cover

English Title: Afterschool with Sensei
Year: 2016
Status: Volume 04 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Comedy, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Komako is just barely getting by in her special advancement classes when she suddenly meets a man (teacher?!) in women’s clothing, Shou Mitake, and gets invited to his Tea House Association for like-minded individuals!…

Koi to Utatane by Torio Chinori

Koi to Utatane Volume Cover

English Title: Love and Drowse
Year: 2016
Status: Volume 03 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Cohabitation, Comedy, Romance, School life

Synopsis:

Hana who loves to sleep and has a hobby of sleep research and Takashi Kiichi ‘s room share life. There are lots of sleeping laws that can be used right away in such two lives… Let’s sleep together with the sleeping way. The two of us living together begins!

Onimiya-sensei no Kiss ni wa Sakaraenai by Kayoru

Onimiya-sensei no Kisu ni wa Sakaraenai Volume Cover

English Title: My Lover is Sweet Demon
Year: 2016
Status: Volume 04 (Completed)
Licensed: No
Genre: Age-gap, Cohabitation, Comedy, Romance, Sadist ML, School life

Synopsis:

Staying together with a sadist teacher!? That “Oni” (Demon) is terrible, you know!!

A poor high school girl, Moka has to work for her living every day. The rescue came from her admired teacher, Onimiya-sensei, but… Sensei’s true self is a sadist!? What will her life be now!?

What do you guys think of the list here? Comment down below if you’ve read some of these or if I missed some other student-teacher series from the 1990s to 2016. You can also check our part 2 for mangas released from 2017 up to the present on the link below!

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