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Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | 2009 Special

Details

  • Title: ごくせん
  • Title (romaji): Gokusen
  • Genre: Comedy, School
  • Broadcast network: NTV


Season 1

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  • Episodes: 12 + Special (Graduation)
  • Viewership ratings: 17.43 (not including SP)
  • Broadcast period: 2002-Apr-01 to 2002-Jul-03
    • SP: 2003-Mar-26
  • Air time: Wednesday 22:00
  • Theme song: Feel Your Breeze by V6


Synopsis

The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students' lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of 3-D, the hardest class to maintain in the school. The students have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, and show absolutely no respect to her. The leader of the class, Sawada Shin is lazy but bright and shows some interest in Yamaguchi when he notices that she is very different from other teachers. The students try to bully her to make her quit, but their attempts don't get them very far.

What the class and the rest of the school does not know is that Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to the Ooedo Group, a notorious yakuza clan. Even though her family would like her to take the title of Ojou when her grandfather dies, they have accepted the fact that Yamaguchi would rather be a teacher.

Eventually, the students learn to respect their quirky teacher because of her devotion to them, and even give her a nickname: Yankumi.


User/Viewer Ratings

4.10
(10 votes)


Cast

Class 3D


Guests


Production Credits


Episode Information

Ep Subtitle (English) Rating
01 A zealous teacher goes on a rampage!! 18.3%
02 Don't abandon your friend!! 16.6%
03 Don't judge only by appearance!! 17.3%
04 If you fail, start over 15.5%
05 To fight is different from violence 18.8%
06 Don't let bullying get to you!! 17.7%
07 Believe in your own child!! 17.9%
08 Aren't you his mother!! 15.9%
09 Don't blame others for your own mistakes!! 16.3%
10 I'll believe my own students!! 17.8%
11 No one is alone 13.6%
12 Goodbye, Yankumi 23.5%
SP Goodbye Class 3D ~ Yankumi's Tearful Graduation 18.1%


Recognitions


Notes

  • Gokusen is an abrevation of Gokudo no Sensei which means Gangster Teacher.
  • Teruo Kumai is nicknamed "Kuma" (Bear) not only because it's a derivative of his last name, but also because he tends to look, act and eat like a bear.
  • In epi. 11, Yankumi confiscated mangas from her students. Two to three of those were Gokusen mangas.
  • The Graduation Special was aired later in March 2003.


Season 2

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  • Episodes: 10 + 1 Special
  • Viewership rating: 27.8 (not including SP)
  • Broadcast period: 2005-Jan-15 to 2005-Mar-19
    • SP: 2005-Oct-08
  • Air time: Saturday 21:00
  • Theme song: No More Cry by D-51
  • Insert song: Kizuna by Kamenashi Kazuya


Synopsis

Half a year has passed and Shirokin Gakuen has closed down. Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) finds herself a teacher of a few young kids who don't really benefit much from her style of teaching. Through some twist of fate, she is offered a job as a teacher in Kurogin Gakuen.

She becomes the teacher of a delinquent 3D class which make her previous students look like angels. In order to protect her job, she must again hide her true identity — the fact that she is the 4th generation of the Oedo Family, a prominent yakuza group.


Cast

Class 3D


Guests


Production Credits


Episode Information

Episode Subtitle (English) Rating
01 Highschool is a once in a lifetime experience, do not waste it! ...That zealous teacher has returned! 26.5%
02 A person's power is not decided by his physical strength, there's a much more important thing within. 26.9%
03 You guys are my one-and-only students!! How can I desert you? 27.0%
04 Don't compare your life with someone else's! 25.3%
05 What's important is the strength of your heart!! 27.1%
06 Think more about your parents' feelings!! 27.3%
07 Think seriously about your life 27.4%
08 I will always be your teacher 30.0%
09 Father and son's bond of tears 28.2%
10 Be proud to graduate!! Yankumi and Class 3-D, tearful goodbye 32.5%
SP 25.1%


Notes

  • If you take a look around the classroom during episode 10, you can see a lot of cartoons of Yankumi. There's some at her podium, board, left side of wall when facing class, and the wall right behind the students as you are facing them.


Recognitions


Season 3

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  • Episodes: 11
  • Viewership rating: 22.5 (Kanto)
  • Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-19 to 2008-Jun-28
  • Air time: Saturday 21:00
  • Theme song: Niji by Aqua Timez
  • Insert song: Oretachi no Seishun by Takaki Yuya


Synopsis

Sawatari Goro now works at Akado High School as a vice principal. Although the head director of the school board speficically orders him to handle the problematic class 3-D, the students are just too much for him. So Sawatari goes far away to a southern island to search for Yankumi, and convince her to work for Akado. Yankumi accepts the offer, only to find that her class (again) is full of punks, where two rival groups of students are always at each other's throats. Will Yankumi's strong belief in students and teaching work this time?


Cast

Correlation Chart


Class 3D


Guests



Production Credits


Episode Information

Episode Subtitle Ratings
(Kanto) 		Ratings (Kansai) Ratings (Nationwide)
01 That Yankumi has returned. Finally, the revival of the legendary school drama!! 26.4 27.7 ??.?
02 From now on, you guys are my friends!! 24.8 ??.? ??.?
03 Start over anytime!! 23.3 ??.? ??.?
04 A sister and brother's bond of tears 25.1 ??.? ??.?
05 Don't think you can make it through life alone 25.3 ??.? ??.?
06 First love... Protect the one dearest to you 21.1 ??.? ??.?
07 Don't make excuses for yourself!! 21.9 ??.? ??.?
08 Become stronger!! The birth of a new life 21.3 ??.? ??.?
09 Our friends are a lifelong treasure!! 17.6 ??.? ??.?
10 Obtain happiness by your own hands!! 18.1 ??.? ??.?
11 Yankumi's last tearful cry... Cherish life!! 23.6 ??.? ??.?
Average 22.5 ? ?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.


Notes

  • Ishiguro Hideo who plays Honjo Kengo also played the role of Yabuki Taku (Hayato's brother) in episode 8 of Season 2
  • Kuma's wife Ami is the same Morisaki Ami of Momo Girls's High that Kuma met and fell in love with in episode 5 of Season 1. The actress portraying it is still the same but has changed her name since then.


Recognitions


2009 Special

  • Viewership rating: 18.1 (Kanto)
  • Broadcast date: 2009-Mar-28
  • Air time: Saturday 21:00
  • Theme song: Niji by Aqua Timez
  • Insert song: Oretachi no Seishun by Takaki Yuya


Synopsis

It's only a week till graduation and everyone is happy about their "what to do in the future." But in a wink of an eye, everything turned the other way around when they met a student named Reita of of 2D, a student who transferred from Ara High. Kazama and Kuraki lost their job later on due to the recession, according to their company. And after that, class 3D got suspended from picking a fight with 2D. And so as a result, the entire class is starting to fall apart. Will class 3D be able to graduate?


Cast


Class 3D


Class 2D


Production Credits


Notes

  • Gokusen: The Movie was released in 2009-Jul-13. In the movie, the same characters in season 3 special are involved, but the story is set during the following school year. There are also some cameos from former class 3D students of season 1 and 2 but only Kamenashi Kazuya's character returned as a teacher-in-training under Yankumi.


External Links



Winter 2002
Season 1
Summer 2002
Zoku Heisei Meoto Jawan
Wednesday 22:00
Tokyo Niwatsuki Ikkodate



Summer 2004
Season 2
Spring 2005
Nurseman ga Yuku
Saturday 21:00
Ruri no Shima



Winter 2008
Season 3
Summer 2008
1 Pound no Fukuin
Saturday 21:00
Yasuko to Kenji
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