Oresama Teacher: Volume 1

by Izumi Tsubaki, 183 pages

Mafuyu Kurosaki has been expelled from her school for fighting, so her parents transfer her to a private school desperate to up its enrollment and so willing to overlook an imperfect student (or, as it turns out, teacher) record. She tries to be good, but the night before classes start she finds herself jumping in to help an ungrateful guy getting beaten up in an alley. Only she finds out the next day that the sarcastic jerk she saved is her new homeroom teacher...and her childhood "friend" (if you can call the older bully you slavishly scampered after for years a "friend"). All poor Mafuyu wants is to be an ordinary good girl and stay out of trouble, but her new not-exactly-friend in class (another tough who thinks she'll kick his backside if he doesn't go along with her schemes) keeps getting into scrapes and her homeroom teacher keeps encouraging her to get involved instead of keeping her nose clean.

This story is a little all over the place, but I've read another series by the same author that started out with the same problem and then resolved itself enough eventually that I could enjoy it, anyway, so I'll probably give this one the same benefit of the doubt and read a few more. The art's not fantastic and the story is quite fluffy, but sometimes it's nice to inject a little fluff into your day. Also, I just like a story where the girl could kick most anybody's behind if she wanted to. :P