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<p>Miss Machiko is a 1981 anime series about elementary school students who play pranks on their beautiful new teacher. Are these harmless pranks, or is Miss Machiko actually the victim of blatant sexual harassment? Is this 96 episode series worth watching? Find out in our inaugural episode of The AniMonday Podcast!</p>


Miss Machiko is a 1981 anime series about elementary school students who play pranks on their beautiful new teacher. Are these harmless pranks, or is Miss Machiko actually the victim of blatant sexual harassment? Is this 96 episode series worth watching? Find out in our inaugural episode of The AniMonday Podcast!

Colin Hemphill

The AniMonday Podcast

Kayla Hemphill

Artwork for the Miss Machiko anime series

Miss Machiko Artwork

Miss Machiko

hello and welcome to the AniMonday podcast my name is Colin Hemphill on our show we roll the virtual dice each week and must watch a randomly-selected anime title thank you for joining us on our right now Ural episode we're pretty excited to be here

 the last night I did karaoke and wrecked my voice

 only calling because he's saying falsetto

 and so that's a good sign for recording our first episode we're also in the middle of a thunderstorm so hopefully that doesn't bleed over too much but we'll see either way we're pretty excited to be here and we're happy to be recording

 it's a couple of weeks ago on our promo episode we hit the random button on Crunchyroll and the show that was bestowed upon us it's called Miss machiko so a bit of background on the show Miss machiko is the English title for the anime series its original Japanese title translates more literally to the shame of Miss machiko

 and it originally appeared as a manga Series in 1980 the anime adaptation that we watched is 95 episode series and it appeared in 1981

 we're going to be discussing the first 4 episodes which is the amount of the show that we watched and we'll be discussing it pretty in-depth but we'll try to avoid Major Spoilers in our show just in general

 yeah so the way that this show is set up is each week or each episode is different and there's no that we could tell overarching what so the first 4 episodes really other than having reoccuring characters didn't really have much to do with

 the previous episode so as I'm talking about the synopsis for each episode just know that they're fairly unrelated to the first episode is about 3 students who meet their brand new teacher

 and start sexually harassing her through a series of pranks

 yeah so this involves like an elaborate fan hitting in forward hitting another fan for thing to make her skirt go up and all sorts of fun things like that

 and episode two centers around one of the students starting to fall asleep in class and she the teacher starts to get really worried about the student and so she goes to his house and find out that he has been trying to learn how to skateboard and she thinks this is super fun and starts incorporating it into her yeah and to her lesson plans which is really just an excuse to shop for underwear

 and episode 3 one of the students developed a crush on a famous singer and she takes it upon herself to help him get over his love Sickness by introducing him to the famous singer and inspiring the final scene of the Goofy movie it is almost exactly the end of the Goofy movie if you've ever seen that and then the final episode that we watched she discovers that many of her students have been bullied by bicycle gang and so she decides to Rally them all up to fight the bicycle gang and then they end up in this whole Battle Royale mud pit thing

 yeah so that's the basic synopsis of the first 4 episode that we watched

 so yeah there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of continuity between these episodes but just as a whole from these four episodes that you saw do you have any kind of General thoughts about like what you like and what you didn't like and and how the show can you play together

 how do I get to the center of this whole show is around

 be nails that are constantly around her and how they sexually harass her then includes students that includes other faculty members includes a principal of the school and so the whole premise of the show seems to be how many times can we see her underwear

 or grab her boobs or her butt or see her naked

 yes so the entire shows really just objectifying The Young School teacher and like validating her sexual harassment pretty much which is fairly uncomfortable

 yeah and she herself doesn't seem to be necessarily opposed to it she keeps kind of going back and forth between like I'm so embarrassed and I don't know if I like this and then other time being totally flirty with the students about it

 about it yeah and I think I did look into this just to be sure the students of pure very young and it turns out yes they are Elementary School students

 which makes it extra weird cuz there's definitely a reoccurring theme of one of the boys that's in the main group of boys constantly going and grabbing her boobs

 rabbit there are few scenes where that particular boy is like getting a ride on her back she's like giving him a piggyback and you just like reaches around to grab her boobs over time

 yeah and she keeps moving his hand and he keeps moving it back over her boob and it happens like 4 times

 yeah so you noted that while we were talking about this that it seem to get a little bit better after the the first episode that was kind of the worst of it obviously we haven't seen the whole show so it could go any number of directions but that first episode was a whole lot

 spell watch that at its don't info or the hour

 sure I mean even the intro itself if you watch the intro to the show their Salon nudity in in the intro so if you don't even include that I actually counted in the first episode that if you don't include the intro or the after video we see her underwear 16 times that is bra or panties mostly panties but 16 *

 so some examples of situations that get the teacher into a sexually compromised position just so you have an idea of what's going on in the show there's one scene where an adult doesn't know how to operate the zoom function of a video camera and hijinks ensue there is as you mention elaborate system that makes her skirt pillow she gets sprayed with the hose at one point because the students try to trick her into stepping in front of it that big fight a duel in a mud pit with a rival gang

 there's a obviously public bathhouse scenes but that's just too easy

 yeah it's pretty common in a lot of Japanese anime

 this is the most intriguing to me there was a scene where she spreads her arms apart and she's like trying to prevent two students from fighting each other and kind of pushing them to either side and when she spreads her arms apart her shirt goes wide open

 yeah it just rips apart like what kind of terrible material of a shirt is she wearing that her shirt would just fall apart at the slight opening of her arms

 yeah it's pretty crazy and like you said the entire show is built on this and the kinds of situations that expose her or allow students to touch her students and other people pretty much anyone in the show

 yeah I noted that the episodes feel really long extremely long and because of the lack of continuity and the fact that it's just one I drink after the other and they just seem to go on for a very long time

 yeah I noticed that too I remember we were like halfway through an Epson I was like oh surely it's almost over and we paused it for some reason and I saw that we were like a third of the way through

 how's that saw that for third of the way yeah there's like 15 minutes 15-20 minutes yeah

 even though the answer itself as I think like almost a full two minutes or so

 basically my thought is there any feature of the show that I did find myself enjoying wasn't so much Miss machiko itself the show it was more the fact that this is a product of the 80s therefore I like these things about it

 I guess so you know it's it's weird seeing the Stalls up for me because I was born in the 90s but I do like 80's aesthetic and so there were things like the music I wouldn't necessarily say it's a great soundtrack it's definitely a low-budget sort of production but it was all done with these great analog $0.80 and that's kind of my jam so

 so yeah I did enjoy that kind of aspect of it

 yeah I found the music to be well somewhat predictable you know the sound effects and everything it's pretty much what you would think of a typical cartoon kind of stuff it was really late hurted and it said a good tone for the show and it felt like a really belonged but yeah like you were saying pretty simple pretty predictable but enjoyable

 Galaxy simple pretty pretty but yeah there were especially Parts where the music was more of a an underscore for the humor itself and it was more to punctuate certain moments rather than as an actual musical piece or something so they would use the same $0.80 for sound effects so you can think of it like that won't won't won't sort of the sort of thing just kind of fun stuff like that

 yeah yeah yeah yeah that's definitely what got the Nostalgia part of me cuz I watched a lot of like 80s cartoon and they do the same song to send a text message. It made me think of

 so obviously we've talked about how there isn't really a story here it's more just about how often can we expose a teacher but what do you what do you think of the characters themselves

Episode 1 — Miss Machiko

August 13, 2018

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