My Wife is a High School Girl 13 - Twilight of the Cockroaches

Well, what better use for a 6-day weekend than to put the final QC touches on the final episode of My Wife is a High School Girl? No doubt the manga story continues on, but the current crisis of Iwasaki-sensei finding out about the secret marriage is resolved reasonably enough. And for as much flak as this show gets, from its original subbers and others, I still came to appreciate it in the end. A lot of romance anime end at the love confession, or maybe a first-kiss scene, so it's quite rare to see the ups and downs and the conflicts and reconciliations of a married couple. It's especially rare in the ecchi/harem genres; this show, Rizelmine, and Godannar are the only three examples I can think of off-hand, as most shows involving married life tend to be less otaku-oriented, like Human Crossing or Rumiko Takahashi Anthology. It's just a pity we never got a flashback showing how their relationship got started.

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As usual, if you see subbing mistakes (as opposed to subjective editing/localization decisions) in these releases, please let me know so that I can correct them. In addition, credit also goes to xess, Riza|Hawkeye, and the rest of the crew at the now-defunct fansubbing/DVD-ripping group LIME-Anime for soldiering through this series back in 2005. While they weren't able to get me the original scripts due to FTP/HDD crashes, I still would've been hard-pressed to release this series without their contributions.

My Wife is a High School Girl 12 - Fight for your right to Party!

Sadly I can't achieve Sakura's goal, but I can bring you the penultimate episode of My Wife is a High School Girl. Part A features an argument over messy white liquids being spilled in the wrong place, while Part B features a standard near-fatal minor respiratory ailment causing mass chaos and a comedy of errors. However, both parts set the stage for the crisis that will unfold at last in the final episode.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 11 - The Toxicity of Our Masculinity

For the first half of this episode, we have a stalker with a Showa-era mentality going after Asami, and some unwitting pointers from Kyousuke just make matters worse. Then we return to the school social setting for part B, with some actual plot threads from previous episodes surfacing again. The school field trip, among other things, brings a bathtime fanservice scene that is still no different from the TV broadcast. Thank goodness this isn't a recent SHAFT anime, or we could be looking at additional steam for our viewing displeasure.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 10 - Cruel Intentions

A series of bad ideas by Kyousuke leads to yet another person finding about his connection to Asami, though Iwasaki does not yet grasp the true form of their relationship. Though she does reveal herself to be a liar and a hypocrite, if you've been paying close attention. Needless to say, Asami's not pleased with the general situation...

My Wife is a High School Girl 09 - Iwasaki v. Onohara

Love squares rule the day in the first half of this episode, as Iwasaki-sensei attempts to help her brother get his 20 minutes of action with Asami while conveniently clearing away an obstacle that she suspects lies between her and Ichimaru-sensei. Later, in Part B, enjoy some lolarious misadventures in the classic mold of "husband bewildered by domestic work." But given the state of gender relations in Japan, I guess we shouldn't be surprised to see this kind of "straight out of the 1950s" material.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 08 - Baby, it's Cold Outside

This exciting and controversial episode of My Wife is a High School Girl actually features some plot continuity between its two halves, although that doesn't mean we'll be skipping the obligatory self-introduction monologue. But we also learn that all it takes to get a girl all hot and bothered is to ask if you can film her, apparently. Too bad Asami's classmate "Erosaki"'s notion of consent doesn't extend to keeping a girl at your house increasingly against her will, among other rather questionable acts. But it's okay, because you can still come out of the whole affair with her opinion of you being higher than it was before. And try as I might, I haven't been able to find scenes where the TV broadcast was more censored than this DVD version. But at least I managed to fix a fair number of glaring translation errors.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 07 - Climate Crisis Arrives

In this summer-themed episode of My Wife is a High School Girl, the main couple and their neighbors attempt to combat the heat with binge eating, with mixed results. Later, enjoy a sports-day segment with plenty of bloomer shots to complement this show's trademark laydown-panchira imagery.

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** v2 released to correct one "Liberal Overreach" line. I know a translator's (or editor's) not supposed to be a scriptwriter, but sometimes the temptation is just so strong. I throw myself upon the mercy of the court of 8thsin!

My Wife is a High School Girl 06 - The Trouble with Travels

In this episode, Asami and Kyousuke try to get away from the city and all their prying friends, neighbors, co-workers, and family members for some alone time. Guess how many of these obstacles they don't encounter! But at least they have time for some unerotic asphyxiation play and reenacting a classic scene from Lady and the Tramp, albeit with an Asian twist on things.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 05 - I'M A-FIRIN' MAH LAZOR

If you've ever seen the above .gif and wondered where it came from, then you can wonder no more. Asami and Kyousuke's secret is found out by neighbors who have the high ground, and she resorts to feline firearms in a vain attempt to explain things away. Though I do like how Kuri the kitten is frequently used in this series, both in focus and as background. Later, we meet an old woman who for some reason might object to a 17-year-old girl marrying and having children, even though such things were probably completely normal in her youth.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 04 - Secrets and Lies

Happy Valentine's Day to all, or at least those of you on the west coast of the US where it's still 2-14 for another ten minutes. But despite significant amounts of booze, I bring you the fourth episode of My Wife is a High School Girl, where female empowerment takes a turn for the aggressive in the form of a fellow teacher who won't take no for an answer. (Whether she actually says the line pictured above is another matter.) But still, I never thought I'd have to research gravitational lensing effects for a romance dramedy anime in a distinctly mundane setting, but stranger things have happened.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 03 - Double Deception

I wanted to title this post some variant of "[Feline] on Display," but figured Blogger has software to flag that kind of thing, even with censor asterisks or substituted characters. Anyway, this episode of My Wife is a High School Girl features yet another teacher living a secret life, and an amorously willing new neighbor who isn't quite what she seems, whether at home or on the job.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 02 - The First Show I Ever Dropped

Now before anybody panics, please focus on the verb tense in the post title: it's past tense. I guess back in 2005 when My Wife is a School Girl was airing, I still thought for some reason that it was wrong to watch embarrassed 2D high school girls in skimpy outfits running a school festival café. So I dropped it after the first half of this episode, and missed out on a heartwarming feline story in the second half. But in 2007, after I stopped worrying and learned to love the ecchi via shows like Yumeria, Desert Punk, and Ikki-Tousen, I later revisited and finished this series. Though it still bugs me how a grown man can wreck student property, assault a minor, and get off with no consequences on the "I was defending my daughter's purity" defense.

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My Wife is a High School Girl 01 - ...but not the Student Council President.

Believe it or not, I have been doing some work behind the scenes during some of these months-long breaks between releases. This is one of four shows where I have all episodes timed, and I decided to start releasing it first rather than doing yet another VN adaptation. My Wife is a High School Girl hails from Summer 2005, and is told from the perspective of the titular 17-year-old wife, who's secretly married to her high school physics teacher. If you forget that summary, don't worry, she'll remind you of it not once, but twice in every episode. Indeed, this series features two stories with separate titles in every episode, which is why some database sites list it as having 26 episodes. This release will feature 13 standard-length videos with two episodes apiece, just like the TV-rips did.

Translations for this come from the only complete English subtitled version by the now-defunct hybrid R1DVD-ripping and fansubbing group LIME-Anime. While I was involved with that group for a period of time, that time came after My Wife is a High School Girl was released. The changes I've made to the subs may be a mixed bag to some viewers; while I've labored to fix mistranslations, editing errors, and awkward phrasing, I have also made some localization decisions like Americanizing the English and using context-appropriate translations of Asami's "Danna-sama." I know not everyone will agree with those choices, but I think the good outweighs the bad, and compared to the TV-rips, this version offers better quality and possibly some decensoring. I'll have to dig out or re-download the TV-rips to check.

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I understand that there were Blu-Rays released for this series, but as it's a low-res, low-budget 4:3 show from 2005, I have to believe that the BDs are just SD upscales. I don't plan on releasing BD versions at this point, but if you think it's worth 720p, let me know which raw version is better. Or if anyone else wants to remux these subs with BD raws, they're welcome to. (Just be careful when timeshifting -- at least for this episode, these subs are shifted 2 frames forward from where Aegisub says they "should" be, because they were appearing 2 frames early when I muxed them with my DVD raws for testing purposes.)