Template:Rough translation Template:Short description Template:Infobox animanga/Header Template:Infobox animanga/Print Template:Infobox animanga/Video Template:Infobox animanga/Footer Template:Nihongo is a Japanese gag comedy manga series written and illustrated by Yūji Nagai. It was serialized in Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic magazine from January 15, 2015 to October 15, 2018, and was compiled into seven tankōbon volumes on September 28, 2017. An anime television series adaptation by OLM, Inc. aired from April 15[1] to December 16, 2017. Crunchyroll later added the series to its streaming service.[2]
Story
The story centers around a mole named Pascal who is an elementary school teacher and is so dumb that he cannot even write his own name correctly. Pascal is whimsical and he does whatever he wants in his classroom.
Characters
A Pascal "form" similar in several ways to the Dragon Ball Z "Super Saiyan" form, the transformation to Super Pascal form is triggered by intense anger, lust for money, sneezing and other things.
A minuscule Pascal with a size one one-hundredth of the "normal" Pascal.
A Pascal-Like creature discovered on the moon. The most notable difference from Pascal Sensei is that "Junior" has only one, central eye. Several "Juniors" were found on the Moon. One was brought to Earth by Pascal as his "son". Junior showed remarkably swift progression at school, becoming a first-class student in the second period, taking over the role of Sensei (teacher) in the third period, and taking over the role of Principal in the fourth period. In the attempt to "dethrone" Junior, Pascal attempts various stratagems, which cause Junior to both multiply and transform into various types of people (delinquents, models, old men, etc.)
An older man wearing a Pascal costume, he stands in for Pascal when Pascal is absent.
Boy student who acts as the straight man. Basically, he is a common-sense person with a serious personality, but there are many times when he is made the butt of dirty jokes such as becoming naked.
Hayato's classmate, and similarly a "common sense" sort of student. She sports a pink ponytail. When it comes to battle, Chika transforms into Super Chika (again: extremely similar to Dragon Ball Z's "Super Saiyan") and displays an alternate, fairly aggressive side to her personality.
Hayato's Classmate. A surprisingly muscular elementary school student. Although there are few appearances in the manga, the character appears regularly in the anime. Iwata is a well-behaved student but is always eager to accept a challenge to a fight or other physical contest.
A very rich and egotistical transfer student who often competes with Pascal (instead of supporting Pascal, which is what the other students typically do). Like Pascal and Chika, Steve also transforms (into Super Steve).
A transfer student. A robot who has transferred to Class 4-1.
A delinquent female student which wears a helmet and rides a motorcycle.
A transferred student who loves playing video games. She is an original character from the anime.
Other Characters
The school's Principal.
The former 4-1 homeroom teacher. The principal said that he quit suddenly (in the anime, it is revealed that "he became YouTuber").
A person who is believed to have invented pop quizzes. It seems that the "pop" in "pop quiz" comes from his name.
Steve's father.
List of episodes
Video games
A video game titled Template:Nihongo was developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo 3DS in 2017.[4]