I have found my OTP.

So we're watching Gokusen in club, which is about Yamaguchi Kumiko, the granddaughter of a yakuza (mafia) leader whose dream is to be a teacher. She ends up at a high school full of delinquents. While she tries to keep her yakuza background a secret, her students keep getting into all sorts of trouble, and she has to draw on her training to get them through it. The leader of the students in her homeroom class is a guy named Sawada Shin. He's a lot smarter, quieter, and less trouble-making than the rest, but he gets them out of trouble and tends to supply their most mischievous plans. I've heard the series compared to GTO, but I haven't seen that, so I can't say how similar their plots are.

The show is full of slapstick humor and really cheesy drama, but for some reason I really, really like it; on the same level as Azumanga Daioh. As usual, I'm really sentimental, and Gokusen actually has a fair number of warm, fuzzy moments... if you get over the craziness.

Anyhow, it occurred to me today during showings that Shin and Yankumi -- the students' nickname for Kumiko -- are a really cute couple. It's just so funny to see Shin's reactions when Yankumi does something weird. And after he found out what she is, the two of them seemed to become a sort of team, helping each other to keep the other students out of trouble. For all that Yankumi has a girly crush on the gang's lawyer, she's really close to her students and has a lot of affection for them that doesn't really fit within the student-teacher relationship. Aaah, they just have so much chemistry!

So yeah. Maybe I'll go make an icon and make that the basis of my new LJ theme. It's been too long since I've been fangirly anyway. ^o^