My Wife Is the Student Council President (Japanese: おくさまが生徒会長！, Hepburn: Okusama ga Seito Kaichō!) is a Japanese manga series by Yumi Nakata. It began serialization in Ichijinsha's shōnen manga magazine Comic Rex and ran from 2011 to 2018[3] and collected in thirteen tankōbon volumes. The story originally started in 2007 as a hentai manga called Okusama wa Seito Kaichō (奥さまは生徒会長), which published in a single tankōbon volume by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. in 2007. An anime television series adaptation produced by Seven aired from July to September 2015.[1] A second season aired from October 2 to December 18, 2016.[4]
Hayato Izumi runs for student council president at his new high school but loses to Ui Wakana, a perky and charismatic girl who pledges to liberate love on campus and throws condoms into the audience during her election speech. He ends up becoming the vice-president of the student council. He soon learns that due to an arrangement by their parents, Ui becomes his fiancée, and they have to live together.
He tries to keep their cohabitation a secret from the school and its all-female student council leadership while fending off Ui's progressively aggressive romantic and sexual advances at home. Ui's personality and her actions put her in direct conflict with the discipline committee. Rin Misumi, the head of the committee, frequently comes into conflict with the student council. Hayato starts attracting the discipline head's attention through various meetings and coincidences, who later moves in next door with her sister Kei, the school's nurse.
As the school year progresses, Rin takes a progressively leading role, with her conflict as the discipline chair and her feeling towards Hayato taking center stage, often overshadowing the series' title character.
The series compiled into thirteen tankōbon volumes between January 2012 and November 2018. This series was a major success for the publisher and the manga artist, selling 1 million copies by volume 11.[8] On February 25, 2018, the publisher announced that the series would end in the 13th volume.[9]
An anime adaptation directed by Hiroyuki Furukawa and produced by Seven aired in Japan on the broadcast night of July 1[10] to September 17, 2015. The show was streamed online with English subtitles on Crunchyroll. The show's opening theme is "Koisuru☆Hiyoko" (恋する☆ひよこ, "Love Chick") by Rekka Katakiri and the first ending theme is "Re×nai Equation" (恋×愛＝イクエイション) by Ayana Taketatsu, while the second ending theme is "Realize" (リアライズ) by Minami Tsuda.[11] An OVA was bundled with the manga's 9th volume on January 27, 2016.[12] It was announced in the March 2016 issue of the Monthly Comic Rex magazine that a second season of the anime was green-lit.[4] The second season aired from October 2[13] to December 18, 2016. The opening theme for the second season is "Kirakira Explorer" (キラキラ☆エクスプローラ, "Sparkling Explorer") by Rekka Katakiri and the first ending theme is "Koi ni Matsuwaru Etcetera ~Misumi Rin no Baai~" (恋にまつわるエトセトラ～三隅倫の場合～) by Minami Tsuda, while the second theme is "Koi ni Matsuwaru Etcetera ~Saijō Honoka no Baai~" (恋にまつわるエトセトラ～西条ほのかの場合～) by Sora Tokui, and the last ending theme is "Koi ni Matsuwaru Etcetera ~Wakana Ui no Baai~" (恋にまつわるエトセトラ～若菜羽衣の場合～) by Ayana Taketatsu.[14]
Episode list
Chris Beveridge of The Fandom Post gave the first anime episode a B+ and said "I’ll admit that the concept is familiar and at the same time goofy, but there’s a certain quality about it that’s charming, sexy and has the potential to be a hell of a lot of fun."[16] He give later episodes B's, writing that "the show does feel like it’s trying to be a bit educational though it tends to fall more on the whole titillation side more than anything else."[17] In his review of episode 9, he wrote that "the show takes things further than reality would in a lot of ways, there’s a lot of fun in just having characters that actually acknowledge some form of sexuality that exists." and summarized the series as "Silly and serious but with a great dose of a fanservice, this show is just a delight to watch."[18] In reviewing the final episode, he wrote "It does things that most shows are afraid to even think of, never mind even trying a fraction of doing when it comes to character relationships, intimacy, and sexuality."[19]