Denpa Kyōshi (Ultimate Otaku Teacher)

[benjamin_russell]

Denpa Kyōshi (Denpa is Japanese slang for "crazy" or "insane" in the sense of "extremely unorthodox" or "similar to an otaku") (Ultimate Otaku Teacher in English) is a 2011 Japanese manga (later released as anime), by Takeshi Azuma, about a genius-otaku-turned-teacher, Junichiro Kagami, who is simultaneously both gifted at physics and obsessed with otaku subculture.

He is forced to seek a job as a physics teacher substitute at the same high school from which he graduated. Eventually, he uses his seemingly useless knowledge of otaku subculture as a basis for motivating unorthodox methods in teaching his students to overcome various difficulties, and eventually creates a revolution in the basis of educational curricula.

Junichiro Kagami is a role-model of mine for creating a similar revolution based on otaku subculture in academia.