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 from 2011 and has been collected in ten tankōbon volumes. The story was initially presented in 2007 as Okusama wa Seito Kaichō (奥さまは生徒会長), which was published in a single tankōbon volume by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. in 2007. An anime television series adaptation by Seven premiered in July 2015. A second season began on October 2, 2016.
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 on the student council. He soon learns that due to an arrangement by their parents, Ui is going to be 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. He attracts the attention of discipline head Rin Misumi, who later moves in next door with her sister Kei, the school's nurse.
Ui Wakana (若菜 羽衣, Wakana Ui)Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (anime), Natsumi Takamori (drama CD) (Japanese); Brittany Lauda (English)The cheerful, outgoing title character of the series, she becomes the student council president following her campaign to spread love over the school where she passed out condoms. She moves in to Hayato's apartment as his fiancee in an
arranged marriage. She is noticeably less serious at "home", where she is unable to cook for herself, often slacks off and acts completely dependent on Hayato. A
running gag in the series is that baby chicks appear on the top of her head whenever she gets in a depressed or pensive mood.
Ch. 1-2 Throughout the series she tries to please Hayato romantically and even sexually, knowing very little about how to do so.
Hayato Izumi (和泉 隼人, Izumi Hayato)Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese); Matt Shipman (English)The male protagonist. Hayato is a fairly serious individual who is the vice-president of the student council. He is set up with Ui Wakana in an arranged marriage and must live with her in his apartment. Despite his ever-growing respect for Ui throughout the series, he often gets caught in her romantic advances which make him uncomfortable yet aroused. Hayato is notably self-sufficient, having cooked and cleaned for himself prior to Ui's arrival.
Ch. 1Ayane Niikura (新倉 あやね, Niikura Ayane)Voiced by: Aoi Fujimoto (anime), Yuki Horinaka (drama CD)The student council secretary. She likes to dress up in frilly outfits and cat ears. She is a bit spacey and absent-minded.
Ch. 4Karen Fujisaki (藤咲 可憐, Fujisaki Karen)Voiced by: Yoshie Sugiyama (anime),
Asami Shimoda (drama CD)The student council treasurer. She is petite and is extremely devoted to Ui, harboring a perverted interest in her. She dislikes Hayato and often comes in conflict with him.
Ch. 17Rin Misumi (三隅 倫, Misumi Rin)Voiced by: Minami Tsuda (anime), Yuri Komagata (drama CD)The head of the disciplinary committee, Rin dislikes Ui's love campaign and its related antics; however, she develops feelings for Hayato after he treats her nicely and helps her in a situation.
Ch. 7 She and her sister move in next door to Hayato,
Ch. 16 Rin later learns of their cohabitation from her sister causing her to become extremely jealous.
Ch. 33 In the anime, she explains that she joined the committee because she wanted to disclaim a rumor that she was seducing guys with her large chest by emphasizing her morally pure side.
ep 4Makoto Sawatari (猿渡 真都, Sawatari Makoto)Voiced by: Juri NagatsumaA petite girl who looks after Rin like Karen does with Ui. She has a collection of pictures of Rin in embarrassing situations.
Ch. 14Misato Wakana (若菜 みさと, Wakana Misato)Voiced by: Tomoko KanedaMisato is Ui's energetic and playful mother. Her petite stature makes everyone think she is Ui's little sister.
Ch. 10Kei Misumi (三隅 慧, Misumi Kei)Voiced by: Ryoko ShiraishiRin's sister is the school nurse who casually dresses in sexually suggestive clothing and whose behaviors annoy Rin.
Ch. 7 She and Rin move into the apartment next door to Hayato.
Ch. 16 She later learns of their cohabitation from Ui's parents keeping it a secret from Rin,
Ch. 24 but later tells her.
Ch. 33Ryuji Wakana (若菜 竜二, Wakana Ryuji)Voiced by: Yuu KobayashiUi's father whose youthful appearance makes him look more like her little brother.
Ch. 24 He is severe and strict, although when he is pensive, little rats appear atop his head much like his daughter with the baby chicks.
Ch. 24Honoka Saijō (西条ほのか, Saijō Honoka)Voiced by: Sora TokuiPresident of the Photography club. She is cheerful and energetic and is constantly on the lookout for any good photo opportunities which causes her to regularly come into contact with the disciplinary committee and/or the student council. She and the members of the photography club run an underground website that sells voyeuristic pictures of the school's female students online by using the club's all-female members to take candid pictures of other students or set up hidden cameras in the toilets and changing rooms but Honoka later reveals that some of the pictures were faked by using the club's members as models and then photo-shopping other students' faces.
Ch. 28 The site is taken down by the student council after Ui destroys the SD card that contains all their files.
As of January 2016, the series has been released in nine tankōbon volumes.
An anime adaptation directed by Hiroyuki Furukawa and produced by Seven premiered in Japan on the broadcast night of July 1, 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) by Rekka Katakiri. An OVA will be bundled with the manga's 9th volume on January 27, 2016. It was announced in the March 2016 issue of the Monthly Comic Rex magazine that a second season of the anime was green-lit/ The second season premiered in October 2016.
Season 1
Season 2
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." 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." 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." 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."
