Here's something I've watched lately:

Happy Lesson - In the tradition of Love Hina, Ai Yori Aoshi and Tenchi Muyo, again a teen guy ends up surrounded by females. This one has a bit of novelty though, thankfully, and enough wit and humour to keep this theme from going stale. This time, the teen guy is living with five females - all adults, and they're all his teachers as well! And they're all attractive and over-the-top!

Chitose, our male protagonist, has recently been orphaned and is now the owner of his parents' house. Mutsuki, the school Japanese literature teacher, is so taken in by his plight that she's compelled to be his new 'mother'. Not only that, she even convinces four of her fellow colelagues to play the 'mother' role as well! Life is never sane for poor old Chitose again. If you thought Keitaro had it tough in Love Hina, I think Chitose would give him a run for his money any day.

A quick rundown of his five 'mamas':

Uzuki - blonde art teacher, very lively and enthusiastic, loves to cosplay, always at loggerheads with Satsuki
Yayoi - school nurse/shrine maiden, every male student wants her 'treatment' at lunch, tries to keep the peace at home
Mutsuki - very warm and caring, Japanese literature teacher, loves gardening, dresses up as a maid at home
Satsuki - P.E. teacher, very energetic, can work her students TOO hard very easily, very masculine personality but very feminine body, will regularly get Choitose in the "Death Bosom Hold", at loggerheads with Uzuki
Misuragi - Scince teacher (chemistry expert), regularly blows up classrooms and things at home with her wacky experiments and inventions, quiet personality but can easily steal the show

The plot is that the five teachers try to straighten up Chitose's messed up life. And there's a few surpirses along the way. The female class represntative has the hots for Chitose but he's completley oblivious. Chitose has a little sister and a big sister, who happens to be a big music star in the making. There's a weird mad scientist girl that wants Chitose bad as well. So life's very hectic for Chitose, putting up with abductions and attempted home takeovers and avalanches on holidays and the like. But it proves to be a fairly potent combo, despite how many times this theme of one guy and many women has been done. It's been held back from release for quite a while, but it hit US shelves in January this year.

Animation wise, it ain't that spectacular in terms of drawing but it's still good. The soundtrack is alright, and that karaoke ending is quite funny with the matching ending clip. It's another one of those storyline driven-little plot animes, but at least you know very early on, which is a relief, unlike some recent breakers of that rule such as Gunsligner Girl. Chitose is a bit of a jerk really and can annoy you with his sheer stupidity at times, but the teachers and relatives more than make up for that flaw with their wackiness. Happy Lesson may suffer from doing a theme that's been done many times over, but it's one of the better ones of that theme out there. Not as good as Love Hina (and I still ahven't seen Ai Yori Aoshi yet), but stillw orth watching.

I'd rate it about an 8.3 out of 10. It's fun to watch.