Kimura

Kimura (Japanese: 木村先生 Kimura-sensei), also known as Mr. Kimura, is the only regular male character in Azumanga Daioh, and teaches classical literature. Kimura openly admits he became a teacher to be close to high-school girls. He is constantly lewd and openly seeks excuses to "observe" girls, such as during swimming class or when they are measured and weighed by the school nurse. He especially likes Kaori, much to her dismay, and has also expressed interest in Kagura, as seen when he asks her how it went after she had got her physicals, possibly also when he sees her and Sakaki in school bathing suits and calls one of the girls "barely legal" or when he, without hesitation, tells Kagura "I like you" in English because she was wearing the gym shorts that he loved. His addressing Kaori by her nickname "Kaorin" is inappropriate for a student-teacher relationship; he takes this a step further by asking her to address him by the similarly cutesy name "Kimurin" ("Mr. Kim-Kims" in the original English manga translation).