Mari Nishinomiya

Mari Nishinomiya (西宮 まり, Nishinomiya Mari) is Mahiro Oyama's homeroom teacher. She also acted as Mihari Oyama and Kaede Hozuki's homeroom teacher when they were in middle school. She is voiced by Rin Mizuki in the anime series.

Appearance
Mari is a middle-aged woman with long hair that she keeps together in a low ponytail. She wears thin, low-hanging glasses and a loose-fitting cardigan on top of a collared button-up shirt.

Personality
Most of the time, Mari is a friendly and respectable teacher. However, she is a stickler for school wardrobe policy and is quick to discipline anyone who violates those rules, no matter how small or insignificant they are. She has sent Mahiro Oyama home multiple times for violating said policies (once for wearing lip-gloss, and another time for wearing purfume). She also once sent Kaede home for doing something similar.

She does this out of habit, and even once commented on Mihari's outfit when they met during Parent Visitation Day. She quickly backpedaled though when she remembered that Mihari wasn't her student anymore.

Etymology

 * The name Mari means "real, genuine" (真) (ma) combined with:
 * "reason, logic" (理) (ri).
 * "village" (里) (ri).
 * The name Nishinomiya means "west" (西) (nishino) and "palace" (宮) (miya).

Manga

 * Mahiro's First Day

Anime

 * Mahiro Goes Back to Middle School