Misato Ochi

is a teacher at Karakura High School.

Character Outline
Misato Ochi is a young woman with glasses and brown hair. She is the teacher of class 1-3 (first year, third class) in Karakura High School and is the teacher of Ichigo Kurosaki and all his friends. She is generally an easy going person who isn't bothered by Ichigo's absence. Nor of those others such as Ishida and Chad, simply saying that they will eventually return to school. She also told her students to not work too hard during summer vacation. However, she can also be strict as shown by when she makes Ichigo sit special exams because of his multitude of absences. Misato is currently asleep with the rest of Karakura town in the Soul Society

Bount arc (anime only)
Note: Events occurring in this arc are only in the anime and do not constitute canon material.

Arrancar arc
Misato goes into her classroom and tells everyone to get into their seats. She is happy to see that everyone is in school today but then says that two students are missing. She states that they do not count because they are bad students. She then tells everyone that a new transfer student is going to be in their class. When she goes out to get the transfer student, he is not there. Ichigo Kurosaki then runs out all of a sudden to fight a Hollow but lies and says he has to go to the bathroom. Yasutora Sado and Orihime Inoue run out too with the same excuse. Misato yells at Inoue saying she is lying and that a girl should be able to hold it in, but Orihime is able to convince her eventually. Keigo Asano then tries to do the same but Misato does not allow it. Keigo gets mad saying that she is not nice to him.

The next day the new transfer student comes into the classroom and writes his name, Hirako Shinji, backwords on the chalkboard. Misato is suprised to see that he wrote it that way and Shinji states that he likes to do things backwords. Misato tells him that he should add that to his self introduction. She then tells him to take a seat next to Ichigo. As soon as Shinji sits down though Ichigo's Substitute Shinigami Badge reacts to a Hollow and he ends up running outside saying he has to go to the bathroom again.