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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-07-29 08:21
Animes, mangas, TV dramas, movies, visual novels, and eroge games
Why are there schools in the majority of them?
You would see the main characters being school students.
In
Clannad, School Days, Bakemonogatari, Honey & Clover, Bleach, YugiOh (and yet they barely attend school and then they focused on more schools), Naruto (ninja academy lulz), Death Note, Detective Conan, Durarara, Ouran Host Club, Digimon (same situation as yugioh), Code Geass Yokaru Quartlet, Hayate No Gotoku, Zombie Loan, Nobuta wo Produce, Higurashi, Melancholy of Haruhi, Lucky Star, Shakugan No Shana, Shugo Char, Hana Kimi, Toradora,
The cat wouldn't understand since cats don't go to school but why? Aren't the schools in Japan notorious for being stressful? Their parents would stress their kids to go to private schools.
You'll hear things among friends like,
Friend 1:"OMG, I can't believe it. I barely passed."
Friend 2: "Yeah but we won't be in the same class :/. My scores were way higher than yours."
Friend 1 "At least we'll go to the same school..."
Friend 3 "NO, Friend 4 didn't pass the exam"
and then they actually study.
Another thing,
what things you would think about Japan?
Anime, and schoolgirls
Why would a lot of people who are familiar with Japanese stuff think about schoolgirls?
Sorry if the cat is being shallow but the cat doesn't know anything.
That's why the cat is asking you guys.
(give srs answers, the cat promises rep.)
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Chiri wrote on 2010-07-29 08:25
Because after the school stage in a persons life in Japan, the amount of social interaction and drama goes down. They get a job as a salaryman and stick with it until they are forced to retire -- retirement for males, by the way, is heavily correlated with suicide.
School is looked back as the 'good times.' The 'innocent times.' Most importantly, the 'interesting times.' When life had meaning.
Thus all the media reliving that specific period. Most school dramas are known for their nostalgia factor.
Why ask for serious replies in Bean Rua? You should have posted this in the library instead~
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Moppy wrote on 2010-07-29 08:25
o.O
I have no idea...
Seriously, no idea at all.
/not sarcastic
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Blassreiter wrote on 2010-07-29 11:24
Because it's geared towards that audience.
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-07-29 11:30
I can't think of any series I truly enjoyed that was based around school/students.
There's too many series these days with schools, 10+ years ago the only anime I knew that had schools was sailor moon. Now at least half of the airing anime involves schools or students as the main characters.
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December wrote on 2010-07-29 13:06
The majority of readers would be in school, thus can relate to somethings. I would be more inclined to that rampant robots, maids and dinosaurs running around.
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Finnea wrote on 2010-07-29 13:12
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;109498:
Animes, mangas, TV dramas, movies, visual novels, and eroge games
Why are there schools in the majority of them?
You would see the main characters being school students.
In
Clannad, School Days, Bakemonogatari, Honey & Clover, Bleach, YugiOh (and yet they barely attend school and then they focused on more schools), Naruto (ninja academy lulz), Death Note, Detective Conan, Durarara, Ouran Host Club, Digimon (same situation as yugioh), Code Geass Yokaru Quartlet, Hayate No Gotoku, Zombie Loan, Nobuta wo Produce, Higurashi, Melancholy of Haruhi, Lucky Star, Shakugan No Shana, Shugo Char, Hana Kimi, Toradora,
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Hehe.
Ama thinks that it's more of a relatability thing. Just to give the veiwers something to relate to.
As for why it's so common to connect Japan to Schoolgirls it's most likely the fact that they're famous for their:
1. Uniform School setting
2. Their Intelligence
3. Going on the perverted side, eroge.
So to foreigners looking in they just end up relating these things to Japan and it becomes that schoolgirls are something easily associated with Japan.
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Tatsu wrote on 2010-07-29 14:38
like Chiri said, they lack a social life after their education. And when there is a story after someone finished their education, it's something like they finally found something interesting to do after hours upon hours of a ridiculously boring life style with their office job. Since really, that's how it is.
Other things though, like Higurashi wouldn't work as well if the characters weren't 16 and younger. Clannad and School Days were originally visual novels anyway. And in dating sim-type visual novels, school is a great way to introduce characters or add more characters. It adds a lot of social interaction that you'll be missing once you start working. Or to add drama. Or that they have more freedom than a working adult, which lets them do stuff. And didn't Deathnote only start in school?
So, there are things that are more dramatic if the target is a student, but not nearly as much if they're a working adult. A schoolgirl being pregnant is horrible while a grown woman pregnant is rather joyous. A student being addicted to drugs, and people will want to fix that little problem before they graduate. If a fully grown man is addicted to drugs, they'll just be considered trash and not worth saving.
Also, it's more amazing if the main character is a student. I.e. being adopted by a ruthless, nationwide famous yakuza boss, a high school girl being involved in a violent cat-mouse chase with a worldwide famous gangster, actually being a self-teaching sorcerer, being stuck in a dream world in order to save all your friends from dying in a car crash, an amnesiac, or a student that will be permanently forgotten by everyone and will disappear in a few months.
Well, some of those are amazing regardless if you're a teenager or a working adult.
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NewbieNub wrote on 2010-07-29 16:27
Quote from Finnea;109608:
Hehe.
Ama thinks that it's more of a relatability thing. Just to give the veiwers something to relate to.
As for why it's so common to connect Japan to Schoolgirls it's most likely the fact that they're famous for their:
1. Uniform School setting
2. Their Intelligence
3. Going on the perverted side, eroge.
So to foreigners looking in they just end up relating these things to Japan and it becomes that schoolgirls are something easily associated with Japan.
Quote from Blassreiter;109583:
Because it's geared towards that audience.
Quote from Chiri;109500:
Because after the school stage in a persons life in Japan, the amount of social interaction and drama goes down. They get a job as a salaryman and stick with it until they are forced to retire -- retirement for males, by the way, is heavily correlated with suicide.
School is looked back as the 'good times.' The 'innocent times.' Most importantly, the 'interesting times.' When life had meaning.
Thus all the media reliving that specific period. Most school dramas are known for their nostalgia factor.
Why ask for serious replies in Bean Rua? You should have posted this in the library instead~
This.
IMO, everyone can relate to school.
Well, can't you? Or you're home schooled?