This is the type of question I receive if non Japanese people ask: “Are high schools in Japan like anime?” and the answer I give is: “no” since that’s not reflective of what actual school life is. Sure, there may be inspirations upon anime taking place at a school setting since all they portray is nothing but festivals, clubs and events as if the environment is that relaxing (far from the truth, JP school life in reality is regimented on studying).
In contrast, the same shit is said about US high schools via pop culture when shown to foreigners mainly portraying: teens hanging out in someone’s house partying with drinks, flexing who’s the most popular, jocks in sport, bullies picking the nerd, cheerleaders & football, 13 reasons why, high school musical, prom king & queen to list a few. However, is any of that representative of real high school life in the United States?
You mean Japanese schools don’t usually have student councils that rival state governments in political power?
Honestly if you’re going to have any kind of political student pathway it seems like a perfect safe-ish sandbox to try out making policy and handling implementation, feedback, and backlash. Fuck it, give the student council executive powers, sounds fun
I mean I often wonders about the yearly sports competitions and festivals.
Ridiculous! Next thing people are going to claim that Japanese schools aren’t getting blown up by giant robots on a regular basis!
Where else will the robots find the pilots?!