Is most anime portrayal of Japanese high schools sugarcoated bullshit?
I was watching All About Lily Chou-Chou, which I heard from doing a minutes worth of research is a fairly realistic portrayal of Japanese youth, and thinking how Japanese kids are fucking assholes not the well-mannered, old-fashioned teenage characters in most anime.
Yeah, but American cartoons also portray school in a sugar-coated way too. Cartoons are like that - fiction, see.
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Anonymous2005-07-20 22:20
A realistic portrayal of high school would probably threaten otaku. Girls smearing their faces in make up, sucking cock, and bullying girls who don't follow in their footsteps isn't exactly moe.
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Anonymous2005-07-21 1:14
except for the cocksucking
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Anonymous2005-07-23 17:17
In GANTZ there's like a bunch of high school punks.
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Anonymous2005-07-26 18:30
...And a gym teacher who sodomizes his students ^_^
I think it's interesting how in the past most of the representations of Japanese school life you'd see was the stereotypical "sugoi kawaii pantsu ^_^" nonsense. But in recent years I've noticed a growing trend of painting school as a nightmarish and bleak experience where the student body is pretty much divided evenly between bullies and victims and the teachers are either useless, apathetic, or bullies themselves. Is this a more realistic reflection of life in Japan?
both are just dramatic exaggerations for the sake of entertainment
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Anonymous2005-08-02 15:06
How realistic are American high schools are portrayed in American TV shows? Not very.
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Anonymous2005-08-02 18:25
>>9
I think this portrays alot of american high schools pretty well, so why not japanese schools?
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Anonymous2005-08-18 21:50
>>12
Because their bullies are still stuck in the 80s. And will probably remain so.
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Anonymous2005-08-29 21:10
From what I got out of going to Japan, it seemed much like school in Inuyasha. aka, Tests and your scores are very important, and if you're stupid in Japan, and bring your class scores down, people will tend to not like you, (hence why Japan has the one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world) as opposed to America, where the more stupid you are, the more you're rewarded with sex, popularity, and the teachers will pass you if you don't turn anything in and will ignore you blatantly cheating on tests all the time.
Also you'll find that Americans are horribly immature (look at modern n00bs that only beg for stuff and tlk lik tihs LOLZ!!!onezor), and about anywhere in the world it won't be AS bad.
Your Everyday Typically-Stupid-and-Almost-Dropping-Out School Bully: hay guy;z chk out dat oen stipud kdi wh[' o loks like a faegt *points at intelligent person* letz go ovr ther an cal hiem a faget or somthin!!!!!!
YETSAADOSB: "hey faeg"
Intelligent One: "I'm smarter then you, pathetic waste of life, go away."
YETSAADOSB: "wat?!111" *beats him up*
*girl comes in* o ur so sxxy u shur showd tat kid!
YETSAADOSB: ya hwo botu we go otu or somthing
based on what I learned in World Geography.... lol, ya, the "fashion" shown in the videos in that class is from about the 70s, but the video is from the 90s, and grades are superimportant in Japan unless you want a bluecollar job, and they have "cram schools" as evident. They believe that not cramming the night of a test will always result in a bad grade, etc.
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Anonymous2005-09-09 1:49
lol what?
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sodacat2005-09-09 16:34
High schools are dramatized because NOTHING INTERESTING EVER HAPPENS IN HIGH SCHOOL. That's why MTV and BET and whateverthefuck other role models kids find are so important. They make living in that cultural wasteland slightly bareable.
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Headasplode2005-09-11 1:04
INDEED. Although, MTV and BET and Whateverthefuck(int.) suck balls. Big, hairy ones with little spots all over them, like they dipped they're balls in grease or something.
ANYWAY, onto the point.
High Schools in Japanese anime are also really, really sexy. (Real Bout High School, to name one)
Real high schools are slightly less sexy, but illegal none-the-less.
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Anonymous2005-09-11 11:20
Why does Real Bout Highschool look like it would have plenty of clothes ripping, yet doesn't?
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Anonymous2005-09-11 15:58 (sage)
a few volumes do, never seen the anime though.
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Anonymous2005-09-21 18:52
Maybe you should take a look at Ikki Tousen. Bet you already have.
Hmmmm... I agree with post 9. Exaggerations for the sake of entertainment indeed.
I'll go on to add another layer of thought though: All schools are different. In the US, there are academic-centric schools, friendly social schools, and not-so-pleasant schools with gangs and such. I went to the first type, had friends from the second type, and heard about and had teachers who escaped from the third type.
At my school in California, everything was about academic competition, students would go to after-school tutoring centers, and exam scores were mucho-important (3 APs or your parents would threaten you with sweeping the streets when you grow up, ahahaha!!). Yep!! SUch schools do exist in California, and are more than reality if you're in one of those techy Asian-American communities.
Some of my online buddies go to school in rural parts of Southern Cali, and school there is a bit like in the Disney movies- it's basically all about prom and asking people out, and there's not TOO much violence, because hey, it's the country and not the inner city lol.
And finally, I had a Bio teacher who once taught in the shoddier parts of LA... and he said it was simply hell: gangs, fights every second, and at least one student getting expelled every day.
Soooooooo...
If there's such a variety of schools in the US...
Then the same must be true for Japan, neh?
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Anonymous2005-10-20 6:05
Um... the truncated part of my post above:
Soooooooo...
If there's such a variety of schools in the US...
Then the same must be true for Japan, neh?