See also The Prom
And there’s at least one Anime I’ve watched where the kids organize a western style prom for themselves because they always saw them on American TV shows
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we need to expand the slice of life american animation industry until “state fair episodes” have their own elaborate sub-tropes
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See this is what’s missing from these new anime influenced American shows. Although now that I think of it right before Amphibia does their big magical girl transformation arc the main character does talk about how it’s just like anime or whatever. Idk if that’s better
i will be watching this garbage but i need my garbage in its authentic garbage tongue (with subs)
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i mean, luz on owl house makes amvs and reads a fantasy series about a witch. it’s classic curdled wish fulfillment in the vein of [i can’t remember where final fantasy tactics advance cribbed it from i’m so sorry]
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French version’s there, dunno about subtitles. It was all fansubbed a couple years ago though, so you might look for that
Are uhhh club fairs not a thing at most American highschools? In fairness I went to a catholic jesuit run highschool which may as well be a fantasy setting, but we definitely had school club fair day.
The booths were set up in the cafeteria instead of outside like the typical anime club fair episode, but thats basically the only difference and I chalked that up to it being 115F outside at the start of the school year.
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oh yeah the club fair thing is a particular fascination for me because i’ve heard students here talking about like, “why don’t we do a club fair like they do in anime?” literally not realizing that the same thing already exists in canadian (etc) universities, it’s just not as interesting or life changing in real life as it is in cartoons.
but i think there is like a kind of kernel of truth in the envy of the way extra-curricular activities totally dominate the social landscape of japanese high schools, like i am not sure this should be idealized but i do think it leaves more of an impression on the average teen there than similar events do in other places.
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I cannot claim my experience is generalizable but we had no such thing 
in uk schools, we didn’t even have clubs, let alone festivals
though it’s possible that’s because i went to the worst school in my area
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the schools i went to had clubs and fairs but nothing like club fairs. the culture shock to me in anime is when they are like “oh no if we don’t get five members to the club they’ll take away our funding!” and i’m like…funding???
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on the subject of club funding, an underrated aspect of keep your hands off eizoken is the times when it feels like a satire of soviet bureaucracy
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yeah thats how it worked in my school. most people who wantedt o start a club would sell candy to raise funds cuz its the easiest but there were like people who set up fake donation drives and went all out and everything
my high school had a LOT of clubs, that were involved in like, tons of stuff that the highschool did but there was never a club fair. honestly the club fair experience i got was from those weirdo leadership confrences i was posting about earlier, especialyl the themed ones
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i found it pretty clear that he’s the bad guy from like the second or third murder he did. it was a bit jarring after his innocuous introduction but they don’t really do the gradual descent into evil because it’s not a character study, it’s a silly 4D chess detective show
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i’ve been enjoying a lot of this season’s anime, from heavenly delusion being Legitimately Breath-Taking every single week, to the dumb slop of magic girl magical destroyers and the latest seasons of vinland saga and witch from mercury.
however, i just can’t keep my mind away from how ugly the adaption of hell’s paradise is. like it might actually be one of the ugliest cartoons i’ve ever seen. it’s kinda jarring to look at, considering it’s supposed to be one of the big releases of the year. i can only imagine this is the result of MAPPA overextending themselves to the point where they can’t save one of their productions by hiring a battalion of outsourced labor on the fly
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I thought he was an awful person since… probably episode 2 (the end of ep 1 was a giant red flag) but I’ve seen a ton of shows where the lead was clearly a terrible person where the show and the audience sort of tip-toed around it until like the final season, and even afterwards a significant portion of the audience still liked and rooted for them.
EDIT: To give a current example, when I last left off Attack on Titan after the final season part 2 out of ??? the lead character had decided literally killing everyone on earth that isn’t of his own people is the best course of action and has actively started doing so and I think it is a coin flip as to whether by the time the final episode roll out he’ll be portrayed as a villain or a decent guy who made some tough choices. By this point I trust literally no show to decide that their awful leads are actually awful.
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you’re right, i do shudder when i remember how many people still defended Walt more than two seasons into Breaking Bad
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Thats pretty much how it was at my school for club fair, sans funding. If you didn’t have 5 members and a teacher sponsor you would be disbanded as an official club and lose your shot at getting a classroom to meet in during lunch
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tbh, i think the text of death note could say clearly and loudly through all of the show “light yagami is a fucking monster” and a part of the fanbase would still side with him. always got the impression L was a great deal more popular tho. that might not have anything to do with where people land morally on the whole thing, considering a lot of fans just wanted them to make out
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I also remember how horrible it was around the fourth season when it felt like the writers clearly wanted us to realize Walt was bad and that Hank was the good guy all along despite not doing anything about Hank’s really intense racism before.