Why do so many Japanese games have a high school setting?
They're made for shounen
Because JKs are the most powerful thing in the universe.
>>744121695Last amount of free time and lack of social burden before insane work hours till you're pension age(now projected to be like 75). Also people like reminiscing about HS.
Women peak in high school
it was the only time japanese were happy in their lives
>>744121695sexo sells
>>744121695Like this >>744121749 guy saidAlso, it is the last time you get a full cross-section of the entire society in one place, mingling. After high school people are divided based on fields of study, competency, and ability to afford higher education (wealth & social standing). From there, people are further subdivided as people specialize based on occupation and hobbies.High school is the last place most people will encounter and experience the full spectrum of what people can be.
>>744121695NGL I don't like kpop in general but really liked ditto and the music video really captured the late 90's/early 00's feel.
>>744121695Modern society has forgotten that up until the last 100 years, when a person reached 15, they were of marriageble/fighting age. Humans tend to have their personality-defining life adventure at around that time, which means 15. Since most modernized countries go to high school at that age, this is where they build those life experiences, and when they grow up and tell stories, they base it on their life experiences.
>>744121695Because a lot of people grow up in Japan into working for Black companies who demand they conform to absurd standards(IE going out to drink with your boss after work is mandatory)and overwork themselves. Even famous people get this treatment regularly so high school tends to get glorified.
>>744121695Because games and anime are made for children
>>744121695Normal societies praise youth. In America something went wrong and everything is fake and gay.
>posts korean gookskill yourself
>>744122053Japan is just a richer Thailand. Great for vacations because the locals are all overworked slaves paid in pennies.
>>744122110They literally all look the exact same.Also, the Japanese emperor is Korean.
>>744121729>JKsJust kiddings?
>>744121695Why do westerners pretend like highschool isn't an insanely prominent setting in western media? Additionally, many stories are "coming of age" stories, which for most people happen at an age when they'd be in highschoool.
>>744121752this>>744122003trvke
>>744122220it's far more prevalent in japan compared to western games
>>744122220ok but we don't discuss media here, we discuss video games
>>744121695Not really. You're thinking about dating sim VNs. That's where the meme comes form.
Because Japs are like chinks, they just copy whatever everyone else is doing.
>>744122220westerners aren't capable of self-reflection
>>744121695Which kino is this?
>>744121752Sorry anon, they peak in elementary school
>Last time Japanese were happy in their lives>Literally all sources imply that High School is probably the most stressful time for a good amount of Nips between demanding expectations and unaddressed bullying
>>744121695I mean for real?Its because youth is the time of potential and self actualisation. Everything important happens when you're young.An adult should be past all that and focused on child raising. Its only that western norms are completely fucked and what you should do when you're 12-19 you pretend you can do when you're 12-45.Its why you have superhero movies of some retard burnt out middle aged man "finding themselves" or hedonistic women partying their lives away getting infinite abortions then scratching their heads when they can biologically no longer do what younger women can.
>>744121695Functioning sexuality.
japanese people think life ends after high school.
>>744122737This hasn't been true for a while. Today's society is especially vile in that everything is made to favor the boomers, the younger generations are exploited and drained dry for the sake of rotting old people.
>>744122737Iron Man is the biggest Superhero ever though
>>744121695because as students, jap high schools are a place you want to go to, while western (american) high schools are a place you want to leave.
>>744121695East Asian society have a concept of seishun or youth spring. Basically HS is the last chance for them to be a free human with dreams and ideas before socially forced wageslavery and marriage crushes them until retirement. And no you cant have a mid life crisis or reinvented yourself because other adults will treat you like a failure and you'll be shunned and shamed in every aspect of ur life.
>>744121695you know games are mainly aimed for kids? it's like asking why there are a lot of gays in gay bar.
>Yeah my entire experience with Japanese culture is children's cartoons but I think I can pretty accurately summarize their entire society.
>>744122220It isn't insanely prominent. Not to the extent that it is in japan.
>>744122220Western media is way more critical of high school as an institution. You got stories about sports and student government sometimes that have an idealized view of high school life, but the majority of stories are about outcasts who don't fit in and the villains are the jocks and popular kids in charge of the student government. In Japanese media its different in that you have some super smart nerd protagonist, but he's effortlessly cool and popular and he might not be the head of the student government, but he's very well respected.
>>744123020Literally every generation says this.>>744123037Thats not how you write Batman.
>>744123108This
>>744123189It's okay to be racist towards Japanese people according to guys like this
>>744123260Not every generation says this, no. The way the system works and directly favors the elderly is a first.
I wish I could've grown up in Japan and experienced the comfy life of a Japanese high schooler.
>>744121695JK's thoughts on cute shy fit EOP blond gaijins haha asking for a friend
>>744123332Being a japanese high schooler must be the most soul crushing experience there is.You know you're enjoying your life on borrowed time and you can see yourself getting closer to the cleaver at a breakneck pace, once you graduate you're thrown into the slave grinder and may as well die
>>744123329It really does though, yeah. Every generation when its young thinks its being held back by the older generation and when finally the old people die they'll get to fix everything.This is child thinking, what you are now is what you will always be. Truth was the older people were always right.Your life wont start when finally everything will go your way, your life is mostly already over.
>>744121695It was the last time they were happy.
>>744123332nothing comfy about it, the reason why its in so much media is because of how terrible it was, they prefer to imagine a fantasy version
>>744123407>>744123449You never went to high school in japan though...
>>744121695All of them look like black cock sluts
>>744123449there's plenty of semi-autobiographical series where the protag is clearly the author living a realistic but slightly more idyllic version
>>744123415No they don't, they're always critical of the power in place but no older people specifically. Boomer are literally the worst generation in the history of humanity, they knew a time of unprecedented prosperity and used it to acquire everything that was to be obtained. The youth used to always take profit of the inherent chaos of history to find their way but current society is unusually stable and favor already acquired wealth more than it ever did. Boomers are also noticeably stupid, wisdom and knowledge are traditional qualities of the elderly yet boomers are none of these, they sizzled their brain on the most mind numbing known to mankind (television) and went to destroy all the remnants of pre war society in order to foster an individualistic dystopia where families break apart and divorces run rampant.
>>744121695>Asking a question you know the answer to.Why? To spurn discussion about irrelevant topics while faggots give their shitty takes on Japan? For the nth time?
>>744123246Which animes though? Majority of ones I see usually have the MC be an awkward dweeb. And that's the light hearted stuff, the dramatic stuff isn't really shy about being critical about the system. Hell even the Fantasy High School Sim game has abusive teachers and bullies
>>744121695I want to put my tongue in Haerin's ass.
I'm almost 30 and nothing ever happened to me. Not in high school, not in college, not in the military, and not on my travels to 20+ countries. I carved the most peaceful nothingburger life for myself where I don't have to work ever again but nothing ever happened. I just speedran my life, went from being a kid immediately to a retired man. No exciting adventures, no drama, no failures, no struggle, no love, nothing, no matter how much I wanted such a turbulent life.No fucking idea what sort of sick and fucked up guardian angel is watchinh over me but I want him gone. I'd give all this comfort away justto experience the struggle and milestones and accomplishments normal people do. Signing another military contract next week in the hopes that something, anything, might finally happen to me.
>>744123609You're just caught in a myth that externalises everything bad onto the other, you might as well be a racist or sexist or whatever.You'll need like 15 years to wake up.
>>744123549incorrect
>>744123710wrong
>>744121695Japanese men live peaked and over in HS. After that they are just nothing but walking corpse.
>>744123703I don't, I've already come to terms with the fact that life is mostly random. However my first message was posted as an answer to an anon with outdated views on society that are not applicable to the current state of things.
>>744123545takes one to know one
>>744123696What've you actually tried? Have you risked humiliating yourself on a gamble?
https://youtu.be/guxte_oanOM
>>744123659well does he kick their asses after?
>>744123659What happens next anon?
>>744121787japanese have to work 36 hours a day, 12 days a week
>>744121729>JKsJapanese Ketamine?
>>744123824Not sure what you mean anon, but I tried getting into fights and did some retarded dares. Nobody ever wanted to fight me even though I'm an average skinny guy and nothing serious happened during those dares.Been to so called 'crazy parties' where shit usually happens, drank half a liter of whisky on purpose many times but still nothing. Got home safe, memory intact. Bad headaches only. It's as if I'm just an outside observer of the world. A ghost of sorts.
>>744123659Anime ruined Japanese acting
>>744124186it's a live-adaption, they always do the goofy kabuki theatre shtick.
>>744121695Because the sole goal of a japanese salaryman is to have his soul drained at work until he's 60 years old. Can't make much of a story about worker drones devoted to making lines go up on a spreadsheet. They're too exhausted after work to play games too, they'd rather sleep, go play gacha/casino games or masturbate. Horrific.
>>744123639Number one I'm thinking of is Code Geass where Lelouch is a super smart and doesn't even try to be social, but everyone loves him anyway. You do have stuff where the characters are outcasts and get bullied, and they find the power in friendship with each other, but it's not really overly critical of the intuition itself that enables it. Japanese society tends to idealize conformity and the way to beat bullies is to beat them at the same game.
>>744121695>American high school>Iron bars, metal detectors, security guards, conrete>Niggers chimping out in class and preventing study>Teachers tired, underpaid, don;t give a shit, students have zero respect for them>Practically zero clubs outside of sports so no interactions between grades>Unhealthy processed slopateria food>Americans teens are trained to be low-key psychopaths and beating the shit out of each other and torturing weaker people for no reason is normalized>Have to worry about shootings>Japanese high school>Clean and bright>Students are respectful, people who behave like the average western student are seen as "delinquents" and students who have ever been expelled are practically treated like psychos>Clubs foster harmony and relationships between classes and grades>Blacks don't exist>Bullying is frowned upon and is becoming rarer and rarer as time goes by>Teachers care and try extremely hard to help students figure out their career paths>Bentos healthy, normal, and common, cafeteria food is fine tooThe simple truth is this: It's not that Japanese people are "obsessed" with highschool. It's that high school is any normal person's best time of their life, but the average westoid's high school experience was robbed from them, replaced with dehumanization and trauma.>n-n-no you don't get it it's because Japanese adult life sucks!He said 10 minutes before getting stuck in traffic en route to his second job that day to afford his tiny grimy studio in Nig York.
>>744124330This.
>>744124330Don't you think this post is a bit too antisemitic for a videogames board?
Almost everybody went though high school so yeah
>>744124269To be fair he's literally the top class in an extremely classicist society and the high school stuff is pretty second fiddle to the larger political implications and even then hardly perfect or idyllic.
>>744121695You've made this thread a dozen times before. Read the archives.
>>744123189Why is brown people so annoying to look at? Those two shitskin faces just seems to elicit anger and disgust to whoever saw them, especially me.
>>744122717Most anime is about what japs wished their lives were like, including their past, so they watch high school anime and daydream about a life they didn't have.>>744122737Only niggas who peaked in highschool think like this. >>744123020Boomers are like 80 now retard, you are thinking of GenX
>>744122509Nothing is original and everyone copies each other. America very often copies from other cultures but changes it slightly to fit with American needs. This isn't a bad thing mind you but if you think you are better for "originality" you aren't.
>>744121695East Asians are almost universally hebephiles. This is just something that white people won't understand.
>>744123659anime really doesn't translate well into reality
>>744124330>It's that high school is any normal person's best time of their lifeWhat a sad fucking life you must have if teenage daycare is as best as it gets for you.Not an amerifat either, most of them idolize college anyway.
>>744124769So they haven't been poisoned by (((them))) yet?
>>744121695natsukashii
>>744124830Jews are also hebephiles. You know, like Epstein.
>>744122220In western High school fiction everyone is drinking and trying to get laid. In japan the pretend to be drunk after sniffing a beer can and hold hands after 400 episodes of awkwardly staring at each other.
>>744123696>went from being a kid immediately to a retired manSo you just living off veterans checks now? unless you were a colonel you must be on foodstamps, and nobody is a colonel before 30.Then again this is fucking 4chan, every story posted here is a lie.
>>744124330oh nononono we can't have positivity about japan
>>744124826Western society is one big daycare my man.Women marry the state and men remain children for their whole life. You spend your days blaming boomers and jews while gleefully laying your head on the butcher's block. The only time you muster any effort or passion is to protect your diversions, or to decry people who say you don't have to live like this and show any amount of positivity, because it reminds you of yourself.
>>744121695>plastic old hags trying to look like high school studentsGross
>>744124330this is antisemitic
>>744125007Again not a mutt, and the last jap that knew struggle died in 1945. Modern japs are the most domesticated cattle in history.
>my cattle nation state is better than your cattle nation state
>>744125160>A nation state is a sovereign political country where the governing state rules over a group of people who share a common culture, language, or national identity. Doesn't apply to Ameriga
>>744124921va
>>744125160nakadashi
>>744121695>main audience is high school students>built-in seasons and milestones e.g. culture festivals>forced proximity to other students means romance is simple >extra-curricular activities>school building interiors are easy to make>students don't have adult responsibilities like a full-time job
>>744125281What you got shot? most ex-mil make jack shit, if you want risk go into oil drilling, the pay is good and its fun as fuck until there's a gas leak on the rig and you lose both arms.Dont be a pussy.
>>744125540>main audience is high school studentslol
>>744122053These poor men. I want to comfort each and every one of them! with kisses, love and massages!
>>744124547I mean, that's true. It's been a long time since I've seen the show and I just remember the high school stuff being really annoying to watch even if that's not the focus.
>>744122220Because for most people this side of the planet highschool sucks, the only ones that wax nostalgic about it are the losers who peaked back then.
>>744121695New jeans are dead
>>744123189>game is a hate later to the fans
>>744125687shut up
>>744123189Don't they all live in Japan?
>>744124218its not a live adaptation its a fucking tokusatsu show
>>744123189how do we kill gigguk
>>744121695JUMP magazine's insane popularity in 80s-90s influenced anime and games.Social science bullshit is a myth because there's a lot of Seinen manga for boomer truckers with an adult protagonist (half of the time they're Yakuza), they just didn't culturally impact the mainstream because games/anime were seen as a content for kids, and 90's boomers were content with just reading manga and playing pachinko/mahjong.
>>744121695High school is the last time most of them get to enjoy life before ending the workforce. Once in the workforce, most people end up in black companies that force them to work 6 days a week for like 12 hours a day. It's miserable getting up so early in the morning and forced into jam packed trains. Then they do this shit until they die.It's boring so nobody makes a story out of it in game or anime unless it's some shit where they work themselves to death and then isekai elsewhere.
>>744125815This, old anime specially OVAs was mostly adults in scifi or action settings, shows you who watches this shit now.
>heh nips are cattle workers>unlike me who is a neet cattle instead
I can't name a single one..Did you mean anime??
>>744125540She is probably considered obese there
>>744125704What kind of faggot watches this shit? The got a "dont reccomend this channel" from me years ago, and I didn't even watch a second of it.
>>744122053It's not 1999 anymore bro, many companies refuse to let you work overtime due to laws now
>>744125007What's being an adult bro? You seem very well read and cultured.
>>744125704Why does nobody harass these faggots?
>>744125540>Filter kicks in when the girl on the right enters frame
>>744121695Because you keep playing games for highschool aged children
>>744126014>be neet>get your freedom>broke so you can't enjoy it>constant stress from mooching off your parents>be employed>make money>no free time to ever enjoy it>constant stress from billsIs there any escape?
>>744123189>but I think I can pretty accurately summarize their entire society.This is what immediately turned me off of their podcast in the first 1-2 episodes. Cunts were literally just fresh off the boat and making wild generalizations about Japan not understanding how anything actually works. Now they're starting to "get it" but their shit has turned into generic Interview Show with Travel Vlog shit thrown in. I just want a follow-up to the actual goat Anime podcast.
>>744122220Because they pretend to be above it all or be "critical" of it. Except Prom. Prom is the most important event ever and it must go perfectly or your life is over. Even in a fantasy setting they will somehow find a way to include Prom.
>>744123287Part of actually living in Japan is slowly growing to half-hate living in Japan, but you get by thanks to conbini, chuhais, cheap restaurants and attractive Japanese women.
>>744124186>he doesn't like FRIENDSHIPNGMI
>>744126415>attractive>japanese womenI mean, there are some but holy hell do you have to search.
>>744125540how the FUCK do japanese HS boys or middle school boys deal with these chicks in super short skirts?the erections in classes must be OFF THE CHARTS!
>>744126343commoners cant have it
>>744124330>>Teachers care and try extremely hard to help students figure out their career pathsEh some do, majority are there because they know its a stable job with good benefits. PE teacher that used to sit next to me in a JHS in Osaka would literally just sleep 3/4 of his fucking day, fat cunt didnt get even a negative shit.
>>744126437That's just life, anon.
>>744124759>bubut west does it tooWest is forced into it, East embraces it. West just isn't rich enough anymore to fully express individuality, East will be conformist no matter how rich it gets
>>744126437I mean if you live in bumfuck nowhere inaka somewhere yeah its a lot of munters, but basically any city more than 300k pop and its hot women fucking everywhere. Compared to the West where everyone's fat, dresses like shit and doesnt know what 'feminine' is.
>>744126462This, being a teacher is honestly a cheat code in so many countries as long as you're detached enough. You can be terrible at your job and nothing will happen to you, and you have a lot of free time
>>744126415>attractive Japanese womenya lost me there bud. Remove their makeup and let's hear you say those 3 words again...
>>744126551Where isn't that true, where's this place where women don't wear makeup?
>>744123891>>744123971That delinquent looking dude is Kamen Rider Fourze, bro is on a quest to befriend everyone in the school while simultaneously moonlighting as a space themed superhero fighting monsters. The head jock and head cheerleader end up becoming major supporting characters early on after he befriends them and they stop being so shitty, and they help out with his superhero activities. This scene is from episode one and the head cheerleader basically wants the delinquent guy from the end of episode 4.Fourze is a damn good show, Tokusatsu can be a bit of an adjustment when you're not used to that anime-style acting in live action yet but once you acclimate to it that stuff just feels normal.
>>744126579Yeah, not really sure what that anon was getting at. Everywhere has attractive and ugly women, but most are mids that have to wear makeup so simps gas them up. Not sure why Japan needs to get singled out for this.
>>744121749High school can be still pretty intense with cram schools and a lot of pressure to perform well on the exams to get into a good uni. I hear that once you get in the university is actually easier, but I suppose it's not as universal an experience and not featured in media as often.
>>744121695name 3 actual games (not visual novels)
>>744126661Persona 3, 4 and 5
>>744121695>>744122053Once again, ignorant gaijin regurgitating irrelavent western YTer opinions as fact
>>744126710You need to understand that hoodweeb opinions are sacred because Ironmouse told me so
>>744126579Im not talking about women in general dude, im saying asian women in general look like ayyylmao bug creatures without makeup. Not all women look like shit without makeup, my sisters for example look perfectly fine without makeup and others.. just saying asians look bad without, and CAN look great with their extensive overboard makeup.
>>744126525>You can be terrible at your job and nothing will happen to youYeah in Japan it definitely varies city by city and school by school, but once you're past the initial 5-10 year probation period you're set. You're locked into an unlimited contract where you literally legally cant get fired unless you massively fuck up by boning a student or getting caught with drugs or something. Retirement age there is 60, but you'll often get useless Nakadashi-san ojiichan teachers hanging around until their 70s doing literally nothing all day. One guy I worked with straight up watched TV at his desk half of the day and wore sunglasses inside all the time. Miss that guy, he was based.
>>744126751>there are people taking opinions from western VTubers
>>744124660Its the weird prideful look they got. Makes woke, liberals, even commies look disgusting.
>>744124903There is a big difference between liking high school girls and dismembering children after raping them...
>>744121787Unironically this, once your grade/highschool/college time ended there is only work and death to look forward to for the salaryman.
>>744126818>5-10 yearsThat's still a lot compared to other countries. In France once you're a teacher with civil servant status you become unfireable even if it's your first year on the job.
>>744123189Does anyone actually like Connor? Cunt is so fucking annoying and unlikable and he fakes really shit opinions on things to generate clicks.
>>744126710unrelated but there's this prevalence of people who think they can glean knowledge of the entirety of a whole country based solely on the cartoons and translated twitter posts they see. if you told them some japanese guy were doing the same to america they'd find it quaint and woefully misinformed.
>>744122003>Modern society has forgotten that up until the last 100 years, when a person reached 15, they were of marriageble/fighting ageMaybe in 3rd world brown shitholes, that wasn't the case in the civilized world. Marrying above 20 was normalized there since the antiquities because barely pubescent teenagers tend to be, unsurprisingly, poor fit for pregnancy.
>>744126818Is that why games takes decades to be made now? Nintendo is full of lazy ojisans that advance at a snail's pace?
>>744126892I don't think you should even know them by name. The two flips and this ugly ass bitch can go to hell for all I care.
>>744126913Of course the anon didnt know that, he made a whole statement solely based in his fetish and not about how it would realistically play out
>>744126938>Nintendo is full of lazy ojisans that advance at a snail's pace?Japanese corporate is absolutely full of this. Like half of their workforce doesn't actually do anything most of their day. You're talking about a country where sleeping on the job is considered a good thing "oh no, Nakadashi-san worked so hard-aru that he tired himself out-o, pureezu let him sleep-u"
>>744121695because anime (japanese cartoons) are aimed at the youth
>>744126938>>744126987Perhaps lower your tone when discussion Nintendo. I'll remind you that its a 200+ year old company.If they didn't know what they were doing, they wouldn't have lasted for 14 generations.Don't own a single nintendo game by the way.
>>744127058Yeah but they shouldn't take 8 years making a game
>>744126818lmao what a larp
>>744126938yes. and this is why current-day japanese corpos are full of retarded suits copying what california did 8 years ago
Watching cartoons and getting second hand opinions off the internet does not make you an expert on a subject.
>>74412705810/10 bait on this board full of 3rd-world consolefags and shills, watch the replies come flying in lol
>>744121695the short skirts get me horny
