Why is high school setting so popular in Japanese vidya?
It is the happiest time for many Japanese peoples' livesAlso wish fulfillment for all the experiences they didn't have or missed out on
>>722326121True, my Japanese girlfriend also keep her school uniform because she said girls would do it to make their future husbands happy lol
Old people already have their story. Just play something like Elden Ring or Yakuza if you want to see some has been old farts
redoing high school but not having your cringe teenager brain is a big fantasy for a lot of people
>>722326053it's the last even in life that pretty much everyone can relate to. Anything set later and the audience with the same experiences decreases.
>>722326053im guessing, because once you step onto the wagie life, you are stuck until 60 years old.At which point, most people stop dreaming like they did when they had free time. You work 8 hours, come home, make dinner and do chores and get a few hours to yourself before bed. Rinse and repeat for 40 years.20s and 30s should be the best parts of life but modern society has warped them into something negative.
I miss summer vacationsBack when I was a kid I didn't think 2 months was long enoughThese days I can barely get 2 weeks without jumping through some hoops or planning way ahead of time
>>722326053Privelaged good lifers had a happy childhood. Simple as.
It's not common at all outside VNs which barely count as games
>>722326053Wish fulfillment. It's a pretty important period in life and the people that play such games completely flunked it.
>>722326053Because Japanese vidya and anime are very specifically aimed at high school students who have the potential free time and enough soul left in their body to enjoy it. Unlike the working life of the japanese wagie where they are socially pressured into overtime and drinking with people they probably don't like after work.
School was the worst part of my life. I can't relate.
>>722326053It's comfyAlso sex hair
>>722326053Funny pic because the best VNs are the ones with either adult protagonist, or the story involves coming of age
>>722326053>Why is high school setting so popular in Japanese vidya?
>>722326053most japanese are pedos genuinely
>>722326053I found that the Japanese and South Koreans are particularly obsessed with youthfulness.
>>722328187Explain this then>>722328161
>>722328046high school was 'okay' for me but college was a nightmare and my life since has been a wreck. i can see why people are nostalgic for it.
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>>722328161What she gets is literally Barry-tier angloid lol
>>722326121>It is the happiest time for many Japanese peoples' livesOr the most miserable (bullying is apparently still massive issue)
>>722326121>wish fulfillment for all the experiences they didn't have or missed out onit's thispeople pretend those were their own experiences to cope with the fact that people barely noticed them and never talked to them(also you can have lots of teenage girls without having to do any explanation)
>>722328365Pedophilia works both ways retard
>>722326053Is there a specific term for that slightly messy, slightly curly shoulder-length hair on the far right? That's my jam.
>>722326053A high school setting is popular in just about all mediums really:-High school is a time period where people more actively socialized with each other because of how we were all forced to be under one roof together-It can be one of the more fonder times of your life as well as one of the more dramatic-It can invoke feelings of envy in people who were basically social pariahs-It can define your behavior all throughout your adult life-Your emotions were also at it's highest and most expressive-You still had a lot of freedom to do whatever you wanted before adult responsibilities ultimately slowed you downAll of that makes for some good and often relatable story telling.
Not just Japan, I assume persona sells better in the us than Europe. I have little to no nostalgia to school, maybe cause didn't have any mandatory clubs or similar. All the fun girl & sports stuff happened outside of school for me.
>>722326053I understand the Japanese.When I was in high school, the girls I met all seemed so fun and curious. I remember that in my senior year, I went with some friends to play soccer at another school, and I was the goalkeeper and made some good saves, and one of the girls from this other school who was watching came onto the field at the end of the match and gave me a loving kiss on the cheek for playing well. I didn't understand a damn thing at the time because I was pretty dumb, but the following year I started my life at university and this kind of innocent thing disappeared completely, and I only met insane and repulsive sluts from then on.There's something in the female brain that changes as soon as she leaves high school. That's why all VNs about friendship and dating in Japan take place before this switch is triggered.
>>722328918That girl kissed a complete stranger on the cheek because he played good at football. She wanted your cock because she had a reputation to maintain in her own social circle (her own school).She was exactly the same sluts you met in university.
bro thinks university is bad. Once you graduate its even worse.I'd say it's like thisHS and prior: 50%university: 40%post graduation: 15%Good luck
>>722326321then you woke up
ngl I can't relate at all, I fucking despised all girls in school, they acted like retarded little monkeys whilst university girls at least have some semblance of intelligence.
Because that's what their target demography identifies with
