BW’s Saturday Article Link> Schools’ Story Potential

Ah, school. The bain of my teenage existence through a combination of bullies while administration seemed to look the other way, having more interesting things to do, and a school system that wasn’t teaching me anything I wanted to learn and not enough of what I actually needed to learn. I still think of that place as a prison and I graduated at the start of the 1990s. On the other hand, any anime involving anyone under 22 seems to take place in some location of education even if “class” seems to just be a place to sit and talk about events in the story. Turns out Starfleet Academy took the wrong lessons from high school anime.

On the other hand, there are advantages to setting a story with teens in a school setting, as Nate Winchester of Hunting Muses once realized when considering writing his own “light novel”. I still want nothing to do with the place. I served my sentence!