In anime the skirt is this short right? Do that in real life and your teachers will get angry at you!
You generally are forbidden to enter a school's rooftop in Japan.
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School life! Anime VS REAL life. What's different in Japan?
Anime might be one way but the truth might be different!
The school uniforms in Anime are super cute...
But the ones from my high school were not cute at all.
Our skirt had to be super long...
How long was it? - Had to cover our knees but in anime...
The girls wear short skirts around here. Do that in real life and your teachers will get angry!
Your teachers will call you out for it. - They will.
School uniforms without bows?
In school anime girls generally tend to wear cute bows on their uniform.
Idols use them on their school uniforms too.
My schools uniform didn't have a bow and was not cute at all.
I envied cute uniforms, especially the sailor uniforms.
I wanted to wear those.
Did you have blazer then? - Yes I did.
We were not forbidden to wear bows but also...
they were not part of our uniform...
Our school uniform was a boring dark navy color.
It wasn't a very colorful school uniform either. - True.
What colors are common in Japanese school uniforms?
Navy, black and ... gray... maybe...
A dark gray.
Beige doesn't really exist.
No beige!
What about pink and blue? - Never seen that around.
What do you see a lot in anime which doesn't exist in real life?
I know one. In anime students often meet on the rooftop for lunch...
But at Japanese schools you are forbidden to enter the rooftop.
You can't enter it at all? - Forbidden!
You can't go there. In anime lovers meet and have romantic situations there...
But you can't even go there to eat lunch.
What was your school like?
I couldn't enter it either.
Such a shame! Teachers, let them use the rooftop for lunch.
In school anime, suddenly a childhood sweetheart appears.
On the countryside and in town, no such coincidences happen!
Really? People don't go to school with kids they knew since kindergarden?
To be a childhood sweetheart, you must have known each other for a long time...
Same-sex long friendships in schools are not such a common thing.
In anime a boy and girl grow up together in the houses next to each other...
You don't really get that in real life.
It seems to be possible but it isn't?
Going to school with friends that you grew up with... especially a different sex, that's rare.
So same sex long term friends were a thing? - My oldest friends...
I started knowing from elementary school.
Kids move away and such. - That's right.
Even on the countryside, kids move away a lot.
That's where I am from.
It's rare to find anyone who we know for more than 10 years...
Those kind of childhood friends are rare...
I got another one. In anime there is often a scene where all clean out the school pool.
I didn't do that. - I DID that in school BUT
There was so much waterweed... we scrubbed all the green stuff around...
Laughing while spraying each other with water, never happened.
Maybe after it's clean.
But if it's that clean, there is no reason to clean it!
Generally it's clean but they still scrub it.
The truth is much dirtier
We are still asking differences between anime and real life. Any other differences?
We didn't have a shoe box at school.
We could wear our outdoor shoes.
So we could never put valentine's chocolates in our crush's shoe box.
We had lockers but they did not have a door either...
so the content could be seen.
So sudden chocolate surprise upon opening. - No.
You would not even have the scene where everyone greets each other by the shoes.
Never.
We just had an entrance hallway.
But we never changed shoes there.
We just walked to our classrooms.
We would greet others by the classroom.
Was that good or not?
I used to like the scenes in manga where girls put presents into boys shoe boxes...
I envied schools who had it.
But right now, I don't think I missed anything.
It's unhygienic.
You can't make school clubs that easily.
In anime, the protagonists quickly create a new school club...
You see that so often!
But if you don't have enough members you get eradicated.
It's hard to get registered as club too. You can't make a new club easily.
This is strict! I didn't know that.
How many students do you need?
It depends on the school but...
and also if its the arts or a sports club but...
You need around 10 people to form a new club.
Otherwise you don't get the ok.
Only 5 or just one band creating a club... that's unthinkable!
So the room for 5 that I watched in anime, does not exist?
Yes.
Those were all the questions.
Thank you so much.
Some more things of Japanese school life that I experienced from my exchange.
Some Japanese schools do not have school uniforms.
So even though you might be looking forward to wearing them...
They might not exist or some schools have uniforms but they are...
not really cute or nice...
Or anything you might expect from Anime or Manga.
In some anime you might see that everyone might put their
tables together to have their lunch boxes.
That might not be the case in the school you're going to
Also downstairs in the cafeteria, the item that everyone fights for
to get. The very very tasty item that everyone loves... might not actually exist and
maybe the cafeteria isn't even that nice.
In many anime there is an idol who also goes to school a guy or a girl.
Now that might be the case, but if you actually don't know that idol they might just
look like a normal person. They might come up and say hi to you and you won't
even know that they are actually somehow famous.
That happened to me....
Yeah it did...
So Japanese school rules. Have you actually seen anything
in your school life where you were like "That is like out of an anime" or
the other way round. "I always see this in anime why is that never happening at my school!?"
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