In anime years, that’s like 80

To be completely fair to him, he is essentially back in high school with a bunch of 15-19 year olds and a 17-year-old as his commanding officer. I would become depressed too

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    Japan’s education system has kids together in the same class from Kindergarten through 8th. Grade. Teachers change between classrooms, but each classroom stays put. This means you really get to know the same thirty or so people.

    Wait, they’re literally in the same class from kindergarten until they’re like 15? Dang. In Finland you get shuffled into a new group of kids when you go from pre-school to elementary school, then to middle school, with potential overlap in classmates provided no one moves away or if you don’t apply to some special school. Until high school classes are typically taught together as a unit setting aside elective language classes, religious education (which is mandatory), etc

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      Yeah. It sounds like Finland is mostly the same as the US. Here you get different classmates each year, but you’re together all year and often have recurring classmates until middle school, where you have different people each subject.

      It makes a lot of Japanese media hit differently when you learn how their K-12 program works. In Another, for example, a girl is ostracized by her classmates due to them believing in some type of curse and they pretend she doesn’t exist. So imagine the horror of going through that for years.