Just a little.
I speak of School Days and Botchan of course. Both of these anime deal with school life in Japan...and none of it is pretty.
School Days deals with a young man named Kenkichi who is trying to get into college. It is a tough, competitive, and stressful process in which everyone must study and take a test. Of course, though, there are distractions, such as stupid siblings and stupid love. Long story short, while Kenkichi was studying, he meets the love of his life, or so he thinks. His little brother comes along to study for the same test, although he does not take it as seriously. He also steals Kenkichi's girl while he's at it. Kenkichi plans to marry the girl once he passes the test, except he doesn't really pass the test. And to add insult to injury, his little brother passes it AND gets the girl. So Kenkichi goes and kills himself.
SEPPUKU!!!!
I told you it was a little more lighthearted, didn't I?
Botchan is a little better.
Botchan is a school teacher who transfers from Tokyo to some hole in the road elsewhere in Japan. He is ridiculed by his students, and taken advantage of by some of his colleagues. The students play many different hi-jinks on him, provoked by the vice-principal unbeknownst to Botchan. After his colleagues get fired one by one, Botchan teams up with them to scare the you-know-what out of the bad colleagues. He then leaves afterwards. YOU GO BOTCHAN.
Considering that I went to a pretty bourgeois high school , I can't really relate to most of the stuff that goes on in both of these films, even in my freshman year, where my entire class was eleven people. I repeat--ELEVEN FRICKIN PEOPLE. However, we didn't really play tricks on the teachers or anything like that. And later on, after I changed schools, nothing really changed. I was just around more people.
Yeah, I had a pretty dull four years...
