Why are there hardly any anime set on a college campus? Is the reason connected to why the K-ON anime got abandoned as soon as they traded high school for college?
Is the Japanese college experience just really shitty or something?
Japanese college is just studying.
In Japan, life ends after high school.
I heard from a jap friend that college is pretty cool, the only difficult thing being passing the entrance test.
So I guess that It's because the main otaku demographic who buys bluray and merch don't go to college so they can't relate.
Golden Time was set in college, look how fucking well that turned out
Tatami Galaxy was excellent.
>>138707732
>tfw no rose-colored kyanpasu raifu
>Americans call University "college"
>>138707587
>Why is anime _____? Is it because Japan is shit?
Every god damn time.
>>138707704
I liked the way the college setting felt. The way everyone met each other and became friends felt realistic.
>>138707781
>tfw no raven haired maiden gf
>>138707587
College students are just high schoolers with the parents taken out of the equation, and anime high schoolers don't have parents.
Because college life is actually dull as fuck.
>>138708278
>the only difference between college and high school is parents
College students are old enough to drive, drink, and have sex without it being a big thing. College aged people are usually independent. At least more independent than high school teens, even the ones in anime.
>>138707633
I heard the opposite in another thread
>>138708377
> College students are old enough to drive, drink, and have sex without it being a big thing
The type of people who are going to be regularly drinking and having sex in college are usually going to be doing it in high school as well. These people don't feature in anime much.
A lot of high schoolers can also drive, but I don't see that impacting the story a lot in the first place.
>>138708561
The should do an anime about a kid who was an akward loser in high school and decides to become a coolest kid in college, it would be like a shonen with lots of ecchi and comedy situations.
Like a japanese version of SuperCool.
>>138707633
Lol, good joke.
Japanese highschool is a nightmare, with exams that in every way determine your future.
Uni life in Japan is far less stressful and is, in general, more lively.
>>138708667
>Lol
Find a different site, this isn't the one for you.
>>138708690
>Find a different site, this isn't the one for you.
Find a different site, this isn't the one for you.
>>138708690
Sorry, I still post the way I did in '06.
It's funny how the board culture has changed since then.
>>138708757
Yeah, funny how people change as they grow up, isn't it?
>>138707732
>Tatami Galaxy was excellent.
>>138708690
lol
>>138708796
>Yeah, funny how people change as they grow up, isn't it?
Not him, but it's not people growing up, it's reactionary retards who found /a/ a couple years ago and act as if they own the place.
>>138708796
who are you trying to impress?
if you want e-cred and standards go to another site
>>138708798
A (you) for you
>>138708897
Hardly. People stopped being sixteen and realized how shitty their sentences looked to anyone with a brain.
>>138708927
>if you want standards go to another site
wtf are you talking about senpai?
>>138708927
>e-cred
>for an anonymous poster
How would that even work?
>>138709001
>wtf
Find a different site, this isn't the one for you.
>>138708965
>not using casual speech in a casual setting
embarassing, familia
>>138708965
No, it's that you're trying to be a pretentious git.
>>138708306
I think that's probably because humans evolved to be part of a small social group (like hunters/gatherers)
and school provides that all the way up through highschool.
Once you hit college/university life all of those dynamics disappear for most people. I guess it remains in some cases, but in general everything is more spread out and you only ever see your friends if you make time for them. There's no "lunch period" or anything where everyone must gather in the same place.
That's also why highschoolers can be so annoying to older people because they still live in a world where every little damn thing matters and they haven't become dead inside yet.
Annoying in real life, but it works well in anime.
>>138709045
>Trying too hard to fit in
Find a different site, this isn't the one for you
>>138707587
Everyone can relate to a highschool setting. Hiki-NEETs can't relate to a college setting because getting into a college actually takes effort in japan, so no time for chinese cartoons
>>138709045
Find a different site, this one isn't for you
>>138709099
Is it also pretentious to frown on "epic" and leetspeak?
>>138709126
This and also, japanese highschools have school clubs, which provide a setting for just about everything. Just make up a school club for the setting you need. College does not come with such handy extracurriculars.
>>138709208
Did your college not have clubs?
>>138709001
>wtf
>>138708005
The terms are interchangable in the US. What's the difference in other countries?
>>138709275
>>wtf
>>138707699
this is pretty correct- you're already in line for your career by the time you get into college in Japan, so there's no real stress toward getting good grades to get a good career. high school is where all of the leg work is done so as to get into a good college. anime takes place in the high school setting because it panders to losers who don't go to college, in Japan, and in America. it allows them to see what college is like for the people who didn't get that experience, and it does it in a setting with which the viewer would be familiar
>>138707587
>college campus anime
Why the hell would producers waste money to animate something that can be made infinitely cheaper in 3D.
There are loads of J-drama in college setting because hiring actors are way cheaper.
>>138707633
>Japanese college is just studying.
Heh bullshit. There's a reason why nip uni entrance exam is so hellish and many people went as ronins, it's their only exam so to speak.
Once you're already in, it's easy to pass everything and graduate.
Most people participate in goukons, getting wasted at least weekly, and generally fool around more in nip uni.
Nip uni = hard to get in, easy to pass
>>138709248
Not him, but I think in most american highschools in general the clubs aren't even noticeable unless you look for them.
I vaguely remember hearing something about our schools math club winning some competition once, and that was about it.
>>138709248
We don't have those in middle europe.
>>138709248
Not him, but in my country we don't even have clubs in high school, it's boring.
>>138707587
Younger the better
>>138709307
southerners in America may call dinner 'supper', but that's it's own thing in England. college is not the same as university in other parts of the world. college is a word that may be used to describe high school level stuff in England
>>138709404
Sometimes in the US, individual schools within a university may be called a college. It wouldn't be incorrect, at least in my region, to say
>I graduated from college (university in general) last year
>I'm attending the college of fine arts at Butt University
And yeah, heh, my grandma always referred to lunch as dinner, and dinner as supper. Was confusing as a 5 yearold.
>>138709474
>I'm attending the college of fine arts
I think a lot of people have this misguided idea that somehow setting your stories in college will suddenly force the writers to be more mature and less pandering. If you look at some of the stuff from the 90s/early 2000s when there actually was a trend of cohabitation/suddenly-a-girlfriend-appears romance with slightly older leads, it's not particularly better or more creative on average. High school anime is full of fictional conventions in the first place, and it's pretty easy to just transfer over that style of writing to a college setting.
>>138709404
Who gives a fuck, quit being autistic over it. We don't care. This isn't England.
>>138707587
As for Keion, the manga continues beyond second season, the girls go to a university. The school band is survived by Azusa, Jun and Ui. I read only one chapter, it gets dull.
Golden Time.
It was really fun, even when it was being stupid as fuck, had GOAT soundtrack and Koko was best girl.
>>138710820
>koko a best
>not rinda
Get the
the fuck
OUT
>>138707587
Probability C or whatever it was called had college setting.
>>138711182
Shit taste :^)
>>138708757
>Lol
>06
so you were part of the gaia migration. go back.
>>138709307
In ausland, a few high schools, typically preppy private ones are called college and older people refer to TAFE (where you get diplomas and certs opposed to getting a degree in uni)
Have you even read the K-On College manga? It's really fucking shit, Kyoani know better than to adapt something that's terrible. Or at least they did when they were at the helm of K-On.
If you want college anime go watch Tatami Galaxy.
>>138711901
K-On is dead.
>>138711940
Rather than ending with grace the hack author of the manga decided to push it into college despite how the narrative of the series logically coming to an end after highschool.
