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I remember I asked what the student council actually did, and a teacher responded "They get to put one student to death every year," with a perfectly straight face.
I think this trope was ruined for me because I first encountered it in Revolutionary Girl Utena, where the student council is introduced with a haunting organ fugue as they ride a birdcage elevator up to the top of their white marble watchtower while the president recites a manifesto of world domination. Every anime student council since has fallen short for me.
No one does it like those little weirdos. Sure, there are other cool or powerful anime councils, but where's the cryptic symbolism and alien architecture? Nowhere.
@@outeremissary4438 Too true. I mean, is it even a *real* anime if it doesn't feature a character giving unsettling rides in his snazzy car, with or without shirt unbuttoned?
We had a transfer student from Japan who was *so* excited to be elected to student council. Was very disappointed to learn in the US it’s basically the party planning committee.
That's funny (and kinda sad)! XD Though after reading the comments here explaining why student councils are portrayed this way in anime, I feel like they should've considered themselves lucky that student councils here don't have such a terrifying amount of power.
I was on a student council once where we planned a whole mixer for students and then, when no one showed up, realized we’d forgotten to tell anyone else it was happening.
😂😂 That's hilarious. Reminds me of a meeting at work (1-2-1 appraisal) where the person to be evaluated didn't show up as his line manager forgot to send him the invitation
It is always portrayed as if the cruel, cold, and calculating leader of the student council has ruled over the student body and teachers alike for years even though high school only lasts like 3 years.
“You’re like 28. How are you still on the student council?” “Hmph! Your meager brain cannot possibly understand how I exploit this system! You see, one day 10 years ago I intentionally lost a school library book and refuse to pay until this day! This way I cannot graduate and can force the school to bend to my will for all eternity! Well, looks like classes are over, time to start cleaning the school since I’m the janitor here as well as being the student council GOD!l
I went to one student council meeting my entire time in high school. The topic was the lunch schedule because they had recently changed it in a way that was unfair to sophomores and juniors and students were up in arms. I was the only student who showed up to the meeting who was not part of the student council. When they asked why I was there, I said I was "a concerned student," and it took them a minute to wrap their minds around the concept. Fortunately the students and the principal were able to reach a compromise that everyone was okay with. So yes, the only time the student council was in any way relevant to my life as a high schooler was when my ability to get lunch faster was threatened.
"Hey, animation club needs new computers." "No." "You're so mean! Someday, I'll show the whole world how mean you are!" -every Japanese kid from like 20 years ago who grew up to join the anime industry, apparently.
Then it would either be manga artist or light novel writers, most animes are adapted from those two, very rarely is there an original anime. They do exist, jusy very rare.
I was once a member of the student council. Mostly because I ran unopposed. Then I tried to ACTUALLY do things instead of just existing and the school quickly found an excuse to remove me from the council.
Dude, my friend was the treasurer, and he managed to get a vending machine installed in our school lunch room that funded council stuff. Most effective leadership ever.
Student councils are great because they teach kids an important lesson: no matter who you vote for, true power lies in the hands of people you have no ability to change.
That's what I don't understand about schools, anytime a student, from the council or otherwise, wants do actually DO something, they never have funds for anything. Despite small schools having 200+ students.... I remember my school having this problem with the headmisstres where she would never actually do anything to fix the lights, or buy equipment for the classrooms that isn't some mid-ass tech from 30 years ago But then she made a giant celebration in the local house of culture (It's a local thing) with an orchestra, the city council, some Politicians, and ordered a giant hunk of granite with a brass plaque for the schools 80 year anniversary. like- what the fuck
God this is really well acted and so freaking funny. The last bit is so relatable. The only one who ever did anything on our student council was the secretary, and that was just writing down whatever asinine thing everyone was saying.
The K-12 education system is already a nightmare. By the time I graduated, we were using textbooks that were over ten years old because we couldn't afford to replace them, and teachers were dropping like flies because budget cuts meant they couldn't afford to feed their families anymore. If everyone had to bow to anime student councils here, they would at least be guaranteed proper funding lol.
When I was in college, not a university, but a community college, I used to be a anime club representative for the student council in America. During all the budget meetings everyone was always shocked that the Anime Club never touched our budget and we ended up with the biggest amount cash leftover. When asked how, I replied, weebs are thifty people and that we usually spend our own money to attend anime conventions. Some clubs had their budget in the red and most didn't like Anime Club because they just saw us as a waste of space in the club room. I remember there were repeated attempts from clubs such the Chinese language club, the debate club, and electronic music/DJ club (out of all people lol) all tried to take our time slots in the club room for their meetings. I usually just bribe other clubs with our budget money during meetings and it was usually more than enough to get them to shut up because now they have money to go on their trips and such. The anime club president and other officers were fine with this because it was literally like an anime plot for them. Aside from the budget wars and time slots, literally nothing else happens. Closest threat that almost club shut down was when everyone voted in new student council people and some of them hated anime. It's been 10 years since I graduated from both college and the university, and I learned that the Anime Club there has finally kicked the bucket because of COVID and that took down all of the clubs.
Oh anime club, good times...Glad you had fun in your anime club, and I'm sorry to here it kicked the bucket. I'm sure your alma mater would bring it back though eventually, anime is getting more and more popular these days.
I was once part of a student council. I ran for a position nobody else was running for, treasurer, and ran unopposed. Showed up to the first meeting, where there weren't any decisions to make, and then never showed up to another meeting again. They seemed to do fine anyways.
Huh, I also ran for treasurer without having to worry about competition. During my time in student council, I didn't get to do anything involving money. EDIT: Oh yeah, I also have to mention that the treasurer was an added position. The previous student councils didn't have a treasurer, but there was a new advisor for the student council, and they decided to add the treasurer. During the next student council election, the treasurer position was removed, since everyone else had realized that the treasurer doesn't really do anything. EDIT #2: Reworded a few sentences
@@Barret9559 depends on the series, I know at one point (especially the 90s and early 20s) it was a common troupe for the disciplinary committee to actually be the biggest delinquents in the school, my favourite example being Hitman Reborn, where they basically run the entire town because they're so powerful
This is why I like Love is War. They have the super serious tone but the stuff they're serious about is the same stuff that I thought was life or death when I was that age.
Unless you are the Student Council in the Danganronpa Universe, in which the so-called ultimates devolve into all killing each other within literally ten seconds of being locked in a room.
The one time Danganronpa had an actual student council (in the third game), it was actually a cult and two members ended up dying in the same chapter, so... it didn't last long
I had rich kids in my student council that would bribe & blackmail their way into leadership positions, but their drama was so localized to the council itself that it just seemed hilarious to everyone else. To this day I have no idea what they actually ever accomplished besides getting themselves scholarships & ruining friendships.
I remember one manga where the main villain group was the “dark student council”. And they were a bunch a high schoolers who basically took over Japan and turned it into a country based off of power and strength and forcing people to work in the fields. Also their leader turned into a giant guy who was as tall as Mount Everest.
I love how the Actual student council are acting like they have heard of the anime student council and feel like they shouldn’t be like them but are also petrified for obvious reasons
I'd love an anime all about this, where Student Councils rule Japan, and have war in the streets, and somehow it just keeps being missed by the normies.
I teach in Japan and the student council members do actually get some privileges like being told info about things coming up without the rest of the students knowing but yeah. The anime portrayals are always hilarious
I remember some RU-vidr who was a teacher (Abroad in Japan? Can't remember exactly who) saying in real life kids don't really want to be student council because you don't really do anything and the things you actually do are just boring.
Before every single student council meeting they recite: “If it cannot break out of it's shell, the chick will die without being born. We are the chick, the world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born. Smash the world's shell, for the revolution of the world!”
Funny enough, I notice the Student Council President in those anime (or games) that have so much power just "happen to be the child, grandchild of the person who made or owns the school!" feels like a huge case of nepotism (even when they use the excuse of they were voted in by their own merit, your always going to have that feel that they got it largely because they pretty much will inherit ownership of the school eventually! Though it does mean they get shit done because they have a foot in the administration as "their potential future boss even if at the moment their the boss's kid/grandkid") Persona 5 turned in on it's heel with Makoto being shown to be barely effective at getting changes done because in essence knowing how japan and their schools are ACTUALLY LIKE! She's nothing but the Principal's "gopher," kept under control by recommendations she needs to get into a good university (or make it easier as she has good grades) and quilify for scholarships! Basically using that as blackmail to even have her do things that "aren't what she's suppose to be doing!" (like trying to sus out who the Phantom Thieves are....even though it should have been easy to figure out Ren/Joker was the ringleader, I think that's how Makoto figured it out as well, even when "A certain Male blonde haired idiot wasn't spouting out their identities!" the change of hearts happened with Kamoshida, and it wasn't private that they happened RIGHT when Kamoshida was pushing for Ren's expulsion after Shiho. Then all of a sudden, he confesses to his crimes, and what a nice coincidence that Ren's expulsion review is put on "indefinite hold" seeing how Kamoshida's name is so dirty and ruined, any suggestions, especially recently to his confession cannot be taken seriously or would be suspect at best! Especially since it was also known he had issues with Ryuji, the OTHER student he was recommending expulsion for, same with Mishima's someone who was apart of the volleyball team, ESPECIALLY him as it would look like he was trying to get rid of someone who knew what he was doing to cover his tracks! Frankly anyone with a brain and paying attention like Makoto and Akechi would put two and two together, it's weird the adults didn't, but then taking into mind, who was messing with perceptions to create occasional "allowances" it's easy to guess why!
I think it was actually done well in Kaguya-sama, they had to give speeches and whatnot, and probably the most important things shown were budgeting for clubs, the festival, and re-election campaigns, and they didn't really bother with class scheduling, or any fundamental school stuff, like budgets for the school itself. Then again, the school in that anime was almost like a super wealthy school, or something along those lines.
I think it's because student councils in Japan do actually have a bit of power, unlike in other countries. Obviously it's EXTREMELY exaggerated for anime, but their culture is generally a lot less willing to openly disobey perceived "authority", so I imagine Japanese student councils do have a bit of general authority over the student body so long as they don't push it too far. They also have distinct responsibilities (organizing home room classes and general "school spirit" activities) which lends them another level of legitimacy.
As a former student representative myself, i can confirm that this is accurate, always confusing to see the student council portrayed like they're the CIA or something
It is a bit understandable considering just how much it can impact your future in Japan, at least as of a few decades ago, things have been changing bit by bit, and like any entertainment medium it gets exagerates
Student council can be quite of the jerkass if they dislike you and write down your nonexistent crimes and exxaggerate your mediocrity as a student. Sure they can't bullshit their way into making you an absolute deliquent, but it is still too much power in the hand of bunch of teenagers.
I still love how in love is war the first episode is like “wow they’re on the student council they’re so amazing” and then in every single episode they get absolutely nothing done
You usually see the president doing some kind of paperwork before he and Kaguya have their emotional verdun for the week, and occasionally we do see Kaguya handling the budget or something similar. I'm convinced that Chika is there by virtue of being the only person there who wouldn't be voted for as 'most likely to become a criminal mastermind.' Both Kaguya and prez seem to have at least somewhat intimidating reputations so she provides the much needed levity/ approachability for the council.
@@OrigamiAhsoka Least likely? She wants to marry a rich guy and be the prime minister of Japan. Also she wants to gerrymander certain districts to separate rich people from poor people.
I tried getting into student council because I wanted to change and influence certain school policies as I thought they were unfair, specifically self defense. I then learned it's just a glorified party planning community where 2 people do 90% of the planning and the rest clean.
@@bobmcguffin5706 well spam bots, what else would you expect at this point, the fake "verified" makes it so easy to recognise em im surprised to see a few thzt still dont have em lol
I think the best idea I've ever had for an anime student council is this: "So, we do administrative work, right?" "Yes." "And the school doesn't have staff that could do our jobs for us, right?" "Yes." (Beat) "Where are you going with this?" "We should probably get paid." And then they go on strike.
It's very rare for Japanese to go on strike because of how suppressed their society is. I suggest making problems after problems until it's life and death. By the end of season, going on strike should be a must. I know you're joking but I'm a writer. Can't stop myself from suggesting potential plot or story lol
@@cloudynguyen6527 You really think their society is "suppressed"... just confirms that all the internet has no clue about Japanese history and really just regurgitates the same false cliches about Japan. You want to be a writer, go write for Fox news; it suits you.
@@zackwyvern2582 not a native speaker, so my choice of words will be odds. When I mean suppressed, I mean that they often have this fake persona trying to polite. I have dealt with both Japanese and Chinese clients at work. The Chinese are loud and straight forward, and the Japanese are often polite but never say what's in their mind. It's only when they send the review to my boss, they talk shit a lot about my their stay and how they feel about employee. This is just general stereotype and I don't expect anyone to believe this 100%. Again, my choice of word was poor yesterday. Japanese are nice, mostly but they usually suppress their personality to fit in with the mold of their society. It's good for the nature of their society but I never appreciate it. I'm Vietnamese, living in the South, and we Southerner value speaking about your mind and being sincere. This is why I have no trouble working with the Chinese. They're loud and rude but never hide it inside. It's funny that you assume I'm American when you bring up Fox News. I don't even watch American media.
In The Daily Lives of High School Boys (a fun little slice of life anime), the student council did start doing random odd jobs for people because their budget was too low.
My school doesn’t even trust us to choose homecoming themes. Ours was the week before Halloween so we wanted that to be the theme. Teacher didn’t like the idea and forced us into 80s rock. Also the DJ was chosen by her and he decided to crank the baseball the au up and everything else all the way down into a bassy mess.
I havent watched a lot of anime, but from what ive gathered so far they be acting they started a sucessful militay coup and managed to instill a dictatorship for their student councils lol
Necessary sacrifices need to be make. They called me a war criminal because I use the tresheary to fund insurgent groups in sudden. But they don't anderstand we need the oil for the laterns festival.
As a current member of the student council, I must remind you that this breaks our blood pact of secrecy. You will find out “special operations agents” at your residence shortly to ensure that you have been “dealt with”.
Now i really really want a highschool anime where the student body is like this. But there's one transfer student from america in the background who gives untranslated english commentary on how crazy it all is. And everyone ignores him 'cause he doesnt speak japanese
My country doesn't have student councils the closest thing we have are class representatives and that's something the class has to choose to have, the school doesn't ask for one
I think the best playing with the student council trope was in Smile Precure, where the characyer Reika was involved in an actual accurate depiction of the student council... but the villains watched too many shows with all-powerful student councils, thought they were real, and infiltrated the school to run for student council president
I... did not expect to see PreCure mentioned on a ProZD video! You made my day :) I have been making PreCure AMVs for years and I accepted that I'll never hear about the franchise outside of the fandom
I loved that episode! The entire show basically showcases the main cast struggling to succeed at the things they're passionate about, but I found that particular episode's problem to be a very interesting hurdle to overcome. I haven't watched Smile for a few years now, but it always struck me that Reika had good ideas, but just couldn't communicate them effectively. She approached everything so formally that it alienated her voters. Well, that and her common-sense, good-faith goals were overshadowed by shallow rhetoric. In the end, it was a change in framing (and speaking from the heart of course, because this is Precure!) that won her the vote. ...Sorry for the mini-rant; Smile was my first Precure show and I adore its characters. Speaking of which, is your name a reference to Cure Étoile? Because if so, right on! Homare is my favourite Precure.
@@sofitssofi Magical girl shows, especially the children-rated variety, are unfortunately much more difficult to market to anyone but their intended audience. I think a lot of standard anime viewers see the pink, the pretty transformations and the age rating, and bounce right off. Which is a crying shame! More people should discover Precure, and I say that as someone with a strong aversion to pink. Some seasons in particular are incredibly strong and deserve to have much more exposure than they received.
I love anime school councils. They be like, “Main Character Chan, we’re sorry but the vote started without you and you’re too late now.” “What do you mean you voted without me?! Never mind there still should have been enough votes to keep our club in power because Simp San Sama was here!” “Is that what you think, Main Character Chan? Unfortunately for you Simp San Sama ran into an accident last night and is in a coma at the hospital so they couldn’t cast their vote. Now the kendo club has taken power, and the reign of the cooking club is at an end!” *proceed to still shots of students and teachers getting beaten with kendo practice swords*
@@catdust You'll never guess what happens next... The transfer student with massive bo-hana-gal-oos challenges the cooking club president who has serious ton-hon-bon-donkeroos for the 1st chair
I believe that anime student councils are the pinnacle of student councils - its what can be achieved if all were in favour like sufficient funding for events, culture that allows and encourages a portion of the student body to engage and lead events, and a degree of autonominity to act on student related matters.
My school's student council actually had a decent amount of power. Not to the point of being capable of turning the Geneva convention into a checklist while somehow going completely unprosecuted, but more than enough for anyone to realize that messing with them wasn't worth it.
I was student council president in school then vice president later on. I basically just sat in silence until October to make sure we had a Halloween dance then would return to silence 💀
Our schools student council made a dodgeball tournament called “The Been Bowl”. Basically you would have a dodgeball team and 1 coach. You would play and the winning team all got a can of beens
The student council at that school is actually given an incredible amount of power; they're essentially responsible for all student activities. They control the budget for every club, they fund and plan trips and festivals, they have one of the school's master keys, and they operate out of a building that's technically not school property (it's collectively owned by all the previous student council presidents). Because of the enormous amount of authority it has, colleges worldwide give it a lot of respect.
"Everyone, we're going to have a peanut festival in the coming fall. Attendance and participation is mandatory." "But sir, a third of the school are allergic!" "Perfect opportunity to weed out the weak, then." *glasses flash*
I was the president of a student council once back in high school, first grade (my high school had three grades, Mexico). It was a clusterfuck. I tried so fucking hard to make it work: organize time meetings, fundraisers for small school projects (I was fucking hyped for Dia de los Muertos), tried to gather enough awareness regarding drug usage using my preferred method: cold, hard truths, gardening, a small baking competition, and even a fishing trip. All of these failed terribly. Half of them didn't even pass beyond the desk because, surprise surprise, most of the council wasn't present... ever. Hell, I even suggested to the teachers and principal some more lenient ways to treat students arriving tardy, instead of just blocking the fucking entrance. They were open to the idea, had to discuss it with the other grade's councils. Couldn't even get them to sit and talk about it during lunch. Halfway through I gave up and never bothered to do shit again. Nobody ever asked me for anything, no signature, no council meeting, no extracurricular activities. Nothing. Couldn't even hate it because nothing was going on.
I was on student council at my small boarding school and we couldn't have had less power lol. Every idea we came up with and brought to the school they just went "na, were not gonna let you do that" a lot of us just stopped showing up becuase it was so pointless.
Our school had a secret group of students, appointed by administration, who they consulted with on any policy, curriculum changes, or events. Nobody knew it existed until one guy leaked it by accident my senior year. The whole time they were making changes "with students' unanimous approval", it was apparently these guys, since if student council tried to argue about something they'd get detention.
@@cpMetis Our teacher did something similar where there was a "spy" in our class who reported directly to her for the whole year. I remember spending ages trying to figure out who the snitch was by narrowing down lists of witnesses for certain incidents, reading faces when the teacher brought up said incidents, and even looking for physical evidence. Ironically the spy turned out to be one of the first people I ruled out LMAO.
As a former student council treasurer, this is beyond accurate LMAO I was over here trying to ask questions about the budget, locations, time frame, goal, marketing, etc for a fundraiser we were doing, but NO ONE wanted to take innitive on anything. In the end, a plan was drafted by the vice president and the girl that proposed it, and no one bothered to vote against it, but at the same time no one really know what to do. The voices were just as unsure and quivery as in the skit XD
This reminds me of how KLK just went as extreme as possible and your standing in your school defined your entire family's social status in life lol. Probably a metaphor for Japanese society in there somewhere...
I didn't even know my school had a student council because the only way to get on it was for your parents to donate huge amounts of money to the Choir Director.
That's because the mafia is run on the power of brotherhood and friendship and oftentimes supernatural abilities in anime! Slightly inferior to the godhood that is student councils.
I remember being on the "principal leadership team" (school council but i went to a tech school so they wanted to sound fancy) and it literally was just discussing fundraisers. And greeting people at open house. And also after the coin wars fundraisers, we counted the coins.
I remember going to my student council meeting. I was just a P.I.O. Public information officer. But i ran the school paper. I know what goes out basically. But when we had a meeting, all we did was argue why the president and vice president ran together AS A COUPLE. then when they BROKE UP, ALL THE POLICIES WENT TO SHIT. they hated all the valentine events, the prom, and they fought on every single thing. God it was so dumb
I was part of a student council once. When we found out we ha d a yearly budget of what would be around €50 in today's money we went out, bought a used NES with, like, six games, hooked that up to a TV nicked from storage and basically kicked back for the entire year. Lots of student council meetings, I'm sure you understand.
Yeah how tf are ya guys supposed to do any events or anything with 50 bucks? Still doesn't compare to the incompetence of the student council in my high school. They scheduled free banana ice cream event in the middle of Ramadan so like a 1/4 of the school didn't get any and basically everyone said that was such a stupid idea. I'm surprised they made such a dumb mistake.
Ah, I remember when I was on student council. I helped make the promotional videos for school dances. For the Halloween dance, we filmed a short movie where one guy was held hostage by a skeleton. Teachers were not happy. Another time, we made an entire 9 minute short film, complete with a movie intro and unnecessary fluff. I think we were told to stop at that point.
I was part of Student Council for 4 years. We decorated for Homecoming, gave out freebies to teachers/students on special occasions (like payday candy bars to teachers on their pay day) and did a lot of volunteer work (gathered canned goods for food banks, etc). It was fun and did nice things for the community, but was nothing like anime student councils. XD
The student council in anime has more power that the teachers. Imagine an actual school where students get to make any important decisions. It would be absolute chaos.
really? my student council was full of ultra-wealthy perfect beautiful idols who we cheered for like they were rockstars when the passed us in the halls. We gave them nicknames like "The Royal Flush" and I'm pretty sure they solved world ending events during lunch breaks. There was a lot of glitter/blood/fabric in the halls from the magical transformation sequences.
As someone who was asked to be a member of the Student Council on several occasions and denied profusely each time, this seems pretty accurate to me. We had old newspaper drives in my school though.
I remember being so confused when I first started watching anime. We didn't have student councils like that or anything like that when I was in school. Anime seemed to portray it like they were above certain staff and were like a kid mafia. Very strange. Even on American shows, it was very surreal to see Hallway monitors like child cops and Class presidents as child leaders. We did not have that when I was a kid in Europe/Britain either. None of that. Staff were staff and kids were kids. To me it was just strange to see anything like that. I assumed it was made up until I realised how prevalent it was as a trope.
Same here lmao. I'm from Spain and I never experienced student councils or hallway monitors. There were class representatives but they never did anything (they did a few things in a few schools, but in most of them it was a void title). I mostly assumed it was "cultural differences" and moved on XD
I mean some British schools have prefects and Head Boy or Head Girl and a house system, just like in Harry Potter. It's mostly independent or public schools though. If you went to a comprehensive then you likely won't see that.
Americans have to get in practice for being arrested for crossing the road in the wrong place by monitoring when and how they are allowed to walk in school hallways and visit the toilet.
Lmao kids in Korean highschool comics are above the law, the police and their commissioner are too afraid to touch them. Despite blatant proof of illegal activity and attempted murders and many physical assaults and grievous bodily harm, the police and teachers won't do anything. It's up to our MCs to beat them up in a good old fist fight.
As a former student council secretary (and interim VP for those two weeks Scott was out with strep), I can confirm. Mostly just raffles, bake sales and conversations about anime.
Our school didn't really have a council, though thinking about it, it was kind of anime-ish. We had Prefects, and the most elite Prefects were part of a group called the Observators. They wore a special gown, with a yellow stripe down the front. Their leader was the School Captain (who had a red stripe), and the Vice-Captain (with a blue stripe). The school captain had his own room he could use in the school. Before school, and during breaks and lunch, the prefects had to man checkpoints at various places, and ordinary students could only pass them with the correct card (for instance, if you were in chess club, you were allowed to visit the room chess club was held in during lunchtimes, so you'd need to show your chess club membership card to get past the prefects). During school assemblies, the observators had special chairs that faced sideways, so they could monitor the ordinary students.
The perfects all had pretty cool and unique weapons and powers, but the Observators (who were anywhere between 8 and 12 people) had some of the craziest powers you've ever seen, and almost never used them. The Vice-Captain betrayed the School Captain at some point.
It's not that weird when you look at how heavily it can impact your future. Not only is being on it and doing a good job considered very impressive for college applications, but they typically get to decide on which clubs get to stay and which get cut, how much space or funding each club gets. And those clubs are used as career training, so if yours get axed you're kinda just shit out of luck. Granted, things have shifted a fair bit since the turn of the millennium but that's still an immense amount of power
@@Maddinhpws yeah, they teach kids to their very core, that the students even clean the toilets and the pool themselves... You only see caretakers but not janitors (unless it's a super posh private school)
From my understanding student councils have more responsibilities in Japanese schools than in America. I've never been a part of either type, but even in SoL anime I'm like damn they're doing a lot of work over there.
This is why anime is so great 😂 characters and plots are always low key extra. Either someone is super smart or super idiotic, and both are incredibly fun to watch.
Student council in anime: literally holds the power to reshape the entire universe with a thought Student council irl(been there): yo… we should hold a fundraiser to raise awareness of waste and recycling!
@Daniel Antony It really is though even in Japan. The idea of student council power in anime is an echo of the past, like how the icon for “save” is a floppy diskette
So I was on my schools student council for 4 years, and in that time, we managed to change the school dress code so that students could wear any suitable shoes that were primarily black (making everybody feel more comfortable in their own shoes rather than in the business shoes we had to wear), spend weeks advocating for the return of the previous school canteen as many students liked the simple menu of a chicken fillet roll and chicken curry and rice, participate in the climate change protests, and advocated for the current principal in the school to become vice principal when the former vice principal stepped down. All in all, our student council seemed to be an odd one out of all of them if this video is anything to go off of.
@@redpandamurphy Say no more, Mr General President Sir. We know you could probably nuke our small town if you want to, but I assure you there'll be no problems from us. You have our full support and undying loyalty to only you, I swear 🙇♂️
@Caiden We weren't. We had a running joke about one particular members abscence and we kept referencing the canteen situation whenever we could, even after all was said and done.
I had a friend that was student council president. His speech was basically "I looked up the duties of the student council president and learned that it's pretty much just leading the pledge of allegiance in the morning". Then he started the pledge of allegiance.
the student council in Revolutionary Girl Utena does nothing but stand around, say cryptic shit and occasionally fight other people with swords. Much better than real student councils tbh
Been a long time since I watch it, but I thought the council and basically the anime itself, are parodying and playing with cliches of common anime high school genre. Not "funny" parody but "serious" parody, like Scream with horror genre.
I’m surprised y’all were able to organise mixers. My student council meetings consisted of: Student Council: We should do this! Staff Representative: No.
This is totally accurate. At my anime high school we had a class president who once had an honors students entire family killed in front of her for getting a single answer wrong in Math Olympics thus loosing the competition. We normally won pretty easily. I will never forget when the new loner bad boy transfer student single handedly killed the entire Student Council saving the honors student before she too was killed. I hear that now a days that she's a single mom, hubby was apparently an intergalactic bounty hunter/prince of some galactic kingdom and was killed under mysterious circumstances, really tragic. Though the kid should be turning 15 soon and should be off on his own adventure to find out who his father was and avenge his death at the hands of the killer. But THAT story will be NEXT season!
So after watching Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie I read ahead in the manga and SPOILERS: ...finding out the title character joins the school's Public Morals Committee made me turn on her so fast. How could you be a narc, Micchon!?
at my high school in canada the only reason ppl join student councils is to put on their uni application as leadership experience and most of the time they don't show up XD
"Welcome to the student council. Got a few documents you might need. Here's our meeting schedule. Here's a schedule of school festivals. Here's our nuclear launch codes. And here's the phone numbers of the after school clubs."
