Whenever an anime series is in a traditional school setting, the main characters do everything except study and learn. It isn’t that education is boring; it’s more so that there isn’t enough substance or action for a story to develop when it comes to traditional education.
However, there are a handful of anime series which authentically represent their academic settings. Students not only have a social life and can do extracurricular activities, but the following anime shows provide its characters with a proper education, even if they aren’t just learning math and science.
Learning Culinary Arts at Food Wars!’s Tōtsuki Culinary Academy
Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma is about a young chef named Soma Yukihira, who aspires to take over his family restaurant, Restaurant Yukihira. Yet, to surpass his father’s culinary skills, he must attend Tōtsuki Culinary Academy. At the academy, Soma participates in cooking or “shokugeki” competitions and develops his cooking skills by learning from his peers and famous chefs.
In Food Wars!, the aspiring chefs attend the prestigious cooking school, Tōtsuki Culinary Academy. At this academy, students develop their cooking skills and specialize in a specific culinary cuisine. Students learn through “shokugeki” competitions and classroom cooking practicals under the guidance of master chefs and food critics.
Excelling in Heroism at My Hero Academia’s U.A. High School
In Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia, the story focuses on the adventures of Izuku Midoriya, a once “Quirkless” teenage boy who receives the Quirk “One for All” from the world’s Number One Hero, All Might. Midoriya’s dream is to become a superhero because he wants to protect the innocent; thus, by obtaining “All for One,” he enrolls in the prestigious U.A. High School to receive proper superhero training.
U.A. High School is the top hero academy in Japan. The students that graduated from U.A. High School are now some of the best in the world. At U.A. High School, students train to become “Pro Heroes”. Students partake in a rigorous hero curriculum: classroom instruction explaining the rules and regulations of becoming a pro hero, hero simulation scenarios and practicals; and real-life heroic experience. In Hero Agency Internships, students get to shadow a real Pro Hero and in Hero Work-Study, students obtain a provisional Hero License and are sidekicks to a pro hero.
Mastering Witchcraft at Little Witch Academia’s Luna Nova Magical Academy
Yoh Yoshinari’s Little Witch Academia follows the optimistic and energetic witch named Atsuko “Akko” Kagari, who decided to become a witch after witnessing Shiny Chariot’s magical performance. Akko comes from a non-magical background, so she has trouble controlling her magic until she obtains the Shiny Rod. Using the Shiny Rod, Akko, with the help of her friends, Lotte and Sucy, restores people’s belief in magic.
Luna Nova Magical Academy is a distinguished witch institution that teaches magical and non-magical young girls, magic. The school offers a wide range of witchcraft and sorcery courses, such as Fundamental Alchemy, Magic Linguistics, and Broom Flight.
Practicing the Demon Dark Arts In Welcome to Demon School!
Osamu Nishi’s Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is about a human boy named Iruma Suzuki who gets sold to a demon named Sullivan by his neglectful parents. Iruma-kun enrolls in Babyls School for Demons, but must hide his human identity, or else, the demons will eat him. The story centers on the adventures and random antics Iruma and his demon friends get into at demon school.
At Babyls School for Demons, students take a variety of subjects to become “proper” demons. There are specific subjects that all demon students are required to take, but students can take electives based on their interests. Some courses that students can take include transfiguration, torture, and pharmacology. There are also gender-exclusive courses like seduction, which is for female students. Lastly, the teachers at Babyls School for Demons care about their students’ well-being and their studies.
Mentoring Under the Guidance of Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom’s Kunugigaoka Junior High
In Yusei Matsui’s Assassination Classroom, an octopus-shaped alien named Koro-sensei becomes the junior high homeroom teacher of misfit students. The students must kill Koro-sensei under the threat that he may destroy the Earth.
Koro-sensei teaches the misfit students of class 3-E in Kunugigaoka Junior High School. He teaches human subjects, such as Japanese history, mathematics and literature. However, it isn’t the subjects or content that the students find interesting, but the teacher, Koro-sensei. Koro-sensei makes learning fun by developing student strengths through individualized assessments and encouraging students to take responsible risks. Koro-sensei cares about his students, and he tries to guide them into being well-rounded adults.
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