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High School Rocks
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If the likes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and My So-Called Life and (especially) Heathers have taught us nothing else, it is that High School is Hell. Sometimes literally. Not everyone agrees. While few shows will go so far as to claim learning is fun for its own sake, or that the Alpha Bitch or a Jerk Jock can't make life troublesome, several shows seem to think high school is not all that bad. They seem to have a point: You get to play sports (if you want), find your High School Sweetheart at the High-School Dance (if you are lucky), and make some of the best friends you will ever meet. Indeed, even those shows that paint an extremely negative picture of high school life usually acknowledge the importance of friends. Cliques might be notably absent, but if they are present, the main characters will maintain friendships across the class divide. These being the Best Years of Your Life may or may not be strongly implied as well. Depending on the troper, this may or may not be Truth in Television. For the latter, this trope exists pretty far toward the idealistic end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism. Relatively few shows occupy much of a middle ground; either high school is a place of utter misery or despair, or it's a wacky fun-filled ride. A subtrope of High School. Not to be confused with naturally occurring aggregates of minerals and/or mineraloids that attend high school. See also Growing Up Sucks and Future Loser. Contrast Middle School Is Miserable. |
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Friday Night Lights, the football team is shown as some of the most important people in town, and it explicitly says the players will never be as important as they are now. This is emphasized in one scene where a former player freaks two players out by telling them this and saying they need to get a championship ring. The film plays the trope so straight it practically deconstructs it. | |
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Cromartie High School, although it's more like "High school is as weird as fuck" | |
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Graduados is fully focused in this. It is composed of adults who used to be classmates and keep having nostalgia for the good old times. | |
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Manabi Straight! practically collapses under the nostalgia about the high school days. | |
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The Tokimeki Memorial series. This Dating Sim franchise from Konami, in which the player's goal is to get the Love Confession of a High School Sweetheart of his choice at a place of legend that'll grant them eternal happiness as a couple, is renowned for its very sweet and idealistic stance. | |
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"Rock N' Roll High School" by Ramones. | |
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Sketchbook has elements of this. Even super-shy and eccentric Sora never gets hassled, unlike what would happen in Real Life. Not to mention Kate, who would be a real bully magnet with her western looks and accent. | |
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Avatar High is a browser game where you play as high schoolers. It's aimed more at middle schoolers than high schoolers and thus leans into this trope. | |
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Azumanga Daioh is the Trope Codifier for Schoolgirl Series and inspired other series with similar themes. It's a series about a group of quirky high school girls (one who is initially ten) and their two Sensei-chan friends having fun. It's a near-perfect high school experience. | |
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Subverted and played straight in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc just by the nature of the plot revelations. The situation which the students face is most assuredly horrific and not at all in line with a normal curriculum. That is until the 6th and final chapter where it gets revealed that Everyone Went to School Together for at least a year's worth before The Tragedy took place and their memories had been forcibly erased of ever locking themselves inside the school. The old photos found by the protagonist generally show the students looking happy during their highschool years with the implication that many of them moved past the crippling emotional/psychological issues that lead some of them to kill each other during the game's course. | |
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Kamigami no Asobi is about a bunch of gods put into an anime high school setting. Apollon, being the perpetually cheerful sun god, sees it this way, and his cheery outlook manages to infect the others. They have tons of fun doing club activities, planning the school play and school festival, etc... while lampshading, parodying, and generally messing with just about every anime high school trope. | |
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Saved by the Bell and most of its clones (Hang Time, California Dreams, etc.) are the kings of this trope. Extra points for Saved by the Bell for having the principal as one of the gang. | |
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Ouran High School Host Club, although if it weren't for the fact that they keep reminding you, you'd forget that they were in school at all. The characters do Angst on occasion, but it's always resolved by the end of the episode. | |
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His and Her Circumstances, at least the manga. Despite the overall theme, the actual high school life of the title characters is pretty cake, with any foe made into a trusty ally within a chapter or two. Souichiro and Yukino's biggest worries are often about not being at the top of the exam boards, the ending suggests that nothing really happens outside of high school anyway. | |
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Archie Comics is traditionally like this - Archie is on pretty good terms with everyone, has little-to-no problems, and is a Chick Magnet (even back when he was less attractive and had buck-teeth) - however newer spinoffs like Afterlife with Archie and Riverdale deconstruct it to be less than perfect. | |
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The modern arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space was this, when Arthur was at school. | |
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Maria Watches Over Us has a lot of melodrama, but not much of is actually related to school. The main characters are all well-respected at their school and, despite going to a Catholic school, no one blinks an eye at the entire student council being full of PseudoRomantic Friendships. | |
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K-On! is a series virtually devoid of negativity. It's just a bunch of high school girls in a band together and having fun, and the girls' graduation from high school is treated as a very poignant and bittersweet moment where all those happy memories are being left behind. | |
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In Gravity Falls, Mabel believes in this trope due to overexposure to such portrayals in the media, asking Wendy if her high school experience is "more rom-com or wacky romp." Wendy quickly sets her straight. Word of God is that this is reflective of creator Alex Hirsch's experience. | |
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