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Do other countries in the world have the same experience?

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[–] fork@feddit.online 71 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That's not something specific to the US. If you chose a manga or anime at random, it'd most likely revolve around a highschooler.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yup, one of the reasons Black Lagoon is now one of my favourite animés is that it neither involves school nor a magical alternative universe. It does revolve around a salaryman though ... can't win them all I guess :-/

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

May I interest you in Samurai Pizza Cats?

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

Yes. Yes you can.

Thank you for the tip :-)

[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

I don't mind the magic, I like fantasy. The highschool theme got boring, fast.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not necessarily, sometimes its a Japanese salaryman being reincarnated into a video game.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Tbf, season 1 of that show is honestly good. After that it gets really stale and boring though

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

That's a more relatively recent thing.

This, this is not just an American thing

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Post-war Japanese culture is very american though.