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   From: kenmlin@aol.com   
      
   "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:nm34fr$9er$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 07/12/2016 08:34 AM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
   > It's amazing how different college experience is in Japan as compared to   
   > U.S.  In Japan they have to study like crazy until college entrance exam   
   > so college is where they get to enjoy all their hard work.  In contrast,   
   > in U.S. the first two years of college is a rehash of what you were   
   > supposed to have already learned in high school, leaving only final two   
   > years to concentrate on your major.   
   >   
   > At least according to manga, Japanese university students appear to spend   
   > their entire day on club activities.  They don't go to lectures but   
   > might attend "seminars."   
      
   Actually the students in Genshiken share some class and cafeteria time.   
     The Genshiken seems to convene whenever enough   
   students are out of class.  The meetings don't seem to last very   
   long and it is time to adjourn to the dojin shops or to the Comic   
   Market show or take care of the business of living.   
   In the classroom the women, Saki and Ohno.   
   In the cafeteria the protagonist Sasahara and the unsurpassable   
   Kousaka.  As matter of fact that is where Makoto confronts Kenji to   
   urge him to join the Genshiken after his baseless pride has been damaged   
   by the doujin and figurine hazing.   
   We also get to see them at the festivals at matriculation where   
   the University clubs try to get new members.   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>   
      
   Okay, the only volumes I have actually read so far were the first two   
   volumes of Second Season (that I acquired previously) so I am not terribly   
   familiar with the book.  Were their majors brought up?  I recall in 2nd   
   Season some recent graduates were living near the campus.   
      
   When I was in (American) college we had classes from eight in the morning   
   till ten at night so it would have been very difficult to coordinate   
   anything if we were in different majors.  Also, many manga depict college   
   students spending the entire final year applying for employment and no   
   longer have to attend classes.   
      
   Here's another college "club" manga but it's taking place in an agriculture   
   college.  I have no ideas if it has been translated into English:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyasimon:_Tales_of_Agriculture   
      
   Ken   
      
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