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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 07/12/2016 05:21 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:   
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   > "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:nm34fr$9er$1@dont-email.me...   
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   > 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.   
      
   	Well I haven't been to college and especially not recently. ;^)   
   	But when I was in HS we learned enough to get past college easily.   
      
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   >> 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."   
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   > 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.   
      
   	Also I don't know too much about college life in the USA   
   as I never went.  In the 1940s and 1950s our school life was more   
   like Japanese HS but without the better clubs.  I started a chess   
   club in HS and the vice-principal was put in charge and it became   
   another way to force repetition down our throats.  It became essentially   
   a chess class except for grading.   
      
   	On the other hand if I had tried to start a club for comic   
   book fans in HS I would have been laughed out of the Principal's   
   Office.  I was noted in HS for being a devoted Science Fiction   
   Fan and ridiculed because of my unorthodox POV.   
      
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   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   
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   > 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.   
      
   	Madarame was living near campus.  One had a car and helped the   
   costume designer and Ohno to get to the events as well as the beach on   
   one historic occasion...  Makoto stays up to talk to him on the drive   
   back from the beach talking pure otaku stuff.   
      
   	The first 9 volumes of Genshiken are quite different from the   
   Genshiken Nidaime(aka Second Season).  Oguie barely gets to the Club   
   and barely becomes successful nothing like GN where she draws a gigantic   
   poster of two popular with Fujoshi characters and becomes with Sasahara   
   help a pro-mangaka.   
      
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   > 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.   
      
   	Many are still working on their final written paper.   
   The original president has spent years gathering data for his paper.   
      
   	Many were business majors.  Saki is aiming at running her   
   own boutique, in addition she studies English intensively for purpose   
   of that business.  In second season I think again we have business   
   majors but one girl is a Japanese history otaku and may have major   
   in that subject.   
      
   	Ohno is stuck in school because of the school not accepting her   
   college credits from the USA.   
   >   
   > 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:   
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   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyasimon:_Tales_of_Agriculture   
      
   	Try Moyashimon tales of agriculture to be read online.   
   	23 translated chapters at least online.   
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   > Ken   
      
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