@apc I have been forgetting to continue the past few days, but it's put me in a "what brings a class together?" mood. Some classes are "cohesive" only in that they have a death game going on, and are... not quite a fun time.

But some have huge stakes and are leaned on in various ways, with the world on their shoulders... usually in some sci-fi sense.

How many, for instance, come to pilot fearsome mecha in Aldnoah.Zero?

My thinking lands on the Classroom Crisis crew, who I enjoyed a lot. They engineered together and rocketed together and piloted together, and had the world watching over their results.

But while A-TEC was a "class" were they a... #homeroom ? 🤔

@apc My very first anime were sci-fi heavy, and distinctly NOT in high school. Or middle school. Or classrooms. Blasted hellscapes had few. The closest would come from... Gunbuster? Which, while it did introduce MANY tropes, would only really feed me "that damn chime" as far as school was concerned. 😝 Even the uniforms not so much, as they were switching to "pilot the robot" gymwear and the like. So it didn't really... stick.

However, my first official TV show DID sink its teeth well into the Japanese school trope well, and Kimagure Orange Road has featured in many APC before.

#homeroom 3-A is definitely delved into a lot, but for two primary tasks... For Kyousuke to interact with Madoka, and for Komatsu and Hatta to engage hijinks (characters who were only really in the anime)