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Survey sheds light on who the most popular voices in anime are among boys and girls these days.
Switch would solve a lot of school uniform-related problems, but not everyone thinks it’s a great idea.
Pressured to review outdated prohibitions, an entire prefecture says goodbye to “relics of the past”.
Kyoto’s mandate seems to be one of the most burdensome on families in light of national directives for equipping students with electronic devices.
Brass band which assisted artists from arson-struck anime studio puts thoughts for the fallen into their performance.
Two prefectures do away with once-standard question, over two dozen more consider following their lead.
In Japanese high schools, it’s customary for the band to accompany the baseball team to important games. Saitama’s Namegawa Sogo High even mixes in some modern musical stylings, as Queen’s “We Will Rock You” showed up on their set list for a recent contest in the prefectural championship tournament.
Of course, such a bombastic tune coming from the stands requires equal flamboyance from the players, and one student athlete responded with the craziest batter’s box warmup we’ve ever seen.
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