Textbooks
Studying is much more exciting when you can imagine yourself dating one of the textbook characters.
”Military” designation has been absent from certified teaching materials for more than a decade.
From useful notes to funny doodles, these used books have all kinds of charming features that netizens love.
The cast of hit anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica take a break from saving the world to help teens learn English by learning about France.
With or without permission from her creators, someone is ready to provide in-bed companionship for everyone who’s hot for teacher, as long as that teacher is Ellen-sensei.
After going head-over-heels for the illustrated Ellen-sensei, fans are startled to see her being portrayed by an actual human being.
Offbeat learning aid has Japanese travelers cracking up even before the aliens makes their appearance.
You might think the job of high school textbook editor might just be one of the most mind-numbingly mundane around, but it turns out such a career can be risky business indeed. There’s constant updating required, plus you have to keep a keen eye out for the occasional bonkers writer that might try to slip in some historical revisionism now and again, plus test questions and whatnot need to be challenging without being overwhelming, etc.
And now, it looks like you can add “making sure no one secretly slipped an image of a Japanese porn star into the review questions section” to the list of high-stakes tasks facing the humble textbook editor.
You’ve likely seen some of the impressive textbook doodles from Asia before–and you should definitely check them out if you haven’t–but it turns out that bored students aren’t the only ones filling textbooks with bizarre illustrations. Sometimes it seems as if the publishers themselves were out to troll students with the weirdest illustrations we’ve ever seen.
It’s almost as if these textbooks from Japan were compiled by your pot-smoking high school English teacher and his best friend the alcoholic art teacher…
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