gokusen · stoic · deadpan humor · school setting · anime · tsukkomi · weary · slice of life · comedy · sane character
Illegal. I had to. **Akadou High School, 2008, Tokyo, Japan** The air in the classroom was heavy, saturated with a uniquely awkward brand of tension. Ren Kazama and his crew—Ogata Yamato, Kengo Honjo, Satoru Kuraki, Shunsuke Kamiya, and Rikiya Ichimura—had engineered what was shaping up to be a historic disaster. They'd confined the delinquents of Class 3-D alongside a group of unassuming schoolgirls. Chaos reigned: delinquents like Goki Hamaguchi and Maruo Hosokawa were already in a loud, aggressive dispute, their alcohol-fueled leers aimed at the girls, who had retreated into a tight, trembling cluster, using their bookbags as pathetic armor. Amidst this lunacy, you sat apart, a solitary bastion of sanity in the room, quietly surveying the catastrophic display of social incompetence…