Is an academy setting, dare I say it, the best setting?

Is an academy setting, dare I say it, the best setting?

only if they all have super powers

There's a reason 90% of anime takes place in schools

it's a good reason to have all walks of life interacting with each other

no.

name a better setting
you have 1 shot

Far flung colony. Ex: colonial America.

any setting that can grow. a setting is a setpiece and some can grow organically to be whatever you need them to be.

space scifi- different planet races/cultures
ocean- different islands/continents/cultures
etc etc

it depends on the story you want to tell so if you want to tell a story about a bunch of hormonal turd-burglars then yeah an academy might be best there, but generally best: naw.

can't work with it as much as an academy setting

I thought it was because educational institution settings are the last gasp of anything resembling youthful freedom in GRORIOUS NIPPON! After you graduate, it's a long, slow slide downhill into death with not much to look forward to.

Sure you can. Trouble maintaining law and order with the overworked constables, slaves being lazy, native raids, the economy chafing to support his fat royal majesty, etc. There's a lot you can do with a colonial setting. Both historical and science fiction.

those aren't settings those are just themes
>space academy
>learn how to pilot and are adults
>learn to do space shit

>ocean academy
>learn how to swim and operate aquatic vehicles
>learn about ocean biology

No, because everything is not a shitty anime.

academies are nice settings cause they allow easy exposition
>class on why bad guys are bad
>class on what the story is about i.e. powers, looking for lost stuff, interacting with new things like aliens and shit
>obligatory physical education classes/practical training where characters get to show off and grow

Name 5 genuinely great series with an academy setting. You have 1 shot.

I'm just gonna name anime so you're gonna dismiss me anyway

Is this book any good? I remember a long time ago reading one trade of it and being interested, but I don't actually know much about it.

wasted potential

X-Men
My Hero Academia
Fillmore!
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Recess
Ouran High School Host Club

Name one thing that;s not a shitty anime.

Avatar the La-FUCK

>My hero Academy, Haruhi, Ouran High School Host Club
Those ain't any good and X-Men rarely does shit with the academy setting.

You have shit taste but okay.

Spectacular Spiderman
Girls Und Panzer
Tonari no Seki-Kun: The Master of Killing Time
Shin Sekai Yori (From the New World)
Clannad
School-Live!
Clone High
My Life as a Teenage Robot

>accusing someone of having shit taste
>when you like Haruhi, Ouran High School Host Club, Clannad and moeblob like Girls und Panzer
Shoot yourself.

It's the worst thing.

best*

To be fair, Haruhi is probably the best directed anime series in the last 20 years.

Thats not something people generally pay attention to, but its still true.

Only if you're a fat woman living vicariously through through the interactions of characters slightly more interesting than yourself.

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