Random Weirdest And Most Unconventional Anime Schools (17 items)

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  (#8) Prison School

  • Hiroshi Kamiya, Katsuyuki Konishi, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Daisuke Namikawa

  An institution featured in Prison School, Hachimitsu Private Academy is an all-girls school with its very own prison, controlled by the Underground Student Council. Said council possesses the authority to incarcerate students.

  After five boys are admitted to the academy, this authority gets used and abused. The premise has liability issues written all over it, but for an anime, it's certainly an entertaining concept.
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  (#10) The Shinigami Academy Prepares Students To Join Soul Society's Military Branches 

  In Bleach, the Shinigami Academy, also known as the Shino Academy, is where Souls are trained before entering one of the three military arms of Soul Society. These military branches consist of the Gotei 13, the Kido Corps and the Onmitsukido. Students at this school learn how to protect and guard the Society from evil Hollows as well as ensure the safe crossing of souls. 
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  (#16) Another

  • Atsushi Abe, Natsumi Takamori, Tomoaki Maeno

  Yomiyama North Middle School appears to be an ordinary middle school, but it hides a terrifying truth. Ever since a student in class 3-3 died in the '70s, other kids, faculty, and family members have dropped like flies.

  There's a mysterious curse on the school, which might have something to do with the girl with an eye patch who no one besides the main character of Another ever seems to notice.
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  (#13) Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

  • Vinnie Penna, Tony Salerno, Kanako Irie

  Yu-Gi-Oh! GX mostly takes place in and around Duel Academy, a boarding school on a remote island where kids learn how to play Duel Monsters. If this sounds weird, realize that in this universe, Duel Monsters is not only a viable career, it's also a means to save the world from mind-controlling space light. 

  Duel Academy combines an appalling lack of supervision and actual attempts by faculty on their students' lives with lots and lots of card games (only some of which involve muscular, sentient dolphins).
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  (#9) Death Note

  • Mamoru Miyano, Brad Swaile, Vincent Tong

  While most of the schools in Death Note are pretty ordinary, one sticks out as more than a little bizarre. Wammy's House, the orphanage where L, Mello, Near, and Matt were raised, doubles as a school. The mission of said institution isn't to provide a well-rounded education for the orphan children. It's to figure out who will be the next L. 

  L is a detective with poor posture constantly stuffing cake in his face and trying to find out superkiller Kira's identity. But L isn't his name, it's his job title. Back at Wammy's House, a group of children compete to take over the mantle when he dies.

  Wammy's House produces genius detectives, but it also produced Beyond Birthday, who was so hellbent on becoming L he dressed up exactly like him and started murdering people to get the great detective's attention. Wammy's bears responsibility for many broken people.
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  (#6) Kill la Kill

  • Nobuyuki Hiyama, Shin-ichiro Miki, Toshihiko Seki, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Kenyu Horiuchi, Ami Koshimizu, Ryōka Yuzuki, Tetsu Inada, Ayumi Fujimura, Yukari Fukui, Mayumi Shintani, Aya Suzaki

  Honnōji Academy of Kill la Kill feels less like a high school and more like a military fortress. Satsuki Kiryuin, the tyranic student council president, rules the school with a small cadre of soldiers she calls the Elite Four. Through a series of violent competitions, students win status and wealth for their families, as well as uniforms made from "life fibers," fabric from space that either grants the user supernatural powers or kills them.

  Honnōji Academy only appears to have one actual class - homeroom - but viewers focus more on the half-naked scissor fights than they do the academics. The class events get even more bizarre, ranging from No Late Day, where students must dodge deadly obstacles on their way to class, or the Tri-City Schools Raid Trip, established by Satsuki as a means of attacking rival schools.

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