聞く：かぐや様は告らせたい

 かぐや様は告らせたい (Kaguya Wants to be Confessed To), adapted from a manga of the same name,  is a comedy about the less-than-academic activities of the student council of a prestigious high school in Tokyo. President Shirogane Miyuki and Vice President Shinomiya Kaguya have crushes on each other, but each, believing that love is a some kind of war in which the loving side loses, is too embarrassed to make a move on the other.


Since it's midterm season...

Even before I watched this how, I knew that the Japanese school year started in the spring, but it seems the student council timetable doesn't line up with the school terms; in the show, the characters leave office and new elections take place shortly after the summer break of their second year.



Turning to language, the characters make extensive use of casual speech and slang: I've noticed a negative form -あん used in place of -あない. For example, 分からん instead of 分からない or かまわん instead of かまわない. I've also noticed the んです form with んじゃない to ask questions with 'yes' as the expected answer. For instance, いいんじゃないか for 'that's quite alright, isn't it?" In the cake clip I've posted right above, I also heard the -てほしい form we'll be learning this chapter (ケーキを食べてほしいです).

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