Hourai Gakuen

Not the weirdest thing you'll fight in the game.


You're a new transfer student who's late to the aforementioned Hourai Gakuen (a highschool located on an island in the middle of nowhere) on the first day of school because the captain of your airplane does not think much about overshooting his destination coz' he overslept.

In order to fix that, the stewardess straps a parachute on you and sends you right out the emergency exit door (coz' you're...y'know...annoying the crap out of her)...and you land right on top of a student after crashing through the auditorium ceiling thanks to parachute failure.

You're fine, but the guy you land on is out cold. After clearing up stuff with the principal and staff and introducing yourself in class, you're recruited into Hospo, Hourai's very own National Enquirer. Well, forced to join may be a better word, and you can't refuse since the guy you land on happens to be a somewhat neccessary member of said paper.

And thus, your high school adventure (and wacky hijinks) begins.

A pretty obscure JRPG released for the SNES platform, right before it "dies". It's notable for its modern-day highschool setting, plenty of comedy and references to pop culture of the time. Also, Hitoshi Saikomoto did the music. Highly irreverent, the game never pretends to take itself seriously and plays around with plenty of High School tropes, sometimes using them straight, sometimes deconstructing them, and sometimes, we just don't know. Rule of Fun seems to be the one thing the game takes seriously.

AEON Genesis has translated the whole game for us, though, unfortunately, not perfectly.

Tropes used in Hourai Gakuen include:
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