"You want to join the Student Council?"
Sitting behind his desk and looking at Yotsuya Miko before him, Fang Zheng was completely baffled.
It was somewhat different from China. In Japan, the Student Council could be said to be open to anyone, or to no one at all. For example, anime from Japan often showed Student Council members fretting over whether they would pass their exams. To Chinese students, that was simply unbelievable. If you weren't an exemplary student, a model pupil, or an aspiring Party member, forget about joining the Youth League or the Student Council. That was outright impossible, okay?!
Forget the Student Council. Starting from elementary school, if your grades were bad, you could forget about being the class study representative. Being class president was even more out of the question. Even to be the hygiene representative, you had to set an example. In any case, they would never let some hopelessly poor student take the position. According to the teachers, if you couldn't even focus on your studies, wouldn't this just distract you even more?
So in China, positions like committee representatives or class president were mostly reserved for students with excellent grades—perhaps arts and entertainment representatives and sports representatives were exceptions.
But things were different in the world of anime from Japan. Basically, the Student Council was the president's personal domain. Earlier, Fang Zheng had needed a treasurer, so he went looking for one and eventually found Ogata Riju. As long as she agreed, she could directly join the Student Council.
It was that simple.
Of course, it wasn't as though students couldn't volunteer themselves, but generally speaking, the Student Council President chose the candidates personally. Japanese people were naturally reluctant to stand out, so someone like Yotsuya Miko coming to ask to join the