"So things are different now~ I'm a manga artist! That's a legit job I can tell my relatives and friends about."
The cute little Ise Yu puffed out her chest proudly, "I'm no longer the freshman I used to be!"
In anime, or light novel scenes, you often see many Neon people not being so eager to continue their education. Scenes like the 100-day declaration for exams or 'returning only after victory' are hardly depicted. It's as if the notion of 'reading is useless' reigns supreme.
However, unfortunately, novels are just novels. The competition for education in Neon is still very fierce, and there's severe involution; tutoring centers can be seen everywhere, and flyers are flying all over. There are, of course, students who don't want to go to college and want to find another path, and they are not sparse in numbers. But in private schools like Akihisa High School, this proportion is obviously much smaller.