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Why do the Japanese use graduation as a symbol of death? It's very grim and bleak.
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There's the whole "graduating an idol" cute thing, but actually graduating in Japan comes with a risk of death
We're coming up shukatsu (job hunt) season right now because it's almost the first week of April. That's when thousands of graduates die their hair black, pack up their colorful clothes for good, and practice becoming a blank slate and sitting down a certain way on a chair, so that they can make perfect robotic movements in the interviews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_recruiting_of_new_graduates
Sometimes when people hit job hunt season and see all their friends ditch personality to become "hire me" clones, suddenly wear the same suits and practice the same smile, they think "this is it, it's all over I WILL NEVER BE AN ANIME PROTAGONIST OR HANG OUT WITH MY FRIENS AGAIN" and an hero
more commonly, if they are one of the unlucky ones that don't get a job they might sewer slide :(
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/18/national/job-hunt-stressing-students-making-them-suicidal-poll/
https://japantoday.com/category/national/150-suicides-last-year-attributed-to-failed-job-hunts
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Maybe because they enter the workforce afterwards, which in japan
is literal heck 
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Pretty much, yeah, I read that so much weebshit is set during high-school because school is the period in life of the average jap where they have the most freedom, oh and also due to
s and 
s romanticizing their times at school as a coping mechanism.
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One of the first big idol groups had a school theme, so when an idol from the group retired they would hold a graduation ceremony as a sending off. The terminology caught on for other idol groups and other related fanbase.
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