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Tomobiki High School

Tomobiki High School (友引高校, Tomobiki kōkō?, High School of Good Day for Business and Lawsuits), or just Tomobiki High, is a high school located in Tomobiki-cho. It is also the school Ataru, Lum, Ryūnosuke, Shūtarō, Shinobu and Lum's Stormtroopers attend.

Architecture[]

Tomobiki High School is a two-floored school with an attic and a clocktower. Classroom, where Ataru, Lum and others attend is located in the second floor's right side (if viewed from front door). School seems to be shaped like the letter H when viewed from above. It is surrounded by trees and has large gym behind the main building. There is also a greenhouse, where some students grow tomatoes.

Class 2-4[]

Onsen Class 139

Class 2-4

Class 2-4 is the classroom of the most infamous and disastrous students at Tomobiki High who are the source for most of the bizarre and chaotic incidents that surrounds the school and the town of Tomobiki. It is managed by Onsen-Mark, much to his chagrin.

It acts as the home classroom and hangout of the infamously disastrous pervert Ataru, his alien invader princess Lum and their insane assortment of teenage friends and frenemies, such as Shūtarō Mendō, Shinobu Miyake, Ryūnosuke Fujinami and Lum's Stormtroopers (with the exception of Ran who was put in Class 2-7, Rei who is too stupid to go to school, and Lum's best alien friends Benten and Oyuki but they visit the classroom frequently enough that they are almost a part of it) as well as their odd gaggle of school faculty like Onsen-Mark and Sakura and the intrusive Cherry. As such, the classroom acts as their most frequent hangout and as the central location in which several of the series' stories take place.

The classroom is a nexus of constant oddities and supernatural disturbances, either because of Lum's alien acquaintances, Sakura's spiritual magnetism or for no explainable reason whatsoever, much like the rest of Tomobiki High. With dimensional doorways, disturbances to reality or even otherworldly and ghostly visitors manifesting here first before spreading to the rest of the school. Although the rest of the school seems just as cursed as the classroom itself at times, the added presence of the school's most disturbing and bizarre students being here in the same classroom makes it the most unique part of the school.

Students[]

Class 2-4[]

Class 2-7[]

Others[]

Clubs & Factions[]

Faculty[]

Tomobiki High Faculty

Most of the school faculty assembled.

The school's faculty can be just as eccentric and irresponsible as their students despite trying to maintain an air of discipline and authority that is hardly ever effective. The majority of students (especially those of class 2-4) have zero respect for their teachers, happily disobeying them, pranking them, throwing things at them, trampling them, attacking them or do just about anything they want if they feel like it. In return the teachers have almost no tolerance for their students and will just as happily look for any reason to torment them or even attack them if given the chance just to enforce the rules, with the notable exception of Mr. Hanawa of course who is the most kind and responsible teacher at the school.

Members[]

Misses Tomobiki[]

Trivia[]

  • Ran is the only major recurring student in the series to not be a part of Class 2-4 for some reason, instead being assigned to Class 2-7.
    • Although this may be due to Ran not wanting to be around Lum constantly, who serves as a constant source of frustration and anger for Ran who would rather maintain her innocent and jovial persona.
  • According to Onsen-Mark in Chapter 128, Tomobiki High has seven scary legends associated with it. This is based on a Japanese storytelling tradition called "Honjo Nanafushigi" - meaning "Seven Wonders" or "Seven Mysteries", where seven spooky stories are told, usually centered on a specific area. At some point, it became very widespread amongst Japanese schools for a school to have its own set of seven urban legends - once again, called "Honjo Nanafushigi". Given Tomobiki's apparent attraction to aliens and yokai, it's only natural that Tomobiki High has its Honjo Nanafushigi, which Onsen-Mark briefly refers to by name before inventing an eighth when Class 2-4 is unimpressed (especially as they've actually encountered several)... which immediately becomes true. Tomobiki High's Honjo Nanafushigi are called the "Seven Legends" in the Viz Media English translation of the manga.
    • Legend #1: Tomobiki High was built on a cemetary.
    • Legend #2: Inexplicable piano music can sometimes be heard coming from the empty music room.
    • Legend #3: There is a particular locker that can (or must) never be unlocked.
    • Legend #4: The anatomical skeleton in the science lab sometimes starts chattering.
    • Legend #5: There is a specific class that is known as the "Terrible Failure Class", for its students are cursed to inexplicably fall asleep during the sakura (cherry blossom) season. This legend was the focus of Chapter 24, which established Class 2-4 as the cursed classroom. Ataru Moroboshi and Shūtarō Mendō discovered the reality behind the legend in that chapter.
    • Legend #6: A mysterious red-cloaked phantom haunts the dark corners of Tomobiki High. In fact, Chapter 41 establishes that the Red Mantle is all too real... and is now an overweight has-been.
    • Legend #7: The reflections in one of the bathroom mirrors may start laughing at the person casting them.
    • Legend #8: The half-dead willow in the school yard is haunted by a guardian spirit, who once attacked a student who tried to carve into the tree's bark with a knife.
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