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The three most commonly portrayed clubs are the student council, the school newspaper, and the Kendo team. For the student council, see [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] and [[Student Council President]]. For the newspaper, see [[School Newspaper Newshound]]. For the Kendo team, see [[Kendo Team Captain]].
It's rare for a student to be a member of more than one club—club activities are generally too time-consuming to allow for it, and characters who do are generally the driven overachiever. The [[Ordinary High School Student]] who isn't a member of ''any'' club is said to be a member of the "Go Home Club". (Usagi does this in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' when she gets to [[High School]], as does Watanuki from ''[[
Some schools require clubs to have a minimum number of members. A common theme is, therefore, the [[Club Stub]] which will do anything to get more members to prevent getting disbanded. And with anything we mean anything from [[The Power of Friendship]] to brutal force.
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This is the lowest-ranking [[Authority Tropes|authority trope]]. For the next step up, see [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] and [[Landlord]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* All of the teams in ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'' are actually clubs, and their captains are basically the club president.
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** Arimi is a membress of the track team in her and Tsutomu's school.
* The ''amefuto'' (American-style football) team in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''.
* The Magic
* The school chorus in ''[[Please Save My Earth]]''. (Also, the "moon club.")
* The Auto Club (and dozens of others) in ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''.
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* In ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Fuyuki was the president and only member of Kissho Academy's Occult Club until Momoka joined. This was lampshaded in an episode where the school was going to disband the club unless they could turn up something interesting to present to the school.
* All members of the "Go Home Club" in ''[[Kare Kano]]'' are forcibly conscripted to participate in a play for the school culture festival.
* Sakura's cheerleading squad in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. Meanwhile, her best friend Tomoyo is a member of the school chorus and at least two episodes are about
** An episode of the anime has Sakura hanging around a girl from the track club, Rei, who has
* Nayuki's track team in ''[[Kanon]]''.
* Tamami's Occult Club in ''[[Mahoraba]]''.
* ''[[Hitohira]]'' focuses on two rival clubs, the Drama Club and the Drama Research Society. As in ''Genshiken'', it seems schools are uncomfortable with overlap, and the two must compete to stay official.
* The calligraphy club in ''[[Kamichu!]]''. The club holds its activities on the school roof, because it has only one member and thus doesn't rate a club room
** ''Zegapain'' also has an example of the one-member school club, in this case, the swimming club.
* ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' never forgets about clubs.
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** ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' had episodes focusing on Rin and Karen which showed off an assortment of the school's clubs. Rin is as a founding member of the futsol team, and Komachi is a member of the library committee. Find ''that'' combination in another anime. Also deserving of special mention is Nozomi, who joined a number of different clubs and brought disaster upon all of them—Rin won't shut up about how she was kicked out of the drama club for a combination of massive incompetence and mass destruction.
** All the main heroines in ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' are members of the fashion club (with Erika as the Club President), though they had some trouble getting it started due to a lack of members. In addition, Tsubomi is also a member of the gardening club, and then there's the [[Student Council President]]...
* ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' has Nagisa working to reform the school's drama club, despite having no members and being oppressed by the student council.
** They're not really being oppressed, it's just that the drama club barely have members, they have no advisor and are nearly as bad with organization and paperwork as [[K-On!|Afterschool Tea Time]] and as such the student council has to consider it a non-entity. When the drama club works out the issues (mainly by haring an advisor with an instrument club), they encounter no more external problems.
** The second season also shows us the school's Occult Studies club, which has two members. Considering that the school has a four-member-minimum rule, the supposition is that the Occult Studies Club has two more members on the roll who never attend meetings; the colloquialism for such people translates as "ghost members".
* In ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'' nearly every character is a member of a different club. The main character is forced to visit every club so he can choose one to join.
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', Mion Sonozaki is the Class/Club President. The school is so tiny that she can get away with being both.
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* The Movie Study Club in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', aka "[[Lampshade|YourTube]]". They don't actually study movies, instead filming funny short films featuring students and staff. This being a [[Gag Series]], and its three main members [[Those Two Guys|Those Three Girls]], they get plenty of material.
* The Art Club in ''[[Sketchbook]]''.
* ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
* ''[[Eiken]]'' is named after the club the protagonists are part of, which is essentially [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|The Club That Doesn't Do Anything]].
* The Yamayurikai in ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru|Marimite]]'' probably falls under the [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] it's notable that several characters do double duty with other clubs. Rei is the [[Kendo Team Captain]] and Yoshino joins the kendo club in her second year. Touko is also a member of the Drama Club and while not formally a member of the Yamayurikai at the time, her agreeing to help them with their play at the [[School Festival]] is a source of some conflict. The Photography Club also gets some coverage courtesy of Yumi's friend Tsutako.
* Takeuchi in [[Canvas 2]] finds it very difficult to get Hiroki to call her anything ''but'' club president.
* The Paranormal Investigation Club in ''[[Tasogare Otome
* The Curry Club in ''[[Ame Nochi Hare]]''.
* The Modern Society Studies Club in ''[[11eyes]]'', founded by the already kind of crazy Yukiko. It makes a convenient cover for the club's activities in the Red Night.
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* ''[[Chu-Bra]]'' center about the middle school girl Nayu Hajama who create an underwear club since she is a serious fan of all undergarment. Needless to say that many people outside the club have some (false) perverted thoughs about it...
* ''[[Yuru-Yuri]]'' starts with three, later four girls who form their own amusement club in the room of the disbanded tea ceremony club.
* ''[[
* ''[[Bakuon!!]]'' is all about the members of the biking (motorcycle) club at Okanoue Girls' School. In episode 9, when the new first-years arrive, there is a veritable scrum of clubs trying to recruit new members, and not always making it clear what they're about:
{{quote|'''Kendo (?) club member:''' Want to try whacking people with a stick?
'''Judo (?) club member:''' Care to try throwing people?}}
* ''[[Kokoro Connect]]'' is set in a school literature club, but is not about the club - instead, it's about the club members and their personal ordeals.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The Kamen Rider Club is the unofficial version in ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]''. That is, until they get busted by one of the teachers midseason, who proclaims that unauthorized clubs are not allowed {{spoiler|- so ''he'll'' be their advisor.}}
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** Under [[Spirited Competitor|Shizune]] and [[Large Ham|Misha]]'s [[Club President|control]], the [[Student Council]] suffers from [[Club Stub]].
** [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Lilly]] organises [[School Festival]] related activities in Act 1 for [[Class Representative|her class]]. [[Shrinking Violet|Hanako]] and [[Conspiracy Theorist|Kenji]] take part in them if Hanako's route is being aimed for.
* ''[[Yandere Simulator]]'' has many clubs the [[Villain Protagonist]] can join. Each club gives her some sort of advantage; for example, if she joins the Cooking Club, she can gain positive reputation fast and can carry a knife without raising suspicion, while the Gardening Club gives her easy access to the toolshed (where potential weapons can be obtained) and can carry a shovel without raising suspicion. The "catch" is that she can only join one at a time, and should the leader of a club be killed, arrested, or expelled, the club disbands, making any benefits they give unobtainable.
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