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 **** And the people running a Catholic school wouldn't make a move to "fix" this? Does anybody do the research on this religion?
 ***** Catholics don't really believe in "fixing" homosexuality. Catholicism states that intercourse between two people of the same sex is wrong, but being a homosexual (while not preferred) is not a sin in and of itself. That said, a Catholic school really wouldn't be run like the one in this show. At all.
-**** I attended an all-female religious school. While outright lesbianism would indeed be scandalous, a significant amount of friendliness was not even NOTICED. Girls sitting on your lap? Girls kissing you hello? No biggie. Extreme and angsty emotional connection between girls who were not entirely sure they were gay? Quite common, although the teachers would sometimes try to discourage things if they were getting a little *too* overly attached - both lesbianism and suicide being scandalous. And no, this wasn't a boarding school either, and many students did have boyfriends...
+**** I attended an all-female religious school. While outright lesbianism would indeed be scandalous, a significant amount of friendliness was not even ''noticed''. Girls sitting on your lap? Girls kissing you hello? No biggie. Extreme and angsty emotional connection between girls who were not entirely sure they were gay? Quite common, although the teachers would sometimes try to discourage things if they were getting a little ''too'' overly attached - both lesbianism and suicide being scandalous. And no, this wasn't a boarding school either, and many students did have boyfriends...
 ** Also, there ''do'' seem to be dorms.
 *** The dorms are for the university students.
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 * Why does Touko not get called out for her [[Jerkass]] behavior towards Yumi (she intentionally tries to make her feel jealous, she yells at Yumi in front of other people, and generally looks down on her)? Kanako gets called out for her behavior (which was [[Stalker with a Crush|more sympathetic]]), but Touko never even gets told she's doing something wrong. This places Touko in extreme [[The Scrappy]] territory for me, since {{spoiler|Yumi eventually makes Touko her soeur}}.
 ** As something of a Touko fan, even I can't find anything to disagree with here. Never could see the bond between either of them. What is it exactly that Yumi likes about Touko? Okay, so Yumi likes the 'difficult' type, but Touko has never seemed to hide any affection behind her contemptuous behavior towards Yumi. Consequently, why does Touko 'need' Yumi? It was hard not to root for Touko and the Drama Club President to become soeur. They seemed to have a respect and understanding between them in the short scene we see of them together that was never there with Touko/Yumi. Bit of a fail on the author's part, along with Touko's ridiculously wangsty backstory.
-* [[The Movie]]. Kashiwagi..Isn't part of his character and everyones reaction to him related to how [[Bishonen]] and fabulous he is? His actor seems the opposite of him in terms of look, and age. Sei and him are supposed to be parallels in a way, and Sei looks..Nice, to say the least.
+* [[The Movie]]. Kashiwagi..Isn't part of his character and everyone's reaction to him related to how [[Bishonen]] and fabulous he is? His actor seems the opposite of him in terms of look, and age. Sei and him are supposed to be parallels in a way, and Sei looks..Nice, to say the least.
 * How exactly does Sei have blonde hair and blue eyes? It was [[Lampshaded]] and the show is realistic, so it's not typical random [[Anime Hair]]. She's apparently Japanese on both sides, so... How?
-** It's explained in the manga (maybe in the original books too) that Sei has an ancestor who was non-Japanese, and her features are a case of atavism. (Which doesn't really explain it realistically, but it's the only explanation we get.)
+** It's explained in the manga (maybe in the original books too) that Sei has an ancestor who was non-Japanese, and her features are a case of atavism. (Which doesn't really explain it realistically,{{verify}} but it's the only explanation we get.)
 * I'm not very familiar with the series (so let me know if this is explained at some point) and don't know [[Japanese Honorifics]] much better than most non-Japanese speaking anime fans, but why exactly are the upperclassmen addressed as "-sama" rather than "-[[Senpai Kohai|senpai]]"? Is this in an effort to imitate some school system in Japan (or their approximation of what goes on in a Catholic school), or is this meant to be different from any Catholic school in real life?
-** The use of "-sama" is to indicate that the underclassmen are very respectful to the older students. '-Senpai' is respectful, but '-sama' is how you would address a God/Goddess. (Hence the title 'Maria-sama', which is commonly used when referring to the Virgin Mary.) No real people would talk like this day-to-day, so it's one of the things that indicates this is fiction.
+** The use of "-sama" is to indicate that the underclassmen are very respectful to the older students. '-Senpai' is respectful, but '-sama' is how you would address a God/Goddess.{{verify}} (Hence the title 'Maria-sama', which is commonly used when referring to the Virgin Mary.) No real people would talk like this day-to-day, so it's one of the things that indicates this is fiction.
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