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Students get involved with extracurricular activities for all sorts of reasons. They let you network with other people who share your hobbies, they let you use school resources for fun, and they look great on a college transcript. In Japanese schools, they're the only chance you have to interact with people who aren't in your class. While there are some exceptions, like performance clubs with recitals and organized sports, most clubs are just
That's not the case with these clubs, though. In the more benevolent cases the club is simply treated as a full-fledged social institution, with stereotypes about its members and strict rules about its conduct. A powerful enough club is a political force in the school, potentially wielding power on par with the [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]. In the worst cases the club may actually be a cult engaged in nefarious deeds, and those who quit may have to be ... silenced.
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Related to [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]. Subtrope of [[Serious Business]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. Haruhi was just another high school girl who wanted to meet aliens, time travelers, sliders and espers...
* Parodied in ''[[
* In ''[[Rosario
* ''[[Genshiken]]'': The people who decide which clubs are official are cracking down on those that don't do anything, because there are so many clubs that even the Genshiken's remote space is coveted.
* ''[[Magic Users Club]]'': Even though they actually are quite active, the magic users have to share meeting space with a different club, which causes some conflict.
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* The ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' consists of some of the richest and most popular boys in the school, and they have the headmaster's ear and influence over seemingly every facet of school life. Fortunately they use this power almost exclusively to stroke their own egos.
== [[Live
* The titular club in ''[[Glee]]'' is VERY unpopular, and anybody in it are social outcasts, a plot point in the series. They also occasionally start spontaneously singing in hallways, drawing the school's attention.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy tries and fails to join the cheerleaders. Someone else is so intent on joining the team that she's trying to kill people to get on, and so does Dawn, though there was a different spell in there.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* School clubs give gameplay benefits in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]''.
* In ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4]]'', joining clubs can start several social links, and the characters involved in the Social Links can be altered depending on which club you join.
* School clubs are an extremely important part of the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series. Most of the winnable girls being members of specific clubs, joining their respective clubs is the only way to get some of their special Events and CGs. Also, School clubs give you [[Limit Break|powerful special attacks]] for battles; perfoming well in the club during the [[School Festival]] and, in the case of sports clubs, winning matches and Inter-High tournaments net you big [[Relationship Values]] towards the girls; and becoming the Club Master of the Science Club allows you to unlock the Shooters mini-games.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Fillmore!]]'' runs on this trope, along with [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]. The Safety Patrol has the power to arrest and punish students on their own, what else needs to be said?
== [[Real Life]] ==
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