Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Difference between revisions

** [[Hand Wave|Handwaved]] when a teacher goes to the principal because he thinks the student council is getting too much authority, and she decides not to interfere—not because she's afraid of them (as would be typical of this trope) but simply because she doesn't want the students to feel inadequate and, well, like a ''real'' student council.

* This seems to be common in [[Yuri]].

** ''[[Strawberry Panic!]]'' takes this one and runs with it: the setting involves a complex three-schools-in-one situation, and the student councils and their goings-on are given a great deal of ceremony, and the members are treated like royalty, with just getting to see the Etoile (the one who is above the three [[Student Council President]]s) up close being a longtime dream of many students. When power struggles happen, it is Not Pretty, in a way that's much darker than the show's usual lighthearted tone.

* ''[[Manabi Straight!]]'' is a [[Deconstruction]] of this, about a group of girls [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] who are newly forming a Student Council. A theme of the series seems to be that kids aren't allowed to be kids anymore and the notion of an Absurdly Powerful Student Council takes itself far, far too seriously.