Slipping High School #WeeklyShortShortNote

Slipping High School

It is a high school where young people aspiring to be comedians gather to learn, quite literally, how to "slip" (fail to get a laugh).

In addition to the five main subjects, every class incorporates "how to slip," and a bronze statue of the late Ryuhei Ueshima stands in the schoolyard.

In the entrance exam, more than academic ability, the focus is on how naturally one can slip, and applicants must perform a gag that makes none of the interviewers laugh.

"Slipping is the essence of comedy." This is the school's philosophy.

At the entrance, portraits of successive principals making exquisitely unfunny faces are lined up.

The goal is not just to slip. It is to chill the atmosphere by slipping, and then, with a single follow-up remark, trigger an explosion of laughter. Students are required to master the control of capturing the room and creating that explosion by the time they graduate.

Third-year student Ryunosuke Tenshoin is called a prodigy, and since enrolling, he has slipped his way through everything from classes to the school festival and sports day.

In the student council president election, he slipped fluently from the beginning of his speech to the end, freezing the room completely, and then drew out the principal's line, "That's my head, isn't it!", making the entire student body burst into laughter.

That is the reason why he is called a prodigy.