GTO, a complaint

This is about GTO (live action).

I'm hoping this is about as accurate a description of Japanese schools as the description of American high schools provided by "Saved by the Bell". It's a charming show in the way that Nick at Nite is/should be charming, but I have serious issues with most of the cheesy setups.

Spoilers below. Stop if you intend to watch GTO at some point.

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Okay, so at a point in the show, two members of the class get in some trouble with a group of about 10 boys. One gets beaten to a pulp by a group of kids and another is almost raped. The teacher gets stabbed trying to save them. The perpetrators are, predictably, from a rich, elite private high school.

Somehow, the writers expect us to believe that an extremely incompetent police forensics unit combined with political pressure combined is enough to clear the rich kids.

I'm didn't attend a Japanese high school, but to an American who attended a school featured on a CNN special on gang violence back in the mid-90s, this seems odd.

If we knew someone who was about to go down for saving two of our friends from a beating and a rape, we wouldn't assemble quietly. Apologizing for using violence as a method? A bunch of private school kids that stabbed a single guy? We wouldn't send two kids to the private school for a stern word with the offender. There would just be two cars of kids with frequently used handguns exterminating everything within a 50 meter radius of the guy. The only thing that would stop them is either a massive wall of tear gas or a hail of return fire.

It's not like that happens frequently by any means, but seriously. I do occasionally meet people who are familiar with the area do a double take when I tell them where I'm from. It's like they don't believe that I haven't killed anyone. Never been arrested either... but most of my cousins have and a few of my friends. I did evade the 5-0 once, but it was an unusual situation. I will elaborate someday as a party anecdote.

However, the writers of GTO are asking for an extreme suspension of disbelief to ask for a land where everyone's cool with attempted murder and rape. I'm sure that qualified as "really not cool" in most parts of the world. In my (former) part of the world, that's literally signing your death certificate.