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The high school where Shoya, Tomohiro, Miki, and Satoshi study — a place of qualified new beginnings and unavoidable old patterns.
The high school is where Shoya has been performing his social disappearance for three years — present in body, absent in investment. He is not bullied here exactly; he has simply made himself irrelevant, erasing himself from the social fabric before anyone else can. Meeting Tomohiro disrupts this. The school also creates the conditions for old group members to re-encounter each other — the social geometry of childhood is impossible to fully escape in a mid-sized city.
A larger building than the elementary school, with a more institutional seriousness — students in uniform in the halls, bulletin boards with club notices, a gymnasium that doubles for assemblies. The roof is accessible and appears as a place of private conversation.
Also known as: high school, Shoya's high school, the school