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[[caption-width-right:350:The title screen.]]

->''Oh, no, I'm late for school again!\\
There's no time to eat my toast!\\
I met a cute boy\\
Light Chocolate Life Love''
-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_1rbcjevPA The Opening Theme]]'''

''Senpai Club'' is a four episode {{Fanime}} series created by the Swedish duo [[http://makebabi.es/ makebabi.es]] (Olivia Bergström and Eric Bradford). It is an AffectionateParody of anime tropes, specifically those found in the [[ShoujoDemographic shojo genre]].

15-year-old Tsumiki Domen is your everyday pink-haired OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. In her rush to get to class on time on her first day of high school, Tsumiki bumps into a handsome boy known as Hero-Senpai. Feeling guilty about the encounter, Tsumiki later goes looking for him to apologize and ends up stumbling upon the Senpai Club, a club full of handsome and charming men (and one woman). However, the club members have no interest in attracting the attention of women, instead having created the club to learn about how to ''avoid'' women. Hero-Senpai, though, just can't help but feel an instant attraction towards Tsumiki.

Episodes of ''Senpai Club'' can be found on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxiGG-_riejUKerXZNKLpw makebabi.es's]] Website/YouTube channel.

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!!''Senpai Club'' provides examples of:

* AdvertisedExtra: Rock-and-Roll Senpai. He shows up prominently in the opening, but barely gets two words into his introduction before being interrupted by Bowlcut Senpai.
* AerithAndBob: Seeing as the series takes place in Japan, everybody has a Japanese-sounding name. And then there's Nelly Smith. Justified though, as she's from America.
* AffectionateParody: Of the ShoujoDemographic. It also becomes clear in the subsequent episodes that the series is one to {{Anime}} in general.
* AllJustADream: The second episode's opening was this for Tsumiki, as she stood talking with Bowlcut-senpai.
* AnimeAccentAbsence: Averted with Nelly Smith, a half-Japanese half-American girl who moved to Japan just last year. Her control of the language seems fine, but her accent is uh, noticeable, to say the least.
* ArtShift: Episode 3 is animated in a manner reminiscent of a Creator/RumikoTakahashi work; the reason for this being that something went wrong with the current animation so they have to air "the original '80s anime."
* BabiesEverAfter: At the very least, the "80s version" reveals that Tsumiki and Hero have a child four years after the main story.
* BeachEpisode: The last episode takes place on their school trip, and has them on the beach for some of it.
* ButNotTooForeign: Nelly Smith, who was raised in America but has a Japanese mother
* CherryBlossoms: ALL OVER on the way to school. Also appears during the OP.
* ChristmasEpisode: This particular one features Kurokawa and Teacher-sensei going on a date together before ending with Kurokawa kissing her.
* ClipArtAnimation: The "next time on" segment.
* ConvenientlySeated: Near the window, of course.
* CrashIntoHello: How Tsumiki meets Hero-senpai.
* DeadGuyJunior: In the Five Years Later episode, [[spoiler:Hero-senpai and Tsumiki's child is revealed to be named "Frederico" after Rock 'n' Roll-Senpai's real name]]
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Teacher-Sensei (and since the voice acting is in Japanese, she's referred to as Sensei-Sensei)
* DreamIntro: Episode 2 does this.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: "My name is Tsumiki Domen. I'm 15 years old. My birthday is February 14! Beef bowls are my favorite food, and my blood type is A!"
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The ending for Episode 1 is clearly sung by the voice actor for Bowlcut-senpai, while he joins Hero-senpai for the second ending theme.
* FacelessMasses: In episode 2, all of the other students are simply identified as either being a boy or a girl by being pink or blue.
* {{Fanime}}
* FunnyForeigner: Nelly Smith, an American who wears star spangled socks, eats [[BlandNameProduct McDonald's-esque]] food, and speaks with a strong Southern drawl.
* FunWithSubtitles:
** The first two words of the theme song are clearly swearwords (''kuso'' meaning "shit" and ''fakku'' being a Japanese pronunciation of "fuck"), but the subtitles never translate them as such and always go for something more tame (like "Oh no").
** Tsumiki saying UsefulNotes/{{Baka}} over and over in the first episode is subtitled as an extremely long, verbose paragraph.
* GratuitousEnglish: Mainly Nelly uses this.
* GratuitousFrench: The credits song for the third episode, "Don't Graduate, Senpai!", makes use of the French word "Aventure"[[labelnote:TR.]]"Adventure"[[/labelnote]] in between its Japanese and gratuitous English.
* GratuitousGerman: From Lady-Senpai.
* GratuitousSpanish: Inexplicably, "Corazón"[[labelnote:TR.]]"Heart"[[/labelnote]] is used in the opening alongside English and Japanese lyrics.
* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: "LIGHT CHOCOLATE LOVE LIFE" (subbed ''3 times'' at once)
* InTheStyleOf:
** Episode 1 is done in the style of a typical early-mid 2000's anime.
** Episode 2 looks like it was made by Creator/StudioShaft, complete with head-tilt.
** Episode 3 (due to technical limitations) resembles a [[Creator/RumikoTakahashi Takahashi-esque]] [[{{Retraux}} '80s anime.]]
* LateForSchool: The opening scene of the first episode, complete with anime toast.
* LovableSexManiac: Kurokawa's behavior towards Teacher-Sensei is rather ''inappropriate'', though it's all played for laughs.
* LoveBubbles
* MorningRoutine: Episode 1 begins with this.
* NoNameGiven: The Senpais are only referred to as their titles (Hero-Senpai, Bowl Cut-Senpai, Lady-Senpai, etc.)
* {{Ojou}}: Lady-Senpai presents herself in this way. Though the subtitles translate her name as "Lady-Senpai", her name is actually "Ojou-Senpai" in Japanese.
* OnceAnEpisode: The opening and ending credits and whoever sings them changes depending on the episode.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: ''All'' of the senpais.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Everyone, give or take a measure of ordinary. Though the most ordinary out of all of them seems to be Tsumiki.
* PublicServiceAnnouncement: In the background of the first episode, you can see a poster saying "DO!! NOT DRUGS"
* {{Retraux}}: The third episode is done in the style of anime made in TheEighties, the InUniverse reason being that this particular episode is from the 1980s adaptation of ''Senpai Club''.
* SailorFuku: The uniforms the girls use, as per anime cliche.
* SettingUpdate: Based on what was revealed in episode 3, the current show updates the series to be in TheNewTens.
* StylisticSuck: The art style of the Senpais. It parodies infamous [[ArtisticLicenseBiology yaoi anatomy]] on the guys (especially flat, pointy chins, ala [[http://lychgate.tumblr.com/tagged/dorito%20faced%20bad%20touch%20sempai%20san%20and%20shota%20boy Dorito Faced Bad Touch Sempai San and Shota Boy]]), although the girls are animated much more professionally.
* ShoutOut:
** The girls wear ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' style school uniforms.
** Episode 2 features Creator/StudioShaft's signature head tilt.
* SuperDeformed: Used every once in a while, particularly during the OnTheNext segments.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Lady-Senpai appears to be the only female Senpai in the club.
* RetroactiveLegacy: The series is apparently old enough to have had an AnimatedAdaptation in the mid 80s. We only see "the equivalent" episode to the modern episode 3 to fill in for the modern adaptation's broken disc.
* VSign: In the opening.
* {{Woolseyism}}: The subtitles for episode 3 have a more liberal take on the opening and ending themes, instead matching the beat of the song. {{Invoked}}, as it matches real life 80's subtitling.
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