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The first subgenre that saturated light novel works was the ExtranormalInstitute[=/=][[WizardingSchool Magical Academy]] show which featured a protagonist entering some sort of elite school and rising to become one of its most famous and talented students. Examples include ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', ''Literature/AbsoluteDuo'', ''Literature/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman'', ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'', and many, ''many'' more. As theorized by [=YouTuber=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7eTnwfd38w&t=304s Mother's Basement]], the outbreak of these stories was caused by the popularity of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' both in the West and Japan. It made for a very easy form of WishFulfillment where some otherwise OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent (as noted above) can learn cool abilities that no ordinary school could teach, in addition to gaining the admiration of any girls that attended (especially if it happened to be an all-girls school). In the early 2010s, however, that genre began to slowly die out, largely to be replaced with...

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The first subgenre that saturated light novel works was the ExtranormalInstitute[=/=][[WizardingSchool Magical Academy]] show which featured a protagonist entering some sort of elite school and rising to become one of its most famous and talented students. Examples include ''Literature/{{Maburaho}}'', ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', ''Literature/AbsoluteDuo'', ''Literature/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman'', ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'', and many, ''many'' more. As theorized by [=YouTuber=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7eTnwfd38w&t=304s Mother's Basement]], the outbreak of these stories was caused by the popularity of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' both in the West and Japan. It made for a very easy form of WishFulfillment where some otherwise OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent (as noted above) can learn cool abilities that no ordinary school could teach, in addition to gaining the admiration of any girls that attended (especially if it happened to be an all-girls school). In the early 2010s, however, that genre began to slowly die out, largely to be replaced with...

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