The Komachi exam subplot makes no sense

mechian said:
Clearly Komachi is one of the smartest characters in the show.

Yui and Tobe are dumb as bricks and they somehow got into this school.  

If the two dumbest characters could pass the entrance exam, why wouldn't Komachi? Not sure why she's so worried.

Tobe maybe got in with a sports scholarship but Yui doesn't have anything besides being a nice girl with big boobs and no brains.

mechian said:
Clearly Komachi is one of the smartest characters in the show.

Yui and Tobe are dumb as bricks and they somehow got into this school.  

If the two dumbest characters could pass the entrance exam, why wouldn't Komachi? Not sure why she's so worried.

Tobe maybe got in with a sports scholarship but Yui doesn't have anything besides being a nice girl with big boobs and no brains.

5Reinheit said:
The japanese educational system is not much about intelligence, but how much information you can memorize and how much time you study, the more the better. You can solve math problems in half the time others need, but if you don't study as hard as others, you won't be able to memorize the huge amount of formulas they ask you, even if you don't end up needing all of them for the exam at all.
Another example can be Kanjis, there are more than 10,000 Kanjis in the japanese dictionary, but only 2,000 are somehow useful in daily life. Most japaneses can't even read half of those 2,000 and some can't even read Kanjis properly, so the ones that can read more Kanjis are considered more intelligent and better workers, not because they are actually more intelligent or more capable, but because they took the time to study and memorize more than the rest, even if they won't need them at all.
Japan rewards self-sacrifice and dedication, doesn't matter much if that produces better results or not as long as you demonstrate effort.

mechian said:

You're making it more and more perplexing on how Yui passed the exam at all.

She has absolutely none of those qualities, self-sacrifice, dedication, memorization, effort.

In the first episode of season 1 alone she can not even follow a basic cooking recipe to bake cookies.  Set the temp to X degrees for Y minutes, how hard is this? Yet she burnt them to a crisp.  Then she watches TV and goofs off instead of doing her homework while 8man and Yuki stayed up all night reading the manuscripts.

The fact that Hayama and Yukino (and previously Haruno) are at this school suggests it's a relatively prestigious school.  Orimoto was surprised that 8man managed to get in.

The only one dumber than Yui is Tobe but he probably got a sports scholarship.

5Reinheit said:


Again, exams are not about being intelligent, but about memorizing. Yui might not be genius like Yukino, but she could have studied as hard as the rest or more, same with Tobe, you don't know that. You think only intelligent people get good results in exams, not at all, intelligence is only an advantage if you feed your brain with knowledge, that means studying.
The period when Yui get in the school is not part of the story in first place, to assume she didn't study hard for the exam just because she didn't do her homework in one episode or you didn't watch an episode of her studying is just assuming a fact without validation. School also have more than one homework and exams you know, if she didn't study or do her homework she would have failed the grade, something that didn't happen, means she indeed shows effort, at least enough to pass.
Why did you assume she lacks those qualities? In first place, memorizing is not something you lack unless you have some kind of attention disorder or brain damage, every alive being can memorize anything with the time needed.
Even if she was a bad cook, later in the story is shown how she makes valentine chocolate and even desserts with hachiman (him literally doing anything but tasting) that taste fine. Anyone can be good at something with practice.
Yui doesn't lack anything you said aside the intelligence of Yukino (which isn't fair to compare since she's a genius, no one else in school is, not only Yui like you think) and could have passed the entrance exam perfectly, anyone or any group resolute enough can do anything with the time needed.

mechian said:


The point is she can't even follow basic cooking instructions. She somehow burns it to a crisp using an oven.

And she'd rather goof off and watch TV than do her job which was critiquing the manuscript. 8man and Yukino spent all night reading and making notes.

Yui does not have dedication, effort, or memorization.

5Reinheit said:

Bet you didn't even read my comment lmao, if you did you wouldn't be repeting the same wrong things.
1- Memorization is not a skill, unless brain damage or severe attention disorder, literally EVERY ALIVE BEING can memorize things, you don't need to be Einstein. Even babies can do it, that argument makes no sense.
2- Idk what anime you watched but she made valentine chocolate and even desserts for others, they were cataloged as fine. Yes she burned food, who tf hasn't done that once with very simple stuff like damn cookies? I burned rice the first time i tried and my academic life is fine, why wouldn't it for burning damn food once? Everybody makes mistakes, you learn from them.
3- Watching one episode where Yui is irresponsable doesn't mean she doesn't study or do her homework, that's just assuming stuff. She would have failed the grade, which clearly didn't happen and obviously means she puts enough dedication to her academic life. You think you have never been irresponsible?

If you want to hate critizice characters or this anime, there are threads about weak points that make sense, after all nothing is perfect, don't use far-fetched arguments and assumptions to critizice.

mechian said:

Look I know Yui is your favourite and you're salty she didn't win but that doesn't change the facts.

It's a mystery how Yui got into this prestigious school with her lack of work ethics and intellectually capabilities that even Komachi worries about.

Throughout the series both 8man and Yukino comment on how Yui is a ditz, doesn't understand any of the stuff the two banter about, or any of the help requests.  Her whole character is just "she's a nice girl".

Watari made a mistake in making Yui too dumb but then placing them all at an elite school that smart kids, scholarship students, and children of politicians and CEOs go to.

5Reinheit said:

lmao who cares who won what does that even have to do with this. It's funny cause i even prefer Yukinishita, but here you are saying that im biased when i haven't even talked about Yukino xD
You keep repeating the exact same senseless stuff again and again even tho most people here and I myself have demonstrated it doesn't make any sense. Ain't gonna repeat literally the exact same thing for a 4th time to a person that doesn't even try to refuse with logical answers, literally like talking to a wall lmao you do you hater.