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暗殺教室 9 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 9]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征

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Premise labels used: assassination attempt, school setting, teacher-student bond, classroom conflict, hidden threat, student underdog

Setting labels used: junior high school, school life, classroom, private school, summer vacation, second semester, fictional reality, extraterrestrial being

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暗殺教室 5 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 5]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征 · 2013 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

A school class of would-be assassins faces a brutal baseball match, a new teacher, and a dangerous new weakness.

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Premise labels: assassination training · teacher-student conflict · school under threat · alien teacher · underachieving class · talent development

Setting labels: junior high school · school setting · classroom setting · summer setting · military school influence · extraterrestrial reality

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Distance: 0.0951

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暗殺教室 6 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 6]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征 · 2013 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

Class E uncovers Koro-sensei’s water weakness, then faces exam battles and school rivals with huge stakes.

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Premise labels: assassination training · school assassination · teacher-student conflict · class struggle · world threat · exam incentive

Setting labels: junior high school · school setting · classroom setting · school competition · pool setting · science fiction reality · extraterrestrial beings

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Distance: 0.0994

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My Teacher Is an Alien

Bruce Coville · 2005 · My Teacher Is an Alien

A sixth-grader discovers her substitute teacher is an alien and races to stop his secret plan.

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Premise labels: alien teacher · substitute teacher · alien abduction · school threat · students uncover secret

Setting labels: sixth grade · school setting · classroom · substitute teacher setting · earth · extraterrestrial reality

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Distance: 0.1913

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The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell

Mira Grant · 2014 · Newsflesh

A first-grade teacher fights to protect her class when a post-Rising school safety system fails during a zombie outbreak.

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Premise labels: zombie outbreak · school lockdown · survival struggle · protect students · teacher hero · institutional failure · public school safety · post-apocalypse aftermath

Setting labels: elementary school · first grade classroom · kindergarten classroom · post-zombie apocalypse · post-Rising world · Seattle · Pacific Northwest · future dystopia · school lockdown

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Distance: 0.2126

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Behind the Gates

Eva Gray · 2011 · Tomorrow Girls

A girls' boarding school in a war-torn future hides secrets, forcing four friends to survive and trust each other.

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Premise labels: survival · boarding school · friendship · war setting · school conspiracy · hidden agenda · identity concealment · forced isolation

Setting labels: future world · dystopian future · war-torn society · boarding school · isolated school · wilderness setting · schoolcamp

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Distance: 0.2128

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ダンダダン 15 [Dan Da Dan 15]

Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸 · 2024 · ダンダダン [Dan Da Dan]

After a battle ends, a school occult club forms to hunt mysteries while a new teacher and a classmate’s hidden pain raise fresh stakes.

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Premise labels: occult investigation · school club · supernatural battles · alien threats · missing object quest · mystery teacher · hidden past

Setting labels: high school · school club · modern day · urban · occult · spirits and aliens · paranormal reality

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Distance: 0.2230

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Persephone

Lev Grossman · 2022

A bullied teen’s buried grief cracks open a hidden power and pulls her toward a secret world she barely understands.

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Premise labels: teen powers · emotional awakening · school bullying · hidden abilities · secret world · coming-of-age · disappearing parent · gifted teens · power eruption

Setting labels: high school · school setting · teen setting · contemporary setting · secret facility · hidden world · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.2255

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Curtsies & Conspiracies

Gail Carriger · 2013 · Finishing School

A spy-in-training at an airborne finishing school uncovers a conspiracy, a kidnapping plot, and complicated new feelings.

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Premise labels: spy school · boarding school · conspiracy · stolen device · kidnapping attempt · girls' academy · evil genius school · travel invention

Setting labels: finishing school · dirigible school · airship · London · Victorian-era setting · alternate reality · paranormal world · boarding school

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Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2

Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw · 2012 · Wolverine and the X-Men (2011)

Wolverine leads a mutant school through space-gambling schemes, alien-body battles, and nonstop crises to keep it alive.

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Premise labels: mutant school · school funding crisis · space heist · body invasion · alien infestation · ensemble team-up · student-teacher dynamics · deadly school threat

Setting labels: mutant school · space casino · intergalactic setting · school campus · microscopic interior setting · outer space · Marvel Universe · alien environments · off-world

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Distance: 0.2279

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Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?

Liz Kessler · 2015

A schoolgirl’s sudden invisibility draws her into a secret circle of kids with powers and a dangerous hidden origin.

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Premise labels: invisibility · superpowers · hidden abilities · kids with powers · ordinary child becomes extraordinary · secret origin · young heroes · friend-led investigation

Setting labels: school setting · middle school · teen contemporary · small-scale reality · lightly fantastical world · local adventure

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Distance: 0.2313

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The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1

Kazuo Umezu · 2006 · The Drifting Classroom

An elementary school vanishes into a barren wasteland, forcing children and teachers to survive as order collapses.

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Premise labels: school disappearance · transported school · survival ordeal · alien wasteland · lost children · adult breakdown · resource scarcity · mystery premise

Setting labels: elementary school · wasteland · desert landscape · alien world · nightmarish reality · mysterious realm · isolated school

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Distance: 0.2330

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Lost and Found

Orson Scott Card · 2019 · Micropowers

A shunned teen with a tiny finding-lost-things power gets pulled into friendship and a dangerous missing-child case.

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Premise labels: minor powers · finding lost things · misunderstood teen · missing child · outcast protagonist · compulsion to return items · supportive friendship · school ostracism

Setting labels: high school · school setting · contemporary world · our world · police investigation · support group setting · family home

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Distance: 0.2343

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