Jitsugetsu Mahou Gakuen （school）
Jitsugetsu Mahou Gakuen is a magic school founded by Ryūichi Kurosaki hidden in the mountains of the Japan's Kansai region in 2017. It doubles as the primary home of the most of the students as they are magically/spiritually-gifted orphans Ryūichi had gathered from across the world.
General Information
Description
The school consists of four wings. The west wings are the teacher’s office. The east wings are the standard, lecture classrooms. The north wing houses the special elective classrooms and dining hall. The south wing is separated from the other three and houses the dormitory. The school is surrounded by fences with trees and bushes planted along the fences. The school gates (the only entracepoint) sit in the north. It is decorated by two square stone pillars with carving of a qilin. In the entranceway to the school sits two stone lions, which can come to life and attack any trepassers.
School Name
The school is named after a magical sword owned by Ryūichi Kurosaki called 日月神劍 (Pinyin: Rì yuè shén jiàn, Jyutping: jat6 jyut6 san4 gim3, Sun and Moon Divine Blade).
School Crest
The school crest comprises three main elements: a golden pentagram at the center, a four-pointed star with a hollowed center in which the pentagram sits, and a purple circle. The golden pentagram represents the essence of magic. The four-pointed star represents the four cardinal directions from which students are recruited. Each spoke of the four-pointed star has a different color—red, blue, black, and white—and represents one of the Four Holy Beasts—Vermillion Bird, Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, White Tiger—which guards the school. The purple circle enclosing it all represents mystery (as is magic) as well as royalty or nobility, conveying the headmaster’s hope for his magician students to be of noble mind and heart.
School Motto
The school’s motto is “Diamonds are made in extreme conditions.” The students in this school are predominantly orphans that Ryūichi had selected and adopted from across the world. These children were either magically-gift or spiritually-gift, and he hoped to train them to become the leaders of the next generation of magicians. They are so-called “diamonds is the rough,” and through rigorous training and their own diligence, he hopes to improve their lives.
History
Jitsugetsu Mahou Gakuen is a young school founded in 2017 by Ryūichi Kurosaki. Ryūichi began planning to start the school in 2016, and after a year of traveling around the world to gather talents for the school and to consult architects and engineers on the construction, Ryūichi finally built the school in 2017. Initially, there were only 8 or so students, but the numbers grew as yōkai children also began enrolling through Ryūichi’s connection with Tamamo-no-Mae. Despite the differences in species, race, and ethnicity, there was little discriminations among the students.
Administration & Teaching staff
In the beginning, everything was handled by Ryūichi through the use of his doppelgänger magic: teaching, cooking, cleaning, disciplining, etc. He played all roles within the school from principal to cook to dorm parent (and actually father to the kids he adopted). Eventually, Ryūichi gave staff positions to created shikigami and hired yōkai from the surrounding area to fill in missing roles. In the end, Ryūichi still maintain some teaching role in the upper-level science, computing, and magic theory classes, as well as the introductory practical magical class.
Curriculum
The school curriculum is divided into two parts—the day curriculum and night curriculum. During the daytime (9am-3pm), all students are enrolled in traditional, lecture-based classes on language (Japanese and English), mathematics, science, history, geography, computing, and fine art electives. The night curriculum (7pm-9pm) depends on the student. While human students can only learn magic, yōkai students are able to learn demonic arts and magic. Thus, each month, yōkai students select the class they wish to take. In lower grades of the night curriculum, students are taught spells and techniques, and as they grow older, they learn the principles, laws, and theories behind the powers they use. All students graduating from the school have the requisite knowledge to function in modern-day human society. They can site for university entrance exams and perfect just as well as regular Japanese human students.
Extra-curricular activities
Being a boarding school in the mountains of Japan’s Kansai region, students spend a lot of their free time playing on the school grounds. Students are allowed to use any of the fine arts elective and computing classrooms outside of class. Students are encouraged to explore their interests in whatever they please—sports, cooking, sewing, painting, sketching, video games, etc.—so long as it is not harmful to them or others and does not break the law.
Typical school year
The school year starts in April like all Japanese school and operate on a trimester schedule (April-June, August-October, and December-mid March). Summer break is in July, and fall break is in November. Because students get a two-week break at end of December and beginning of January for Christmas and New Year’s, the final term continues until mid-March. There are also several holidays spread throughout the year as well.
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