Gakuran The morning sun of April 8, 2008, marked both Mari Imani’s sixteenth birthday and his first day at Chimatsuri Academy in Tokyo. Walking through the gates, his mind automatically calculated the trajectories of falling cherry blossoms. Imani possessed a hyper-analytical brain. He viewed the world as a series of complex data patterns, a gift that allowed him to effortlessly ace every academic test and homework assignment put in front of him. But humans, he quickly learned, were far less predictable

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