Anime & Manga
"As you can see, I’m the kind of normal high school boy you can find anywhere […] I have nothing and I don’t want anything I can call myself best in the world at."
— Kakeru Kamisato, A Certain Magical Index
"I don't see how they could ever figure out that I'm Kira. I shouldn't look like anything other than your average high school senior."
— Light Yagami, Death Note
Narrator: Yes, right now the boy is an Ordinary High-School Student that commutes to an ordinary public high school.
Hayate: Why, hello, my ordinary classmates that commute to my ordinary public high school.
Hayate: Why, hello, my ordinary classmates that commute to my ordinary public high school.
"Last time, I was pulled into a hidden well on my family's shrine. I'm just a girl in middle school, okay?note Nothing that weird's ever happened to me. There was a boy, Inuyasha, pinned to a tree when I came out. The spell should have held forever, but somehow I broke it. Now monsters are after the sacred jewel of four souls, and here I am, stuck in the Feudal Age of Japan!"
— Kagome, Inuyasha (second episode recap)
Yashiro: I keep telling you, I don't know what this is all about, I'm just an Ordinary High-School Student!
Voice Actor Sam Riegel: (caption on photo of above line in script) This line should be in every anime ever.
Voice Actor Sam Riegel: (caption on photo of above line in script) This line should be in every anime ever.
— K
"I am Shirahama Kenichi, an extremely ordinary first-year high school student who loves reading books and growing flowers. But, for some reason now, I'm locked in a desperate battle on top of a speeding bus!"
"I worked so hard to get into this school because it was my dream to get into a good school, join a famous company and live the OL high life. I never had any intention of becoming an astronaut. […] So I'm not part of all that stuff. Going out for karaoke with everybody, copying each other's notes, talking about CDs and TV shows, gossiping about our friends… That was my whole world. So I'm just a regular high-schooler. Just a regular… high schooler…"
— Yukari Morita, Rocket Girls
I'm Ichigo Momomiya, 13 years old.
I used to be a normal junior high student.
But all of a sudden I became a Mew Mew to save the Earth!
Literature
"But I'm just an ordinary high school student!"
— Youko, The Twelve Kingdoms
Video Games
"As you can see, I'm nothing but a hopelessly average high school student. Average on the outside, average on the inside. I really don't have much going for me when it comes to grades, special abilities, even personality. I mean yeah, I have hobbies and stuff I like to do, but it's not like I'm a psychic or mutant or whatever. Like, if you asked me what my favorite song was, or my favorite movie or TV show, they'd all just be whatever's most popular at that particular moment. Even among the average, I'm completely average. So I can't even say I'm your "everyday hero" type. That's just who I am."
— Makoto Naegi, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
"Wow, ordinary high school students sure are something!"
— Arcueid, Tsukihime
"My name is Sigma. I'm just your run-of-the-mill college student. Or I was... before I ended up here."
— Sigma, Virtue's Last Reward OVA
Webcomics
Ritsu: "People like me"? I assure you I'm a completely ordinary junior high school student. Extremely simple and normal.
Tokugawa: Hmpf. You won't find an extremely simple and normal junior high school student anywhere on earth.
Western Animation
I'm your basic average girl
And I'm here to save the world.
And I'm here to save the world.
