All right, leaving that aside, however predictable this episode was, I do think bullying by the Japaneseses is a whole different animal. Telling the bullies to go to hell will only work as far as having a support system to back you up. Besides the fact that there is no such thing as detention, the schools, especially the private ones, care more about their reputations than about the actual welfare of their students. They might make a huge fuss about bullying on the outside, but when it comes to individual cases that affects them, the school works hard to look the other way or blame the bullying on the victims themselves. And as you can see, there was little sympathy from anybody for the kid who was bullied. That seems to be the case for a lot of Japanese people, even the parents of the bullied kid would wonder if they did something to deserve it.