The high school kids aren’t exactly tasked with this, they mostly fall into it, but you get the general idea. Persona is a SMT spinoff that focuses on high school students and, while it’s generally pretty bleak, it’s a hell of a lot less bleak than nuclear holocaust and killing Yahweh.

I would say that it perhaps falls into the normal adventurer archetype in that most of them were adolescents in the past.

I’m liking the plugin so far.

Of course, I called Buffy/Persona a jungian archetype facetiously, but perhaps only if you narrowly constrict it to High School. Maybe there was an analog in ancient times of some crime fighting guy who also had to till the fields for his Roman master. Or perhaps I’m full of crap. At any rate, it appears to be a new archetype if it didn’t exist before. Although they would blow my “there’s nothing new” outlook totally out of the water.

The related posts at the bottom of each post is really the most important part for getting readers more immersed into your blog. Most people ignore the stuff on the left and right unless they are specifically looking for something. I know I usually do as the stuff in the sidebars are either navigational (and I already found the post I want) or advertising (and I usually don’t care). With a little theme editing, you could probably get rid of the useless one. But what the plugin really did that is useful is add in the related posts to your RSS feed.

I’ve never seen Buffy, so I can’t really compare, but I don’t know if I’d say it was quite like that.

I’m not sure I’d call high school stories like this and Buffy Jungian, since high school hasn’t existed for all time, but there are definitely some deep-seated human qualities to the story that are common across almost all cultures. You almost make that point too with the moving out to the country thing. It’s a universal feeling.

The related posts thing is nice, but my theme already had something that did it (and poorly) so now I have two related posts headings with only one that does anything.

I’m curious – is Persona 4 a continuation of P3? Or are you a completely different person? Interestingly, the plot sounds like a Japan version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After all, she is also a high school student trying to have friends, good grades, and a love life. On top of that she also has to battle demons and vampires. I don’t know which came first or if this is just a version of a Jungian story that every culture inevitably has.

I think it’s interesting how the characters tell you that it will suck going to school in the country. That would also happen in the USA. In fact, I can almost picture a movie where that happens, but I can’t put my finger on the exact movie. There are probably at least half a dozen with that plot.

As a final, and unrelated point, the related posts plugin seems to be working very, very well. Hope it helps lead new readers to some of your previous articles.