5 Anime That Understand Student Pressure Better Than Any Motivational Speaker Ever Could

Every motivational speaker has the same advice: "Believe in yourself." But what does that mean at 11 PM when you're staring at a physics chapter you've read four times? Motivational speakers talk at you. Anime talks to you. Haikyuu, Blue Period, Fruits Basket — they show characters actually failing, actually struggling, actually getting back up. Not with a smile. Messily. That's worth watching.