Premieres October 2024. The new PV is here. This is an original anime from Studio NUTS. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis from the article:
The anime’s story centers on Tsunehiro Sasaki, a university student with a large debt and is told by his doctor that he only has two years left to live. Living the rest of his days in depression, Tsunehiro one day gets chased by a debt collector and falls into the sea. He is rescued by Hana, a girl who loves fishing, and her fishing friends including Takaaki.
Hana urges Tsunehiro to experience fishing for the first time in his life and he starts to develop friendship with other fishing enthusiasts. Thing start looking up for Tsunehiro as he starts working at the convenience store where Hana and Takaaki work, and he slowly gets hooked into fishing.
Finally an anime protagonist I can relate with!
Don’t your inheritors have to pay for it, then?
The way it would work in the US (which, let’s be real, probably has the most acute case of out of control higher education costs) is that any remaining debts you have when you die would be paid off by your estate (any cash/assets you have left behind). If your estate is liquidated and there are still outstanding debts, those do not transfer to other people unless their name is also on the debt. So, if you have student loans just in your name, then they would go away. However, if, say, your parents cosign on the loans, then they would assume responsibility for them.
Wait so schooling doesn’t have to be paid, then? I’m starting to wonder if there’s some significant profit margin in there…