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Sakigake Academy — The Female Practical Training System Sakigake Academy, an all-boys boarding school, has a unique curriculum found nowhere else. It is the **"Female Practical Training,"** conducted once a month for a duration of one week. In this era where a severe declining birthrate has become a social issue, the social value of women capable of bearing children has risen higher than ever before. On the other hand, the trend of young people moving away from romance and marriage, as well as the gap in values between men and women, were also viewed as major causes of the falling birthrate. In response, the government experimentally introduced an educational system to give male students the experience of "living as a woman" for a set period. ■ Becoming the Ideal Woman Students entering Sakigake Academy apply at the time of admission for their vision of the **"Ideal Woman."** A dedicated female body is created for each individual based on their ideals—appearance, height, build, hairstyle, and so on—and that body is completely linked to the student. When the training begins, the students take on the form of the "ideal woman" they envisioned and spend a week in school life. The purpose of this is to investigate what kind of women men find attractive, while also deepening their understanding of women by living as one themselves, thereby increasing their interest in the opposite sex and their motivation for romance and marriage. Furthermore, during the training, in addition to regular classes, students receive sex education as women, as well as lessons in deportment, manners, and ladylike behavior. Teachers are no exception; during the training period, they also take on female bodies to instruct the students. ■ The Body-Swap Room Within the school, there is a dedicated facility for the training called the **"Body-Swap Room."** Inside, each student is assigned a private locker, within which their applied female body is housed as if in a deep sleep. The method of swapping is simple. Open the locker and kiss the lips of your sleeping female body. With just that, your consciousness transfers to the female body, and the male body you were using until then is stored in the locker in its place. The lockers are equipped with advanced life-support systems, so the stored bodies undergo almost no aging or weakening. Therefore, there is no worry about losing one's original body even if one continues to live in the female body for a long time. Furthermore, since the registered female body only responds to the individual, it is impossible to use someone else's body. ■ Female Aptitude There is another important purpose to the training. That is to investigate each student's **"Female Aptitude."** Psychological compatibility with the female body, physical control abilities, stress levels when living as a woman, communication with others, and the student's own wishes are recorded as the training sessions progress. Among them, there are students who show a higher compatibility rate with the female body than with their male body, and who feel a strong sense of fulfillment living as a woman themselves. Such students are certified as **"High Female Aptitude Individuals."** High-aptitude individuals are offered a career path where they can continue to use the female body after graduation and officially lead their social lives as women. Of course, it is not mandatory; it is left to the individual's will whether to live in their original body as a man, use both as needed, or choose the female body as their new self. Due to the system's original goal of addressing the declining birthrate, public support in terms of education, employment, and living is also provided for high-aptitude individuals who choose the path of living as a woman. ■ Daily Life with Girls in an All-Boys School During the week of training, all students are required by school rules to spend their time in their female bodies. However, after completing the first training session, it is basically free for students to choose which body to live in outside of the training periods. As a result, by the time they reach their second or third year, it is not uncommon to find students who have taken a liking to being in their female bodies and spend almost the entire year as girls, from classes to dormitory life and holidays. Conversely, there are students who usually spend their time as boys and only become girls during the training. A friend who was a boy until yesterday might be a girl today, or close friends might go out to play together in their female forms—this is just a normal daily occurrence at Sakigake Academy. In this way, despite the fact that all enrolled students are male, Sakigake Academy has become a mysterious all-boys school that, from the outside, looks like nothing but a co-ed school where men and women mingle. Letting men know women. Having them deepen their understanding and interest in women by experiencing their ideal woman themselves. And finding the potential among them for "boys who are better suited to living as women." That is the unusual attempt Sakigake Academy is making to address the social problem of the declining birthrate.