Manzel University

**Manzel University** (漫些大學) is a all-boys university located at southern Siangwaan. It is notorious for its unruly students, to the point that the rest of the country referred it as "the worst university in all of Siangwaan".

## Nicknames

* Hellgate University (Dei Yuk Mun Daihok)
* Man Zei (Ten Thousand Bandits)
* Winter Palace (a name of a prison in northeastern Darros)
* Laapsaap Daihok (Trash University)
* Bazairel Prison
* The Prison
* Chaos Hellhole (Yun Hondo)
* Pit of Chaos (Yo Bok)
* Sanity Is For The Weak (Shaa Nei Wai Yuk Gan)

## Characteristics

Although its official symbol was a pikeman killing an ogre, a popular symbol used by its opponents is a crashed starship, symbolising its failed potential. The school's mascot is also a pikeman, but the students made him look more threatening and chaotic with spikes in his armour.

This university has the cheapest prices in the whole province, if not all of Siangwaan. Its appeal stems from its hooligan subcultures, its cheaper prices, and its entertaining teachers; in spite of the university's poor reputation, it also attracted eccentrics and the occasional cool kid into its student body. Nonetheless, other institutions look down on Manzel University for being too "vulgar".

Some people refer its students and alumni as "Man Zei!", meaning "ten thousand bandits" or "full of bandits". Even then, many of Manzel's students are more interested in making a mess and lots of loud noise, and making fun of politicians, celebrities, and drunk people. Although they tend to be less violent than several other notorious schools and sports fans, they are able to fend off attacks from their rivals' hooligans thanks to some military training.

Although the student body is used to being multi-ethnic, they gladly welcome any foreign student who is (un)fortunate enough to be transferred into Manzel.

### Culture

The university's subcultures revolve around imitating punks and hustlers; army brats; wrestling; hockey; hip-hop or rock bands; art; cycling; jousting; basketball; or simply over their favourite colour, actor, or film. Furthermore, although fights break out infrequently and the students like to do vandalism, most of these subcultures get along and even support each other.

Upset with their dorms' dull architecture, the students paint their dorms with bright colours, or decorated them to look like a slum without the dirt. The western dorms have kites, sails, and flags; and the eastern dorms appear as though they had been burned and struck by lightning, contributing to poorer attitudes towards the university.

Heavy metal music is the university's unofficial musical genre, as it represents the institution's descent into insanity.

Manzel University's unofficial patron deity is Kalshoroi.

## Trivia

* Manzel University might be inspired by Idiocracy, Shinnippori University, and the Mainland Chinese insult "ni ma si le" (also spelled "NMSL") rearranged. It was also inspired by universities considered the worst by users in Mainland China.
	+ The Manzelians' love of rock music may be influenced by the author's love of Slipknot's music, and the Warhammer 40,000 fandom's jokes and their game's grimdark setting, which he considered to crude enough to fit the university's horrible aesthetic.
* Anything or anyone from Manzel University is known as a Manzelian.
* Its "polar opposite" is Ling Wai University (另外), which is the trendiest university in all of Siangwaan. It is located at the southern outskirts of the capital city Ei Ka. Although fights between them rarely occur, both universities tend to be friendly rivals who exchange mocking banter.
	+ Ling Wai University is full of well-dressed boys and men who study in neat classrooms. To outsiders and commoners, their rooms and halls look like a palace.
	+ Ling Wai may be inspired by stereotypical British schools. such as Eton College and Oxford University.
	+ Their "spear counterpart" would be Dao Wai University, which welcomes the girls of the region to its eccentric parties and bike shows. The girls of Dao Wai are known by their neighbours to be very vulgar, rude, and uncouth, to the point that in a popular girls' magazine, they were rated as the worst university in Siangwaan. Nonetheless, like Manzel University, they mostly did it for show.
* Its other rivals include:
	+ Mengdo Nam Academy (孟德南, ultra-patriotic biker gangs and army brats),
	+ Chao Huo University (超火, pyromaniacs, chariot field, and "the worst foreign exchange students")
	+ Onhak Mong Arts College (暗黑夢, horrifying, eldritch artworks that scar minds for life)
	+ Omaishoudaa Higher Grads (奧米數達, has so many fights with near anyone who approaches them, that all of its students were immediately placed under conscription training)
	+ Paanzeuksai (翻着洗, aspiring craftspeople who instead become thugs and hustlers, allegedly Manzel's students' role models)
	+ Ao Gwaang Mun Academy (敖光門, fishing town sports hooligans, tall people. A quarter of its students and teachers are among Siangwaan's mutants, and most of them happen to be "the town's friendly pyromaniacs". So when Ao Gwaang Mun and Manzel meet, they talk about "Fire and Iron" to each other.)
	+ Ling Huo University (令火, more Siangwaanian sdachels and Lampguard exchange students from gods-know-where. For being the mutants' equivalent of Manzel University, they are more welcomed by the Manzelian students than their rivals of Ao Gwaang Mun)