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Why there are many scenes in anime that take place on roofs, particularly the
roof of schools?

School roof seem to be a popular place for students who want to be alone with
no one else there. Sometimes they come in for lunch, or just relax there.
![Angel Beats!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xoik5.jpg)
![Haganai](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rowo2.jpg)
![Kampfer](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xSgvE.jpg) ![Mahou Shoujo Madoka
Magica](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WWT6H.jpg) Angel Beats!, Boku wa Tomodachi
ga Sukunai, Kampfer, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica

This is also on the roof, but it's hopital roof ![The Disappearance of Haruhi
Suzumiya](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u4V9v.png) The Disappearance of Haruhi
Suzumiya

They even use it for fighting scene ![Ichiban Ushiro no
Daimaou](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Aaj6b.jpg) Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou

Sometimes there's even a garden on the roof of the school. ![The World God
Only Knows](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I9taY.jpg) The World God Only Knows

Any reason why does this common occurrence?


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Why there are many scenes in anime that take place on the roof?


There are many reasons for people to go to rooftops.

**One of those reasons would be Combat.**

> if the characters spend all their time in a crowded school or office
> building, the roof might be the only place that they feel like they have any
> room to maneuver for a fight. Bonus points if the building has some other
> reason to be up there, such as a rooftop garden, heliport, or basketball
> court.
> [source](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RooftopConfrontation)

Usually the protagonist doesn't want to fight in a crowded place where people
might get hurt ( there are some exceptions ). They usually move to a place
where the least damage can be done to the surroundings Aka the rooftops.

**Another reason would be alone time**

> With the usual size of homes in Japan, sometimes the only option available
> to a character who desperately needs to be alone is to climb up and sit on
> the roof of their house. There they can look up at the night sky and
> contemplate their place in the universe in peace and quiet.
> [source](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SittingOnTheRoof)

In allot of story's the main protagonist lives in a crowded city and as
described the only place to go would be The roof top

As for schools in japan there are many different layouts. Smaller schools with
less place for club activity's might actually place clubs as the gardening
club on the roof. Allowing the club to exist without taking to much space away
for other clubs making the roof a more pleasant place to stay for students
there for preferring them to eat lunch and hangout on the roof more often.

In other scenarios the school might not use the roof for anything and there
will be no attention on the roof. There for making it the perfect place for
socially awkward and or weird protagonists to eat there lunch without getting
disturbed.

_I left my answer to these 2 specific as your pictures hint the most to these
2 scenarios. if you where to list all potential roof top scenarios this answer
would become to broad/big_


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> The standard Japanese high school design includes an accessible roof, which
> is seldom locked in any serious way. Access to the roof is almost always
> explicitly forbidden, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone. Students and
> faculty will often find their way up to the roof for private lunches, heart-
> to-hearts, romantic goings-on, secret supernatural battles, or suicide. It
> has a chain-link fence to keep people from jumping off, except of course for
> all the people that do.
> [Source](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SittingOnTheRoof)


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