“Duty After School” largely centers its story on high school students in a life-or-death scenario, focusing on teamwork, fear, and sacrifice rather than overtly inserting identity politics. Casting choices and character arcs feel organic, with skills, personalities, and flaws explored fairly among the ensemble. Forced representation or ideological grandstanding is minimal.

The series explores themes of duty, sacrifice, and camaraderie under pressure, values aligned with traditional perspectives. While there are moments where authority figures are questioned, family, masculinity, and morality aren’t overtly undermined. The show doesn’t aggressively subvert gender roles or rewrite cultural values.

Although modern attitudes toward individuality and authority are present, the show allows characters to have different viewpoints and face sincere moral dilemmas. While traditional dissenters aren’t heroized, perspectives aren’t reduced to one-note villains or caricatures. There’s some plurality among the students' worldviews.