Last week on Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu things finally became serious, relatively speaking. Class F started their campaign with the goal of taking down Class A. With all the other classes taken down, the latest episode focuses on an all-out war against the elites. I wonder, who will prevail?
You're not really filling me with confidence, Yoshii.
The episode starts with some training on the roof, which eventually ends with a joke at Yoshii’s expense. The next morning he wakes up to his sister trying to make advances on him again. Putting that craziness aside, he goes to school, where Hideyoshi has retrieved his sisters “textbooks.” Yuuji sends the idiot out in the hall with one to declare war on Class A. He meets with predictable results, and Yuuko comes to berate the class. The battle actually begins when Kyouji strikes at the pride of Class A. The rest of the school follows, wearing down the high-level forces. Class F uses a variety of misdirection and traps to thin the ranks, with Yoshii playing point in most of the plan. The main Class F and A forces meet on the roof and begin to fight. The lower class’s practice has paid off, they’ve developed the ability to dodge in the battle system. When the enemy cavalry arrives, Yoshii blocks them off with the school’s bell. Unfortunately, his bracelet dies and the bell almost kills everyone. Ironman actually saves the day, but Yuuko kills Yuuji’s avatar, winning the battle for Class A.
Are you making an osmosis joke? Wow, that's some pretty high-brow comedy.
I guess even the ladies have their weaknesses...
Is there a doctor in the house? I need a cure for the stupids.
PLEASE tell me this battle is a Persona reference!
Oh it is on now!
How about 1000 lashes with a wet noodle!?
The little being that could...
Pretty impressive. Yoshii is so stupid that he became smart and broke his own bracelet.
I enjoyed this episode all the way up to the end. I thought Yuuji using the other classes to force Class A into a war of attrition was brilliant, and it had the bonus of exasperating Yuuko. Yoshii finally got to put his avatar to use as well, and it must be humiliating to get taken down by a wall of desks, and then by a bell. I also liked the strategy to try to win the fight with scratch damage, considering my propensity to do the same thing in video games. The relationship level up both the couple’s got added in that D’aww factor that appears in every episode. The only aspect I really take issue with is the ending. Maybe it’s because I like to root for the underdog, and this is the same kind of ending that I have seen so many times in the past. I felt like I had just watched a Trix commercial or an episode of Roadrunner vs. Coyote. Except in this case, Class F actually had a good, solid plan for victory. I know seeing the moment stolen from them was a joke, but to me, it just felt like a weak copout to keep them from finally winning. It does leave me wondering what they have planned for the final episode. They had just better not use it to tie into a second season of the same thing.
This is what I think of your happy ending!
Rest assured the way this anime has performed this season it’s definitly going to get a second season. I also kind of deduced the probability of that ending occurring by factoring in the possible scenarios and that was my top scenario given the nature and tone of the series. Until then we still have another episode don’t we? Were just gonna have to wait and see what the future lies in store for us.
Yeah, I just don’t really see exactly where they’re going to go with the next episode from here. I assume it’s going to have something to do with the principal though, at least, that’s what I’d really like to see. She’s had some kind of plan for Class F, I want to know what it is.
I expected that Class F will lose because if they win and take over the facilities of Class A, they won’t be the Idiots of the School anymore. Sadly it was predictable. My favourite ending would have been if Class F had won the battle and as a prize Yuuji had asked the Principal to drop the class system and let each student have equal facilities. Oh well, this is a comedy after all…
Heh, yeah, it’s a comedy, but it doesn’t mean it can’t have some kind of consistency to it. I was actually reasoning that this battle system is a state of the art system. I believe that the characters in the series are sophomores. So what they could do is spread the technology to other schools for the next school year. Then Class F suddenly has to defend themselves against a bunch of schools that want to gun for the “idiot-geniuses”. That right there could give the series a lot of mileage without being ridiculous.
Well, I’d watch it.
I was disappointed at the ending as well, but mainly because I expected the conclusion to the ESB to be in the next episode. I kinda figured it was 50/50 that class F would lose. Having them conquer class A and become the new top would be too straightforward for a show such as this. There is something uniquely satisfying about seeing the ones you root for finally lose, having met their match, an opponent so powerful that all their wits and guile wasn’t enough. Simply getting that close to victory was an accomplishment un itself.
I’m also a huge Red Sox fan.
I did love everything about the episode up until the ending which i knew was going to happen, yet somehow i was still thrown off by the timing. That’s something i love about this show the timing is unpredicatable. Although i hate how the characters remain ignorant to a certain degree.