**Warning: Reviews contains SPOILERS!

Don't read unless you want to get spoiled or you've done this ~~thick-witted~~ anime series.**

"It has the most vivid and joyful tone."

So, before I come up with my usual review, what was the first thing has come into your brain when you read the title? Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, was it pretty clear? Yes, it's all about the idiots who do the test and summoning the beasts, pretty simple and somewhat cliche for your brain to remember it, isn't it? Yet, with those basic premises, Baka to Test can make somewhat an exceptional series of it's kind. And also, with a lot of anime series bring to school as the main environment, Baka to Test is fresh and somewhat genuine in a lot of aspects and must say it's one of the kind. As they bring something usual but somewhat unique to soothe the audiences of watching the series scene-by-scene from a serious and shounen kind of like terms into unexpected events which has delivered the waves of laughter. The ridiculous, funny, stupid, unexpected, and also joys and tears fulfil the anime into its most vivid tone. It's humorously a rainbow kind of show! And before I continue, hopefully, you'll enjoy my effortful review.

"It has the most basic premises yet leads into something unusual."

As I stated in the preliminary section, it has the most fundamental premises that typical in any anime series. Yes, school. The question is, what are the difference? "Well, people can't just give a damn to a boring slice of life with the school as the background, right? How about if we add the idiot students, the hierarchy of classes, from the most impoverished to the most glamourous and some monsters to summon?" These ideas are somewhat unrelatable but it made it! I can tell from a way of the story narrates itself, it's just exceptional. There are not many anime series which rely on the narration to progress throughout the story, let alone the comedy genre, there are some, but it's not such plenty. At that time, there is no kind of narrative series that very popular (until people discovered Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai which also spans into the comedy-romance narrative as its premise). So, Baka to Test was different as a whole in the comedy genre. This narrative kind of premise also advances with the absurd kind of comedy whereas a lot of illogical but purposely entertaining made the series fills out the laughter in every episode. Another premise that people might notice or not is the slice of life. Yes, I know it's not that obvious but can't say it's vague as the background had taken from a school which primarily based on real-life, so it's (still) a slice of life anime series. The other "background" that I've noticed was the romance. Yes, even though it's not the main point of this series but this series still has it. I can't tell anything about the romance but it's a triangle kind of like relationship in general. At last, Baka to Test has some sub-genres which not mentioned above as it's not the main theme of this series.

Well, the next is the spoilers part.

III. Third: "The Plot & Narration"

"School, test, and summoning beasts which focused on the idiots."

Spoiler, click to view

The story towards Akihisa Yoshii or Aki, the "Baka" student whose stupidity has associated all over the city. The plot itself had started when he was about to submit his academy 2nd class placement test. He shooked as there was a female student who was fainted then fell off from her desk. He tried to help her then he stopped once the class watchman said that she'd get disqualified as she hadn't done her test. Aki was furious and said that the decision was unfair as he had known that she was the smartest student in the academy. Story aside, his academy had made the rigid way to rule over the class. They had divided into classes with a wide variety of facilities and privileges. There are A-F class, each of them has an insane level of diversity, A class is the best with glamorous facilities and concepts, hence F class is the most impoverished with none of the facilities are sufficient enough to likewise study in that class. From this, the story will be directed to the F class (it's more interesting to know about them, right?") whereas they have doubted that "intelligence is everything on this world" and want to prove that the principal and the teachers of the academy are wrong. And how lucky, Mizuki Himeji who had failed at the test due to illness is in the class so they had a chance to prove it to them. Thus, that's where the story rises to fulfil you with a full of enjoyment and laughter, but also some tears in every event.

IV. The Introductory Insight: "The Characters and Developments"

"They are good characters. Satisfy enough to blend with the story."

Spoiler, click to view

Aki as the main character had a lot of development. His life might be ironic and somewhat ridiculous, but it still had an impact on the story. A boy that titled as that "Baka" person on his city, who likes ~~insulting the flat-chested Minami then got a lot of advanced technique lessons of wrestling from her. And also has been the best friend of Yuuki in terms of crime since their first year in the academy. Next, we have Yuuji Sakamoto, as it's foretold before, the best friend of Aki and a childhood friend of ~~a masochistic yandere,~~ Nishimiya Shouko who is from the executive A class and also the president of that class too. It had happened that Yuuji is also the President of the F class, with Akihisa as his ~~slave of shoujo romance~~ Vice President as well. Next, we have Mizuki Himeji and Minami Shimada, two of them are the only smart students in that class and also had a crush on Aki, with each of them showing a different sign of attitude, "hobbies", and jealousy. Then, we have Mutsurini or Tsuchiya Kouta and Hideyoshi Kinoshita and I might say they are "the wings" of the F class due to their good insights of school and bright ideas. There are some interesting characters which can't be mentioned as well (it's more like I don't want to increase the abundance of spoilers)

V. The Opinions: "The Roles and Voice Actors"

I do be honest, I've got no problem with the characters, must say that they suffice enough to blend with the story. They had played the roles very well. As an anime series that purposely to entertain the audiences, they were lucky to have fascinatingly talented voice actors to play the role of the story. As there were a lot of references to create into the parody, I must say it's just too brilliant to have them in the same story. I doubt if there is an anime series that brings a lot of excitement like this if it wasn't because of the talented voice actors. So well done, it's made Baka to Test into a very good anime with enjoyable entertainment.

VI. The Backgrounds: "The Arts and Music"

"It soothes my mind how smooth was the transition in every scene."

Actually, I don't want to write this (it never be an important section for me) but I must tell because it's somewhat unprecedented to have this kind of art and animation in the story. First to mention is the character background. Yes, it has their colours which fit into each character's personality (it's not that able to notice but still obvious). And next, it's the self-draw kind of the art style. It makes the anime so childish yet increases the extent of comedy premise to get the attention of the audiences due to the laughter as the animation is just so soft. It's worth mentioning that the animation soothes my mind as it "adapts" with every unprecedented scene and I found it quite funny. There are a lot of references, from both manga and anime series in general (not to mention how many absurd references are there). I'm fond of this kind of animation but it's just hilarious yet somewhat a quality one as the transition in every scene is just so smooth and if they ever read those (like shoujo genre for example) they'd notice it and laugh to it spontaneously in a whim. The violence and nudity parts remain censored but with a quite ridiculous trick (you can see and try it later) as people knew it'd happen (if they've got into the middle) but the way to show it, it's just so funny. Arts aside, the Opening sounds cheerful and child-like just the way how it should be. However, I've never expected to see a different kind of music in the ED, the 1st ED, I might say it fits with the idiotic theme and still good due to the background as they show a beautiful art style in the end. The 2nd ED, it's plain but still expected for a series which has a romance in it. And for the OSTs, it's just good, can say no more as it's somehow fitting themselves into every scene.

VII. Ending: "The Enjoyment, Audiences' Target, and Overall Score"

"It's very recommended to who may have been looking for a comedy show. If you've finished it, it's worth a re-watch due to the unexceptional story and comedy.

Yes, I highly recommend this show. I must say that I enjoyed it very much in every scene and episode due to the basic but somewhat interesting premises due to the comedy. For further notice, this series is just for the entertainment purpose, so if you found any unwanted scenes that you dislike, I might say you have to make it sounds light-hearted enough for your brain as it's purposely to entertain the audiences. This anime is for you who loves the comedy with the school as the background. If you like romance, you can also watch it, it's not that deep but it's still recommended if you like solely a romance-comedy that has a triangle love story on it but still, don't expect the adventurous kind of slice of life. Trust me, you won't have it here. And yes, it doesn't have the action in general, you can enjoy it but don't expect any seinen or shounen (well, it's just a reference) kind of action battle here. If you've watched it before, then why don't you re-watch it? It can bring you the old memory when you've watched it for the first time and I'm sure it'd be still the same as your first impression of this anime series as well. Ah, so, overall I gave it a very high score. It's a big credit due to a lot of efforts that had been putting to create this series to be very good. Well, here is your "one more chance" and "never never give up" score.