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English: Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts
Synonyms: The Idiot, the Tests, and the Summoned Creatures, Baka to Test to Shokanju, BakaTest
Japanese: バカとテストと召喚獣

Information
Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 6, 2010 to Mar 31, 2010 (Season 1) & Jul 8, 2011 to Sep 30, 2011 (Season 2)
Producers: FUNimation EntertainmentL, Silver Link, Cospa
Genres: Comedy, Romance, School,Super Power
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

The story centers around a boy named Akihisa Yoshii, also known as the idiot or "Baka" of the titled anime. He attends Fumizuki Academy, a school where the staff rigidly divides the students based on the results of their academic scores. At the start of the school, students are academically sorted by entrance exam test grades. The higher the grades, the higher the class, and the better the benefits. In this case, Class A is filled with the highest-scoring students; therefore, their classroom was filled with many prestigious items (air conditioners, fancy seats, laptops, a free snack bar, etc.), while the state of Class F is the complete opposite of that, representing the "bottom of the barrel" amenities, such as mats and wooden tables.

This academy has something special, where all the students manage to call forth Summoned Beings (Shōkanjū, or "Avatars" in the official English translation). These Beings are used for battles between classes with the goal of capturing (or retaining) the best classroom facilities. Since Class A is filled with prodigies, they all have strong Summoned Beings, while Class F has drastically weak ones in comparison. A teacher must authorize/supervise each battle, and the health and strength of each summoned being is based on the student's last test score in that teacher's subject (i.e. Math, History, etc.). The beings lose points when struck by an opponent, and should the point count reach zero, the being and student are disqualified, and must take supplementary tuition with strict remedial teacher Nishimura (nicknamed "Iron Man"). However, if the student can leave the battle before reaching zero, these points can be replenished by taking a supplemental exam. The student's being may then return to the battle.

On the day of the placement test, an intelligent girl named Mizuki Himeji suffers from a fever and is unable to complete her test, hence her reining in a score of zero. As a result, she is pigeonholed into Class F together with Akihisa. Akihisa, who dreams of the day when the academy would no longer be divided by grades, pitches an idea to his class to rule over the higher-level classes by doing a Summoned Being War for both Mizuki's sake and to get more and more privileges. Aside from Mizuki (who happens to be the second-ranked student in Year 2), there is also the class representative Yūji Sakamoto, the bishōnen Hideyoshi Kinoshita, the perverted Kouta Tsuchiya, and the tomboyish Minami Shimada (who, as Akihisa claims, is his worst enemy, but actually has a crush on him, but is reluctant to show it).

Opening Theme
Perfect-Area Complete! by Natsuko Asou
Kimi + Nazo + Watashi de JUMP!! by Larval Stage Planning (Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni!)
Renai Koujou Committee by Natsuko Asou (Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu ~Matsuri~)

Ending Theme
Baka go Home by Milktub
Hare Tokidoki Egao by Hitomi Harada
Eureka Baby by Natsuko Asou (Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni!)
Baka to Koshitsu to Kodokuhan by Milktub (Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni!)
Hi-Ho!! by Milktub (Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni!)
Getsuyou wa Kirai by Milktub

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