“Underachieving F-class students battle higher classes using test-score-powered summons to claim better facilities.”
Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts
バカとテストと召喚獣
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Synopsis
Underachieving F-class students battle higher classes using test-score-powered summons to claim better facilities.
Fumizuki Academy is not a typical Japanese high school. This unique institution has implemented a new and innovative system to sort its students. At the end of their freshman year, students take a test that divides up the student body. The highest scorers are placed into A class, all the way down until F class, for the lowest of the low. Unfortunately for Akihisa Yoshii, his supposedly "great" intellect was not quite enough for such a test, and he is now stuck at the bottom of F class. Naturally, F class has the worst facilities: not only rotten tatami mats and broken tables, but also outdated equipment and worn out furniture. On the bright side, his friend Yuuji Sakamoto is in the same class, and to everyone's surprise, the genius girl Mizuki Himeji has also ended up in the same class due to an unforeseen fever on the day of the test. Unsatisfied with their perquisites, F class rallies behind Yuuji, determined to take on the higher-tiered classes in order to seize their perks by using the school's Examinations Summon Battle system. The participants can summon fantasy characters—whose power levels are equal to their student's test scores—in an all-out battle. Will F class be able to rise to the top, or will they live up to everyone's expectations and fail?
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 141 sampled reviews
What 141 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 1.92 · split reception
5.6 pts
Recommenders 8.6 · others 3.0
↑ 1.91
Running avg · Feb 2010 → Apr 2026
- 7 “The opening to this show was a vary dramatic expierians but this show was more to be a comedy then a Drama,but you can say it is a dramatic comendey becuaseof all the fighting and ther personal...”
- 10 “ok this is my first 10 so i don't go around and score anime randomly i just had to give it a ten because in comedy department this one was just in a whole other level just think about it schools...”
- 7 “Baka to Test has no overall storyline, it has a typical school setting in which there are classrooms ranging from A-F, the quality of these classrooms range from class A having luxuries to Class F...”
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- Format 13 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 5h 12m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2010 – Apr 2010 Winter 2010
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-4550 catalog
Produced by
- Lantis Producer
- Media Factory Producer
- Cospa Producer
- T.O Entertainment Producer
- Omnibus Promotion Producer
Licensed by
- Funimation Licensor