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Series · 2010

Baka and Test

バカとテストと召喚獣

Two students, one with tied red hair and one with long pink hair, smile and reach forward.
© 2010 Kenji Inoue/PUBLISHED BY ENTERBRAIN, INC. Baka and Test Project All rights reserved.

At a school where grades determine comfort and status, a student from the lowest class enters battles fought by summoned avatars to win his classmates better conditions.

Akihisa’s Class F has shabby facilities while the strongest students enjoy much better rooms. Fighting strength is tied to test results, making schoolwork part of the rules of a competitive fantasy. His wish to help Mizuki gives the contest an immediate personal motive alongside the class rivalry.

A smiling, bespectacled man in a suit and green tie stands before a grey background.
School authority gives the grade-based competition its stakes. © 2010 Kenji Inoue/PUBLISHED BY ENTERBRAIN, INC. Baka and Test Project All rights reserved.

The teacher belongs to an institution that makes academic rankings visible in everyday comfort. Against that authority, Class F’s challenge is more than a schoolyard rivalry: the students are trying to change the conditions in which they learn.

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