Baka and Test
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Cover of Baka and Test light novel volume one as published by Enterbrain
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バカとテストと召喚獣 (Baka to Tesuto to Shōkanjū) |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Kenji Inoue |
| Illustrated by | Yui Haga |
| Published by | Enterbrain |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Famitsu Bunko |
| Original run | January 29, 2007 – March 30, 2015 |
| Volumes | 18 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kenji Inoue |
| Illustrated by | Mosuke Mattaku Yumeuta |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Shōnen Ace |
| Original run | June 2009 – September 2016 |
| Volumes | 15 |
| Manga | |
| Baka to Test to Shōkanjū Spinout! Sore ga Bokura no Nichijō | |
| Written by | Kenji Inoue |
| Illustrated by | Namo |
| Published by | Enterbrain |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Famitsu Comic Clear |
| Original run | October 30, 2009 – June 22, 2012 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Shin Ōnuma |
| Written by | Katsuhiko Takayama |
| Studio | Silver Link |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | January 7, 2010 – March 31, 2010 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Original video animation | |
| Baka to Test to Shōkanjū: Matsuri | |
| Directed by | Shin Ōnuma |
| Studio | Silver Link |
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| Released | February 23, 2011 – March 23, 2011 |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Baka to Test to Shōkanjū: Ni! | |
| Directed by | Shin Ōnuma |
| Written by | Katsuhiko Takayama Ayumi Sekine |
| Studio | Silver Link |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | July 8, 2011 – September 30, 2011 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Game | |
| Baka to Test to Shōkanjū Portable | |
| Developer | Kadokawa Games |
| Genre | Board/Adventure |
| Platform | PlayStation Portable |
| Released | December 13, 2012 |
Baka and Test (Japanese: バカとテストと召喚獣 Hepburn: Baka to Tesuto to Shōkanjū?, lit. Idiots, Tests, and Summoned Beasts), also known as Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts, is a Japanese light novel series written by Kenji Inoue with illustrations by Yui Haga. Enterbrain published 18 novels from January 2007 to March 2015 under their Famitsu Bunko imprint. Three manga adaptations were published by Enterbrain in Famitsu Comic Clear and Kadokawa Shoten in Shōnen Ace. Between 2010 and 2011, the series was adapted by Silver Link into two 13-episode anime television series, and a two-episode original video animation series. A PlayStation Portable video game was released in December 2012.
The story centers around a boy named Akihisa Yoshii, the titular baka (idiot) of the story. He attends Fumizuki Academy in Japan, 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 is 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 low wooden tables.The story also loosely revolves around the love triangle consisting of Mizuki Himeji (an intelligent girl who was forced into Class F just because of a fever), Minami Shimada (a transfer student from Germany who struggles with kanji), and Akihisa, their crush.
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