Daijoubu

I just noticed this blog is now three years old. yay! Um,…. maybe I should do some more dango comics?

Yes. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu features a school where students who do do poorly on exams are forced to have the worst classroom facilities. They can challenge other classes and if they win they get to trade classrooms with the losers, but the strength of the summoned being combatants are based on their test scores. I don’t know how this concept would go over in Japan, but imagine if the series was set in America. Clearly, disadvantaged minority groups, who score lowest on tests, would be relegated to substandard conditions in a mirror of the separation of expensive middle and upper class prep school vs. failing inner-city schools. A system, such as the the one depicted in the anime, would ensure that the disadvantaged stayed disadvantaged and would enforce this disparity through humiliating defeats in summoned being battles. What a disgrace! :( And the students in the poorest class, would not even have enough money to eat properly (as depicted in ep. 3).

As for the anime itself, it’s very pretty to look at, although the goings-on are silly (merely silly and not offensive, if you can ignore the points made above).

And the yuri girl is a big fail so far, being just a nuisance compared to the multifaceted glory of Kuroko.