Something is disturbing in these Anime schools. For instance, in the above scene at Hanamaru Youchien, the large-breasted teacher tells a story to the kids and, can you believe it, the princess in the story needs to be rescued! She is teaching gender stereotyping! omg. And its one of the kids who suggests that a PRINCE should come to the rescue! As everyone knows, Dangos are the best rescuers!

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.

It looks like Kuroko from Railgun is not alone in her yuri desires. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu has one of “them” as well. Do you think these types of girls really expect their lust to be returned? Do they have enough self awareness to realize how ridiculous they appear to others? Guys who act this way would get slapped and worse. Since they are girls, do they expect to escape retribution? Kuroko does get zapped. this new girl in Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu may get away with more, we’ll have to wait and see.

Red Dango was sitting nearby and said, “Oh, I got an idea from something on Japan Probe! You can type anime questions into Google and see what the site suggests for completing your search!”

“I don’t know, Red Dango,” I said, dubiously, “It could be lame….”

Dango looked at me with those two lines he has for eyes and said, “Would it be any worse than any of the other crap on this site?”

So please enjoy:

Older series are not exempt from the new regulations. All older series with character designs not deemed sufficiently moe will be redone with K-ON-based characters. Said one economic analyst, “this is a most excellent way to provide work in this recession, as thousands of new re-animators will be required to superimpose K-ON characters onto every old ani-, I mean moeme, from Gundam and Sailor Moon, to Macross and Fist of the North Star.” Reactions among Japanese Akibakei have been ecstatic, with large crowds gathering to burn all old DVDs, figures, and any other memorabilia deemed not sufficiently moe. Reactions among foreign “otaku” animebloggers has been mixed, but some suicides have been reported.