Last week on Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, the writers went a little bit deeper into the love triangle between Yoshii, Minami, and Himeji. Well, I hope you didn’t care about the romance, because this episode suspends that as well. Let’s try and make this as painless as possible.
Well... that plan failed quickly.
The episode starts out with Yoshii finding a charm on the street. In true idiot fashion, he puts it back for whoever was looking for it to find. It actually belongs to Hazuki, but before he can retrieve it, traffic conveniently covers the street. He asks the narrator-teacher to approve a summon so he can get it… and then gets hit by the principal’s car. Then, just to drive the failure home, a steamroller destroys the charm. You can guess how Hazuki feels.
How could you make her cry!
Fortunately, the school is holding a quiz/scavenger hunt that day, and a set of charms is one of the prizes. Yoshii resolves to win that prize, but Yoshii and Hideyoshi are his partners. They resort to using the idiot’s multiple-choice pencils to select the answers since none of them can figure out the solutions. The answers point to a place in the air, Himeji’s death bread, and a toilet. In the meantime, Himeji, Minami, and Voyeur’s group visits the ladies’ changing room, where the latter passes out from nosebleeds.
You're on a toilet you found with a PENCIL, nimrod.
Finally, Yoshii has one of his rare bright ideas. They can’t answer the questions, and luck manipulation hasn’t worked, so they should just randomly search for possible locations. The trio fails to find anything, until Yoshii realizes one spot remains: the roof. The prize he wanted happens to be there, but the Class A group encounters them. A battle brews… and then terminates because the school bell rings. Yoshii gets the charm for Hazuki, as well as a bracelet that has a portable battlefield. The principal remarks that even an idiot can do well in his own way, and we exit the episode.
Better pray for Deus Ex Machina to save you.
At this point, I’m just utterly at a loss for what to make of this series. With a 13-episode block, we need some view of where we’re going by now. I don’t have that feeling. First, the battle aspect, which initially sold me on this series, has disappeared. The writers actually revoke the one battle scene because school ends for the day. The bracelet does give me a little hope, since a portable battlefield has some interesting uses. Then they stripped out the romance aspects, and while that isn’t a spectacular plot, at least it can drive the series. What we’re left with is a parody series, which the likes of Pani Poni Dash and Seitokai no Ichizon have already tread and nailed it to the wall. If the producers would just clamp down and point it in some direction, this series could be so much more. Unfortunately, next week looks like the obligatory swimsuit episode.
But goshdangit, it was worth it to see Hazuki smile!
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