Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu: Matsuri - Sentaku ni Yotte Tenkai ga Kawaru "LIPS Eizou"

Name: Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu: Matsuri - Sentaku ni Yotte Tenkai ga Kawaru "LIPS Eizou"
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2010-08-29

バカとテストと召喚獣～祭～選択によって展開が変わる「LIPS映像」

6.7(13,216)

MAL Score

Ranked #6416

Popularity #4808

Comedy
Parody

Episodes: 1
Duration: 3 min
Aired: Aug 29, 2010
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Released as a promotional video for *Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu: Matsuri*, this short was first screened publicly at Comiket 78 before being uploaded to YouTube and featured on the official website. It was later bundled with the first Blu-ray/DVD volume of the *Matsuri* OVA.

The presentation mimics a Nintendo DS visual novel, complete with branching, choice-driven framing that plays into the title’s “depending on the selection, the development changes” concept.

Otaku Consensus

Otaku Consensus: As a three-minute franchise extra, LIPS Eizou lands best as a concentrated Baka and Test gag reel: the SILVER LINK. timing, Akihisa-centered idiocy, and Hideyoshi-driven parody material preserve the character chemistry that made Matsuri earn a respectable B−-level reputation among comedy viewers. The genuine limitation is scale; fan reactions and database scores around the mid-6 range reflect that its VN-sketch structure is clever but too brief and promotional to feel essential.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want Baka and Test’s joke machinery without committing to a full episode or re-entering the broader class-battle setup. It is for viewers who enjoy anime extras that experiment with format: the comedy is built around menu-choice staging, quick reaction timing, and the franchise’s favorite pressure points, especially Akihisa’s stupidity and Hideyoshi’s gender-bending gag presence. If Carnival Phantasm scratches your itch for in-joke-heavy franchise comedy, this operates on a much smaller, sharper scale; if you like visual-novel parody but do not want a serious route drama, it gives you the interface jokes without the melodrama. Its value is not narrative importance but archival curiosity: a 2010-era official web/promotional short that shows how Baka and Test could turn even advertising into a self-aware bit.

Key Characters

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Hideyoshi Kinoshita(VA: Emiri Katou)
Hideyoshi remains the franchise’s most meme-ready presence here, with AniList’s high Femboy tag percentage reflecting how central his gender-play comedy is to the short’s appeal.
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Hazuki Shimada(VA: Mana Hirata)
Hazuki gives the short its cute-side contrast, functioning as a softer comic foil inside a promo otherwise dominated by Akihisa and Hideyoshi antics.
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Akihisa Yoshii(VA: Hiro Shimono)
Akihisa is the engine of the gag timing, the kind of protagonist fans single out because the series’ comedy repeatedly weaponizes how gloriously bad his judgment is.

What Makes It Stand Out

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SILVER LINK. treats the short less like a normal OVA scene and more like a parody of a choice-based handheld visual novel, making the interface itself part of the joke rather than just a framing device.
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The user-review breakdown identifies three micro-skits: Akihisa with VN Hideyoshi, Akihisa with VN Hazuki, and Hideyoshi with a crossdressing VN Akihisa, giving the short a compact sketch-comedy rhythm.
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Its comedy leans into the Baka and Test reputation for timing around Akihisa’s stupidity, a point frequently highlighted by fans discussing why the main series’ humor works.
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The staff lineage ties it directly to the franchise’s core visual identity: Kenji Inoue is credited as original creator, Yui Haga for original character design, and Miwa Ooshima for anime character design.
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Its reception profile is unusually consistent across databases: MAL lists it at 6.73 from 13,216 votes, AniList at 63/100, and Kaiveron around 6.74, signaling a niche extra appreciated by fans but not elevated as a major installment.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The short’s recorded air date is August 29, 2010, placing it as a pre-release promotional artifact for the Matsuri OVA rather than a conventional bonus episode discovered after the fact.
Fun fact 2: Matsuri’s larger OVA package used the opening theme Ren’ai Koujou Committee by Natsuko Aso and the ending theme Getsuyou wa Kirai by Milktub, connecting this promo to the same musical branding as the home-video release.
Fun fact 3: AniList’s tag data is unusually revealing for such a tiny entry: Parody and Femboy both sit at 79%, while Kuudere and Male Protagonist are each marked at 60%.
Fun fact 4: Despite lasting only a few minutes, it has enough catalog presence to hold MAL popularity rank #4808 and rank #6416, supported by more than thirteen thousand MAL votes.
Fun fact 5: AniList lists only 23 favourites for the entry, which fits its role as a specialist curiosity for Baka and Test completists rather than a standalone gateway into the franchise.