Baka & Test – Summon the Beasts 2

バカとテストと召喚獣にっ！ (Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni!)

8.0(1)

OtakuDen

7.7(233,315)

MAL Score

Ranked #1555

Popularity #720

Comedy
Romance
Love Polygon
School
Super Power

Episodes: 13
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Jul 8, 2011 to Sep 30, 2011
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Class F is back at Fumizuki Academy, and the usual struggle for respect takes a back seat to a fresh round of chaos. As the girls ramp up their rivalry for the boys’ attention, Akihisa Yoshii and Yuuji Sakamoto find themselves cornered by a stalker’s blackmail—one who threatens to expose their most humiliating secrets to the entire school. At the same time, the class’s summoned avatars begin acting unnervingly out of character, turning even routine battles into unpredictable messes.

With misunderstandings multiplying and romance tangling into a full-on love polygon, Class F has to pull together to unmask the culprit and survive the fallout of their own ridiculous reputations—complete with the slapstick mayhem they’re known for.

Otaku Consensus

SILVER LINK and director Shin Oonuma deliver a sequel that fans largely regard as more purposeful than the usual comedy follow-up, preserving the series’ avatar-battle absurdity while giving several episodes over to character backstory and romantic fallout. The common criticism is equally consistent: the gag density drops compared with Season 1 and the humor remains proudly hit-or-miss, so viewers outside its idiot-comedy wavelength may find it merely average rather than infectious.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Season 2 if you want a school romcom that weaponizes stupidity with actual comic structure: class tactics, chibi super-power slapstick, meta gags, tsundere violence, and romantic sabotage all colliding in 13 fast episodes. It scratches a similar itch to School Rumble’s escalating misunderstandings, but with a game-like battle framework that keeps the cast doing more than confessing, denying, and panicking. Compared with cleaner harem comedies, Baka & Test is rowdier and more surreal; compared with tournament shows, it refuses to take its power system too seriously. This season is especially worth it for viewers who liked the first run but wanted more emotional traction, since fan reviews repeatedly point to the backstory-focused episodes as the place where the sequel actually advances its cast.

Key Characters

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Minami Shimada(VA: Kaori Mizuhashi)
Minami is the character fan discussions most often rally behind in Season 2, with one reviewer’s blunt 'Minami all the way' sentiment capturing how strongly her romantic angle lands.
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Yuuji Sakamoto(VA: Tatsuhisa Suzuki)
Yuuji gives the idiot-class chaos a tactical spine, turning the school-battle gimmick into schemes rather than just noise.
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Mizuki Himeji(VA: Hitomi Harada)
Mizuki anchors the sweeter side of the love polygon while still fitting the show’s taste for exaggerated reactions and romantic pressure.
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Hideyoshi Kinoshita(VA: Emiri Katou)
Hideyoshi remains the franchise’s genre-bending gag magnet, matching the high AniList presence of Femboy and Gender Bending tags without needing the series to slow down for explanation.

What Makes It Stand Out

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SILVER LINK’s production under director Shin Oonuma leans into chibi exaggeration and surreal timing, aligning with AniList’s high Chibi, Surreal Comedy, Parody, and Meta tag presence rather than playing the academy setting straight.
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Season 2 makes a visible structural trade: user reviews note that several episodes spend more time on character backstories, which lowers the joke-per-minute rate but gives the sequel more forward motion than many comedy continuations.
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The class-battle system remains the franchise’s calling card; web reviews specifically praise the tactics as both funny and intriguing, positioning the show as a rare high-school battle comedy where the rules are part of the joke.
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Its romantic comedy identity is unusually crowded and codified: AniList tags include Love Triangle at 86%, Tsundere at 68%, Female Harem at 66%, Femboy at 79%, and Gender Bending at 73%, which explains why the character dynamics feel more like controlled chaos than a simple crush line.
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Its reception footprint is broad rather than cult-small: MAL lists it at 7.66 from 233,261 votes with popularity rank #719, while AniList records a 74/100 score and 663 favourites.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime adapts work credited to original creator Kenji Inoue, with Yui Haga credited for the original character designs and Miwa Ooshima handling both anime character design and chief animation direction.
Fun fact 2: The 13-episode season aired in Japan from July 8, 2011 to September 30, 2011, making it a compact summer 2011 comedy sequel rather than a split-cour continuation.
Fun fact 3: The production credits separate visual responsibilities across Kouji Azuma as art director and Ken Naitou on background art, while Toshiki Kameyama is credited as sound director.
Fun fact 4: Natsuko Asou performed the first ending theme, giving the season a named anisong credit beyond the core acting cast.
Fun fact 5: The English production side lists Gen Fukunaga as executive producer, a notable localization-era credit attached specifically to the English release.