YMMV / Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts

• Adaptation Displacement: Most western anime fans are only familiar with the series through its anime adaptation, especially since the original light novels have yet to be made available outside of Japan.
• Ass Pull: The Class F Inquisition being able to increase their Avatar scores when they find out the class rep for Class B has a girlfriend. This is never explained, but probably occurred due to the Rule of Funny.
• Base-Breaking Character: Minami Shimada. Initially a full-on The Scrappy for her constant beating of Akihisa for often very stupid reasons, for some, she was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap when she gets her backstory episode. It also helps that afterward, she and Akihisa had some moments that weren't filled with anger or violence. There is still some hate for her, though, due in part to her behavior prior coming across as dickish even for her.
• Designated Monkey: The universe pretty much has it out for Akihisa. Even when he's done nothing in particular to deserve anyone's wrath, he ends up in the worst possible situation anyway thanks to circumstance.
• Die for Our Ship: Akihisa/Minami shippers call Himeji a one-dimensional Generic Girl, Akihisa/Himeji shippers call Minami an aggressive bitch, and Akihisa/Hideyoshi or Kubo fans call both girls terrible influences who should be nowhere within two hundred feet of Akihisa.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Most fans prefer to ship Akihisa with... Hideyoshi, mostly due to the fact that, out off all of Akihisa's Friends and Love Interests, Hideyoshi is the one who treats him with kindness. It's also implied that Hideyoshi reciprocates Yoshii's affections
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Himeji's battle in Episode 2 parodies Fate/stay night. The same animation studio would later make the adaptation of its spinoff Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA.
  • The Light Novel ended with a Maybe Ever After ending between Akihisa and Mizuki (which by the way is Zig-Zagged for laughs). The World God Only Knows also ended with a Maybe Ever After between Keima and Chihiro. The reason for this entry: both main characters share the same seiyuu with their respective animated adaptations (which, for the record, has yet to animate the rest of the source contents.)
• Informed Wrongness:
  • Akihisa in episode 10 of the second season. While he may have somewhat deserved the harsh treatment he got, he isn't the only one at fault. He may treat Minami like one of the guys, but that's partly because she's always beating him up, at times with only the slightest provocation. Not to mention, Miharu is one of the last people to tell Akihisa that he doesn't treat Minami well. Especially since she gave the What the Hell, Hero? speech right in front of Minami, and reduced her to tears.
  • Season 2 begins with a Beach Episode, in which Akihisa and Yuuji decided to go on an 'Operation Babe Hunt' of their own. By the end, they're caught by the girls, who become angry and punish the poor bastards for their actions off-screen. Keep in mind, however, the only reason they did this is that the girls insinuated that they can't flirt with anyone because they're unpopular, especially after they tried to make them jealous and worried about being hit on earlier. In season 2's second episode they go further by forcing them to compete in a beauty pageant, adding the innocent Kouta and Hideyoshi to the mix for no almost reason at all. The guys are made out to be the ones in the wrong, but the girls started the debacle in the first place, and they had no business getting mad at the guys for trying to hit on other girls at the beach. Not to mention, absolutely none of the main boys or girls are dating each other, so naturally, the boys had no reason to be jealous of no-name guys hitting on the girls in their group, and the girls shouldn't be angry about the boys hitting on other girls.
• Just Here for Godzilla: A good portion of the fanbase is just here for Hideyoshi, largely finding him adorkable or loving the Running Gag about his gender.
• Memetic Mutation: Hideyoshi being identified as a gender.
• The Scrappy:
  • Mizuki Himeji. Despite receiving the most attention from the main character, she is the epitome of The Generic Girl in the first season, and the second turns her into a borderline psycho. Not to mention, in a show chock-full of comedy, the only joke she seems to have in her book is to routinely put people on the edge of death with her attempts at cooking.
  • Shouko Kirishima. She's the source of the most notable Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male moments, and her obsession with Yuuji is at the very least, misguided, and at the worst, ungodly creepy. It doesn't help that she's quite a Karma Houdini, and the only time it looks like she might get some Laser-Guided Karma, it ends up working to her advantage. Notable in that her backstory does not excuse her actions at all.
  • Miharu Shimizu as well. Season 2 made things worse in her case as well. She's unapologetically sexist, refers to people other than Minami as "disgusting pigs" and always accuses Akihisa of treating Minami horribly when she's even worse. And she doesn't really get better, unlike Minami.
• Strawman Has a Point: Nemoto's blackmailing of Mizuki using the love letter that she wrote in order to keep her out of the battle between Classes B and F is seen as extremely cowardly and underhanded by Class F, except for the small fact that it's entirely legal to do. It's nothing personal either, and no, Aki and Yuuji, it's not because she's a girl and he's a Straw Misogynist either. Considering what Serious Business class battles are, it's entirely justified as the class representative that he'd be doing whatever he could to make sure his class won. In fact, it's a bigger surprise that no one else thought of taking Class F's secret weapon out sooner.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Episode 7 looked like it could be setting up some impressive Character Development for Shouko, with comments from strangers (who don't have to worry about upsetting her) making her realize what an asshole she's been to Yuuji. Unfortunately, instead of being the catalyst for her change, the comments are treated as a Moral Event Horizon by the other characters, and she hardly gets better.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • The delinquent couple from episode 7 were meant to be seen as jerks, and are treated as so in-universe, for belittling Shouko. The problem is, Shouko is basically Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male on two legs, and many fans saw the mocking as the Laser-Guided Karma Shouko deserved for her repeated abuse of Yuuji.
  • Akihisa rarely, if ever, deserves the horrendous mistreatment he gets from everybody, especially Minami. But, since the series runs on comedy and Akihisa's interactions with Minami comedy-wise are restricted to Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male, he's made the Designated Monkey whenever Minami is around, and it's not a serious moment.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • The narrative frequently suggests viewers are supposed to feel some kind of sympathy for Shouko. However, due to her actions as mentioned above, many readers and viewers have lost the ability to empathize with her and would prefer to see her get what's coming to her.
  • Miharu, during season 2, is made out to be the person in the right who really cares about Minami and hates Akihisa for how he treats her in comparison to Mizuki. Even if she does have a point, Miharu's possessive behavior toward Minami doesn't help her case, ranging from ignoring her consent to spying on her, and even assaulting, blackmailing, insulting, and/or attempting to kill her classmates (largely Akihisa) just for being near her. In comparison to all that, the worst thing Akihisa has done is make Innocently Insensitive comments that provoke Minami's rage. As such, Miharu's "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards Akihisa heavily rings hollow, since she doesn't even treat her like a person like he does, but more as an object of lust.

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