Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu

I would be my lazy self and set down somewhere between C and E.

Seriously, though, this kind of system is one thing I abhor in a school. It is absolutely counterproductive, as it is designed to focus solely on the best students, ignoring the students who actually need more help.

I can only see Nemoto and Female!Hideyoshi being the only, if not partial, assholes up the chain. Remember that they listen to Yuuji during the onsen peeping arc and the current haunted house arc

I'd be lazy and never study and still be in class A.

... Yes... I was hated in high school. How did you know?

I hate you! >=(

But yeah, It doesn't really seem like a good way to motivate students... Except when it comes to working together perhaps.

Awesome!

edited 29th Sep '11 6:53:26 PM by Folt

I woudn't hate you if we were in the same high school. In fact I'd let you smooch off my lunch for a peek at your notes...

Yeah... I cooked my way through high school.

edited 29th Sep '11 6:51:11 PM by djmaca

.... I didn't take notes until college. I literally spent almost my entire time in high school reading. Nothing but read books all day long. In class. In between classes. Then I'd go home and read some more. I probably read 80% of the fiction section at the school library (it's not higher mainly because I couldn't bring myself to read anything more girly than the babysitters club) and probably read at least a fourth of the non-fiction section.

I actually cut class all the time to go to the library.

I had a semi-photographic memory and usually read the entire History textbook in the first month of class.

I would just derive from first principles whenever I needed to solve a math or physics equation. I could manipulate multiple variable equations in my head. Only hard part was when the teacher insisted I show my work, as I couldn't always explain how I knew the right answer, just that it was correct.

Spelling was my worst subject. My Grammar and Vocabulary scores were high enough though that I usually still got high grades in English.

I actually think the teachers hated me even more than the other students did. Never did homework. I actually flunked quite a few classes despite acing the tests because of that. But in Baka To Test world high test scores would be all I need. My dream school.

Sigh... those were the days. I never really understood what I had until college. I actually thought everybody could do it. Then I got bitten by a tick and the Lyme disease ate my brain.

No more "photographing" a cheat sheet by glancing at it while waiting in line for the testing center. Had to completely relearn how to do math. I can only think in 4 dimensions now, and need to use paper and pencil to do anything more complex.

And that was a while ago to, I haven't used higher level math for a couple years now. My job actually doesn't require it that much. So I'd probably need at least a month of all day cramming to get back to where I could intelligibly discuss stuff.

edited 30th Sep '11 8:46:59 PM by Sackett

You know Yuuji's little intro thing for his flashback episode with Shouko? That describes me to a T, I swear to God. I literally breezed through grades K - 4 with Straight A's in everything except history.

Then 5th grade came along and I became a lazy bum, but I was still a solid B/B+ student.

So I'd most definitely end up in B or C class.

It seems that Yuuko has been taking lessons from Minami.

I wonder if Kubo is actually bi...because if he isn't and just gay then he would at least know that crossdressing Yoshii in the OVA is male.

I love how Minami's wall was used in episode 13 of the second season.

So I've been watching Funimation's excellent dub of this harem without a harem. I must say, sometimes it really is funny and clever, and the battles are more thrilling than most fighting shows I know, but at other times it is obnoxious and predictable, wedded to the genre's sadomasochism tropes. Others have called it a deconstructive parody, but I can't see it as anything other than a straight example taken to the extreme, which is in some ways more bearable.

Yoishi is a lot better than many other harem leads, but my favourite is Kouta. A pervert, but a shameless and very determined and competent one.

Then I come to episode 8, second season. Anyone else feel like it's a completely different show? The girl who has been the hilariously abusive tsundere suddenly becomes the lost, anxious teenager in a serious drama looking at Japan's treatment of foreigners... and the rest of the cast come up as they usually are, and suddenly she's the straight man... then a moment of familiarity as she breaks Yoishi's back. It's well-done, the first time I've seen the Japanese track handle foreign languages better than an English dub. But it's jarring as anything.

The show has its moments of making you care for the cast, but many fall flat because of how abusive (usually one-way) they are during the comedy. It's a failed mix.

Dunno, but I find Leah Clark's German accent and Josh Grelle's non-silent 's' even more hilarious and character-establishing than the Japanese dub.

In the Japanese dub, Minami speaks in unbroken Japanese when thinking or narrating her story while Akihisa gets the French right.

In the English dub, Minami speaks in a German accent, which feels both jarring and funny at the same time, but understandable because she lived in Germany for so long. Akihisa on the other hand, doesn't even bother to pronounce the silent 's' in French, which to me solidifies his status as the 'biggest idiot in the world'.

edited 21st Nov '16 10:34:45 AM by judasmartel

It also has one of the best bromances in Anime ever.

He's better than other harem leads because, unlike most of them, he's an actual character. There's not many harem leads that are actual characters around. (And the ones that are of course are the best)

edited 21st Nov '16 6:35:57 PM by Smasher

Brina Palencia must have taken notes from Alexis Tipton's Himeji for her role as Yuno Gasai. The latter's dark side sounds to me like evil incarnate.