First Impression: Idiots, Tests, and Summoned Beasts

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From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Shimada Minami, Mizuki Himeji, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, and Tsuchiya Kouta playing cards

I spent a very decent amount of time procrastinating when it came to watching this anime.  If you’ve ever seen my Anime List, you’d know that I spend a very decent fraction of my time watching a LOT of anime for no particular reason.  Because I had been working with my step-father for some time, I had a good amount of catching up to do.  So I prepared the episodes but never watched them – until yesterday, that is.

For such a ridiculous concept, this anime is incredibly enjoyable.  Let me explain the very weak plot:

>Akihisa Yoshii is a very, very stupid character – though, with a very kind heart.  He is the “Idiot” of the animé.  He attends Fumizuki Academy, a school where instead of everyone being on an equal level, your class is chosen by the score you received on your entrance exam, and there are six different classes students are sorted into: A, B, C, D, E, and F.  The “A” class is, of course, the smartest of the smart and looks almost exactly the same as a Five Star Hotel whereas the “F” class is the lowest of the low – Wooden (broken or breaking) desks, walls where the air from outside floats right in, and traditional Japanese sitting mats without any stuffing inside them.

However, despite this sorting students are encouraged to promote their grades through an event they call an “Exam Summoning Battle,” or ESB for short.  During these battles, the students call forth “Summoned Beasts” whose HP/AP equal the combined score of the student’s Testing ability.  If the lower class can defeat a higher class at an ESB, they are permitted (though apparently not required) to switch class facilities.

Other than this climb to the top, the rest of the plot tends to focus on the love triangle between the females Mizuki Himeji (cute, innocent, withdrawn) and Shimada Minami (tomboyish, tsundere) and the main character Akihisa, of whom is too stupid to realize that either of the girl’s like him.

Overall, this is a very fun and relaxing anime with a lot of fighting, a quick bit of absolutely ridiculous perversion (without any actual fan-service & LOTS of nose bleeding), and some sort of a storyline.

Personally, I think if gg is subbing it, it has to be good of some caliber.