Episode 2 con­firmed my ini­tial thoughts. At the rate they’re going, Baka to Test to Shokanju is going to out­right win for me as the best anime of Win­ter 2009; even with how much I’m look­ing for­ward to Nodame Cantabile.

I mean seri­ously, it’s got just about every­thing, and it does it with high qual­ity style:

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An unex­pected boon for me this sea­son, Baka to Test to Shokanju is like a dream come true for a gamer turned anime fan. I mean, which one of us wouldn’t want our high school lives to be just like a video game?

Upon first glance, Baka to Test to Shokanju looks just like some over­done high school romance harem com­edy series, a genre so over­done it hurts my brain just to see the pro­mo­tion poster — prob­a­bly the rea­son why I glanced over the series descrip­tion in under a split sec­ond. Fac­tu­ally, that para­graph used to describe the series is entirely point­less rub­bish, and only seven words is required to replace it: “High School RPG with Exam Sum­mon­ing Bat­tles”.

Hence why Baka to Test to Shokanju becomes an atten­tion grab­ber within actual future prospects: the incor­po­ra­tion of a dream ele­ment, a con­cept we could only wish was avail­able in our own high schools (Nanoma­chines where are you!!!). Besides, all the video game par­o­dy­ing is sim­ply too lolsy. I for one spent too much time laugh­ing through­out the episode…

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