Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu – Episode 04
Last week on Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, the writers put the battle system on the bus to the middle of nowhere to focus more on the relationship aspects of the characters. We saw Yoshii, Himeji, and Minami’s love triangle develop, as well as the start of Yuuji’s relationship. This week continues building on the relationship triangle while returning to better comedic form.
Me and myself ain't gonna take it anymore!
The episode opens during a session for remedial lessons mentioned in last week’s episode. The teachers have pushed Yoshii quite hard to take care of chores around the school. He also still suffers from monetary problems, as his lunch consists of 1/64 of a cup of ramen. Obviously, this is nowhere near healthy, so Minami conveniently offers to share her lunch with him… except she forgot it.
You shouldn't make fun of girls who can suplex you.
Hazuki, Minami’s younger sister, has come to visit today. Apparently she’s met Yoshii before, but we don’t get to know the details of that. She brought Minami’s lunch, but now she can’t bring herself to share it. Himeji, uncharacteristically forward about it, offers her lunch instead. This gets Yoshii tortured by the FFF anti-female faction in the class. Unfortunately, it seems with all that intelligence she just can’t manage to read a cookbook. Her food manages to take out all of our main characters single-handedly.
Should have believed in the heart of the cards...
The remainder of the episode focuses on Minami. She really does like Yoshii, so she runs all over the school looking for him. She finds him just in time for him for the FFF to lynch him again. She finds him again outside of the school, and yet again she chokes on offering it. Kubo appears and takes him away. Minami is frustrated, both with herself, and the guy she likes. However, in the end Yoshii’s common sense stupidity manages to save the day for her.
When Minami chokes, she chokes HARD.
I think the writer’s did a better job handling the comedy aspects this week, potentially better than the series has seen so far. The cast’s abuse of Yoshii throughout the episode hits the comedy gold mine. On the other hand, I’m worried about this series straying too far away from the school battling. The relationship aspects are nice, and this series’ major selling point is comedy over action, but I feel like we’re losing the overarching plot. They set out to conquer the school, remember. At this point, I’m predicting a season two to air during the Summer or Fall season, but we’ll just have to wait and see. Hopefully, next week we’ll get a some more action.
Yoshii's "charm" gives us our D'aww moment this week.
