Last week on Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, the students went through an orientation challenge to retrieve prize tickets from around the school. In the end, Yuuji claimed some amusement park tickets, while Yoshii found the cell phone charms. This week the show gives us the obligatory swimsuit episode. While it’s funny, it also means nothing of note will happen.
Coke or Diet Coke! Duel 1! Let's Rock!
The show’s excuse for the swimsuit episode comes from Yoshii and Yuuji. The former is so tight on his funds that he had the gas turned off to his house. The latter takes a terribly cold shower, naturally becoming quite angry. The two have a food fight to settle their differences, but again, the house doesn’t have any hot water. They go to the school for a shower. Mr. Nishimura finds them and sentences them to cleaning the pool that weekend. They invite the rest of the gang along for the ride, and there you have it, a swimsuit episode. I’ll just let the images and captions speak for themselves in this episode.
Hideyoshi has an interesting gender issue...
Never look at another girl if Shouko is interested in you.
Lots of focus on breasts.
Drowning Yuuji so you can give him CPR? Ooookay...
If you didn't know better, you'd think Himeji is trying to kill them all.
Nosebleeds all fricken over the place.
Yoshii tries to use his summon to see into the girl's bath. It works about as well as expected.
I enjoyed the comedy much more than episode 5, even if it was all ecchi in nature. Unfortunately, anime has treaded this ground so heavily in the past that you can see a path worn in the concrete. You knew a lot of the jokes the episode would make before watching a minute of it. Maybe anime studios shouldn’t try so hard to fit this type of episode into their series. Or, perhaps they should try to keep the plot going even in the midst of extreme fanservice. With that said, I think BakaTest performed far better than most series in this area. I think that’s thanks to the mix of character personalities. They do allow for a little bit of originality in the joke department, such as Shouko trying to drown Yuuji, or a competition to avoid death by food. Next episode, Yuuji will put those tickets he found to use, so prepare for a trip to the amusement park!
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