This is so weird... But why do I love it so much?!

Yeaaah. I don't think I should explain the title. Hahaha. As weird as this anime is as I've seen, it's actually pretty good. So here's Baka and Test.

Fumizuki Academy divides all the students based on their grades. At the beginning of school, the students take an entrance exam determining what class they'll be in. The higher the grades, the higher the class and the better the benefits. Therefore, Class A with the smartest students are in a learning environment with air conditioning, laptops and a snack bar while Class F, "the bottom of the barrel", get drafty windows, kindergarten tables that easily break and... well you get the jist of what they get.

Fumizuki Academy also has something special where their students can summon Avatars or Summoned Beings. Theses Avatars are used for battles among students where they fight to obtain the best classroom facilities. Health and strength of Avatars is based on test scores on the supervising teacher's subject (Math, History, etc.), so because Class A is filled with prodigies, they have stronger Avatars compared to the lower classes with Class F being the weakest. They lose health points when hit by an opponent, and if the score reaches to zero then the student is disqualified and sent to a remedial class. However, they can gain back points before it reaches to zero with a supplemental exam before returning to battle.

Baka and Test focuses on student Akihisa Yoshii who after the placement test, was sent to Class F. He pitches an idea with his classmates to fight against the higher classes with a Summoned Being War to get more privileges and hopefully get the academy to not divide students based on grades. Along with him are classmates Mizuki Himeji (who is really smart but got ill during the exam and had to leave, resulting in a zero and her placement in Class F), class representative Yuji Sakamoto, bishonen (cute boy) Hideyoshi Kinoshita, perverted Tsuchiya Kouta (nicknamed Muttsuri), and tomboyish Minami Shimada.

I found this anime on Netflix and figured it'd be good so I added it and began to watch it. It's very very silly while it has an actual plot line. It also includes *cough cough* yuri and yaoi referencing *cough cough* so if you're iffy about that, don't say I didn't warn you. But this is a really good anime, so watch it!

~Liz~

Who The Hell Do You Think We Are?!

God, I've heard of this anime SO long ago. Seventh grade to be exact. When I became friends with my BFFL Kelly, she loved and still loves this anime. She even has two plushies of one of the main characters. So here's Gurren Lagann.

In a fictional future, the Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome, and huge robots called Gunmen who're piloted by Beastmen, who're a part of Lordgenome's army. As a result, humans are forced to live in underground villages without contact to the surface world or other villages without being killed by the Gunmen.

The story begins in Giha villages and focuses around two orphaned boys named Simon and Kamina. Simon is a digger who helps his village expand underground because of frequent earthquakes, one of which that took the lives of his parents. Simon sees Kamina as his "older brother" who's an ecstatic delinquent who dreams of seeing the surface as he did when he was younger. Kamina lets Simon join in his gang, Team Gurren, to achieve his vision.

One day, Simon digs up a drill-shaped key and later finds the face of what looks like a Gunman. Not too long afterwards, a Gunman crashes down into the village and begins to attack who's followed by a beautiful young girl named Yoko who attempts to fight against the Gunman. Simon uses the drill-shaped key called a Core Drill to turn on the Gunman that Kamina names Lagann to destroy the other Gunman and break through to the surface world.

Upon coming up to the surface, Kamina and Simon learn from Yoko that the Gunmen attack the humans living there every day. Eventually Kamina hijacks another Gunman naming it Gurren, combining it with Lagann, creating Gurren Lagann. Their actions inspire the rest of the humans to take a stand and fight back against Lordgenome and his army.

Yes, this is an anime with big giant fighting robots... And girls with big boobs. I already love the story line and all the characters are just awesome. The only thing you have to worry about probably is the female in this anime with huge breasts. But another great anime to see. Watch it now.

~Liz~