Baka and Test: Summon The Beasts Series 2
Released By: Manga Entertainment
Rating: 12
Running Time: 116 Mins
Audio: English & Japanese DD 2.0
Release Date: Out 21/1/2013
Reviewed by: Sandra Scholes

Its girls versus boys starting with a beach episode as it’s summer and they need a break from class F, but none of the guys think they will get off with the girls – they’re too shy for that, or are they? Aki's going on holiday and he's invited some of the girls along for the ride, but if he tells his sister the truth, she'll kill him, so he has to break it to her gently, or face getting his legs broken.

Holidays under normal circumstances are a lot of fun, but for the guys of Class F, endless talk about girly things can only give out one result - nosebleeds. So when the other girls go on about how flat-chested they are compared to Himeji, there's plenty of blood spilled that day. There is more fun when Aki uncovers his sisters swimsuit in the back, he can't believe she would wear something so revealing, and when she tells him what she would have normally worn, he can't believe it's so skimpy. Merely holding the thing makes him look like a class a pervert in front of Yuuji, who is trying to keep his new girlfriend very happy.

There's a lot of funny moments in this anime, and Kouta is one of the funniest characters in it. As he's the resident photographer, he likes to take pictures of sexy girls, and on this trip, he has the opportunity to take some seriously good shots of girls in bikinis, though whenever Kouta gets too hot under the collar he gets a nosebleed - so much so that he ends up having a drip attached to him that drains and shrivels when he can't take too much female attention. In almost every episode there's a friend or girl holding him while he bleeds to death after seeing a girls panties or revealing bikini top.

Hideoshi on the other hand is desperate to prove to everyone that he's a guy, not a girl as most think he is. When he goes onto the beach in his shorts, the lifeguard dashes over and tells him to cover up, annoying him no end. No one seems to see him as a guy, even the girls in his class who think he's got small boobs under his uniform. Through the series he's tried to get everyone to take him for a dude, but it isn't easy.

Once the girls are in their bikinis, and the guys in their shorts, they start to play games, going all out with melon smashing, but it doesn't go well when Aki nearly aims a little lower than Yuuji wants. And it isn't long before the girls start to tease Yuuji and Aki, and this leads to a whole lot of new trouble.

These episodes take the students out of the classroom, with the girls in bikinis one minute and in yukata the next. In one of the episodes, the girls go to a festival, and the usual disaster strikes once they bring the guys, and just when they think the guys are leering too much at the other girls at the festival, they get their own back by having them enter the Miss Yukata Beauty Contest. Here it's a case of thinking what Yuuji and Aki would look like in full make-up and girls clothes! Before they even get back to school, Kouta has to come to terms with his sister reading yaoi romance novels like "I'll Wait For You Under the Legendary Tree 2." This also leads to a bit of role reversal for them both when they go back to school, which is as funny as hell. This is a series that has truly progressed over the first couple of discs, and gets funnier every time you watch it.

Bonus Material: Episode 3 Commentary.

Verdict: Yuuji and Aki are in for a real fun time in this humourous second series - be prepared for extreme belly laughs!