Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu ~Matsuri~ OVA 02

The focus of this OVA was a summoning tournament to earn new funds for the class so they could buy new furniture and Himeji’s father wouldn’t make her transfer schools. Of course, they still ended up with the same furniture due to idiocy, and Himeji is still in the class.

This episode was good and had a lot of funny parts, but I still didn’t enjoy it as much as the last episode. Honestly, I think the summoning battles are the weakest part of the show— the chibi fighters were hilarious the first time they appeared, but the actual fights aren’t all that interesting. It’s the interactions between the different characters which is the highlight of this show. Using the summoning battles as a way to make jokes around the characters works great, such as Yuuji’s proposal to Shouko, Hazuki’s promised reward, and everyone cheating in the final battle, but the actual battles themselves are, over a certain limit, just time spent away from the better parts of the show. To me, this episode skirted that limitrather closely.

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