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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts Complete Series Collection (DVD)
When a fight breaks out at Fumizuki Academy, nobody throws a single punch. Instead, the students utilize the school's technology to summon Avatars, pint-sized stand-ins with battle powers based on academic ability. That "academic ability" part is bad news for Yoshii: he's an idiot, stuck in lowly Class F with the slackers. If these misfits want to escape their dump of a classroom and earn some...

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Practically the first Japanese word that anime fans learn is ‘Baka’. It’s human nature that we all use dictionaries to look at the naughty words first, and ‘Baka’ is an epithet that flies in many an anime. Incidentally, if you’re ever in Japan, and approach the country with an ‘Everything I know about Japan I learned from anime’ attitude, there will probably be one of those jackets waiting...
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