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When Does Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts Season 3 Come Out? Is It Renewed?

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts ended after Season 2.

IMDb

7.1/10

Seasons

2

Episodes

26

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Diagnostics

Network
TV Tokyo
First aired
2010-01-07
Last aired
2011-09-30
Runtime
24 min
Rated
TV-14

Predictive Logic Analysis

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts has concluded its run. Production records list the series as ended, meaning the story has been brought to a planned close rather than left open. Barring a revival, there is no Season 3 in development.

What is Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts about?

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts takes a delightfully absurd premise and runs with it at full sprint. The show imagines a Japanese high school where class placement is brutally meritocratic, divided from prestigious A-Class down to the ramshackle F-Class—and where the oppressed underperformers can literally summon manifestations of their test scores to wage magical battles for advancement. It's a fish-out-of-water comedy wrapped around the fantasy concept of summoning, designed to appeal to viewers who love both school comedies and the magical combat systems popularized by anime. The real hook, though, lies in how the show weaponizes academic failure; watching doomed students summon cartoonish avatars of their own mediocrity and send them into battle is both genuinely funny and oddly heartwarming.

The series thrives on rapid-fire gag comedy, absurdist humor, and character-driven charm rather than plot complexity or narrative weight. Its tone is deliberately silly and self-aware, never pretending the premise is anything other than a springboard for comedy. The animation is bright and expressive, the voice work energetic, and the pacing snappy enough that jokes land before you have time to overthink them. There's an underlying sweetness to the ensemble cast of F-Class misfits who bond through their shared underdog status, grounding the wackiness with genuine camaraderie and giving viewers reason to care beyond the surface-level spectacle.

The series earned solid if unspectacular audience reception, posting respectable marks on viewing platforms and maintaining a dedicated fanbase throughout its two-season run. It carved out a particular niche among comedy-anime enthusiasts and has maintained modest but enduring cultural currency in fan circles, never reaching mainstream phenomenon status but never fading into obscurity either.

Baka and Test occupies a distinctive corner of the anime comedy ecosystem—too conceptually elaborate and system-focused to be a pure slice-of-life school comedy, yet too joke-driven and lightweight to compete with action-forward fantasy series. Its cultural footprint remains that of a cult favorite: a show that people who've seen it tend to remember fondly and recommend to friends who appreciate anime comedy, without commanding the broader recognition of genre titans.

Themes

swordplaymagicidiothigh schoolparodyromanceslice of lifeschoolsuper powerschool life

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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts seasons

Season 12010 · 13 ep
  • 1. Idiots, Classes, and the Summoner Test War2010-01-07 · ★ 9.0
  • 2. Lilies, Roses, and Health and Physical Education2010-01-14 · ★ 9.0
  • 3. Food Budget, Dates, and Stun Guns2010-01-21 · ★ 9.0
  • 4. Love, Spices, and Boxed Lunches2010-01-28 · ★ 9.0
  • 5. Maps, Treasures, and Striker Sigma V2010-02-04 · ★ 9.0
  • 6. Me, Pools, and Swimsuit Paradises... and...2010-02-11 · ★ 9.0
  • 7. Me, Shouko, and Kisaragi Grand Park2010-02-18 · ★ 9.0
  • 8. Recklessness, Labyrinths, and the Avatar Instrumentality Project2010-02-25 · ★ 9.0
  • 9. Kisses, Breasts, and Ponytails2010-03-04 · ★ 9.0
  • 10. Trial Exams, Mysterious Thieves, and Love Letters2010-03-11 · ★ 10.0
  • 11. Rivals, Love Letters, and Blitz Tactics2010-03-18 · ★ 9.0
  • 12. Love, Courage and Our Battle Has Just Begun!2010-03-25 · ★ 9.0
  • 13. BAKA and TEST - Summon the Beasts2010-04-01 · ★ 10.0
Season 22011 · 13 ep
  • 1. Me, Everyone, and Swimming in the Ocean!2011-07-08 · ★ 9.0
  • 2. Me, Yukata, and Festivities!2011-07-15 · ★ 9.0
  • 3. Me, That Girl, and a Stuffed Toy!2011-07-22 · ★ 9.0
  • 4. Me, TRUE Colors and a Man's Dignity!2011-07-29 · ★ 9.0
  • 5. Me, Peeking, and Training Camp!2011-08-05 · ★ 9.0
  • 6. Me, Peeking, and Guys' Friendship!2011-08-12 · ★ 9.0
  • 7. Me, Peeking, and Far Away Paradise!2011-08-19 · ★ 9.0
  • 8. Me, Japan, and Unknown Words!2011-08-26 · ★ 9.0
  • 9. Me, Romance, and Negotiation Skills!2011-09-02 · ★ 9.0
  • 10. Me, Romance, and Love Skills!2011-09-09 · ★ 9.0
  • 11. Yuuji, Shouko and the Childhood Memories!2011-09-16 · ★ 9.0
  • 12. Idiots, Clownery, and Requiem!2011-09-23 · ★ 9.0
  • 13. BAKA and TEST - Summon The Beasts!2011-09-30 · ★ 9.0

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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts cast

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Hiro Shimono

Hiro Shimono

Akihisa Yoshii (voice)

Hitomi Harada

Hitomi Harada

Mizuki Himeji (voice)

Kaori Mizuhashi

Kaori Mizuhashi

Minami Shimada (voice)

Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Yūji Sakamoto (voice)

Tomomi Isomura

Tomomi Isomura

Shouko Kirishima (voice)

Kouki Miyata

Kouki Miyata

Kouta Tsuchiya (voice)

Emiri Kato

Emiri Kato

Hideyoshi Kinoshita / Yuuko Kinoshita (voice)

Akio Otsuka

Akio Otsuka

Sōichi Nishimura (voice)

Kenjiro Tsuda

Kenjiro Tsuda

Shin Fukuhara (voice)

Takuma Terashima

Takuma Terashima

Toshimitsu Kubo (voice)

Keisuke Gotou

Keisuke Gotou

Ryō Sugawa (voice)

Mana Hirata

Mana Hirata

Hazuki Shimada (voice)

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    When does Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts Season 3 come out?
    Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts ended after Season 2.
    Is Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts renewed or cancelled?
    Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts has ended. Its final season has already aired and no further seasons are expected.
    How many seasons of Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts are there?
    Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts has aired 2 seasons so far.
    How many episodes of Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts are there?
    There are 26 episodes of Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts across 2 seasons.
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    What is Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts's IMDb rating?
    Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts holds an IMDb rating of 7.1/10 from 1,622 votes.