Minami Shimada (島田 美波 Shimada Minami) is one of the main heroines in "Baka to Test Shoukanjuu" who is a 2nd year high school student at Fumizuki Academy.  After living in Germany for most of her life, she returned to Japan and was placed into Class F, although, based on her academic ability, she could have been placed into other, better classes. However, because she has spent most of her life in Germany, the language barrier has made it difficult for her to excel in school since her grasp in writing kanji is still lacking. The one subject she does well in is Mathematics, because of the lack of kanji required. She is, however, weak in other subjects because she cannot read or write in kanji very well.