@lupus_in_fabula Kingyo is goldfish, we can see the dude's hair kinda resembles a goldfish tail. About the Baba part I don't know without seeing the kanji, but baba can be a rude way to refer to an old woman. Or maybe, Baba is goldfish.
I think the chapter ending reference is for a japanese documentary television series named PROJECT X 〜Challengers〜, although the possibility of being a reference to PROJECT M is not discarded.
Forgot the school was a school for the strange, I was wondering when we were going to also get introduced to the hwole class like when they were in first year.