Gakusen Toshi Asterisk

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So it got a second season. Who'd have thunk?

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Isn't it technically one season, but two cours?

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Best girl.

All in all the tournament arc was fine, but the last two episodes were absolutely terrbile except for action scenes.
It really sucks hard when they try to be serious with one-dimensional characters. Especially Ayato, it's like he can express only one emotion outside of battles.

I'm glad its over. I hope Rasmus will be able to get work on anime again but only with an actually good show.

They should have made some original characters for the tournament so we could have more fights there instead of whats going on now

They should have made an original anime with a completely different cast.

Im ok with that, as long as its the same genre.

Original anime has my preference

The anime skipped quite a lot in the last episode. The first episode that covered volume 6 (the royal party) skipped some things too, but it was done better except for the action. Budget is lacking now, but there's a problem with compressing volume 6 and probably an anime original scene to wrap up the anime.

That's a big head.

Literally who

So did that blonde ever show up again? The one in the skimpy bikini?

Nope. She's ded.

Like actually dead, or she simply doesn't show up anymore? In any case, I would have watched an episode with her in it, but it seems like that doesn't happen.

It's on now.

I'll wait for subs.

>anidb says the official title is 2nd season
>but Sup Forums says it's split cour so it should be S1 still
Who do I trust?

Claudia? She shows up here and there, but generally more modestly-clothed than that. She doesn't really get much screen time until her volume of the LN, but she still has a way of saving the day.

Well its officially endorsed as a 'S2' so I guess you could call it that.
Regardless, it's still technically one season since it was already planned initially to have two cours.

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Saya the only one who got pregnant

happy end

It's a split-cour so technically it is one season. Prisma Illya's 2wei! was a split cour too and that's considered one season, so think of it that way.

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>teasing with scenes from volume 8
What.

there's also this new bitch

S2
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Looks like a trap to me.

It's standard for LN adaptations to do that during the final episode.

Julis is the reason why I didn't drop this show.

Did the play the first ED during the finale? That's the only thing I care about at this point.

Probably evil foil character for the Queenvale's girls that have a spin-off.

Ai no Uta is the better ED.

No ED, we got first OP played instead.

>no male MC
This should have gotten an anime.

This pic makes me mad.

I accept it if there were more guys or no guys at all. But i cringe everytime i see a poster with a big number of girls and just one guy.

Fucking disappointing. Even at the very last second, you still fuck it up Asterisk.

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This is my favourite academy show, sucks I'll never learn what happens in the rest of the story.

Read it then

There are 3 guys on it, so dont be mad user-senpai!

This is in some ways the worst battle school harem I've ever seen.

Sure, I've seen things with less production value, and worse execution, but the problem with Asterisk is that the core concept is fundamentally flawed.

Like in these wacky magic/robot battle school harem anime, the chunni crap is supposed to be the backdrop for the standard romcom/sol cute/funny character interaction bits.

Asterisk however seems to have the focus placed squarely on the chunni nonsense part, with the entertaining/endearing character moments being few and far between and lots of chunni-babble of universe magic terminology and fight scenes and backstory melodramatics.

I don't know who the fuck thought this was a good idea.

Claudia best girl.

So you are basically saying there were too many battles and not enough harem antics?

Why are you autismoing about a fucking academy harem, kys.

>writing more than one sentence means you're autist

Thanks, digibro 10/10

Precisely.

The battle academy 'plot' here is not strong enough to stand on its own; as in many similar shows. It is simply not that interesting. Harems are like sitcoms for a few quite laughs and awwws. When they try make them serious or plot centric, there better be a good enough plot to justify that or you end up with things like this.

I guess maybe there IS a niche for this; like I guess people who like sports anime could like this, but it's just such a strange divergence from what kind of template these shows follow; and sure innovation and new ideas are a good thing in general over time, but it didn't really work out in this particular case.

Not that user but that's the inherent flaw of battle harems. It's what makes them the worst kind of harems in the already trashy genre. Battles bog down the harem aspect of the show.

I'm gonna guess its one of the black haired twins, the mecha and protag.

Second season was mostly about fighting in the tournament, i dont see how it is super serious or plot centric

I would agree with you if it was any other battle harem like Bahamut.

But Asterisk has good enough animation and ost to pull of decent fights, and they dont use those ugly 3d mech things we see in every other show

Now you see that's the only thing Asterisk has going for it. Even I'll agree that they have gotten some really fantastic key animators waste their talents on the fights for this but the problem is that's just it. It's all but a shallow spectacle in which I honestly don't give a fuck whatever happens besides that.

The second half of the first cour and the majority of this cour just drive my problems with it further. Literally the most fucking banal tournament with little in-between in regards to the characters. I don't even know why they bothered to make this a harem in the first place anyway when god damn Claudia and Sylvia have barely gotten any screentime. It's trying to surpass the average academy battle harem but at the same time forgetting what makes harems so fun to watch in the first place.

Saya a best though.

I'd say that's moreso if tournaments are involved.

>It's trying to surpass the average academy battle harem but at the same time forgetting what makes harems so fun to watch in the first place.

Sums up my feeling perfectly.

>Saya a best though.
Shit taste.

>Second season was mostly about fighting in the tournament, i dont see how it is super serious or plot centric

Well, I'm not sure what exactly they were going for, I guess my assumption was that was them trying to be serious and stay with the plot vs comedic harem antics/sol stuff.

I've just been finding the second season pretty tedious to watch; I don't really find the battles that interesting; sure they're animated fine etc... but like this is practically a series of shonen battles with less character interaction and comedy between the battles than in an actual shonen.

I really really don't "get" what they were going for; if you do, please enlighten me.

But like from my standpoint, it's kind of a tedious mess. It's like all the boring parts of other shows that thankfully made up the minority of screen-time in deference to the 'fun' stuff.

I don't HATE anime battles, I can really enjoy them where there is some context/stakes. I'm not going to deny the final battles in ttgl or fma:b OR snk (in space) even something harem-y like ZnT were exciting to me. But that's because there was context to the conflict, like there had been a lot of lead up to it, there were tangible stakes, character development to that point, etc...

Like this is shonen battle mentality; quick introduce and characterize these dudes for the battle of the week; this isn't even my final form, do it again next week.

I don't find that interesting; I don't think Asterisk is shonen targeted either; there is too much boring exposition.

I'm still watching it though; I'll probably finish it today what with the last episode. I'm no saying this is shit that should be dropped/not watched etc... I'm just saying it's some kind of incredibly weird show concept for which I can't image what the target audience must be.

It's like zoolander 2

except zoolander 1 was good vs asterisk 1 which barely made the cut for average

love the series but i cant stand her voice!

She's fine when she's being serious, which is sadly very rare. Otherwise her voice is like running nails down a chalkboard.

Final ranking

Claudia > Kirin > Sylvia > Ernesta > Violet > Saya > Irene > Priscilla > Julis

I am actually impressed you got the ranking EXACTLY backwards

I can't believe I ended up watching the entier series.

At first I hated it due to Rakudai being more superior but then, it grew on me for the last few months or so.

This show was pretty good

Sylvia was best. Julis, Kirin and Fan were alright. That's about it.

So that was it? That was the finale?

Eh. I'm just glad it's finally over.

Ok well I'm a little mad there is no third season, I've seen over 200 anime now and this will probably be the first where I pick up the LN.

Pretty much this with Claudia at 3rd place.

To anyone reading the LN, how far has the anime covered?

First 6 volumes I believe.

now do they expect to close this arc, i mean the sister , the festa, the boobs?
or i will need to buy the coloring books of this series?

The tournament should have had a faster pace so that we would have had more episodes for this arc instead.

Completely agreed.

Did the MC meet his sister yet?

Why do they remove her completely is she's the best?

Why isn't she transferring to their school and sucking Hayato's deck now?

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They didn't remove her. They just didn't get to the volume where she's relevant.

Need more best boys

So, Is the ln still dropped?

You could say she is voting leave.

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I want to make Saya pregnant.
I watched this dumb shit only for her.

>Ok well I'm a little mad there is no third season

Is that for certain? I've not been paying much attention but I know that the anime sales for S2 thus far have been shitty but have LN sales picked up at all to compensate? It seems rather shitty to have the tournament drag out for most of the second season only to finish it up when things seem to be getting good.

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Think of it this way. If this wasn't already planned to be split cour then there would have been no fucking chance this second cour would have happened.

Just be thankful that Aniplex was stupid enough to hedge their bets on this show.

So should I just continue the LN where the anime left, or is it better to read from vol .1?

Must...not...pinch

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I liked the hydra fight

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Me too, although they butchered the legend a bit.

Sylvia > Julis > Fan > Kirin > Ernesta > Priscilla > Flora > Irene > Saya > Claudia

Sylvia best girl, no competition.

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>400+ post by the nips who aren't even fucking buying it

Man this show has really lost all traction it had here on Sup Forums.

What are they saying about it?

There are currently 10 volumes for this series and the anime ended on Volume 6.

They seem to be have a hard-on for Kirin.