Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Manaban
I have a long-standing fascination with The Asterisk War. To most people, the series has been laid to rest these days, but I was new to anime and the anime community when it came out and was the spicy new topic to discuss. It was one of the first times I got to take a side on a hot-button topic of the day - and the *very* first time I got to take a side on a specific series. I liked The Asterisk War. I was team AssWar > Rakudai. I was all in. We got absolutely annihilated in that battle, mind you. Rakudai picked up a decisive victory in the war of public perception, but to this day I'm still that guy in whatever Discord server the topic manages to come up in, sitting in my rocking chair and ranting about how Rakudai wasn't all that and how much better The Asterisk War was. It's reached a p…
Read at the sourceDreamTraveller
Who could believe I gave Asterisk War an 8 six years ago? That's character development for you, I guess.
I didn't exactly expect this anime to be any good. There are many red flags before getting into this, and the first episode alone is a good indicator of what's about to come: nice guy transfer student, tsundere second lead, obligatory ecchi scene, 99% female cast, A-1 studios... yep, they're all there. Asterisk War can force a light smile here and there, but otherwise, it's such a smudge. Painful to watch at times. This review takes into consideration the second season too, I watched a couple of its episodes. It's basically the same show.
Asterisk War generally suffers from bad writing, but the one factor really standing out is our MC, Kazuto Kirig- I mean, Amagiri Ayato. This man is…
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I'll start of by saying that this was one of my first anime ever which is why I have somewhat of a soft spot for it, although i didn't finish it until a year later haha.
Story 6/10
The story is alright nothing special really, just a basic school with powers or magic.
Art 7/10
The art is good but nothing special, I really like the effects of the blades and all but for the rest its nothing I havent seen before
Sound 10/10
This is the first anime I watched the full credits for on every episode (now a days I do it for most anime but back then I always skipped it) and it's because I loooove the song it's so beautiful and stuck in my head.
Characters 6/10
I'll admit I like most of the female characters but I always sigh because everything is so typical it really gets on my nerves.
Enjoymen…
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Towards the end of 2015, two light novel adaptations became notable for sharing startling similarities between them. Chivalry of a Failed Knight was considered somewhat refreshing, occasionally playing around with awful tropes and channeling the power of competent screenplays and exciting directing to turn a school battle LN adaptation into something worth watching. Conversely, The Asterisk War failed to meet even the basic requirements to function as a generic work of fiction. It's barely worth the effort it takes to write about it, let alone animate it.
Before we start, I dare one of you to make a thread or a blog showcasing the exact amount of problems each episode has. Don't make a drinking game out of it, or you'll die of alcohol poisoning by episode 8. The show literally starts with…
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WARNING: Review contains minor spoilers, as the show has almost no story and some one off events need to be discussed to get across the show's quality.
Asterisk Wars is a series which has been derided by many and lauded by few, although the most common consensus to this show is likely "average". In my opinion, though, the people who pointed out all of this show's flaws are pretty much perfectly on track: This show has an unlikeable and generic cast set in an ill-concieved setting with no plot to drive it and poor fights.
Lets take it from the top. Our show begins when Ayato Amagiri, your standard flatbread hero, arrives at one of the six elite fighting schools, Seidoukan Academy, so he can be a fighter, as he is a Genestella which is basically a superhuman. The first action we get to see…
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Dual Cour Format: An anime meant to be 24 episodes as fitting of Trimmed Format but because of limited TV Slot booking often airs at different points in time. Often announced simultaneously for example:
Shinmai Maou no Testament, Gate
Story 8 / 10
The story begins with Amagiri Ayato a transfer student to the Seidoukan Academy and progresses as ground work for what's to come for the future of a student that does not care about the combat called festas that surely but slowly is getting himself riddled on something darker.
Since this is a dual cour series I won't go into detail until I've seen 2nd cour but it's well executed giving the serious moments their bubbles and good portrayal of character bonding on an Academy where everyone it's everyone enemy.
Art + Animation 8.5 / 10
Gakusen…
Read at the sourceAreyKyoya
This anime is definitely an interesting one when it comes to my overall enjoyment and whether I think its a quality title so far or not.
Story: 6 - The story is fairly intresting and each episodes make me want to watch the next episode so i'd say it has a good story development. Of all the animes watched I can think of three animes namely Absolute Duo,Freezing and Infinite Stratos which has a similiar story and development. And this season (Fall 2015) an another similiar anime 'Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry' have been airing as well. Although both of them are good and intresting it makes me wonder if if the money could have been used for a more creative and unique project.
Art: 8 - The art is great. Contains a lot of great scenery and special effects were good , not to mention battle art is…
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Warning, this review might have some spoilers!
It is a great story after all, but something is missing in it. This anime was really great and i can say that there was some missings in the episode that might just would fit in there, but its not much to complain about that. I really did love that he was powerful (i guess not spoil). It does reminds me of SAO (Sword Art Online). Swords there and swords here. There is season 2 now and i expect that he (spoil) will get away that thing that holds him back from using hes true 100% power in fights and duels. Thats it for now.
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Well, here is my honest opinion about Gaskusen Toshi Asterisk. It's to short for it's own good. It tries to give a good and a little complicated story and plot, but because of it's short run time (will change when the new season comes out in april 2016 hopefully) the goal of the plot becomes unknow. I mean sure, so far its about a group of magical warriors who fight in a tag team fight tournament and the winner(s? not sure) can make their/his or her wish come true if it is in the power of the current world to fulfilll.
In the end of the season they teaser that something might have happend to the protagonist his sister and that we might know the villian. I am looking forward to the second season to find out what will happen, but thats also the problem. The first season doesn't make much se…
Read at the sourceCrimewatchSK
If you are a big fan of DxD or Rakudai then this is for you.
The plot has some rather interesting elements to it students from multiple schools are competing it a tournament in pairs, it appears that a number of them have some end goal for doing so and this will and has lead to some heated exchanges. The story has a few mysteries to it a few shady characters or an incomplete back story leaving you wonder what will happen next by no means is it mind blowingly good but it's also not completely irrelevant it's about a 6-7 for now but looks to be heating up for the next series.
By no means is this the best Anime in this category but by no means is it the worse, if you are a fan of shows like Rakudai or even DxD then you most likely will enjoy this show, it's not as the same standard of those…
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It's totally okay to watch a show with low expectations. Sometimes to balance a great anime, you gotta watch a bad one just to put you back in your place. It's a requirement to have watched poorly done shows so you know where your tastes are and also broaden your horizons. The Asterisk War serves as one of those shows that will give you appreciation of shows like High School of The Dead and other shows that have poorly written stories and brick wall characters. This is a must watch if you need to remember that there are really uninspiring anime.
Storywise, not much to say. Gary Stu comes to new school, all the ladies fall for him the end. Sounds like the typical harem anime because it IS a typical harem anime. The whole thing is a tease and shows snippets that relate to the protagonist in…
Read at the sourceMozillaFennekin
[Spoiler Warning]
I'm not mad. I have only myself to blame for this, really. I tend to be more selective with what I watch. Something will be recommended, I'll hear about something popular, or it's just on my mind a lot. I've never watched anything expecting it to be bad; usually I have no expectations at all, but often I at least think it'll be something that's enjoyable enough to pass the time and get a 5 or 6.
The Asterisk War is my first exception.
I didn't watch this because I knew it'd be good. I watched it because I heard it was almost identical to Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry, which I'd just finished, and all I wanted to do was see which is worse. Yes, WORSE. Not better. I mean, that's not to say it couldn’t have been surprisingly good, but of course that couldn't happen. Of course,…
Read at the sourceMirracles
WARNING THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SLIGHT SPOILERS. I TRIED TO REVEAL AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE, WHILE STILL COMMENTING ON CERTAIN PARTS OF THE SHOW
I don't write many reviews. When I finish a show I usually just give it a score and move on to the next one.
HOWEVER
Sometimes a show comes up that I just need to rant about, for good or bad reasons. I would consider the scores I give out very generous. I have seen complaints about "inflated" scores on MAL where people give out scores on a scale similar to a school grading system where a 5 or 6 is the lowest they will give a show, however I consider my scores generous because I rate them on the 1-10 scale but tend to give a lot of shows an extra point or two. I don't like giving out low scores and I try to find something good or something I liked…
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This anime is terrible.
It's just another one of those SAO lookalikes that A1 is trying to pass as an original anime.
The story is nothing special: Super strong boy meets somewhat strong tsundere hot girl that after only TWO episodes falls completely in love with him. Oh yeah, there's also something about a magical school and a competition. The world in not very well presented.
The characters are simply walking, talking stereotypes. You probably won't even remember their names, only the character tropes. There's the very naive and powerful main character who doesn't get that ALL the girls are in love with him. There's the main female lead who's a tsundere (not even a good one at that), there is the loli dandere (she is also not very well made cause she looks and sounds like the supercriti…
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Story: 4/10
Story focuses on students who are wielders of some kind of Light Sabers thanks to some kind of super powers they posses (they didn't explained them at all). Eventually they take part in big tournament where they fight 2 vs 2 with other students. They dreams may come true as a prize cause everyone have some kind of desire.
In reality it's another, typical harem with story focused on grand tournament where our MC's have to win! There's nothing special, the romance is bad, ecchi is bad, harem ain't good at all..
Characters: 3/10
Well.. It's even worse than story. Our Protagonist-Kun is typical, boring MC who doesn't have "eggs" at all. Literally, hot girl invites him to stay a night and he refuses.. Other than him we have mentioned by me Princess-kun who is tsundere and is als…
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Well...Gakusen Toshi Asterisk started off pretty good like any other harem-ecchi anime series but went the episode went by, it became garbage and it does have a common plot that can be found in other animes.
Story : 6
Actually I'm not too sure about the plot but I'm sure it revolves around some random Magical Fantasy Schools participating in a competition and the main character finding the truth about his older sister. The competition is about some Magical Fantasy Fighting Competition which up till now I still do not understand their powers and stuff relating to it. With the anime being completed, the ending ends off with a fight and some unnecessary fan-service. Which I think is a bad ending considering that I did not understand it
Art : 9
That art was pretty good as it shows the vibra…
Read at the sourcePyraXadon
Ah, harem. The genre that I mostly find myself gravitating towards is the one that has to do with lots of girls and only one guy. (Don't judge me. We all have our favorite genre.) So, with Fall 2015 coming to a close, we have Asterisk, a show that...really isn't much different from the rest of the harem shows out there to be honest.
Story: The age of Genestella came when meteors rained down and sent the world into near extinction, but surprisingly, not as many people as you think died. As a result of the fallout, a new society was formed, one where people now possessed magical powers and were able to wield weapons made from the stones in these meteors called 'Luxes'. And here, we follow the story of Amagiri Ayato, a boy who enters one of 6 schools (Seidoukan specifically) and enters the P…
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My Gakusen Toshi Asterisk review.
Story: Mediocre 5.
Art: Fair 6.
Sound: Fair 6.
Character: Good 7.
Enjoyment: Fair 6.
Overall: Decent 4.
Ok, so this anime has ended , so what can I say? Well, one can't make a review of this anime without compering to another anime namely "Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry" or at least on the story (up) side, since it both features the same plot where it involves the female MC who met the male MC in a very awkward situation and plot wise, both partners have to compete in a contest that would pit their skills against another opponent . I mean if one where watching both animes their is at 70% similarities, where I rather not discuss anymore details and both climaxes where focus on fighting the strongest female contender, which is why I gave this anime's category a…
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Well, this anime came up at the same time as a certain anime, on its firsts episodes i thought they all have the same plot (i dont read the light novel) but since i watched more and more i started liking it, Amagiri Ayato seems to be a great character, characters like Toudou Kirin are cute but i hate that she blushes like everytime, but well, at the beginning i found clichés in the series. I liked this anime because i think they animated the battles in a great way, some characters are funny but i must say that some of its characters are awkward. The opening and ending theme are just amazing, favorites of this season. Great anime, im waiting for the 2nd season.
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Gakusen Toshi Asterisk is a series which starts off as one of the most uninspiring anime I've ever seen throughout its first few episodes, but past a certain point it starts improving quite rapidly. Granted that doesn't really say very much given how mediocre the opening is, but despite the lackluster start it manages to make a quite impressive comeback and eventually become a pretty enjoyable anime.
First things first though, episodes 1-4 of Asterisk didn't exactly give me a very good first impression because they are *painfully* generic. Like if you've seen any typical action/fantasy/ecchi/harem magic academy anime before, you should know roughly what clichés to expect, and I'll just say that initially Asterisk has effectively all of them. Our protagonist Ayato transfers into a new scho…
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