Gakusen Toshi Asterisk

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>>143006306
I'm ready.

>>143006306
So it got a second season. Who'd have thunk?

>>143006306
Here

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>>143006365
Isn't it technically one season, but two cours?

>>143006306
Here
>>143006352
Best girl.

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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.

>>143006785
They should have made some original characters for the tournament so we could have more fights there instead of whats going on now

>>143006865
They should have made an original anime with a completely different cast.

>>143006876
Im ok with that, as long as its the same genre.

Original anime has my preference

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>>143006785
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.

>>143007047
That's a big head.

>>143007047
Literally who

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

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>>143007149
Nope. She's ded.

>>143007209
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.

>>143006425
>>143006365
>anidb says the official title is 2nd season
>but /a/ says it's split cour so it should be S1 still
Who do I trust?

>>143007260
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.

>>143008358
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

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>>143008358
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.

>>143008776
>teasing with scenes from volume 8
What.

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>>143008843
there's also this new bitch

>>143008843
S2
2

>>143008858
Looks like a trap to me.

>>143008843
It's standard for LN adaptations to do that during the final episode.

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>>143006352
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.

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>>143008858
Probably evil foil character for the Queenvale's girls that have a spin-off.

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>>143009004
Ai no Uta is the better ED.

>>143009004
No ED, we got first OP played instead.

>>143009013
>no male MC
This should have gotten an anime.

>>143006306
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.

>>143009083
Fucking disappointing. Even at the very last second, you still fuck it up Asterisk.

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>>143008858

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

>>143009265
Read it then

>>143009105
There are 3 guys on it, so dont be mad anon-senpai!

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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.

>>143009390
So you are basically saying there were too many battles and not enough harem antics?

>>143009390
Why are you autismoing about a fucking academy harem, kys.

>>143009455
>writing more than one sentence means you're autist

>>143009390

Thanks, digibro 10/10

>>143009439
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.

>>143009439
Not that anon 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.

>>143009326
I'm gonna guess its one of the black haired twins, the mecha and protag.

>>143009613
Second season was mostly about fighting in the tournament, i dont see how it is super serious or plot centric

>>143009626
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

>>143009741
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.

>>143009626
I'd say that's moreso if tournaments are involved.

>>143009986
>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.

>>143009986
>Saya a best though.
Shit taste.

>>143009741
>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

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love the series but i cant stand her voice!

>>143011135

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

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Final ranking

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

>>143011283
I am actually impressed you got the ranking EXACTLY backwards

>>143006306
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

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>>143011283
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.

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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.

>>143011357
Pretty much this with Claudia at 3rd place.

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

>>143011570
First 6 volumes I believe.

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>>143011493
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?

>>143011493
The tournament should have had a faster pace so that we would have had more episodes for this arc instead.

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>>143011427
Completely agreed.

Did the MC meet his sister yet?

>>143011427
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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>>143012031

>>143012048
They didn't remove her. They just didn't get to the volume where she's relevant.

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Need more best boys

So, Is the ln still dropped?

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You could say she is voting leave.

>>143008542
I want to make Saya pregnant.
I watched this dumb shit only for her.

>>143011493

>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.

>>143012455
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?

>>143012406
Must...not...pinch

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I liked the hydra fight

>>143012782
Me too, although they butchered the legend a bit.

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>>143011283
Sylvia > Julis > Fan > Kirin > Ernesta > Priscilla > Flora > Irene > Saya > Claudia

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>>143011950
Sylvia best girl, no competition.

>http://may.2chan.net/b/res/414909309.htm
>400+ post by the nips who aren't even fucking buying it

Man this show has really lost all traction it had here on /a/.

>>143013737
What are they saying about it?

>>143011570
There are currently 10 volumes for this series and the anime ended on Volume 6.

>>143013737
They seem to be have a hard-on for Kirin.

>>143012555
Start from vol 1, there's a ton of details left out.

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>>143013828
As expected.

>>143013798
I'm kind of slow at reading Japanese but I'm willing to continue the ride with the LNs, volume 6 it is then.

>>143013785
Everybody loves Kirin.
Animation was good.
It's shit.
Some mentions of Rakudai here and there.
They hope the director will handle a series actually worthwhile in the future.

>>143013798
What really sucks is they ended the anime just before Sylvia's arc and considering the sales of the first cour some kind of miracle would have to occur for this to get another season.

>>143013952
>It's shit.

Well, at least they have some taste.

>>143014024
>Japan
>taste

>>143014024
Oh fuck the thread 404d. But anyway, they are also laughing at how bad it's selling.

>>143014024
>no love for Says
Yes, they have taste. Shit taste.

>>143014137
>Says
And I had to misspell it. And I can't delete the post quickly enough to change it because m00t is a pussy. Fuck this gay earth.

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>>143014137
>>143014181
She didn't do shit except for hosting blondie for an episode. I love childhood friends but Saya was just tacked on there.

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I liked Saya the most.
She was the cheekiest and didn't blush and stutter like a generic moeblob every time faggot MC talked to her.

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>Sylvia's arc never

Fuck everything.

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>>143014096
It's archived here.
http://futalog.com/414909309.htm

S3 when?

>>143014579

Only when you purchase all of the season 2 BDs.

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>>143014438
Don't remind me.

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So many stitches

>>143014024
>Love kirin
>Taste
kek

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OT3 with Ernesta

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Dem cornets.

>>143015170
>>143015210
No wonder Ayato is a siscon

>>143006306
>Raise the stakes of your show just barely
>end it
Well this was fucking boring garbage.

>>143014909
A blow job？

>>143009584
>Digibro invented shitting on Asterisk
That being said, given that that autist made a video series spanning several hours in length about why this show is bad, I doubt anyone can say anything about that he didn't already. Unless you cite specific scenes from the second cour.

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Last one unless there are requests for more.

>suddenly KobaYuu

The show is saved.

>They didn't end it with 1st ending.

Well fuck, they had one job.

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>>143014380
Same, the only time childhood friend in harem actually good

Spoil me ESLs have they won the next Festa yet.

>>143018065
Yes, they beat the white knight fags in the finals.

Is this the Toriko of male otaku-aimed LNs where Aniplex tries SO HARD to make it the next big thing?

>>143019054
I don't think Asterisk is a forced series like Toriko, it's just a lucky thing if some LN adaptions has some of high sells.

>>143019054
It's just the standard Aniplex shit where they try to emulate popular trends and hope it sticks. Unfortunately for them, IS selling was a miracle of the highest order they can never hope to replicate.

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I'm looking at these screencaps and I'm not seeing naked claudia. no wonder it isn't selling.

Is there any particular reason Claudia wouldn't be able to solo the upcoming tournament? Her weapon basically gives her Jedi level combat abilities of being able to see super far into the future and I don't see how to counter that

I wish they went more deeply into the global political, social, and economic impact of the existence of Genestealers.

By restricting the setting to this stupid tournament on this island it's hard to get an idea of how the world was affected aside from some vague bullshit about the Illuminati.

Since they don't all live in a boiling hellhole of thunderstorms and typhoons can we assume that Genestealers reversed global warming?

>>143019601
She still has to keep up with her enemy and physically react to their attacks. If you're fighting someone like Ophelia, then it doesn't matter how far into the future you can see because she'll just wear you down or attack faster than you can dodge and block.

>>143013952
>Some mentions of Rakudai here and there.
What did nips think of Antimagic?

>>143019813
Japan has not taste, what do you expected?

>>143008813
>Came for smug saya
>Got smug saya
Today is a good day

>>143019813
I barely remember the threads back then but from what I can recall it was a so bad it was good sentiment. Particularly, they found Haunted to be absolutely hilarious. Basically thought the whole show was a joke --- a gagfest.

Oh and something about the director being garbage and they hope SL and other studios won't give the guy work again.

So was it anime original end?

>>143012840
>Pink pantsu
L-l-l-lewd

>>143018478
So does his sister wake up and become the final boss then.

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>>143019813
>>143019852
I'M STILL MAD

>>143019971
Had they read the novels?

>>143019601
Well firstly Gyrps is a 5-man team tournament, you're not allowed to participate by yourself. and secondly if she entered the solo tournament (Lindovlous) see >>143019742

>>143019707
funny enough they expand on the things you're disussing in the volumes after this one. I mean Volume 7 is pretty much an info dump arc.

>>143020085
Most of them probably didn't. A lot less people read the source over there than people think. There's a much larger number reading LN's there, but there's also a much larger number actually watching it on their own television.

>>143020085
Nah not that much. It wasn't that popular of a LN in the first place after all. I mean there's a reason why it got SL's B-team and Rakudai got the A-team, the publishers just didn't have confidence in it as a series.

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>>143020085
I liked the weakest fag the best other than that black and white episode. The budget was complete shit but the harem antics were pretty minimal and the director was trying so hard in some of those action scenes.

Magic academy was trash and I just stopped watching after the MC suit was entirely CG.

I got too far into Asterisk to not finish it but by the end I was just skipping the majority of the dialog. 14 year olds trying to one up each other with their superior intellect just makes you role your eyes because the dialog is complete shit if your not a 14 year old yourself.

Holy fuck that was a pretty good episode, especially the animated Hydra fight.
Then they played the first OP at the end, hype as fuck. It ended just as it was starting to get interesting.
Going to miss it really, it was a bit generic but the OST/OP/ED in general were stellar, plus it probably had the best world-building idea for a battle academy harem.
S3 FUCKING WHEN

God that was trash. I don't know why I put up with this.
Thank fuck it's over.

>>143020225
>but there's also a much larger number actually watching it on their own television
Are all the otaku in Japan going to die early from years of sleep deprivation?

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cute

>>143009112
It was great, because the first OP was energizing as fuck. It really got me hyped for a possible S3, or reading the LNs if that never happens.
The entire montage was lots of training scenes and character sneak previews, it worked perfectly to hype up what's to come.
I know Waiting for the rain was amazing, but it wouldn't really work in this case. Perhaps if it ended on Ayato finding his sister, instead of the team getting ready for the Gryps Festa.

>>143020406
>other than that black and white episode
What black and white episode?

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This is what I call living the dream.

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Reminder that once setsuna finishes volume 9 we're in the dark for translations until basically the next decade along with no season 3. Might just drop it

>>143009094
No it should not have. The all girls spinoff is always trash, see Danmachi.
Only yurifags eat that shit up.

So i have an hard guess and LN fags can probably help me on this one.
Does Claudia wish to become an inhuman monster like her mother to be recognized by her and this is why her father wanted to stope her ?

Hopefully this is the final nail in the coffin for academy battle harem shit, especially considering how much backing this show got and yet it still failed horribly.

Time to move on to a more tolerable setting nips. I don't mind trashy isekai haremshit as the new trend.

>>143009390
Kill yourself, you have the worst fucking taste imaginable.
Asterisk is fucking amazing for a battle academy harem, precisely because the girls aren't soulless fappable tropes for otaku. They actually have plot relevance and fight in the tournament, instead of chasing after the MC while being irrelevant/jobbers.
Everything in Asterisk is high quality for a harem, in fact if you removed the harem antics and gave Ayato some character, it would be a great shounen series.

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>>143020748
>Time to move on to a more tolerable setting
Urban fantasy battle harem?

>>143020854
That'd be fine too. Still waiting for that sequel announcement.

>>143020611
Who is this lesbian nun?

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Reminder Julis is the true main character.

>>143020854
At least with StB the author attempted with to put a plot together.

>this fucking ending
>look forward to all this stuff that'll never be animated

>>143021139
Like every bad anime adaption.

>>143020965
While i enjoyed Asterisk i have to say i fucking hate this development
>Here we have weak humans , and Genestella who are superior to them
>Here we also have witches who are stronger and rarer than Genestella
>MC girl is a Genestella Witch
>Normal Genestellas kick her but on day x day basis
>We also have her best friend who is artificial and is stronger than her and another Witch who have omnipotence
If you have to make the main cast weaker just dont give them any special label at all then.

>>143020977
Watching StB was a weird experience for me, it felt like ten years ago watching shit like Shana and Index and Fate/stay DEEN.

Well that was shit. I didn't even feel any sense of satisfaction or conclusiveness with that finale.

Who's best boy and why is it aniue?

>>143016666
First ending was nice but too soft for the montage, it was lots of training and stuff, meant to hype you for reading the LNs S3. The OP worked well.

>>143021211
>Normal Genestellas kick her but on day x day basis
Who and what?

>>143020640
>The all girls spinoff is always trash

Please don't embarrass yourself

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>>143021254
>doujin never

>>143021310
Everyone in the tournament. Julis was losing about 50 % of her fight 1 on 1

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>>143015316
Kill yourself.

>>143021235
Yeah, that and Index felt really similar. Probably why I like them both.

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>ends just as it starts getting interesting
>right before best girl's arc
For fuck sake.

S3 When

>>143021367
Those who make it past the qualifies and into the final matches can't be considered normal. They're all page one Stregas. Then again, by your definition every Genestella short of Fan and Orphelia are considered normal Genestella. Ayato and Kirin too are normal Genestellas.

>>143021518
Yes Ayato and Kirin are both normal Gene and both can kick Julis but

>>143021566
With Ayato's huge energy reserves and Kirin's speed and sword skills, what does it take to not be normal then?

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>>143020840
>Everything in Asterisk is high quality for a harem
No it isn't.
Every character is either completely boring or average at best, even for a harem.

I will never know what Aniplex was thinking when they thought this was any fucking good. Holy shit.
Go on Rasmus Faber. May you get hired to do some work on legitimately decent shows.

>>143021566
So what's your point? Julis is rank 5. There will always be those stronger than her, most of them obviously being higher ranked or near equivalence to her Academy's ranking.

Calling them all normal Genestella is dumb, in any case. That makes them sound sub-par by labeling them as normal. Existences like Fan and Orphelia are exceptions, not the rule. They are monsters belonging to a different category altogether.

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>we won't get S3 because the sales were shit
I actually really enjoyed this series, the last episode fight against the Hydra and the tournament arc was all really well animated.

Sucks that we won't get to see more Sylvia.

>>143021668
Ayato MC plot armor and such so lets count him out. Kirin developed her skills trough years of training. My main point is : If you're going to make characters develop and grow during your series trough training or what do not give them special snowflakes status meant to make the audience perceive them stronger than they actually are.

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>The plot and action gets more interesting
>It ends
Every time.

>>143020085
Everyone knows the real winner was Mari.

>>143009390
Got your (You) right here flamalam.

Honestly though, I went into this as just wanting some sci fi setting cartoons and really had it grow on me. I doubt it's getting another season, but it interested me enough to make me want to start reading the LNs.

Also:
>ED starts
>OP of previous season
This makes my dick so hard.

>>143021742
It's a shame, everything but the story was good. If they picked actually good material like Antimagic to adapt we could have had something really good.

>>143021799
This pic got me laughing. Julis relegated to secondary character instantly, only Claudia can keep up with Ayato.

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No stitch of this yet?

>>143021747
Anime popularity ruins literally everything, including the original LNs (ex danmachi, konosuba), so it's a blessing in disguise. Only shame is the Yenshit licensing meaning no translations.

>final episode
>thread this slow
I guess this is probably the last thread.

>>143021902
No. That shot is teasing stuff from her volume, idiot.

>>143021878
>If they picked actually good material like Antimagic to adapt we could have had something really good.
ha

So, did I miss it or did they not actually reveal what claudia's wish was?

I assume its something like disband galaxy or the school or stop the Festas or something.

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I wish I could live in this comfy island, it looks pretty damn cool.

So /a/, which school would you go to, given you were a Genestealer and had the choice?

1. Normalfag academy
2. All girls school with Idol
3. /m/ and /k/'s nerd paradise
4. White Knight faggot school
5. Chinese martial arts with 500 year old smug loli
6. Edgelord school for cheaters

Pick one and only one.

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Final ranking:

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

>>143020640
>The all girls spinoff is always trash, see Danmachi
Sword Oratoria is not only better, but it's not all girl faggot.

>>143022135
All of them sounds good , i would let RNG decide. Anything beside 4 is fine

>>143022135
3. Absolutely fucking 3
>git gud and build robots with smug chinese girls
HNNNNG

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>>143022135
Probably this one.

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All I ask for is ONE (1) decent Claudia doujin. Am I asking for too much?

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I miss it already ;_;
Time to read the LNs I guess, because it was just starting to get really interesting.
Definitely the best harem of last year, and a strong contender for this year.
Though next season does look to have some strong contenders as well.
I hope one day Aniplex gets drunk and decides that S3 will sell, because of the Idol arc.

>>143022135
>>143019707
>Genestealer
If you're trying to start a new meme you should probably have done it before the show ended.

>>143008776
Is there a tag for this in the boorus? Not exactly a panty shot, but when the wwaist of the pants is so low you can actually se the hem of the panties.

>>143021902
Is this your first harem? Secondary heroines receive focus when they have their own arc in a volume that stars them as main heroine. That means even the main heroine takes a temporary backseat.

You know Ayato can barely keep up with Kirin who has superior sword skills than him, right? And that's Kirin using just a regular sword, no Orge Lux to boost her or anything. As far as I know, Claudia isn't strong in combat. She's weaker than Ayato and Kirin. Julis could probably beat her too. It's just that Claudia has precog that lets her see several seconds into the future, but her weakness is that her body still has to react and keep up with her future sights and opponents, and she's physically not that fast.

>>143022306
It would have her on the first page but shortly after the beginning she would get replace by another girl.

>>143022069
Among all the battleharems that season, Antimagic was the most atypical. If they'd had enough episodes to reach the volume where the witches and the inquisitors are fighting each other house to house in urban guerilla combat in the ruins of a dead city consumed by the Zone as both sides are stalked by an insane serial killer, that would have been amazing.

From all the discussion on how Asterisk was marketed it felt like a pure business decision where after so many succesess from making rehashes manangement felt they got their success formula down and thought they could make any series good. Which they picked Asterisk which the show was produced as a rehash of a source material which is a rehash of other battle harems. I thought I liked Asterisk but what I liked was how it played of the meme from Rakudai while having better art.

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>>143021919
That was almost impossible.

>>143022366
I actually couldn't be fucked looking up the spelling, and copied the other post you replied to.
It sounded wrong and I was going to use Genestellar, but assumed that guy knew how to spell it.
No meme intended, just laziness. Looking back his post is evident of an animeonly, who obviously didn't know the proper spelling. I apologize for the fuck up.

>>143022480
For me the most amusing business decision they made about Asterisk was the international push, from unveiling it at an American con to (probably) bribing Animenewsnetwork's writers to shill it as much as possible, to foisting the novel and the manga on Yen Press. I wonder how that's panned out.

>>143022522
You're doing God's work. Thank you.

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>>143022542
>Few Tyranid creatures have earned such a terrible reputation or caused as much damage to the Imperium of Man as the Genestealer.

>Encountered long before the first tendrils of the Hive Fleets reached the galaxy, they were thought to be little more than another unusual and deadly xeno-form.

>It was only after the horrors of Hive Fleet Behemoth and Hive Fleet Leviathan that the Imperium came to realise their true purpose as highly advanced infiltrators for the Hive Mind of the most insidious kind.

>Hiding away on void ships and in the depths of Space Hulks, the Genestealer menace has travelled across the length and breadth of the Imperium, seeding themselves onto human worlds and subverting their populations.

>This perhaps is the greatest horror the Genestealers bring, as they can infect almost any lifeform with a "kiss," implanting some of their own genetic material into the host and taking complete control of its reproductive system.

>When the host gives birth to offspring, these carry with them the Genestealer's genes and over the course of several generations a new Genestealer is born, albeit with some genetic traits taken from its host: such as the human-like hands many Genestealer Hybrids encountered in the Imperium possess.

>Cunning and independent, Genestealers are also one of the few Tyranid bioforms that can exist away from the nurturing and controlling influence of the Hive Mind, using their own innate intelligence and brood telepathy to form tight-knit groups.

>These groups can survive for decades or even centuries on worlds, hiding their presence and infecting more and more of the population until the time to strike arrives, usually coinciding with the arrival of a Hive Fleet and the wholesale invasion and consumption of the world by the Great Devourer.

>>143013828
Surprisingly good taste then.

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>>143022155
>>143013318
>Claudia last

Why so gay?

>>143022846
No focus in anime. Volume 9 translation never so no focus in the LN either.

>>143022082
Please Respond

>>143022955
I'm sure it's some generic shit.

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>>143008829
>Headpats
Oh god my penis. I really don't want to buy a Vita, but they're making it really tempting.

>>143016184
Good taste Anon. I got a hard on the instant I heard that cackle.

>>143009390

eat shit

>>143022846
Clone of Cecilia who was already not a top tier girl.

>>143019813
Shit adaptation.

>>143020414
There's maybe 4 seconds of impressive animation. The rest was masked by digital shit.

>>143012453
Being a Shiori Izawa fan is suffering.

>>143022672
>This perhaps is the greatest horror the Genestealers bring, as they can infect almost any lifeform with a "kiss," implanting some of their own genetic material into the host and taking complete control of its reproductive system.
>When the host gives birth to offspring, these carry with them the Genestealer's genes and over the course of several generations a new Genestealer is born,
Yes, this sounds like Claudia.

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>>143006306
>Set up for another tournament
>Team has a 0% chance of winning
>literally going up against Gods
>Organization decides to kill you

>>143021518
Just to clarify that Stregas are female mages and Dante are male mages. Page One means the top 12 rank of each school.

>>143023975
Hmm yeah, I keep thinking Strega because of Helga, Fan, Orphelia, KIrin, and other strong as hell characters. Girls in this show are overpowered.

>>143014380
>faggot MC

Kek'd for some reason

So how many seals does Ayato undo this tournament?

I assume Ayato is basically God when they're all undone

Requesting Kirin unsheathing katana and teleporting behind the old guy webm

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8 attempts later.

>>143023139
That's for the phone game.

>>143024298
He doesnt get stronger when his seals get undone

It just makes him able to fight with his full strength for longer

>>143024298
All of them, which makes him strong enough to fight Ernest equally. Still no match for either Fan or Orphellia.

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>>143024365

>>143024577
He can already fight for 2 hours at full power...

Can he dump his mana into his sword and keep it cut everything even magic weapons now for 2 hours?

>>143024127
Well three of the rank #1's are female so yeah compared to a lot of other anime, females are pretty powerful in this one.

>>143024641
Psssh nothin personnel kid

I was expecting the old guy to put up a fight

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Adorable.

>>143024609
>Still no match for either Fan or Orphellia.
So he can beat the OMNIPOTENT chick?

>>143024978
It seems like Claudia isnt that strong

>>143024978
Don't be fooled by her ability's name. Idol girl isn't that strong. Her school is dead last.

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>>143024730
Webm worthy.

>>143024275
How did you find such generic word thrown in battle harem shows funny baffles me. unless you're new

>>143025021

Her ability Is to see the future but she takes years to recharge her powers and she's not that skilled In fighting so she's quite weak compared to the top ranked people. In the novels she said that even If she read the future she could only ayato or kirin beating her anyway since she didn't have any skills to do something about their attacks.

>Final Episode
>It's yet another intro for moar tournament
JUST
I'm glad S2 never

>>143025150
Julis is a great girl. Seriously better than most other battle harem lead heroines nowadays.

>>143025290
I have bad news for your then:S2 is confirmed for winter season

>>143025300
And her Seiyuu is incredibly gifted.

>>143025290

Why couldn't asterisk be more about the MC falling on top of his harem hijinks instead of this tournament plot no one cares about?

>>143025627
Speak for yourself, nigger

>>143025150
She looks like an ayy lmao there

>>143025627
You have Hundred for that nonsense. I'm glad the harem took a backseat in Asterisk.

>>143025690
That's what made it so good.

>>143025515
Very. Kakuma's regnant and noble speech makes my ear orgasm.

>>143025690
It's been shitty lately in Hundreds too, I need a full episode where all the girls trying to get womb impregnated.

>>143024557
There's more than one game? Sweet, guess I'll look into it then. Is it already out?

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>>143025690
I just wanted a beach episode from Asterisk, or a proper pool episode at least.
>>143025995
Not yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCEc1myGgo

>>143023647
I would let claudia take complete control over my reproductive system

>>143024978
Honestly don't know about that, as Sylvia has yet to fight seriously in the series.
>>143025063
As said in the LN, theoretically Sylvia is the second strongest student in Asterisk because she was runner-up in the last Lindovlous tournament only losing to OP Orphelia and even then she was able to fight on par with her for a short duration.

Her school maybe the weakest but Sylvia is by no means weak, for example the idol team that Claudia mentioned in Gryps discussion, are not to be trifled with, Sylvia beat them effortlessly.

>>143025021
As what >>143025263 said whilst its a pretty OP ability. It has a lot of limitations, it can be used a few minutes at most in battle and it takes days if not weeks to recharge, depending on the amount used. Without her Orge Lux ability she had Page One close combat talent but no where near top 5 rankers. Hence why in Lindovlous tournament, Claudia would be pretty useless in and has no chance of winning.

>>143026613
Aren't Fan, Ernest, Orphelia, and Ayato stronger than her?

>>143006306
terrible ending. it's like they wrote this shit expecting to be green lit for a 3rd cour right away only to be blue balled. i love julis (or specifically her archetype) but this show is just anticlimatic terribad shit

>>143024365
heh nothing personal kid

>>143025690
>Start up the first episode of Hundred
>OMG ARE YOU THE GUY WHO WAS THE BEST????
Didn't make it five minutes.

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Living the fucking dream. Non-split S2/S3 when so I can talk more about how much I want a threesome with Saya and Kirin?
And they can't just waste that Kobayashi Yuu out of nowhere.

>>143028637
Kek

>>143027752
Fan and Orphelia are definitely stronger than her. Ernest is a beast that's for sure, but its hard to say, atm I would say Ernest is stronger as he's shown more impressive feats but that might change as we haven't seen Sylvia fight seriously yet. With Ayato, she was definitely stronger than him until Volume 10, now its uncertain.

I loved this show.
If god ever grants me one wish, I will wish for a full adaptation or at least one more season.

>>143029172
There has to be a fully adapted battle harem series

Im sick of these one season shows

>>143029267
I completely agree, that's one thing I find really irritating about the anime industry is the amount of adaptations that are left unfinished. I'd rather they cut down on new series and concentrated more of sequels.

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I need to stick a finger in there.
And thank you jan man.

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>>143030076

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>>143029083
How strong has Julis become by volume 10? And did Kirin get an Orge Lux yet?

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>>143030417
>sideboob as well
Oh my.

>>143030502
Julis takes a backseat in the recent volumes so apart from a new Lux which makes it easier to defend herself she's about the same strength as she currently is when anime ended.

With Kirin No her weapon is the same but she was able to beat rank #2 of Jie Long who is Fan's strongest disciple.

>>143014438
They gave us this but didn't put in the Sylvia phone call scene. We need a S3 for more Sylvia.

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Just finished the last episode.

THERE'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER SEASON, RIGHT?

RIGHT?

>>143031615
I'm starting to miss Saya.

My ranking for the shoujo
Kirin > Saya > Claudia > Julis

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In the end, she never returned. ;_;

>Super serious discussion
>Villain attacks as soon as Ayato wakes up
>"D-Don't help me guys, I'm totally going to do it on my own."
>More super serious politics, this time with Claudia's dad
>It looks like all of our problems can be solved... but only if we win the next super awesome school tournament, as a team!
I need to thank this show, because it's finally gotten me to where I won't even consider watching LN battle academy haremshit, and now I can spend more time on my backlog. Thank you Asterisk, for being the embodiment of everything wrong with this genre.

>>143032600
Oh, and can't forget
>My bff who's super gentle and kind and loves flowers was turned into the super monster that kills the flowers and I have to save her
>By fighting her in the tournament
Just amazing.

>>143021799
>>143021445
>It actually gets good and isn't shit!
>The anime will just end right before that!
>But trust me, despite being horrible, the story suddenly gets awesome
Every
Time

>>143032600
You've clearly doing this wrong all the time. You should only watch these shows for the girls, all plot and battles should be treated as a side bonus in case they aren't at least mediocre.

>>143032803
It's not like only battle harems suffer from that.
Just look at the three originals these season: Haifuri, Mayoiga and Kiznaiver.
People continue to insist to the end that it will be good (or at least be a good trainwreck), but nope.

>>143032825
Why would I suffer through plot that actually makes my head hurt for 25% screentime for average harem waifubait when I can just watch some SoL comedy and get none of the shitty parts?

Holy shit, that evil scientist bitch voice is so fucking annoying, specially that retarded laugh.

>>143032914
As expected of Yuu Kobayashi.

>>143032897
I haven't touched Haifuri, but Mayoiga went downhill after like episode 5 and the only ones pretending it was good were those absolutely cancerous faggots in the generals. Kiznaiver is pure Okada garbage of the highest calibur, and it's been getting shit on since half way through the season.

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>>143032904
Because the average SoL comedy won't have this piece of underaged sex in particular.
>>143032914
>hating the KobaYuu
And this is where you fucked up.

>>143025443
Please don't tell me you're lying. I legitimately enjoyed this series.

>>143032959
>Because the average SoL comedy won't have this piece of underaged sex in particular
It also won't have a total of 4 hours of children talking in poorly lit rooms while never actually saying anything of worth or making a point, all for the sake of trying to sound mysterious and important. The dialog is like if a fedora wearer or a chuuni was told to write the next James Bond film, but to add a scifi twist and have it start teenagers.

>>143032914
well, it is Kobayashi Yuu there

>>143032959
Usually I like the characters she voices but this one sounded so shit that I wanted to kill myself.
Maybe it's not really her fault, but they were trying way too fucking hard to make it obvious that this obviously evil scientist is evil, and that voice was too fake and forced.

>There are actually people on /a/ who like this shit.
I am having a bad dream right now.

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>>143033007
That's why people often tell you to turn your brain off watching this kind of show. Just sit back and relax while looking at cute and sexy girls doing dumb things because of a retarded MC while a fight takes place every so often and cartoony villains try being serious and intimidating only to get comically defeated by either the power of friendship or the MC being a Gary Stu in secret.

>>143033171
>That's why people often tell you to turn your brain off watching this kind of show
Yeah see I've never understood this. If I'm watching a SoL, I can certainly relax, but if I'm watching something that has a plot, my brain doesn't have a secret off switch that shuts off every brain cell except for the ones I need to recognize there's an oppai loli on the screen. How much cough syrup do you need to drink to get to that point?

>>143033171
That only works for retarded shows like Big Order.

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>>143033344
Big Order was the best Haremshit show this season. If only because the MC had sex.

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>>143033252
In other words, it's just fun. The plot really is never anything great, but series like this are enjoyable enough and I love them for that.
If you aren't looking for mindless entertainment while watching anime (for whatever fucking reason, maybe some people think anime should be art or something) then it makes sense that you'd never be able to enjoy anything of this kind.

>>143033406
He fucks his imouto.

>>143033438
>All anime is absolute garbage and can't be anything more than mindless entertainment
Oh, you're retarded. That would explain why you like it.

>>143029083
Wait what's Ayato's latest power up?

>>143031067
does claudia become a main character? does she keep tying to seduce ayato?

>>143033512
>He fucks his imouto.
And?

>>143033540
Last seal unlocks the product of the last six years of his training. That's all there is to that.

>>143033640
Sorry, it was meant to be a question.

I would have gladly watched that over this had I known.

>>143033512
Well then, keep trying to look for a masterpiece with a deep and contrived plot that incites thought in anime because who knows, maybe one day you might find something that pleases you (or you might only find disappointment). I'll stay here having fun watching all kinds of anime and appreciating them for what they're worth because I just really like this entertainment medium.

>>143033406
Wait, this was haremshit? Holy fuck how did I miss it?

>>143033672
So is the only thing he gets is more prana/mana/ki/chakra or does it improves his skills/stats?

>>143020581
The second to last episode where parts were black and white and MC is told by his father to stop trying.