Asterisk

>>146799021
>primary protagonists more complex characters
What
>>146799021
>he Asterisk War not just a cookie-cutter harem, but its heroine, Princess Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, is not nearly as much of a stereotypical tsundere
Ahahaha

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>>146799021
Pink Houki a shit.

Claudia a best. The show should have been about her trying to seduce and fuck Ayato.

>>146799260
>The show should have been about her trying to seduce and fuck Ayato.
It wasn't already?

>>146799260
All the girls are shit.

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>>146799021
Sounds about right for Julis. She's the only decent thing from Asterisk.

>>146799414
She looks awful in that shot

>>146799021
Julius is not the stereotypical tsundere though
Shes just a normal girl

>battle harem LN
>protag is a gary stu japanese aristocrat who is the real ultimate power without even trying and is only kept in check by his older sister having put him into bondage as a young shota
>the series launches into a tournament arc, followed by ANOTHER tournament arc, and then OH SHIT ARE YOU GONNA DO IT ARE YOU GONNA DO A THIRD TOURNAMENT ARC AWWW YISSSSSSSS
>"unique characters"
>"good writing"

dohohoho

>>146799021
This anime is pretty bad senpai, well, maybe I say this because I hate harem type of animes, I just can't watch it.

>>146799021
Compared to Stella and Ouka who respectively got into a romantic relationship early and a surprisingly decent character, Julis got the shortest end of the stick supplemented by being in the most dreadfully boring series I've ever watched.

>>146799260
Fuck off, Stellafag. Claudia is the worst.

Oh baby. I see ANN is still loving all that money from Aniplex.

They're not even trying to be subtle about it

>>146799691
>Ouka
>I've been conducting summary executions of suspects, but instead of being court martialed I'm just busted down to cadet.
>Also I guess I'll stop now because you did your equal redistribution of the burden speech and because Mari is cute
>Decent

>>146799874
Introducing what kind of character she was in the past and then having her turn into a decent human being is pretty par for the course, which is saying a lot for these types of series.

Even out of context, that sounds way more entertaining.

>>146799653
No, it's genuinely fucking terrible.

>>146799977
So she has a background? Wow so original and unique

>>146800049
Right? Way better than most.

>>146800071
Yeah except Julis also has a background, shocking right?

>>146799653
The anime is a so-so adaptation, but I still enjoyed it. It's not good, but it isn't that bad either. There are far worse harem anime out there.

>>146800151
Its far better than most battle harems because of the animation and soundtrack

The stories are all shit in these anyway

>>146800138
Too bad they never bothered to explain anything about her until AFTER she had to be walked in on changing. One of the most laughable ways to introduce a character.

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>>146799414
As a novelfag, I have to say that while Julis as a heroine and character is one of the stronger merits of the LN, Asterisk's setting and its variety of cute and interesting secondary supporting characters are all exceptional themselves.

>>146800216
>Too bad they never bothered to explain anything about her

Confirmed for not watching

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Why is the fan translation so verbose compared to the official version? Is it a reflection of the original writing or was the fan translator just being pretentious? The official translator does have a Master's degree in modern Japanese literature.

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>>146800196
Can't disagree about the animation and OST there.

Just dat ED.

>>146800245
Before the she gets walked in on?
Read again.

>>146800230
Too bad I'll never give this series an actual chance. The adaptation was so boring that it killed any sort of minimal interest I had in it. If it was a faithful adaptation, then I wouldn't want any more of it.

>>146800230
Julis is one of the characters that I think would benefit from being in another series. She's actually a well balanced character. She isn't particularly quirky though, and in all honesty, would be the template for "normal" I think.

>>146799021
I wish I could work for ANN and get paid everyday to write absolute fucking horseshit. Oh wait. That's just internet publications in general.

Asterisk was a show about headpats, disguising itself as a battle harem.

>>146800245
Seems like you need haven't watched it either. Julis' first scene is her changing.

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>>146800230
>>146800479
Good girl stuck in a mediocre as hell series.

>>146800597
The anime ends after that scene right

>>146800586
Shit budget antimagic had around the same level of headpats.

Asterisk was such a failure that it, along with Hundred, killed magical academy battle harems probably for a good dozen or so seasons.

>>146800586

it should've been about SAYA's dad inventing a machine that lets him pat kirin and saya's heads, together.

>>146800739
Thank god. Now we can get to the other shit, isekai. From one shit to the other.

>>146800880
Sounds like watching anime is a chore for you

>>146800880
That's still a year down the line lad. Until then, we're back to harem manga and romcom LN adaptations.

>>146800739
You can't kill something that can't be killed. Battle harem are eternal.

>>146800908
I love it. It's shit but I love it. Nothing as good as good trash. This is the best kind of trash, better than real literature.

>>146801006
But of course. Thankfully their horrid magical academy ilk are dead.

>>146801046
>dead
I can only say you're delusions.

>>146801180
I wish I was the physical manifestation of delusions. ;_;

>>146801006
How many battle harems are we getting on the next season?
1? 2?

>>146801301
0

>>146801236
Well, you are always super special.

>>146801321
Battle harems are finished atlast!
Until next year.

>>146801301
Actually, nil. LN adaptations are down to two (Occultic;Nine and Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku).
Remember that Index aired in Autumn (of 2008) though.

>>146801344
I bet Kadokawa will shill isekai shows starting Winter. I can feel it in my GUTS.

>>146801046
>their horrid magical academy ilk are dead
Feels fucking amazing.

Maybe we can all go back to the superior absurd comedy harems again, trashy highschool romcoms, chuuni ass urbanfantasy harems, or even the classic 'definitely not copying IS' battle harems. Actually wait. Looking at all the harems on the horizon, we already are going back to that wondrous time. Glorious.

>>146801301
Fall season might have 1, depending. Maybe 2 if Tenchi Muyo's new series heads in that direction.

>>146801344
I'm already betting on Arifureta anime.

>>146801498
>Actually, nil. LN adaptations are down to two (Occultic;Nine and Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku).

Woah, and back in last winter there were like five.

>>146800266
Jesus, the official translation reads like an actual novel.

Left reads like shitty teenage fanfiction.

>>146801805
Right reads like typical American novel. Left reads like a typical LN that tries to keep the original source eastern prose. If I'm reading a LN, then I rather have left. If I wanted to read Americanized literature style novels then I'll do that instead of reading LNs.

>>146802019
Right feels flowery for some reason and left reminds me of good old shitty translations Right is definitely better, but it's just not the same when reading shitty LNs..

>>146802019
Light novels have garbage prose even in Japanese. I'll take my refined beautiful English over the amateur Japanese that makes up most LNs.

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>>146799647
Gotta do everything for those jew shills

>>146802088
>>146802161
>Actually praising right
Disgusting YP devs or Commiefags.

>>146802264
>Commie
>masterful use of English to really let the viewer immerse himself into the anime
>other fansub groups
>shitty use of English draws the viewer out of the anime and creates an unpleasant experience as he frantically tries to read the TL note in time

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>>146802264
>being a weeb

>>146800266
That's actually how most Japanese literature are written. Japan is almost as poetic and shit in their fictional writing as China.

Also, that degree means nothing when a TL has to conform to Yen Press' policies.

>>146802019
Agreed.

>>146802019
Left has that stupid "it cant be helped" line

I prefer right

>>146802019
>original source Eastern prose
Do you know how Eastern prose reads to an Eastern reader? A sentence structure that reads naturally to an Easterner should be rewritten to a sentence structure that reads naturally to a Westerner, with underlying meaning preserved. Preserving the actual feel of the end result is important. Unless you think that a translation should preserve the Subject Object Verb sentence construction too because "no Americanizing allowed, the idiosyncrasies of amateur literal J-C-E translation must be preserved"

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>>146802480
>Not liking "It can't be helped"

>>146800266
holy shit the fan translation on the left looks like garbage compared to the right

there's such a thing as following TOO closely. English =/= Japanese, you can't just swap out words without regard to conventions

>>146802527
Learn how to compartmentalize and get a higher powerlevel and culture yourself. Problem solved.

>>146802448
>That's actually how most Japanese literature are written. Japan is almost as poetic and shit in their fictional writing as China.
In Japanese and Chinese, poetic writing is laconic because vast quantities of meaning can be conveyed in a space efficient manner through meaningful kanji. There's a whole class of idioms that can be expressed in only four Chinese characters that, when translated into English, end up becoming verbose and clunky and not at all feeling like the original. This is why preserving every little word used is the wrong approach and it's better to just write it into a structure that feels as natural to an English reader as the original felt natural to a Japanese reader.

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definitely the best girl

>>146802019
>If I'm reading a LN, then I rather have left. If I wanted to read Americanized literature style novels then I'll do that instead of reading LNs.
Serious. If you hate Japanese in your Japanese cartoons and books then why are you even here? This is mainly why I hate YenShit.

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>>146802736
Basement dwelling weebs are the worst.

>>146799021
Holy shit ANN, you can't possibly be sucking this thing's dick any harder

>>146799260
Claudia is wasted in this series.

>>146799874
Her step father is the law.

>>146802950
I'm afraid you've been deceived. You've been reading shit translations by amateurs for so long that in your mind the various errors and awkward stock phrasings that these unqualified travesties fall into have been normalized as "that's how Japanese is supposed to sound!"

Sometimes even knowing Japanese can be a double edged sword. Because in your mind, the translation makes sense because you already know what it's supposed to mean. This is how awkward sentences and things that kind of make sense but also don't are born. This is why professional translator also have editors who don't know any Japanese also read the TL passes, because sometimes someone who doesn't know any Japanese at all is invaluable for being a sounding board to see if a text makes sense or not to someone not familiar with the original. Because while someone who knows Japanese might think 'ahh, the original probably said something like this', you don't have that kind of leeway with someone who has no idea about the original language/text.

And that's why the official translation reads

>Oh well.
Instead of fucking
>It can't be helped

In short, Japanese prose is written differently from English prose. This is very clear if you look at literature outside of light novels. There are standard literary devices that are considered logical in Japanese that do not hold the same kind of nuance, innuendo, and significance when translated one for one into English.

>>146802780
>Literally Yen Press TL dev
Figures you guys woulds shill to get sales.

>>146803663
Those Yen Press devs know a hell of a lot more about Japanese and English than you do.

>>146803663
>anyone who knows an East Asian language is a YP dev

>>146802950
Yen press' localization choices are a separate issue from the quality of the English prose.

I mean shit, the fan translation falls flat on the first fucking sentence.

>>146804284
>falls flat on the first fucking sentence.
How so?

>>146799021
Go away, Digibro.

The PS Vita game was fucking insulting.

>Custom Character mode
>Very fun but every girl frindzones you at the end, basically NTR mode
>Ayato mode
>Super speshul weapon and attack and high stats and girls orbit your dick 24/7

>>146804620
>you need to be Digirbo to hate Asterisk

>>146803663
Are you from /v/? This reads like a /v/ post

>>146804862
You must be pretty new if that's your first time seeing dev meme on /a/. It's been used regularly ever since the shitstorms over gg and fansub drama.

>>146805112
That doesn't mean that it should stay. It's a lazy insult.

>>146804620
Digibro doesn't have a monopoly on thinking Asterisk is trash.

>>146804753
Wait, you play as an OC doughnut character? Was the game actually any good?

>>146804504
The fan translation just jumps in and says that "it" has been caught with no attempt to define "it" anywhere in the sentence. The official translation at least established that "something" is falling first.

>>146806099
Seriously? The following paragraph after defines what "it" is.

>>146802950
How is
>closer inspection revealed the vestiges of past repairs
more Japanese than
>with a closer look, he could see where it had been mended
Is it because the fan translator actively tried to avoid inserting the subject of the sentence like a moron?

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Antimagic was better.

>>146807150
Kyouya did nothing wrong.
Except that 1 time.

>>146807150
tips fedora

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Threadly reminder that Ayato is literally worse than Ichika and nobody likes him unironically.

>>146807150
Am I not the only one who somehow enjoyed antimagic more so than the other two?

>>146807471
LN MCs in general are pretty trash. You get good ones now and then but most of the time they're trash that no one actually cares about.

>>146807471
>any MC who doesn't fuck pussy is worse than Ichika
This is the worst meme ever.

>>146807662
The anime or the LN? Because the anime was dreadful.

>>146807471
Takeru > Kazuki > Arata > Godou > Moroha > Basara > Ikki > Ayato > Issei > Yuu > Lux > Hayato > Ichika

>>146808001
Not him but even the shitty adaptation had something in it that made it more enjoyable than Asterisk. At least it didn't bore you.

Any chance of an S3? I just want to see how mad the rakudai no kishi fans get.

>>146808001
The LN absolutely shits on the others, but I meant the anime. With the VAs, OST and some other factors, I just wasn't bored with it. Pretty much what >>146808078 said.

>>146808078
At least Asterisk's fights were well choreographed even if they weren't exciting on account of there being pretty much nothing at stake besides some stupid inter-school sports match.
Antimagic's fights, even though the stakes were theoretically higher, still managed to be a zzzfest because of how lazily they were directed.

>>146808189
>Any chance of an S3?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>146808078
Different anon. Antimagic's interactions were nice, but the fights, pacing, and direction? Those were horrible. On the enjoyable scale it's about 5 overall..

Asterisk is a hit and miss on the interactions, but the fights, pacing, and direction were better and solid. I'd give it 6 on the enjoyable scale.

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>Japanese 13 year old

Sex with Kirin-chan!

>>146808189
I don't think Aniplex made quite as much a return on their investment as they expected so I doubt it.

Unless the international market saves it somehow. They went out of their way to announce it at a Western convention and seem to have paid ANN to shill it as hard as possible. But I'm doubtful.

>>146808273
I don't disagree. Asterisk had the budget to have so many little fights here and there but none of the fights really stood out.

Not a single one of Antimagic's fights ended up being good. Both are bad in their own way but I have my understandable bias.

>>146808350
I don't disagree with you either but Asterisk in its near entirety bored the hell out of me. I actually had a hard time watching it on a weekly basis since I end up forgetting what even happened in previous episodes.

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This show was fucking shit.

HOW THE FUCKING HELL ARE THERE STILL THREADS?

>literally flops everywhere
>no good action or battles
>girls are forgettable as hell
>MC is just plain as fuck
>one of the worst tournament arcs

Seriously why is this board obsessed with this shit and the other 2 shows from that season?

>>146808350
I think with Antimagic, one of the biggest advantages is setting. One of my biggest issues with Asterisk is that the setting is honestly not that interesting, especially since it's confined to a battle tournament setting. It doesn't lend itself to very interesting plots, whereas with Antimagic you got various situations and connections that led to an overall more interesting plot.

If Asterisk had abandoned the battle city tournament setting, I think it would have been overall more interesting.

>>146805377
You can choose whether to use Ayato or an OC Donut Steel.

OC mode is actually fun to play, you start weak and need to git gud to win, but you get NTRed by Ayato.

Ayato mode is fucking stupid, you start with enough stats and a super speshul weapon to curbstomp everything and girls worship your dick without any effort. It's amusingly accurate as a Light Novel Protagonist simulator.

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>>146808565
This is why.

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>>146808656
Holy shit.
Is this real?

>>146808656
Should just make a new set of girls for the OC.

>>146808607
>especially since it's confined to a battle tournament

Nah there's nothing wrong with that, it's just the fights were just garbage and 99% of the characters were girls.

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TIME MARCHES ON

BUT I'M STILL MAD

>Liking battle harems
>Liking A1 Pictures

How

>>146808776
Yes, it's literally the game. You need around 200 in each stat by endgame for the OC to beat the final bosses.

Ayato's STARTING STATS are 250 in each.

>>146808565
Haremfags don't have any new haremshit to talk about. So they fall back on the biggest most relatively recent shitflinging incident they had.

And no. Don't mention Hundred or Bahamut. Everybody already forgot about those two.

>>146808828
And literal nobodies.

>>146808818
But that would require effort.

>>146808828
Nah, battle tournaments are generally dull as fuck. The whole story literally revolves around it. This just doesn't allow for other interesting plots to sprout. You could do so much more out of that plot.

>>146808565
It still gets threads while Rakudai from the same season and Hundred from more recently have been forgotten already. Isn't that evidence that it's a cut above?

>>146799260
>>146808462
>>146807150
>>146802394
These memes are too old and stale, grow a brain and come up with new ones, faggots.

>>146808686
Uh, what? You didn't explain why it's a continued obsession, only posted an image stating that it is one.

>>146807471
>nobody likes him unironically
Except you. you love to post him every thread.
Get a room >>>/y/

>>146808880
Bahamut still gets threads and the waifuwars are as ardent.

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>>146800276
YES, OH YES

>>146808990
To be fair, most of the threads are mostly arguing about it and then devolving into other battle harem threads.

Rakudai had the better fights. Hundred was legitimately terrible though.

>>146808880
>Everybody already forgot about those two.
such delusion

>>146808929
>Nah, battle tournaments are generally dull as fuck

Don't know about that, shit like Dark Tournament in YYH was fun to watch. I'd rather see a battle tournament that's actually interesting than generic LN plot where MC has to win over each girl in each arc.

>>146808534
Asterisk had its boring scenes, but I can't say most were boring. About half were interesting with some exciting parts that got me pumping. I'd contribute a lot of the latter to the skills of Ono Manabu who's a good director.

>>146808607
I like both setting, but I'm bias towards Antimagic as I'm a sucker for fantasy magic setting more than sci-fi. Asterisk's premise revolves around battle entertainment so there's not much flex room to move away from it. However, the story would benefit from plots dealing with unfolding situations inside the large artificial island that is brimming with potential for world-building.

>>146809134
I read Hundred. It was trash even for a battle harem.

>>146809056
Read between the fucking lines.

>>146808887
>nobodies
Come again?

>>146808990
A cut above what? A cut above in terms of shitposting? Because that's all I see in these threads.
It's just the easiest one to bait people with because 1) unfortunately, there are actual idiots here who give the autistic literal who bronyfaggot the time of day; and 2) it's by far one of the blandest pieces of shit harems I've had the displeasure of watching that actually got a fuckton of budget poured into it.

Asterisk is just in the OP to jumpstart the threads into general harem shitflinging.

>>146809195
The issue with how everything is confined to the battle tournament kills Asterisk, especially since everything has to revolve around it. I have to say though, Dirk is probably the most interesting character in the series, though that might just be because he keeps setting up hidden agendas.

>>146809177
Dark Tournament was fun because each fight was actually exciting with some level of individuality with the opponents.

The thing about Asterisk is that it's a publicized event and you can only get so serious in a fight between school-children. There were also problems that happened in between that led to certain conditions but nothing during Asterisk really fazed Ayato at all other than a slight drawback in his powers that ended up making him even stronger.

>>146809287
Opponents not worth mentioning. Mooks. Fodder.

>>146809195
>About half were interesting with some exciting parts that got me pumping

Literally what?

>>146808879
holy shit

>>146809207
I picked it up for the same reason I picked up Antimagic, because the MC actually lost his introductory 1v1mefaget against the ace heroine.

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>>146808879
Jesus.

>>146808565
It's called opinions. It far from a masterpiece, but I like it.

>>146809372
what'd you think of Antimagic?

>>146809214
You expected a Cold War where Antimagicfags have a falling out with Rakudaifags and team up with Asteriskfags to run them into the ground economically, but you actually got a global thermonuclear war?

>>146800266
>still a harem

It's still trash.

>>146808990
It's a cut above really garbage harems like Hundred and HxH at the very least.

>>146809404
It's far from being average let alone a masterpiece

>>146799021
Absolutely disgusting. This piece of shit is filled with so many cliches I don't even know how I managed to watch everything.

>>146809433
6/10 it was okay, you could see all the components needed to make a good series were there but somehow it fell apart in execution, like building a luxury car out of quality parts but sticking it all together with superglue.

>>146809332
What. 1st page rankers are anything but mooks and fodders. They were treated like boss matches in the scope of the show's overarching restructure.

>>146809332
There is that, the fights seemed interesting due to the variety. I think the Twins fight in Asterisk and the robots were the only good ones. They also displayed the value of Julis, though because she's not MC, she's pretty much relegated to support even though she's an offensive caster.

ITT: A1 Shills

>>146809507
Asterisk is the definition of average.

>>146809614
First season had no notable fights other than the end-fight with the sisters, that didn't turn out all that impressive.

The Twins and the two monks beforehand were the only ones worth mentioning to be decent.

>>146809507
How do you define average for battle harem? Cause I know a lot of haremfags thinks Asterisk is neither good and bad, but just mediocre as hell.

>>146809582
How far did you read into it?

>>146809711
I think the question you should be asking is what makes a "Good" battle harem. Because most are average to absolute trash.

>>146809582
damn, not much better than undefeated bahamut then

So /a/. How much cash would you accept to write an online article praising a certain series you hate or at least you think is undoubtedly bad?

I'm a cheap whore. Above twenty and I'm already golden with the shilling.

>>146809614
A boss rush needs more mooks to offer contrast or else they don't feel special. If everybody is a monster than nobody is. By only facing us with top tier peeps for weeks on end it all kind of blended together into a shapeless mass of forgettable meh.
Meanwhile Antimagic for example bounces us between mook witches, mook inquisitors, mook yakuza, and midboss giant robots, with serious threats like Relic Eater armed Inquisitors or Cthulhu Imouto or Based Haunted only showing up when their presence would create maximum effect.

>>146809853
Antimagics turns into a JRPG midway through.

>>146809764
Admittedly, only two volumes, then I wandered off to read Zashiki Warashi instead. I know it's supposed to get better, I'm coming back to it some day once the final volume is translated.

>>146809853
Haunted was such a good villain. He always had perfect timing and managed to constantly be an ass about it.

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>>146808880
Fuck you.
I'll never forget Lisha

>>146809614
structure*
I meant.

>>146809704
Kirin and the vampire sisters were the bosses in S1. They had the best fights and were treated as high-ranking elites. S2's boss was the Chinese siblings, and then the robots who were hyped up since S1 to be something more than just a boss.

>>146809853
There wasn't a boss rush though? The other anon is even complaining that there's too much mooks.

>>146809783
I'm fairly skilled at doing Devil's Advocate. It's possible for me to be the anti-Digibro if I had a personality for youtubing.

>>146809711
Something like Demon King Daimao is average

>>146809950
Lisha is one of the most lackluster main heroines in battle harems.

>no high tier male villain for MC to fight

>implying anyone would watch this

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>>146809945
Then yeah, you definitely don't need me telling you that it gets exponentially better. All the world-build up and the likes are fulfilled by Volumes 5-6. It's a remarkably enjoyable series.

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WAITING FOR THE RAIN¬

>>146810076
Apparently blondie knight student council president fulfills that purpose.

>>146810126
I look forward to the author's next work. I loved reading his afterwords since they were so fun.

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>>146809945
>>146810126
>>146810201
I love how the author admits to having no idea how he wanted to continue the series when he got Volumes 1 and 2 done. Fun to know that the series was an amalgamation of 3 ideas he had.

I'm glad he found his stride.

>>146810016
Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou? That anime went downhill fast in the second half to a mess with anime original pacing. Ironically, the source material light novels's last few volumes were a jumble and convoluted mess.

Why do you idiots still bring this shit show up? Literally only the first ED was the single good thing about it.

>>146810052
Fight me.
She is the cutest battle harem main heroine.

It's that time again.

Best girls:
Magika: Mio
T7: Liese
DAL: Tohka
Campione: Erica
Antimagic: Ouka
DXD: Xenovia
Testament: Mio
Vanadis: Ellen
StB: Asagi
Rakudai: Stella
Fafnir: Kili
Machine Doll: Irori
Bahamut: Celestia
Hundred: Claire
Asterisk: Claudia
IS: Cecilia
Raildex: Misaki
HxH: Yurishia
Blade Dance: Fianna
Color Wars: Purple
Absolute Duo: Lilith
World Break: Shizuno

>>146810076
Why does there need to be a high tier male villain?

post the g string blonde butt

>shitty Asterisk gets two seasons worth of anime
>superior Magika gets zero

Why?

>>146810076
>high tier male villain
That's Dirk and he's awesome. But the thing is he's not a fighter. type. Scheming and having other people fight for him is what he does best.

The fabulous white knight Ernest is the de facto rival and he's crazy strong. It'd take another two seasons to see him and Ayato fight in anime.

>>146808656
>making literal NTR mode
Wew lad.

>>146810435
Not him but it brings some hype fights, which should be an essential in a "battle" harem.

>>146810395
Your taste is still terrible, normalfag.

>>146810394
Cuteness is the only thing going for her.

Asterisk is the best example of what a battle harem shouldn't be. The fact that it got budget just compounded that fact further.

>>146810299
>Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou
Just call it Color Wars

>a jumble and convoluted mess
I hear it surpassed the end of Evangelion

>>146810554
What do you consider an example of what a battle harem should be? Negima?

>>146810395
Magika: Koyuki = Kanae
T7: Sora = Levi = Arin = Mira
DAL: Kotori = Kurumi
Campione: Athena = Luo Hao
Antimagic: Mari = Lapis
DXD: Ophis
Testament: Maria
Vanadis: Mira
StB: Avrora > Yukina = Natsuki
Rakudai: Shizuku = Nene
Fafnir: Charlotte > Vrita = Mitsuki > Kili
Machine Doll: Yaya = Charlotte
Bahamut: Krul = Yoruka
Hundred: Emilia > Karen
Asterisk: Fan > Julis
IS: Laura > Charlotte
Raildex: Leivinia > Mikoto > Othinus
HxH: Gertrude
Blade Dance: Restia = Est > Claire
Color Wars: Red > Green = Brown
Absolute Duo: Julie = Sakuya > Rito
World Break: Maya > Satsuki > Shizuno

>>146810395
>Bahamut: Celestia
yes

>Rakudai: Stella
>Testament: Mio
>Vanadis: Ellen
no

>>146810395
>>146810738
Bit Tits vs Flats is all I'm seeing here.

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>>146810460
u got meme'd, cuck

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>>146810515

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>>146810859
It's pretty true.
And a bitching color scheme.

But there's nothing else after that.

>>146810611
That or IchibanDaimao.

Anyways, that's a maybe and depends if you can wrap your head around the mess. IchibanDaimao had universal gods come out of nowhere and made the whole thing like a story in a story in a meta story, and MC manages to best all of them in the end by making his own story and giving the job of writing the story (the series itself) onto that faggot hero shota as punishment for what he did. MC leaves the universe with his harem and friends in tow to another universe to do whatever they want.

>>146810554
That's Masou Gakuen HxH. Serious, that series makes Asterisk looks like a masterpiece.

>>146799021
Has there been a decent LN adaptation since Index and Kara no Kyoukai?
I can't remember one.

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>Asterisk thread
>now it's a generic battle harem thread

Never change, /a/

>>146810395
9/10 taste

>>146810460
>wants Magika to have an anime
Please no. Do you hate Magika that much?

So how are you enjoying the two battle harems this season, /a/?

>>146811015
That shit is just softcore porn. I actually read through the whole series. It was bad.

>>146811044

There are plenty.

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>>146809362
It happens, anon. The setting up for something cool, visuals, directing, and dat seamless transition into the ED just gets to me.

>>146810904
That's your opinion my friend.

>>146811407
Well, what does she have other than that? I'm not the one who originally replied before either but I agree at how cuteness was the only thing Lisha had for herself.

>>146810435
Because
>bland MC wouldn't need to hold back because muh girl
>male villain wouldn't fall for MC like a slut over his cheesy lines

>>146810787
The second one has a handful or more of tits in it, though. The first one is all big tits cause he's a normalfag.

>>146811153

Wait. What's the other one?

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>>146811153
Yurishia is best girl in HxH.

>>146811176
Battle harem with terrible softcore porn that blue balls the hell out of you is more like it.

>>146811542
Yurishia a shit.

>>146811449
She is tsundere but not really violent, likes robots and drills, and also people call her beta.

>>146811044
Monogatari

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>>146811625
Fuck off. She's the only girl worth a damn in that shit.

>>146811659
Nothing really stands out.
Cute only.

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>>146811542
>Yurishia
>not Aine

>>146799021
Wasn't there another show that premiered alongside Asterisk that had nearly identical main boy with sword power and main girl with fire power in a magical battle high school?

>>146811722
You don't say?

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>>146811542
That's not the superior blonde drill loli.

>>146811794
>loli

>>146811153
Okay anon you have to enlighten me here. Aside from the garbage which is HxH, what's the other show?

>>146811722
Julis >>> Stella

>>146811713
So like I said, that's your opinion.

>>146808990
Of course this still gets threads, it got a second season and none of the others did

>>146811817
LRD pls go.

>>146811856
Hey if that's your margin for something different, then I can't stop you.

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>>146811817
Drop your autism already. Ragrus isn't even 150cm.

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>>146811536
>>146811830

I assume it's this one.

>>146799021
>Digibro on suicide watch
ANN doing something right for once.

>>146811940
What do you want me to say? You didn't accept what I told you.

>>146812114
Saya a shit.

Literally worst girl of the season.

>>146811794
Fuck off with your disgusting fetish, DFC faggot.

>>146800266
The right reads like an incredibly generic YA novel desu.

>>146811596
I wouldn't mind the softcore porn if HxH didn't look so cheap.

>>146812166
>he doesn't like DFC
End thyself, fagot.

>>146812114
Saya a shit.

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This is the battle harem I'm waiting for. I pray that this time around the designs aren't ruined.

>>146812170
Light novels are literally the Japanese analogue of generic YA novels, just with more girls.

>>146812291
>main girl is a tsundere

Dropped.

>>146800266
I wouldn't read either one since this shit got stale half a decade ago.

>>146812332
>battle harem
>main girl not tsundere
pick one

>>146812318
Yes. But making it read like one is bad.

>>146812332
>>146812364
I'm really tired for this in manga and anime, at least in some LN the female MC are a bit different.

>>146812291
How is it, anon?

>>146802264
Can you fucking read?

>>146802264
Best get your eyes checked sempai.

>>146812166
Look at this normalfag pleb.

>>146812457
>originality
>nip culture
pick one

>>146804620
>muh boogieman

>>146812762
But I like lolis.

>>146812775
Who say that?

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>>146812291
Gren is a pretty good MC and the girls are cute. This is one battle harem I'm waiting to get animated.

Also, Sistina best girl.

>>146812533
It's enjoyable enough. MC is comparable to Kazuma I think. He has enough personality that he doesn't get overshadowed by the girls.

>>146812889
>implying you like loli when you hate dfc
>literally was hating a dfc loli >>146812166
Look at this tryhard.

>>146810554
No, that's Isuca. Seriously, fuck Isuca.

>>146812393
Or faithful to the spirit of the product.

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>>146813149
>"If you hate dfc, then you hate lolis"
/a/ is so fucking stupid at nights

>>146812533
>>146813008
>>146813119

Gren basically being old man Kazuma is pretty good, uniforms are pretty good.

Next chapter never though.

>>146813260
>b-but I like oppai loli
Fuck off.

>>146813310
I never say that, faglord.

>>146813309
I wish Gren was my sensei when I was growing up. Things would be a lot different around here.

>>146812114
>>146812164
>>146812264
AV is proof harem MCs are still shit even if they're girls.

>>146813309
Good news, the LN will be translated by the guy doing the fanfiction. Right after the latest volume of fanfiction.

Sekirei is the best battle harem of all time

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>>146812114
>She gets more pussy than the average male harem MC
All the sluts and bitches just can't keep their hands off Saya. Can't blame them since Saya is moe-Gar as hell.

>>146813350
>doesn't actually deny it and can't since that's the only logical conclusion left
Sasuga normalfag.

>>146813732
You're trying so hard anon. I like lolis, I hate DFC and I love tomboys with tits.

>>146813615
>they throw themselves just because she was nice to them once
Fuck harems.

>>146813828
Fuck off, normalfag. You can't love loli when they're naturally DFC.

>>146814067
No, if you like DFC, then you're gay, that's a fact.

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>>146811794
she looks like flat Claire

so..... shit

>>146814147
>.....
Kill yourself.

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DAL is a great battle harem

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>>146799260
Claudia > Kirin > Sylvia > Ernesta > Violet > Saya > Irene > Priscilla > Julis

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>>146814294
That art needs some work.
But I agree, it's one of the only two series I keep up with.

>>146814147
Should I watch Hundred? All I know about it is that Claire is a character that exists.

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>>146814392
Claire is best girl and the only reason to watch the show.

Ignore Emiliatards, they're retarded.

WE ARE THE SAVIORS
WE ARE THE STRIKE

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>>146814392
Hundred has a silver Charlotte as the main girl. It's worth watching to see her win.

>>146814392
It's pretty mediocre.
Not worth watching for one character.

>>146814311
What's so special about yet another lascivious, big titty, onee-san character?

>>146814147
>>146814414
>it's that Stellafag/Clairefag shitposter
Cancer. Shit taste.

>>146814450
I remember.

>>146814510
Fuck off.

>>146799021
Saya best girl.

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>>146814311

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

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>>146814294
No doubt about that, the Tohka full Spirit vs Origami Spirit was the best fight I've read in all those shitty battle harems, almost with the Ouka/Mari vs that Relic Eater.

>>146814510
He's the normalfag here >>146810395.

>>146814311
Shit taste.

>>146814558
Good taste.

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>>146814147
The only good Claire is a loli one. This is true and proven in Hundred.

>>146814580
Ouka and Mari's fight with Mother Goose was cool too.
And now they have to fight each other.

>>146814503
>onee-san
Close, try onee-sama instead.

>>146814465
Charlotte who?

>>146814677
I hate Mari's asspulls.

>>146814714
Practically all Antimagic is a asspulls over asspulls.

>>146814783
Most of it comes from Mari.

>>146802355
>masterful use of English to really let the viewer immerse himself into the anime
Only when they don't use fucking memes everywhere.

>>146814854
Takeru has a lot of asspulls, he's practically Seiya. Mari is just Lina Inverse.

>>146803368
>It can't be helped
You hear that shit in english all the time though.

>>146814924
I can live with this.

>>146804620
>Digibro
Who the fuck is this nigger and why should I or anyone care about what the fuck this nigger says?

>>146814924
His fight with Orochi is the only asspull I remember, I was just too type for it see it as a bad thing. I don't count the one with Kurogane because he didn't exactly "win". Most of the other fights he gets by due to immense help.

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>>146814924
>Mari is just Lina Inverse
That's a damn-near perfect comparison.

>>146807150
Usagi best girl

>>146814465
> win
a series that's not finished yet, Didn't read the LN

stupid Emilliafag

Post more Claudia

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>>146814924
Does Lapis have any asspulls?

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>>146814948
You really don't, at least not to the extent of 仕方が無い and derivatives showing up in Japanese where it basically has ancient meme status. Lazily translating it as "it can't be helped" everytime regardless of context is a hallmark of a lazy or incompetent translator.

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>>146814294
His harem is great though it needs Kurumi in it soon

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>>146814982
Me too, so no problem here.

>>146815002
Almost all his fights ended with a "gimme more powah, little stand rip-off of jojo", but I don't mind, Takeru hasn't talent anyway.

>>146815144
Don't bully Lapis, anon.

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>>146799647
>the series launches into a tournament arc, followed by ANOTHER tournament arc, and then OH SHIT ARE YOU GONNA DO IT ARE YOU GONNA DO A THIRD TOURNAMENT ARC AWWW YISSSSSSSS
I never bothered to watch this past a few eps but this made me laugh. Thanks anon.

>>146815144
She sorta IS the asspull unless it's up to Takeru to use more bullet-time.
>>146815179
But he still gets help for a majority of his fights.

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>>146807150
Actual truth. AntiMagic also had Best Boy.

>>146815144
Why is Lapis suffering?

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>>146815248
I'm going to miss him the most.
Actually that's a lie, I'm going to miss everyone.

At least the side volume was kind enough to include him too.

>>146815290
She loves Takeru too much

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>>146815179
>Don't bully Lapis
Who?

>>146815238
>But he still gets help for a majority of his fights.
It's all the same to me.

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>>146815306
At least they all had a happy ending. Kind of pissed we don't know just which girl Takeru ended up with though.

>>146815473
Lapis said that his choice was very much like him. So it's probably either Ouka or Kiseki.

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>>146815439
I find it ever so slightly important to his character but oh well.
>>146815473
Whoever it was, Lapis is pleased with his choice.

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>>146815506
>either Ouka or Kiseki
Takeru for shit taste confirmed.

>>146812114

MY WIFE SAYA IS SO CUTE

>>146815686
I wanted either Mari or Ikaruga to win.

>>146807471
I like how Ayato and Ikki were just given perfectly good student dorm rooms to live in like any magic academy student, meanwhile Takeru lives in a literal haunted apartment because he's a poorfag.

>>146812114
Ange Vierge is what harems should strive to be. Fucking stupid as all fuck and proud of it.

>>146815740
Why not Usagi? She's a perfect wife and if you choose Usagi you also get Ikaruga as the willing mistress. A decision that is not at all wrong.

>>146815754
>5000 yen apartment that barely supports him
>Works his ass off until 2AM
>Has nightmares over debt collectors
>Sleeps through classes
He has it rough

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>>146815805
>Fucking stupid as all fuck and proud of it.
Those are the best types.

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>>146815856
Does the lap pillow make up for it?

>>146815824
I guess her suffering was too ordinary compare to the others. I feel Mari makes for a cuter couple while Ikaruga is seriously downplaying herself into automatically relegating herself as a mistress.

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>>146815955
I guess.

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>>146816035
>I guess her suffering was too ordinary compare to the others
I suppose, but Usagi is one of the few who won't do well on her own, which is why I feel like her getting with Takeru and having a nice relationship would work out well for them both.

>>146816179
I can't deny she's one of the more emotionally dependent girls in the series but with her shitty family is most likely gone so I don't worry too much about her anymore.

>>146811885
>Retarded asterisktard
>Not knowing the difference between 1 season divided in 2 cour and 2 seasons

No wonder why all these threads are fucking garbage, everyone who likes asterisk is a fucking retard.

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Oh? is that time again?

>Rakudai was one of the most sold LN of 2015 and still has 30k boost on every new volume after the anime ended, going even over 70k.
>Asterisk didn't even got a boost and is not even placed in the first 70 most sold LN's of 2015, last volume barely got an improvement of 6k.
>Every ranking on Japan was over 95% for Rakudai while Asterisk barely reached 45% and in the last streaming of all episodes with more than 250k viewers got just a silly 35% while Rakudai still on 94%.
>Asterisk has the same bland betafag MC, Pink Houki and everyone else is forgettable.
>Rakudai has a competent main couple where the MC already fucked his girlfriend and keep doing it on the next volume without hesitation, better enemies and character development overall.
>The onyl retards who like Asterisk comes from MAL and Animesuki, a circlejerking of sperglords like Kidstandout and DragonX

Basically Rakudai kicked Asterisk into the oblivion on every single aspect, Asteriskfags are still mad about that.

>>146816595
Who the fuck are all these whores.

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>>146816595
>muh muh muh
Yeah, and which one didn't get two cours? Go on, I'll wait for your answer.

>>146816616
From left to right:

>Tohka
>Sara Bloodlilly
>Stella's sister
>The whores you saw at the tournament
>Shizuku
>Stella