The Asterisk War (light novel)
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| Over Powered puppets... And fighters that not even take part of the fight... Not a good start fot this festa |
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| I'm more interested in what season 2 will bring (just because we know it will happen) |
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| Participation of those puppets made this tournament seems unfair already.. How is that even allowed? Saya's asking for headpats and her reaction. <3 |
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Kay_Lite said: Participation of those puppets made this tournament seems unfair already.. How is that even allowed? To put simple, entertainment. They allowed to try make the tournament more exciting but in contradiction they don't wanna the puppets to win. |
| The male robot must have the BADASS program installed XD I think they really killed their opponents :(  |
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| No surprise that Ayato and Julis (but mainly Ayato, since he's the one who actually took them down) cruised past the first round, especially since their opponents were worthless fodder characters. Those puppets look like they could be a pain in the ass somewhere down the line, and that Irene person also seems like a threat. Not the most exciting start to the Festa, but it'll probably get better. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. |
| yes ayato was amazing as hell. Fiesta has commenced// can't wait for more |
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| YOOOO THOSE PRODUCTION VALUES TENSHION GA AGARU im so hyped for the next episode honestly. the confetti scene was absolutely gorgeous as well as julis and ayatos entrance. cant wait until they get into the longer fights as theyre weeding out the weak currently. |
| What a tease, I wanted to see more of Irene Urzaiz.... She looks interesting.... |
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| Finally at the Festa- things should be more interesting now. |
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| those robots are just trolling them wow too op |
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| End the fight when it just start...such badassness lol. For some reason, I don't like Ernesta and her partner... Looking for to see Kyouko's fight since even Claudia warn Ayato and them to be careful... |
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| Kirin being cute as always. Also that robot fight was pretty amusing. Idk about you guys but ayato's match felt underwhelming,even though he's supposed to be OP :c. |
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| Good build up episode, the fights were short but still cool with Ayato being a badass and the puppets being pretty funny and badass as well. Also another thing a saw was that that school had people locked up...um I don't think that is legal but I cant wait to see that girl go up against Ayato later on. Next episode should be Saya and Kirin vs the puppets so I cant wait to see that big battle. Here is my full review on the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-h4wTATRsg&feature=youtu.be |
| Oh, I hope that this show won't stick to show whole tournament or rather pointless fight scenes.... :| And that CG in last fight was awful. Really really awful. |
rsc-plNov 28, 2015 12:23 PM
| Dub = fake crap. Always. |
| Feel like a build up for the next episode. Ayato and Julis battle, that was really fast. and that robot or puppet at the last battle, that look badass to me. Can't wait to see that two badass looking robot fight Ayato and Julis.... Wait! or maybe that robots will fight Kirin and Saya? Can't wait to see that. This is just the beginning, obviously there is no intense battle. i think this season will end up with a really shit cliffhanger. |
YizelTroNov 28, 2015 12:22 PM
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| Well, I was about to drop the show this episode, but those puppets are both beastly and hilarious. Still a pretty "meh" show for the rest of it, but at least the puppets are fun to watch. More of them please...! |
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| Can we just appreciate how corny those light-saber sounds for the swords were? I really liked this contrast in animation for this twister with all the CG/Sci-Fi shit that was going on.  |
| Robots with shields? that doesn't seem fair, good episode this series has really hit it's stride . |
| Next episode showcase the vampire princess Irene Urzais, and those vampire fangs ! |
| Finally, the Tournament starts, and as expected Ayato just eradicates the first opponents. But it seems hardly fair that the puppets are allowed to fight, because when it comes to fighting a machine as virtually no response time at all, whilst humans have about a 215 millisecond respond time.(yeah and people are still arguing if a 3ms screen is better for gaming than a 5ms one...I mean the human brain can´t even see any difference) So even if they were exactly as strong, fast and with the same knowledge and experience as a human, they would still win. Also a machine can come up with tactics way faster than the human brain, as we can see on chess computers that surpassed even the best human players ages ago. Mostly people will argue that "humans have like you know a more creative way of thinking and thus they can be unpredictable for machines." While that might be true, a computer can easily analyze the movement of a single person and find it´s flaws, especially if it´s already familiar with the patterns, as the two puppets are with most of the students.(because they spyed on the contestants bevorehand like on Ayato) But I´m shure our heroes will find a way to win against the machines.(either that or the machines will take over the world and we will gat skynet. Would be fun too, even way more than the series right now) This small Rant on the unfairness of the Tournament aside, an enjoyable episode, I loved how they actually gave the two robots characters rather than "evil fight robot". |
| Why are all the first page non-main characters so useless? |
| Saya's voice is awesome. Saya is awesome. I wish we had a bit more Claudia, though. Anyway, episode was pretty interesting. Ayato one-shotting those guys was enjoyable to see. Then again, those robots did the same. Seems the first battles were stomps. We should be seeing more balanced matchups soon. 4/5 Never skipping the ending of this anime. |
~||Sky of the Night Light||~  |
| Another boring one.. |
| Hopefully the next episode will have Saya and Kirin fighting in the Phoenix Battle. Things are starting to get interesting and now I want to learn more about the dark redhead vampire teeth girl. Very good episode. |
| And so, the Pheonix Festa finally begins. Ayato's first fight was rather quick, but that's to be expected of our #1. And the puppets seems to be really strong. |
| How i got the feeling like using those puppets were kinda like cheating? Were that whole festival idea to get to know which school have strongest fighters, and then you put machines to fight. |
| So the Festa's finally here. Ayato and Julis' battle was done so fast, sasuga. Still gotta love Kirin. Those puppets were pretty terrifying though, talk about strong. Great episode. |
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| nicely done ep, even though ayato-julis battle just too easy and way too fast ow also allekant's puppets, they're really strong and i hope ayato-julis met them soon |
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| Pretty good animation this week, actually liked how the first round was fodderized quickly. Robot's comedy took me by surprise but it worked well. Pretty fast episode imo, but one of the better setups. Looking forward to next weeks. |
| Big Order (TV):great anime or greatest anime? |
| Finally, it has begun! The Festa "tournament" xD It seems that the director of the festa created some new rules so that Aloqunt school can cheat.... The girl that was in jail and is now fighting is probably very strong.. Can't wait for the next episode! |
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Seepos said: How i got the feeling like using those puppets were kinda like cheating? Were that whole festival idea to get to know which school have strongest fighters, and then you put machines to fight. at least he kept his promise on not moving for a min lol |
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| Good episode, finally the struggles of Festa begin, I was eager to see the quality of adaptation about the battles, but I enjoyed of the fights, Ayato and Julis begun demonstrating superiority, but strong opponents already have been shown, I want to see how this adaptation will continue .. |
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| The female puppet is cuter than when i have imagined her while reading the LNs... :) Pls don't show Ayato's powering up scene for every episode.... Kirin <3 |
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| Have a feeling that vampire girl is just going to be that annoying crazy chick who seems super strong to anybody who doesn't know about her abilities and she gets all cocky and shit and has that attitude that only cares about fighting and bloodlust. Good to see CR is still spelling Allekant as Arlequint. Oh well, it's not like they're paid to be smart...or good at their job. |
| Not bad for the start of the Phoenix. I enjoyed the first fight for Ayato, and loved how they swapped the exposition of their Festa tactics for a conversation (though it sounded weird since it was a convo between themselves... like they were suppose to have already discussed it all way beforehand... would've been better as a flashback convo IMO). Ardi and Rimsi were great! I loved their Seiyuu voices, I was expecting Ardi to be a bit more comically deadpan but I'll take it. Rimsi's voice and attitude was perfect, just what I expected whilst reading the LN. Oh and yes Irene's introduction was good as well. We'll see enough of her in the next episode for sure. And the subbers really should go check up on the LNs. It's not really hard to find the correct names for every character and school. Reading the subs really rubbed me the wrong way. |
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Ryuutobi said: Jonesy974 said: I can forgive them for that, but not for the Galahadworth part. After all, unlike the other schools, Garrardworth's name was written on-screen in big latin letters in the first episode.Good to see CR is still spelling Allekant as Arlequint. Oh well, it's not like they're paid to be smart...or good at their job. Christ, forgot about that one too. Just like last week too they mentioned the Gryps festival and straight up changed it to Gryphon IIRC. They are literally butchering the shit out of these subs. It's funny, I'm watching Shinmai Maou too, and every episode has had a shit ton of spelling and grammar errors. Which I'm totally ok with, because I get that they're trying to sub it as fast as possible. And even though they may forget to put a space between words or leave out a letter or something, they always manage to get the terminology right. Like oh, they spelled "battle" as "battel" on accident. Ok, well at least they aren't misspelling names, places, weapons, spells, etc. CR dropping the fucking ball with this one. And there are so many sources to check from too. If anything they're actually making their job harder my coming up with some made up fucking word for the translation rather than using the correctly spelled word right from the source material. |
Jonesy974 said: CR dropping the fucking ball with this one. And there are so many sources to check from too. Don't blame CR, it's not their fault. Aniplex is responsible for TL as Asterisk is being simulcasted on both Crunchyroll and Daisuki. The thing is, Aniplex doesn't really care about quality. Daisuki has bad video and terrible font. It doesn't apply to CR, but they can't do anything about TL. |
SchwingBoner said: Oh yeah, finally the Festas. First fight ended way too quickly. Second one was definitely more interesting. Looking forward to seeing them fight the puppets.  These puppets talk too much. |
| god that episode was bad.... funny overpowered robots that are going to be destroyed in two episodes....no thanks |
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| is it just me or do the fighting scenes feel short? is it just strictly following the manga or A-1 saving money? i just want to see claudia ENFIELD fight please |
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ANA1979 said: is it just me or do the fighting scenes feel short? is it just strictly following the manga or A-1 saving money? i just want to see claudia ENFIELD fight please I'm not surprised that the fight scenes are short, considering that the tournament only just started. The later rounds and especially the last 32 should have much longer battles. =D The puppets have an amusing chemistry together, but Aldy's shield must be ridiculously tough if it can shrug off a powerful twister attack like that. Kirin was adorable once again, with her receiving a head rub from Ayato. Saya was fortunate enough to get a head rub as well, but her motto though, "Bigger is better.", just screams out MANY sexual innuendoes. My mind must be a little bit perverted today. >_< Looking forward to the next battles, hopefully involving Saya and Kirin. =D |
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