Dec 19, 2015
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk is one of the shows you really hope would be good especially because how awesome the premise of the show was but after watching about six episodes, you will wonder if the show is ever going to get better, but then you realize the sad fact it’s not and you really question if you will ever get that free time you had back from watching this show.
The story 3/10
The story to Gakusen Toshi Asterisk is students in six different academies fighting each other in tournaments to see who’s the best in the district is, also the winners can acquire money and
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become famous if they get first place in these tournaments. This sounded awesome to me because I thought it was going to be a competitive show with some amazing fight scenes, but the show didn’t do that at all and went a completely different direction. What the show does focuses on is having the main character Ayato Amagiri save everyone time and time again to add more people to his harem which can get really repetitive and boring, this show also focuses on a lot on clichés and you will start to question if you are watching something you seen before in the past. When the show does progress through the story you will feel like at times it doesn’t really know where it wants to go so it tries to add new stuff without explaining where anything comes from, which can get really hard to follow and it sucks because I wanted to know what they were talking about. The show also feels like they rushed a lot of parts dealing with the main story, when they didn’t need to do that because they had two filler episodes that didn’t need to happen.
The characters 2/10
The characters are probably the worst part of the show because there generic, boring and not very relatable. The main character Ayato is probably the most generic character out of all them, he’s that character that’s way to strong and has nothing to him that makes him interesting as a character. For the other four main characters there’s not much to explain but hear it goes. For the main female lead Julis, she is just one of those characters that gets angry at everything the main character does for no reason. For the second leading female Saya, she is just the character that’s clueless most of the time and makes those repetitive jokes where she wants a bigger chest. The third leading female Kirin, she is the character that’s really shy and gets nervous pretty easily from pretty much anything and for the last female lead Claudia she is the character that’s just there for fan service, there is nothing to her that’s unique. They did offer little things about their past for each character on why they wanted to fight in the tournaments and why they needed the prize money but surprisingly gave us nothing about the characters that was all that interesting or helping the characters grow from that experience and they were also way too short and some characters didn’t have them at all, which was disappointing.
The art 5/10
The art design on the characters were okay but it felt like they were very generic. The backgrounds were decent, there wasn’t much to complain about. For the fight scenes though I felt like some were decent but then some focus way too much on these huge effects and made the fights feel poorly down which I felt they could have left out by not doing them or just doing them right.
Sound 5/10
The opening song really didn’t do it for me, it felt like every other opening song to any other show, which isn’t bad but isn’t good either but the ending song to me was really good and was the thing I was looking forward to for each episode. The voice actors to me weren’t the greatest and some of them could be very annoying sometimes well watching the show, but mainly for the supporting cast not the main characters.
Enjoyment 2/10
I didn’t enjoy this at all and it’s frustrating because the only thing I enjoyed was the ending song which to me isn’t a good thing, but I guess it could have been worse.
Overall 3/10
This show is terrible and it’s not because it’s a harem anime, it’s not good because of the story, the clichés and the terrible characters. Stay away from this show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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