This is my second review and I couldn't be happier to review this anime, because it actually makes me laugh.
Story: 7
Sakamoto desu ga? doesn't have a plot, it has a premise. A premise is different from something with a continually progressing story, which is a plot. It must've been difficult to make a decent/good anime with a premise as shows like that can't make it that far for someone with my attention span. I have a very short one. So your premise needs to set your series up for success. At first I thought it was going to be a harem about a perfect man,
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Jun 13, 2016
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk
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Alright, this is my first review and because the second season just came out and is getting really popular for FUCK-ALL reasons, I decided to review it. But if you like it...good for you.
Story: 1 (Sorta spoilers...? I don't know when I cross the line, so just a warning.) I gave it a '1' because it was very disappointing. I thought that perhaps if A1 took time to flesh out concepts and arcs the story might shine out of all of their shows and get a 6. For example, the holograms are a good idea but the consistency is not there. With consistency and and fleshing out ... the concept, I would really get into this world and understand it a lot better. People are holding it AND controlling it with their mine. Wouldn't your hands pass through the hologram? I don't get it at all. Any foreshadowing in wordplay or symbolism is horrible. When Julis is sewing Ayato's jacket, she talks about coming to the academy for money to put into the orphanage where she (sorta) grew up and where her best friends grew up. The camera then zooms into a photo of the kids at the orphanage including Julis. We automatically know a character is going to be important. Why? The girl next to Julis has white hair, (everyone else has brown/black/dull purple hair), is the only one right up next to Julis, is grinning with Julis, and besides Julis has the biggest grin. Why does it matter? She doesn't matter until LATE into the second season. So no consistency, generic plot, (which I didn't have to point out) horrible foreshadowing, and everything else (that is wrong with the plot) every reviewer has pointed out on every website from MAL to Youtube to Reddit. Visuals: 4 There is one pro before I jump into the cons. I love the color theory, which is the incorporation of colors that seem to go together. Julis's eyes and hair color contrast each other and a good shot of her face in the first episode shows that well! Also the ending theme kinda shows color theory in some shots. But the animation is average most of the time to horrible in some shots. So I don't have much to say about. Lots of things feel unnatural, like Julis's hair looking completely still and dry due to hair spray...I guess, and Ayato's jumping animation is really, really choppy. Flashing lights and directing is fucking horrible and ruins what could've been okay fight scenes. Props to you A1. Sound: 7 I can barely ever hear music when I'm focusing on the stupidity of the plot and trying to put it together in my mind with no avail. Shit. I bet it's even more lack luster than the anime its self. That being said, A1 just wasted (the critically acclaimed) Rasmus Faber's time. The ending and opening isn't bad though but should've been used in a different, better sci-fi/cyberpunk not high school/romance/harem/ecchi anime. Yet it was great music and if the soundtrack had a better anime to work with I bet the music would've been EPIC!!! Character: 1 Being my first review, I think that the rating system is a bit flawed but I shouldn't talk about this in my review, to me characters are apart of the plot but I'm going to talk at all about it. Half these characters are shit and worthless stereotypes. I wanted a yandere character to murder all the bitches in the anime then murder Ayato cause she realized he was an asshole. Ayato is constructed horribly and is a fusion of all harem MCs and all light novel MCs (except Koyomi Araragi, he's cool) and becomes a Frankenstein I don't wanna read about. Lets go through the bitches' 2% real personality and 98% stereotype/bad archetype characters! Yay! FML!!! (I will mention all these archetypes can be done well, but this anime is worse than a cookie cutter character-filled anime) Julis-...Alexia von...Reissfelt (the fuck is this name? Sure she is a princess but she sounds too MUCH like a European princess.) Archetype: Tsundere Level of Archetype: Tsun is directly built into her dere Motive: Get money from Festa. Put money in orphanage. Background/family: Princess, European that speaks fluent Japanese, with no explanation. Plotwise: Has no meaning except to be a female MC tourney partner. (which this anime fucks up) Claudia Enfield Archetype: Mysterious woman with high power and sexual craziness Level of archetype: All she does is dump exposition Motive: for Seidoukan Academy to finally win. Background/family: She has duel swords that show her the ways she could die, and affects her mental state greatly. Plotwise:("Plot") Ass, titties, ass, and titties(and exposition), ass, ass, and titties Saya Sasamiya Archetype: Deadpan lolli, childhood friend Level of archetype: Actually they didn't write her like a deadpan lolli Motive: Promotes her father's weapons Background/family: Ayato's childhood friend that now promotes her father's weapons Plotwise: You could remove her from the plot and nothing would happen. Todou Kirin Archetype: Innocent,(usually over sexualized ) shy lolli Level of archetype: 13 and has fucking Double D's and just follows who ever helps her Motive: To win money in the festas to release her father from prison. Background/family: Father she needs to get outta jail, abusing uncle, and #1 fighter in Seidokuan Academy. Plotwise: Just follows Saya in the end and could also be removed from the plot if she wasn't the #1 fighter in the Academy. She is just there to help Ayato become #1 so he can be the best person in the fucking festa, k? Haruka Amagiri Archetype: big sister-chan Level of archetype: created Ayato's fuck all weakness and created his moral values and motive. Motive: doesn't fucking matter but to be the person to be saved by Ayato Background/family: Fought and supposedly died to an obviously going to be an important character and is Ayato's sister. Plotwise: Ugh...fuck. I don't care to watch the second season. Enjoyment: I was laughing so hard at its stupid shit. So i gave it a 5 cause i laughed at myself for wasting my time and laughed at its dumb characters and almost meta-like story. Which it should've been but it wants you to take it seriously. What, why? Meta-commentary about anime like this is genius and "The Asterisk War" has the perfect characters for it. Cause their shitty and if they did this meta-commentary they would be so much more enjoyable and tolerable characters. Overall: 1 It is bullshit, k? Just pretend there is a synopsis of my review here.
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