Reviews

The story centers on a guy who is secretly more powerful than he lets on and his harem of girls who use magical weapons to battle...wait, that describes three different shows from this season. This review is for Hundred but there will be some comparison to the other two shows, The Asterisk War & Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon. It's inevitable given all the similarities between all three shows. Of the three, Hundred has the best setting. The world they live in is explained, and the addition of the savages gives them a constant threat to face. What isn't really explained is the wide range of hundreds though. Why are no two the same? They mention something about different types of hundred but it's of no consequence. The art is great, it's a treat to look at in both moments of peace and violence. I do have two things that bugged me about this anime that kept me from truly enjoying it. First is the amount of screen time dedicated to Sakura and her singing. Mind you, I grew up listening to Minmay and Yellow Dancer so I know when a musical concert is needed for the story. Sakura's concerts seemed like filler which is odd in a series only 12 episodes long. Second is something that I've hated in anime since I first watched Tenchi Muyo. Three characters just throw their panties at Hayato (he's Ayato in the Asterisk War) but he just doesn't respond. It would be one thing if he was scared of girls, or had a crush on someone else or was gay. Anything but "HUH?" though. He could just pick one and we see how that works out or he could reject them all flat out and keep that as a running gag. But watching them throw themselves at him and not get a reaction one way or the other is tedious. I was gonna say watch The Asterisk War over this, but the fact that it ran twice as many episodes as Hundred is all the evidence one needs.