Kirito ku-- I mean, Ayato, is overpowered generic light novel guy #1239875 with a harem of useless and rejected cute girls. He enrolls in a magical sword school in a city on an island identical to those of previous incarnations of the light novel fantasy genre.
The writer of this series followed his Light Novel Adaptation Guidebook PERFECTLY.
Kirito ku-- Excuse me... Ayato walks in on a tsundere changing on the first day of school. She gets pissed and challenges him to a fight. She gets her ass spanked in the fight. Harem consisting of Tsundere girl, big boobs girl, childhood friend girl, and loli girl forms between episodes 1-3. Ayato ignores sexual advances of girls, romantic subplot never goes anywhere. He remains an unbeatable god for the duration of the series. THE END.
The plot is pathetic.
The art is pathetic, animators shamelessly use CG figures and flashy colors to make it seem like stuff is happening when really all they're doing is swinging around swords with no choreography whatsoever. On a scale of 1 to Fate Zero, The Ass War earns a √-1. It's so bad, it's UNDEFINED.
The sound is pathetic. Effects sound bad, opening is horrible. The only redeeming quality here is the ending, but that only brings sound up to a 2.
Characters are all pathetic, generic, lifeless, and boring. It's as if their personalities were picked from a hat. It's so static and mind-numbingly bad I wish I could give it less than 0 on MAL, but I can't. There's not a single shred of character development to be had anywhere in this show, and the relationship between characters literally never changes once they are established.
Enjoyment? I actually enjoyed it immensely. It's always fun trashing these kinds of shows! I still rate it a 1 because if I have to base enjoyment off the actual show instead of discussion.
Overall? This show is the worst piece of garbage to have crawled out of the light novel trash heap.
It's pathetic, appalling, and deserves an average score of 1 on this website. I can't possibly fathom how it's "earned" over a 7 on this site.
