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EP. REVIEW: The Asterisk War

#844391 wrote:

If he was going to ignore the curtin of fire then he probably should have started a bit earlier. and when the robots were transforming,

Just for the record, have you ever seen an anime fight where the opponent attacks during the transformation or power-up? Even if it takes like 5 minutes of screen time, the opponent just stands there while all the RAAARRRR slam bang zot crash is going on. If there is such a thing as a law that anime always follows that would be it: transforms and power-ups are never interrupted.

HaruhiToy wrote:

#844391 wrote: If he was going to ignore the curtin of fire then he probably should have started a bit earlier. and when the robots were transforming, Just for the record, have you ever seen an anime fight where the opponent attacks during the transformation or power-up? Even if it takes like 5 minutes of screen time, the opponent just stands there while all the RAAARRRR slam bang zot crash is going on. If there is such a thing as a law that anime always follows that would be it: transforms and power-ups are never interrupted.

True. To get around that, I've always maintained the theory that most transformation sequences are actually nearly instantaneous. They've just been slowed down for dramatic visual effect for viewers.

Also, why is it acceptable in the rules that you can hide your badge behind super armor? Why wouldn't all the contestants enter the arena with it sealed in an unbreakable case?

so, in a previous fight RM-C (female robot) was able to shoot down every bullet another contestant was shooting at her, however now she can't hit ayato with a single shot in this fight. even if he can predict her bullets, keeping both himself and his partner out of the way is kinda...yea. and even when Julis was alone at one point RM-C couldn't hit her.

and with the big robot was hit by the fire attack, he survived because he had thick armor, however his badge was on the outside of the armor and is not fireproof but suffered no damage.

Ayato decides to wait until AFTER the robots had already combined before charging in to try and stop them. If he was going to ignore the curtin of fire then he probably should have started a bit earlier. and when the robots were transforming, even if they had covering fire, couldn't have julis fired at them from long range? I doubt their umbrella of fire could have stopped all of Julis's shots.

When kirin is going to rescue flora, flora is obviously saying "stay away, its a trap" but Kirin completely ignores that and starts to untie her. and somehow the trap still misses her even though she was on her knees and unaware of it until it actually went off.

shadow ninja guy was at a complete advantage until he decided to fight kirin head on, he said he didn't care about his life and since he was a kidnapper he's probably not the honorable sort. he had already trapped saya and wounded kirin and could have easily taken her out by sticking to the shadows and attacking from range. Hell he could have won even after she wounded him if he just had disabled saya from the start.

This final match at ep21 just proved once more for me how much better Rakudai was, makes me sad every time when i think about it that rakudai got only 12ep while asterisk 24ep. I just hope that someday we get a 2nd season for rakudai because its simply better at every single thing compared to asterisk....

This final match at ep21 just proved once more for me how much better Rakudai was, makes me sad every time when i think about it that rakudai got only 12ep while asterisk 24ep. I just hope that someday we get a 2nd season for rakudai because its simply better at every single thing compared to asterisk....

I couldn't agree more. Even more so since the stories are so incredibly similar - one anime shows us how to do it while another shows us how not to do it.

I really don't understand it when people continue to follow series that are according to the viewers own opinion "they aren't worth following" save them being some sort of regular show reviewer.

BlackPoint. wrote:

This final match at ep21 just proved once more for me how much better Rakudai was, makes me sad every time when i think about it that rakudai got only 12ep while asterisk 24ep. I just hope that someday we get a 2nd season for rakudai because its simply better at every single thing compared to asterisk....

Both series were underwhelming especially in the early episodes (you know, the ones where you are trying to hook the audience)
All these LN adaptations will eventually jumble together and be forgotten as they have the sin of featuring a hopelessly bland male lead with arbitrary super powered status.

So that's a lot of revelations to give the series future direction, but assuming that this season is also 12 episodes, is there enough time to actually do anything substantial with any of them? All of them seem like bait for long-term storylines rather than a three episode arc, which gives the feel of the series just tossing out hooks willy-nilly in the hopes that something sticks. There's no sense that they coherently go together to form a bigger picture, unless the whole point is that all of these parallel schemes are running amok in Asterisk City.

And was there any point in him upgrading his sword, at the end he was aiming at the badge and hit it because of his speed and technique. having a fiery sword as opposed to his normal OP sword doesn't seem to have made much difference. Or does the fire give him a +100 to his speed stat or something?

Both series were underwhelming especially in the early episodes (you know, the ones where you are trying to hook the audience)
All these LN adaptations will eventually jumble together and be forgotten as they have the sin of featuring a hopelessly bland male lead with arbitrary super powered status.

I'm not sure what you're really looking for though. Shouldn't you want the series to be laying the ground work for a larger plot?