#Gakusen toshi asterisk characters series#

I really hope harem anime splitting into 2 seasons and having the 2nd season released 6 months later doesn’t become a trend. It really does feel as though season 2 should have been part of season 1. So what we are left with is a action anime season where the audience feels nothing because there is no sense of stakes and there has so far been no real sense of danger to the characters. In comparison to Maou no Testament the last episode didn’t even feel like a boss battle, it felt like a normal episode. I get that the purpose was so that we would feel more for the characters when the tournament began, but to be honest the matches in season 1 are only the preliminary rounds so I felt no sense of danger for any of the characters. I do wonder if it would have been smarter for the tournament to begin earlier and we could have somehow learned more about the girls as the tournament went on. There were also the standard harem cliches which felt like a checklist of things that had to be in there. There are 4 girls in the harem so really the first 8 episodes was just about getting to know the girls as well as learning more about the protagonist. Therefore I assume season 2 will be all about this tournament and mostly all of season 1 was really just set up for it. There is a tournament called The Phoenix Festa but that only begins on episode 9 out of 12. From the premise I was under the impression that this would be a tournament style anime. Unfortunately Asterisk feels like a 3 legged chair, incomplete and uncomfortably so. Say what you will about these anime but the one thing I personally can say about them is that I feel as though they can stand on their own without needing a sequel. I’m thinking of Highschool DxD, Zero no Tsukaima, Rosario no Vampire, Heaven’s Lost Property, The World God Only Knows, Sekirei, Date A Live. In the past there have been harem anime with sequels. I haven’t watched the second season but I’ll assume it gets closer to having a real ending. The first season ended at this boss fight and the main crux of the story was never resolved.

#Gakusen toshi asterisk characters series#

In this same season we got the second season of the harem series Shinmai Maou no Testament. Before going into this anime it is important to note that there is a second season due out in April 2016.

Let me first start of by addressing a certain problem I hope does not become a trend in anime.