The Asterisk War (light novel)
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| You know things going down when Ayato switched his light saber from Mace Windu's to Darth Vader's. The dark side had cookies... ayato could not resist. The ep has that final episode feeling though it still has 3 ep's wonder how they'll wrap this up? I sure do hope its not a cliffhanger. |
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| Man I STILL love the ED song. I felt the fight was a bit...lacking? But still not terrible. And that ending scene, quite the reveal! |
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| That Chairman really give of an evil vile since he first appears , Sylvia's Wink is very powerful to make Ayato blush |
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| As a fan of the LN I cannot help but be majorly disappointed by the conclusion of this arc... The one thing that irked me to no end was how they portrayed that final fight. First off, Ardi was embedded with the remains of the Grav-Sheath, yes, but his body wasn't able to contain all the power that it was emanating, leading to his cracked appearance. From what I remember, Ayato and Julis were getting pinned down by his relentless attacks leaving them no chance to breath or form a solid plan on the fly. The only reason why they managed to garner enough time to adjust the Ser-Vesta was only because the Grav-Sheath nearly destroyed his body and he was forced to stop in order to "cool down". Secondly, Julis sustained way more damage in the end than this poor adaptation let off. She was suppose to have been knocked unconscious after the Ser-Vesta adjustment, leading to a one-on-one situation at the end of the match. Surely if they'd properly adapted the fight, it would have been way more epic (though budget-wise it probably would have took it's toll, but still...). To be honest, I did not like that fight in the least. It was like watching an abbreviated highlight reel, and it annoyed the hell out of me. The actual prize-giving ceremony was also suppose to be held immediately after the match (in another arena since they totaled that one), so I'm not sure if what we got in the show was just people re-watching the ceremony... or if they actually changed it to a few weeks afterwards (which really wouldn't make sense). That's the reason why Ardi and Julis weren't present at the ceremony (Ardi was taken in for repairs by Carmilla and Julis was in the hospital). Other than that, all the important conversations were carried out as in the novel, and I'm just glad that they kept Yabuki's awesome-sauce moment in there, since it will tie in with stuff in the story later. No spoilers up to now, since they also did the Haruka reveal in the novels as well. Overall they'd done decent with everything else, but the way that they toned down the fight scenes was somewhat unforgivable. |
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| I always shipped Julis and Ayato together, but I don't know, Sylvia just looks so cute! And it seems Ayato is starting to like her, and he sees Julis as a best friend. |
| I don't care how little she appears, Sylvia-sama is the one and only worthy girl in this series. |
| Big Order (TV):great anime or greatest anime? |
| Sylvia is OP, in more ways than one. |
| So now that tournament is over what are they gonna do? |
| "I lost all of what you could call feelings of love. They weren't sealed, so they can't be released. They weren't broken, so they can't be fixed. That which is lost, cannot be recovered." Shiba Tatsuya "There are no regrets. If one can be proud of one's life, one should not wish for another chance." Saber "No matter what happens, no matter how crazy things get, I'll always try to restore balance." Korra "It's madness to let others take what's yours and accept it blindly." Baatar Jr "Instinct is a lie, told by a fearful body, hoping to be wrong." Zaheer "Partner in crime, partner in time" Chloe Price and Max Caulfield |
Dragon_Slayer_X said: L-Ryoshi said: As a fan of the LN I cannot help but be majorly disappointed by the conclusion of this arc... The one thing that irked me to no end was how they portrayed that final fight. First off, Ardi was embedded with the remains of the Grav-Sheath, yes, but his body wasn't able to contain all the power that it was emanating, leading to his cracked appearance. It wasn't Gravi-sheath but a different Ulm Mana Dite. Ayato said that it felt similar to Gravi-sheath as they were both Orge-Luxes going out of control but Ardi managed to control it though his body took a toll. I think that was shown and said rather well in the anime especially with all those big cracks and malfunctions. L-Ryoshi said: Secondly, Julis sustained way more damage in the end than this poor adaptation let off. She was suppose to have been knocked unconscious after the Ser-Vesta adjustment, leading to a one-on-one situation at the end of the match. Julis was conscious (at least from what i remember) but her hand suffered much bigger burns than shown in the anime. It still shows how dangerous Ser-vesta is since a Fire-user like Julis got burned by it. L-Ryoshi said: Surely if they'd properly adapted the fight, it would have been way more epic (though budget-wise it probably would have took it's toll, but still...). To be honest, I did not like that fight in the least. It was like watching an abbreviated highlight reel, and it annoyed the hell out of me. Well considering the amount of information they put in this episode it can't be helped that the fight was done rather quickly. The main parts of the fight are fine in my book but maybe a bit faster pace and a little extension would have made the fight much better. They already devoted 5 episodes for this volume and managed to show most of the events so i will let them off the hook even though i got my hopes up because the earlier fights in the second course were pretty nicely done. Ayato's technique with Flaming Ser-vesta looked pretty cool animated though. Went back to the novel and you are correct that Julis was still conscious. However, I always thought that they implied in the novels that Dirk had picked up the shards of Grav-Sheath and presented it to Priscilla's team to use on Ardi. I'm actually pretty positive of this point, anyway. CrotakuShinobi said: So now that tournament is over what are they gonna do? Obviously it's a victory tour in Julis' country, even the preview title implies that. |
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bastek66 said: THERE IS NO NEED FOR CHARACTER IN BACKGROUND TO BE DRAWN DETAILED. THERE IS EVEN NECESSITY FOR THEM TO BE DRAWN THIS WAY, otherwise we would get monstrocity like https://gfycat.com/RemotePastKiskadee We are just having fun with it. |
iApollo said: bastek66 said: THERE IS NO NEED FOR CHARACTER IN BACKGROUND TO BE DRAWN DETAILED. THERE IS EVEN NECESSITY FOR THEM TO BE DRAWN THIS WAY, otherwise we would get monstrocity like https://gfycat.com/RemotePastKiskadee We are just having fun with it. Holy f**k.. lolol, good one |
CrotakuShinobi said: So now that tournament is over what are they gonna do? Liseltania(Yulis home country) > 6 school festival > gryph festa (5 vs 5). Anime most likely until Liseltania arc. |
Bigod1981 said: Why are they always given time to talk and power up? How long is the actual time between matches given the cost the time it takes to repair the stage after it's been obliterated per match? The fiesta lasted for 2 weeks. I think they have different stadiums, so even if one is destroyed there are others where the matches can be played. Julies "explains" in the first season episode 2 or 3 but isn't very clear, since the series didn't spend any time exploring or explaining the world. |
| That fcking twist at the end tho... wat d flying fck. |
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| ohnoooo, why does the chairman have the sister :| |
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| I KNEW IT! THAT GUY WAS WAY TOO SUSPICIOUS to be just another student. He was appearing so randomly out of nowhere and almost always when something happened. It was just too convenient to be coincidence. I was wondering what they are going to do now that the tournament is over and we still have some episodes left. But now with that revelation I'm kinda hyped. I really hope we get to see a bit more of Yabuki and his true abilities. Even though I have doubts whether we'll actually see more of him. Probably only a few more moments but nothing special or revealing in any way :( |
| Is it only me, or it 's like nobody really cares about the festa. The Le wolfe president and Allelkant girls just laughed it off, and the main characters, yeah they are celebrating the victory, but it feels so off and as it takes the whole season the simple question what was the point? I probably expected too much from average harem-shounen story, but with that in mind i think it 's overcomplicated for no reason. |
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| I knew it! Great too see some glimpse of mysteries revealed ----- Yabuki's ability and the whereabouts of Ayato's sister. Since the Phoenix Festa is FINALLY over, new and more interesting scenes to be expected. |
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| You know what they say, cook til' golden brown. + Chicken Bone returns |
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| JUST ONE SCENE, SYLVIA WAS TAKING OVER THIS EPISODE :P AH, ALSO DAT END, ZIT ALREADY |
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allenjke said: Is it only me, or it 's like nobody really cares about the festa. The Le wolfe president and Allelkant girls just laughed it off, and the main characters, yeah they are celebrating the victory, but it feels so off and as it takes the whole season the simple question what was the point? I probably expected too much from average harem-shounen story, but with that in mind i think it 's overcomplicated for no reason. Well the festas (lindwurm, pheonix and gryps) are just events for the audiences and for the ranking of asterisk city, what makes it so important is that any wishes can be granted to the winner. And obtaining wins in all three festas can go to grand slam(not confirm yet). Festas is just part of the series along the way, not a plot itself. So participating in festa is not the main plot, but just participate along the way as every year there will be festa ( this year Pheonix, next year Gryps, next next year lindwurm, and cycle again). And winning the festas won't destroy the antogonist or anything, it just grant you some wish to proceed along the next plot. You might see Lewolf pretty weak and evil, but asterisk city strongest fighter(Ophelia) is in Lewolf. Sylvia is just in second, lose to Ophelia. |
valvravetruthMay 30, 2016 6:13 AM
Jynfreccs said: Guys, why is the hammer of the robot still intact, i mean.. hayato slashed it in two in episode 8 end..... Thats because Ardi can continuously construct the hammer. |
valvravetruth said: allenjke said: Is it only me, or it 's like nobody really cares about the festa. The Le wolfe president and Allelkant girls just laughed it off, and the main characters, yeah they are celebrating the victory, but it feels so off and as it takes the whole season the simple question what was the point? I probably expected too much from average harem-shounen story, but with that in mind i think it 's overcomplicated for no reason. Well the festas (lindwurm, pheonix and gryps) are just events for the audiences and for the ranking of asterisk city, what makes it so important is that any wishes can be granted to the winner. And obtaining wins in all three festas can go to grand slam(not confirm yet). Festas is just part of the series along the way, not a plot itself. So participating in festa is not the main plot, but just participate along the way as every year there will be festa ( this year Pheonix, next year Gryps, next next year lindwurm, and cycle again). And winning the festas won't destroy the antogonist or anything, it just grant you some wish to proceed along the next plot. You might see Lewolf pretty weak and evil, but asterisk city strongest fighter(Ophelia) is in Lewolf. Sylvia is just in second, lose to Ophelia. Yes, i get it, but then what was the point of it if it was nearly for the whole season. I assume that 3 remaining episodes won't give us the full ending (if the LN ended), so all this was just preparations for the main story aka supposed 3rd season which i (highly) doubt that will happen. And again , it was most likely my problem, i expected too much from this series for no reason. |
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| Dang. Dirk is cahoots with that higher up. My goodness. They finally won though. I expected more party, but I didn't get it. >.< |
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| I wonder what is Madiath Mesa relationship with Amagiri sister. |
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| The victory was predictable, but they deserved to win. I'm disappointed about two things: - I don't like the end of the fight, this kind of simultaneous hit is so boring. -The reward of the tournament should be to make their wishes true, instead of that the chairman said "good luck to find her by yourself". I expected that they will help him ... So, the girl in the capsule is his sister. Interesting twist, I wonder if 3 episodes will be enough. |
| imo, it's the best episode so far. the fight was enjoyable and amusing to watch too. and i like how Ayato's weapon upgraded into something cool :D and Yabuki in this episode tho. i always expected him to be someone like that but that scene still makes me want to say "WOW" and especially the most scene which suprised me was the after-credit scene. i even pause it for a sec. i'm thinking, she would got used for the another puppet experiment ? seriously, that would be so cruel imo. 3 episode left, cliffhanger incoming!!!! i hope, this time! they will put a shocked cliffhanger or more like a twist cliffhanger in the end of the final episode xD cause that would be awsome imo for this show XD |
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Sakaitsu said: The victory was predictable, but they deserved to win. I'm disappointed about two things: - I don't like the end of the fight, this kind of simultaneous hit is so boring. -The reward of the tournament should be to make their wishes true, instead of that the chairman said "good luck to find her by yourself". I expected that they will help him ... So, the girl in the capsule is his sister. Interesting twist, I wonder if 3 episodes will be enough. Oh i think the asterisk will continue help Ayato to search for his sister, thats Ayato's wish after all. |
| Of course the chairman is involved...everyone is involved. |
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| Maybe Sylvia can find Ayato's sister? |
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| Everyone gets head pats today~ |
| Pretty great fight and end to the festa overall. Looks like the plotline surrounding Ayato's sister is getting more complicated... |
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| Sylvia where? Gakusen pls. |
| Of course Ayato & Julis won! Yabuki is fishy. Mesa is fishy. 4/5. |
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| What a convenient plot twist in roommate Yabuki being revealed as the big bad. |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| He shortened his sword to win. I lol'd. This is where the first season should have ended. |
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| So... basically Saya and Kirin lost to the mecha and Ayato and Julis won because Ayato's weapon got much more power than Kirin and Saya's? Kirin fought much better with much more skill, and Saya as well... but they lost... of course. Nothing against Ayato, but he didn't much on the final match, he was a guy there carrying a divine item with one hit "kill". |
TechOtakuOct 12, 2016 11:08 AM
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| Nice weapon upgrade for Ayato. Ernesta wasn't in league with Dirk after all and declined his offer, now I think a bit better of her. Tsundere Lester was cute. Shadow Guy was killed(?) by Yabuki. The guy only looks so unremarkable, better not underestimate him. Madiath holds Haruka captive and is in league with Dirk. Looks like they have to wreck his ass too. |
| You're a louse, Roger Smith. - R. Dorothy Wayneright This is my fight! No Senpai, this is our fight! - Kojou Akatsuki & Yukina Himeragi  |
| Dat Ser-Versta new form. Ayato beat 2D AR-D. Dat Miiko oppai. They won. Dat Claudia smile. Dirk left to go commit seppuku. LMAO at that reused pool scene. The guy that wounded your sister just gave you the trophy. So the once Savior-kun's name is Verner. Dat stab. Saya has lot of nerve saying "That's my Ayato in front of the true main heroine and waifu, Claudia. Grab him Claudia. That's your Ayato. Claudia countered Saya with ease. lol No! Don't enter the room Flora! Just run away! WTF is wrong with you, Julis? Why would you tell her to cry? Please don't cry. If you cry then that means screaming and that means our ears are fucked. FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! MY EARS!!!!!!!! Dat Onee-chan oppai. Dat preview! Claudia is back looking so perfect. Yes! Congratulate your Ayato. RIP Verner. Thank you for trying to save us from Flora. You will always be the real MVP. Also, fuck you Julis for enabling Flora to cry, which fucks us over. That's why you're not best girl and once again proves that Claudia is best girl. |
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hamoun said: I always shipped Julis and Ayato together, but I don't know, Sylvia just looks so cute! And it seems Ayato is starting to like her, and he sees Julis as a best friend. thing is he doesn't realizes hes feelings for Julis yet so ofc almost awry cute girl that helps him makes him plush -Stray said: That fcking twist at the end tho... wat d flying fck. the part that the chairman is Evil i so coming just didn't expect that he has Ayato's sister |
Sugram22Nov 18, 2017 4:31 AM
| The fights are always some of the highlights of the series so far, didnt disappoint. |
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| So they one as expected. Wonder what the last three episodes will be about. |
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