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Spot on horror clichés this week!

Fall down in a deep fucking hole, no bruises or anything... who thought of that stupid shit. I'm on my way to picking up too much shit again and I'm quite certain this is for a different demo than me.

Just like that other show that is identical to this that just started (I'm talking about Rakudai), Asterisk War sets it's first challange on how to deal with the genre's iconic "BAKKAA HENTAAII" scene (aka the protag walks into the heroine changing/getting dressed)... Now that are high feats! Unlike the latter this shows at least some promise and looks a lot better (both are not skimpy on having an extended fight scene). Another "plus" is that this is going to be 24 episodes long giving at least some time to deal with a story. Not that it's a good idea to have any expectation for this as it will be hard pressed to be anything else but generic.

Consider me surprised but that wasn't half bad. As long as they can keep it interesting I'm down with this.

This is pretty much Yami Shibai with kaiju. While the studio on paper is a different one it's by the same director and writer and features the same look and oddities.

So many delay fests in that cour -_-...

That's some scary horrid CG animation this show sports. After you recover from that it can be passable as a cute time waster.

Not bad for a 8 minute show. TRIGGER is going after stereotypes this time. Obviously saving anime in the process.

Rakudai is pretty much the same as Asterisk Wars... or magic high-school battle shounen in general. While they attempt to make fun of some tropes it sort of fails as they're not exactly in the place to do so. Unlike the other show I will probably not watch any further episodes. The MC is pretty much a Kirito incarnate.

That literal white knight among the scum that are males. The animation isn't that bad as one would expect with some decent scenes but then there are also the cheap background effects in others. As for the plot? No thank you.

As bland and cringy as I expected it to be. That much for an update... (I dropped the original in S4)

That birdie's pecker tho *.

A Lorem Ipsum of buffs... The spell-spaming did't make for for an interesting battle at all... not that there would ever be a challange anyways.
And how do you even have so many spells... Sharknado is even among them?!

Sadly this has already more slasher action than the Scream show ever did. I actually expected a more serious tone to go along with that but most of the runtime is actually filled with a lot of kitsch. Should be an interesting run.

Damn, this probably means no S3? This was actually throughout enjoyable :(.

Ko-Gil is the shota Fate needed!

Dat damn meat http://b.1339.cf/lsocptz.webm!

The issue with tightening it all up is that there are too many dishes I never get to eat at once (╥﹏╥). Ryou's backstory was a bit of a joke as it was so blazing fast that you have to had known it to get it.

That was cutting it close to super edgy and is Kobayashi one of the worst characters ever??

Alisa is so damn useless, even a random loli is more useful in battle.

Next week: Delays.

A lot of quality this time around :(. Also no new episode next week.

Waiting a week still doesn't make this show any better. Another terrible insert song, boring PTSD drama and a main character that should just die instead of surviving fatal wounds... and those scientist flashbacks after every single episode: terrible.

This looks even more gruesome in real life. I don't think I would ever want to taste crab brain.

I've been lagging behind and watched a bunch of S2 in a short span: Almost every episode has something in it that I dislike but these small "pair" character arcs are still somehow enjoyable.

God, the addition of those saliva drowning scenes are pushing this show into the trash. At least they sort of attempted to reference Ping Pong.

Looks like Ufotable is missing deadlines :o...

Two birds with one stone. Not bad.

I almost forgot how glorious this series is!