Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

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LuckyTrouble said:

I think you're focused a little too much on genre tags and not enough on what you actually watched. Let me give a brief synopsis below, and you decide which show I'm talking about:

The show takes place at a school for students gifted with skills we would largely classify as magic. At the beginning, the male MC accidentally walks in on a girl changing. It turns out that this girl is a powerful fire user who also happens to be a tsundere. Oh, did I mention she is also a princess? Not content with a simple apology, the firey tsundere insists on violence. The male MC and fiery tsundere end up fighting, where the fiery tsundere is surprised by the skill of the male MC.

Wow, look at that. You can't tell if I'm talking about Calvary or Asterisk, and what I just described was the bulk of the episode for Calvary, and around half the episode for Asterisk. Both have the potential to become harem anime to some degree, so I don't even get the point of bringing that up. Like I said, both are likely to diverge and at least become a little bit unique, but in the end, they will still be largely cookie cutter and will probably remain fairly comparable from the start of the season to the end simply due to the similar characters and setting.

The one area where they will clearly start moving apart is character motivation. In Asterisk, it's shaping up to be some mystery tale of revenge or some such, while Calvary hasn't made it all that clear on what the focus is likely to be for the character beyond "prove I'm not the weakest". It looks like they'll both be playing the tournament angle, so no real surprises are likely to come out of the general plot development.

The one thing Asterisk has on Calvary is that Asterisk had more exposition at first, so they have a slight mystery angle going on, while Calvary is looking to bring people back with character relationships and the show of the MC's power despite being called the weakest. From their 20 minute showings though, it seems highly presumptious to kickback and say that one of them will suck while the other will be a-ok.

What makes alot of the action animes interesting in the first place are supernatural powers like magic so I'm not convinced you can come to sweeping generalizations from that facet or with the school setting either ... 

Oh and what you described was from Asterisk War specifically because it was that heroine who insisted on the mock battle to humiliate the protagonist for peeping on her ... 

Actually, I can't see any potential for Chivalry to become harem going by other sources but it may have a skewed male to female ratio so I highly doubt they'll be comparable towards the end when we start delving into each of their story and events ... 

I'm not saying that Chivalry will suck and that Asterisk will succeed but that there are differences between them ...