Asterisk ep 4 - I had to force myself to finish the episode--which was okay, because the last 2 minutes was the only interesting part. It started out well enough, and I thought maybe the Princess and the other guy could show off a bit, but part of me was going, "please don't let the main character appear at the last minute and destroy the enemy with ease." Heh. And he did it while carrying the Princess with one arm. When he dropped the whole, "my purpose is to protect you," speech, I wanted to shoot him in the head. Again, thank cats for Claudia. I came extremely close to just dropping the whole series halfway through the episode but Claudia pulled me back for now.
Calvary (Magical Student Pokemon) - Alice is a very interesting character and his dialogue in this showed good writing. The degree of fan service was out of place but there was good pacing and a nice level of suspense early. The actual battle was silly, though. Those arrows were weak as hell. How did they not do any damage at all? Why did he punch himself? For the pain? He'd been hit with 352 arrows already. Eh? Besides that, the whole system seems pretty sick, with murder being fully sanctioned. At least there was true and honest relationship development, which you almost never see in action anime. Up and down episode.
Asterisk 0 --- Calvary 1
Easy win for Calvary, though mostly because Asterisk was particularly bad.
