Some Quick First Impressions: K Return of Kings, Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry and Gakusen Toshi Asterisk

K Return of Kings

Short Synopsis: Gangs are fighting each other and something, something, video game, something.

The best word to describe this is obnoxious. The story is pretty incomprehensible and the anime isn’t making any effort to explain itself. I watched the previous season of K but maybe that movie had some vital information that would help me understand just what everyone is talking about. From what I can gather this green king is hiring lackeys through some video game and making them annoy the blue and red kings so the silver king would get drawn out. And believe me it was hard to get that from the amount of utterly useless dialogue that seems to be not saying very much. What also doesn’t help is the giant fight scene at the start that lasted 8 minutes was in fact a flashback which is never addressed as such. GoHands here’s a tip, a fight scene without context is nothing more than white noise. No matter how much good animation is in it, or at least there might have been good animation underneath the lens flares, horrible Photorealistic CGI backgrounds and that blue hue overlay that you place over everything that makes all the colours washed out and annoys the hell out of me. Forgive me if I sound angry but that blue hue truly ruined the episode for me, nearly in every single shot, sometimes so overpowering that it’s like watching anime through a blue stained window. It’s just horrible. There’s the Highschool of the Dead level of fanservice with that big breasted blond girl that is just downright insulting. I make no joke when I say that this womans breasts and ass had more screen time than her face. So to summarize, story is impenetrable as well as insufferably smug about itself, visuals are horrible and fanservice is just too blatant. Not recommended.

Potential: 0%

Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry

Short Synopsis. A clearly mentally unstable girl challenges a boy to a fight after he sees her naked.

Attention female anime characters, I wish to let you know of a truly powerful and useful device that we of the modern world make use of everyday. Now it’s function may surprise you but with the right training even you can be a master of it. And this glorious and revolutionary tool is…a door lock. Trying using it before you start changing. Mind blowing, I know. Though if your choice of underwear is that risqué I would wonder if you actually want to be seen. There’s not much to say here. Boy meets girl, boy sees girl naked, girl attempts to kill boy, is beat, falls in love with him and in a hypocritical turn of events molests him in his sleep. It’s at least pretty watchable though the animation isn’t anything noteworthy. Seeing as its Silver link who made some rather impressive fight animation for the Prisma Illya series, I was expecting something a little more exciting. If you are looking for a pretty standard show that wont require much brain cells then this is the one for you.

Potential: 20%

Gakusen Toshi Asterisk

Short Synopsis: A clearly mentally unstable girl challenges a boy to a fight after he sees…whoa. Déjà vu.

Rakudai and this do start off exactly the same but to give Rakudai some credit, at least it’s trying. Asterisk just feels lazy in all regards, so much so that almost every line of dialogue is a variation of a line from a similar show. The setting just seems ridiculous. For what possible benefit would there be to build six schools right beside each other? I mean it it was branch’s of the same school that would make more sense but the anime points out that they are indeed six separate schools. This is as by the numbers as it gets, generic to a T. If it was the only standard light novel show this season I would say it would scratch someone’s itch but there’s the better alternative Rakudai for that. This anime just seems pointless.

Potential: 0%