Anime Spotlight - The Asterisk War (2nd season)
by Anthony Foronda,
Key Staff
- General Director: Manabu Ono
- (Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, Saki, The Irregular at Magic High School)
- Original Character Designs: okiura
- (Plastic Memories, Infinite Stratos )
- Music: Rasmus Faber
- (Lagrange – The Flower of Rin-ne)
Story
Invertia--The astral catastrophe that annihilated many cities in the 20th century also gave birth to an all new human race with special abilities called the Genestella (the Star-Pulse Generation). At the same time, the special element (Mana) found within the meteors of Invertia facilitated humanity's technological advancement.
Upon Rikka, the academy-city above water, or what many call the “Asterisk,” students of the six schools prepare for the Festa. These annual comprehensive battle tournaments are held on a worldwide scale and each of the six schools place their hopes in their teams to bring them victory.
In the Phoenix Festa (tag-team battle) category, Seidoukan Academy's Ayato Amagiri takes up the challenge along with his partner Julis, the Witch of the Resplendent Flames (Glühen Rose).
Characters
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AYATO AMAGIRI
VA:Atsushi Tamaru A scholarship student who transferred into Seidoukan Academy High School. Although he's carefree and upstanding by nature, he can also be somewhat boneheaded; a newbie at romance, he's quite clueless. Born to a long line of practitioners of an ancient martial art called the Amagiri Shinmei Style, he's been a student of the style since childhood, and his skills are elite. Although he was born with an extraordinary amount of mana, that power has been sealed. |
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JULIS-ALEXIA VON RIESSFELD
The first classmate Ayato encounters at school. With bright rose-colored hair and blue eyes, she's a princess of a small European country called Riesstania.
Prideful and strong-willed, she has few friends, but at heart she's gentle and
sometimes sweet. As a Strega (magic-wielder), her skills are among the best in Asterisk; able to manipulate flames at will, she's a member of the Seidoukan Academy's Page One (Top Twelve), Rank #5. Also known as the Witch of the Resplendent Flames (Glühen Rose)
VA:Ai Kakuma |
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CLAUDIA ENFIELD
VA:Nao Toyama The president of the student council at Seidoukan Academy. She is the daughter of an executive at the conglomerate that supports Seidoukan Academy. Always with a smile on her face, she's mild-mannered and courteous to all, but underneath it all she has a calculating personality. A member of Seidoukan Academy's Top Twelve (Page Ones), Rank #2. Her alias is the Master of a Thousand Eyes (Parca Morta). |
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SAYA SASAMIYA
A childhood friend of Ayato's, who lived next door to him during grade school.
The daughter of a meteor researcher, she entered Seidoukan Academy hoping to extol the virtues of the Luxes her father built. Though laconic and devoid of expression, it's not as if she has no emotions; she just doesn't show them. She's an expert when it comes to handling guns, but she has little interest in combat, and doesn't take part in any official ranking matches.
VA:Shiori Izawa |
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KIRIN TOUDOU
A first year at Seidoukan Academy Junior High. Born into the founding family of the Toudou Style, which has numerous disciples, she possesses natural-born talent when it comes to sword skills. In fact, she's even better than Ayato,
but she's a timid, withdrawn girl, befitting of her age. She's undefeated in both duels and official matches, and reigns as Seidoukan Academy's Rank #1. Her alias is Lightning Blade Speed.
VA:Ari Ozawa |
Cast
- Ayato Amagiri
- Atsushi Tamaru
- Julis-Alexia von Riessfelt
- Ai Kakuma
- Claudia Enfield
- Nao Toyama
- Saya Sasamiya
- Shiori Izawa
- Kirin Toudou
- Ari Ozawa
- Eishiro Yabuki
- Yuuma Uchida
- Lester MacPhail
- Takanori Hoshino
- Ernesta Kuhne
- Chinatsu Akasaki
- Camilla Pareto
- Mutsumi Tamura
- Irene Urzaiz
- Yumi Uchiyama
- Priscilla Urzaiz
- Juri Nagatsuma
- Dirk Eberwein
- Tomokazu Sugita
Staff
- Original Story
- Yuu Miyazaki ("Gakusen Toshi Asterisk" MF Bunko / KADOKAWA)
- Original Character Design
- okiura
- General Director
- Manabu Ono
- Director
- Kenji Seto
- Character Design & Animation Director
- Tetsuya Kawakami
- Set Design
- Kenichi Morioka
- Color Design
- Aiko Matsuyama
- Art Director
- Yukihiro Watanabe
- Director of Photography
- Yasuhiro Nakanishi
Hiroki Sugiyama - CG Director
- Nao Kudo
- Editor
- Masahiro Goto
- Sound Director
- Satoshi Motoyama
- Music
- Rasmus Faber
- Music Production
- FlyingDog
- Produced by
- A-1 Pictures
- OP Theme
- Shiena Nishizawa
- ED Theme
- Maaya Sakamoto
ⓒ2015 Yuu Miyazaki, PUBLISHED BY KADOKAWA CORPORATION / Asterisk Project
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