Gakusen Toshi Asterisk season 2

Back to back with the first season, I binged through the second one as well.

 

And while not to wild of the first one, this allowed me to scratch of another one from Noshi's list that I didn't watch yet. 

 

It picks up where the first season left, full in the Phoenix Vesta tournament, and as Ayato and Julis defeat their next opponents, maid Flora Klemm shows up in the locker room to meet Julis.  In the next encounter, Ayato is forced past his timelimit of his powers, and seriously battered up as a result, Julis able to save him only just.

 

Ayato unlocks his second seal in his pain, resulting that his power extends to an hour now, defeating their opponent while Saya and Kirin start their semi-final against the robot team of AR-D and RM-C.  They have the upper hand, but then the robots play their trump card, linking up into one powered up machine and defeating the girls.  During the match though, Flora is kidnapped, who demand that Aayato puts a freeze on his Ser Veresta, so he can no longer use the weapon.

 

As a rescue party is formed, Ayato battles without using his special weapon, to give the illusion he has put the lock on it.  Saya and Kirin arrive at the mafia hide-out, while Ayato and Julis face the robotic team in the Vesta finals.  As Flora is rescued, Claudia announces this over the arena's speakers, allowing Ayato to end the ruse and bring out his Ser Veresta, engaging the AR-D merged machine in a duel.  Julis transfers her energy to the weapon, and the big machine is brought down, Ayato and Julis winning the event.

 

They travel to Lieseltania for the winter break where Julis goes to meet her family.  But during the ball that evening, Gustave Malraux asks if Ayato would leave Claudia's team.  When he refuses, he is attacked by a huge Chimera, whom he defeats with his friends.  An old friend of Julis, Ophelia, also turns up, and teams with Gustave against Ayato and Julis.  Claudia arrives to defeat the two chimera's they summoned, and the injured Ayato is brought to hospital.  When he wakes, he learns the history between Julis and Ophelia.  

 

When Gustave attacks the Lieseltanian capital, they raly to hold him off, Kirin capturing him as Ayato finds his comatose sister Haruka, and meets Hilda Jane Rowlands, who offers to heal her by making her a genetically altered fighter, which Ayato refuses.

 

And the series ends there, at the verge of another tournament and a lot of ties still loose.  So in order to know how the story continues, one must go read the light novels, as there hasn't been a third season made so far... 

 

It wasn't bad, just like the first season an enjoyable adventure, but it won't leave a lasting impression though.  Check it out for some laid back entertainment is my advice for this series... and then go hunt for the books to learn it's conclusion!