Is Gakusen Toshi Asterisk good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Gakusen Toshi Asterisk (The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water) is a TV series from Fall 2015 by A-1 Pictures Inc.: 12 episodes, about 4.6 hours in total, finished, 6.9/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 4.6 hours for the run, 6 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 12
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2015
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures Inc.
- Score
- 6.9/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, robots & AI, light-novel adaptation, comedy, ecchi, fantasy, harem, magic, romance, school, sci-fi, seinen, superpowers, supernatural, swordplay, tournament, urban fantasy, vampire, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Academy Battle City Asterisk; The Asterisk War; Asterisk War.
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More like this: action · robots & AI · light-novel adaptation · comedy · fantasy · harem · magic · romance · school · sci-fi · seinen · superpowers · supernatural · swordplay · tournament · urban fantasy · vampire · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Gakusen Toshi Asterisk?
- About 4.6 hours for all 12 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Gakusen Toshi Asterisk have?
- 12 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Gakusen Toshi Asterisk finished?
- Yes, Gakusen Toshi Asterisk is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Gakusen Toshi Asterisk good for a group?
- Yes. Gakusen Toshi Asterisk is tagged action, comedy, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Gakusen Toshi Asterisk listed?
- Gakusen Toshi Asterisk is on AniList (id 21131) and MyAnimeList (id 30544); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists