2015 futuristic fantasy, 13 episodes, sequel to 2012's K:
AniDB.
The Kings, magical masters who can also empower their clansmen, come
together for a final battle.
It's a pretty strange setting, this one. The baseline is a shiny
future with robots and automatic fines for littering, but the magic
powers are pure fantasy battle stuff, down to the symbol/totem of each
king being a giant floating sword. The world is much less important
here than in the original K, because this one's mostly about
extremely kinetic swordfights.
Which is not bad if that's your thing. There's a certain amount of
male bonding, and lots of philosophising over the proper use of the
Dresden Slate, the huge lump of magical stone which is the root of all
these powers, but mostly the plot is an excuse for the fights.
The plot deals with the arrival of a new king, who's doing the AR-MMO
game thing to have lots of very low-level minions, with no powers of
their own, who borrow tiny amounts of power and then compete against
each other to complete missions, gain rank and potentially get the big
power boosts. This whole "social game used to get lots of unwitting
stooges" thing is starting to feel clichéd already; I'm glad I got my
own use of it in when I did, in 2013.
The characters are pretty in the extreme, though there's more
fanservice than in the first part: two of the three female characters
with any screen time have large bouncing breasts, and camera angles
are chosen to emphasis these and their backsides. (The other one's a
gothic loli.) One of them was naked through most of the first series,
and even then she didn't feel this sexualised! Backgrounds, once we
get away from the city, tend to the repetitive: yes, it's a very
detailed corridor, but it stretches away into the distance with the
exact same details again and again.
This does finish the story, which makes a pleasant change these days,
but K was frankly better made, and that wasn't brilliant. Overall, I
can't really recommend that you seek this out, but it's not
objectionable if you want video wallpaper or detailed fights.
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