ASA is what you get if you smash together My Hero Academia, Persona, and The World's Greatest Fantasy Role Playing Game. It uses a calendar system that explores how the students manage their time between studying, building relationships, working on projects, and getting into trouble. The campaign follows their time exactly throughout their studies, culminating in their graduation and attempt at the League Exam.

Players choose classes for their characters from the Course Catalogue, which lines up one-to-one with what their characters are studying in fiction. This makes ASA a game where the growth of your character's abilities becomes entwined with the story instead of developing inexplicably beside it.

Of course the characters go on into dungeons, slay monsters, and get treasure: and not only as part of their mandatory practical adventuring exams! During adventures the mechanics of the game draws heavily from modern fantasy RPGs like Index Card RPG, and the 5000 pound dragon of the industry, featuring a D20 based system, turn-based grid combat, and a system for representing all forms of non-combat challenges as more than simple pass-fail tests.