Wait, it’s over?!

At time of writing, I thought so, since the main plot seemed to be done, but you made me check and apparently not? 3 volumes left apparently, but from what I can gather, I’m not sure there’s a ‘greater’ followup. Who knows if that’ll get adapted though. It really looked like they wanted to finish up here.

The later ones were alright but S 5 sucked ass

I think S5 was better than 3 and 4. 3 and 4 were a snorefest without Kurumi and 3 was rushing like mad. S5 finally properly followed up on what was established in S1 instead of just repeating the same old date a spirit formula.

Well, this won’t stop me from stockpiling Kurumi merch

Same

This ‘test’ for Kafka was kinda dumb. He clearly didn’t want to fight, but the director forced and provoked him to by trying to kill him and the director’s immediately like ‘guess he’s an animal after all’ once Kafka’s fighting back. Like, no shit Kafka’s fighting back and lost control. What’d you expect? For him to just sit back and let you take his life? Even if Kafka was still in full control of his Kaiju side, his behaviour would still make sense.

Enjoyable anime, but, for me, doesn’t really stand out among many other battle shounen. It’s fine. Kafka being an adult was nice, but he may as well have been a teenager imo. The OP song was fine, but the ED was awful. Bog standard western pop that didn’t fit the show at all imo.

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Wild to think that it’s over after so long. This series wasn’t always good (particularly season 3 and 4), but this was an alright final season.

I feel like some interesting concepts haven’t been fully explored and loose ends not being fully tied up. For example, the invertion of the Spirits kinda ended up being a nothingburger, same with Tohka being a Pure Spirit.

Kurumi’s goal was kinda left out at the end and we weren’t really shown a proper conclusion for it imo. Sure, Mio died, but not as an act of revenge. I would’ve liked to see Kurumi coming to terms with it all. Seeing Kurumi at the end though, enjoying the presence of cats was cute.

Same with Artemisia. Supposedly brainwashed, but that was all. No further info on what happened afterwards with her.

I also would’ve liked to see what happened to the world now that, assumedly, Spirits are no longer a problem.

The whole Isaac Westcott thing was a little bit meh as well. He was more of a nuisance getting in the way of the actually interesting stuff than a good additional villain.

While this season was okay at best, there were a lot of interesting and good ideas here, even if, imo, they didn’t come to fruition properly. Unlike season 3 and 4, this season remained competent when Kurumi wasn’t directly involved. The OST also still is one of the best things about this anime. Some really solid themes with great arrangements with an awesome throwback to the 1st season’s OP at the end. The OP and ED were amazing too, despite being a little spoilery at first. There were some great heartfelt moments this season as well.

I don’t think I can give this season more than a 6.5/10, but the anime as a whole would probably be a 7.5/10 (which may or may not be skewed by nostalgia for season 1 and 2).

Haha, not how I thought people were going to think of me. But yeah, it’s not good. Efforts are getting wasted into a 2nd season. I’d be lying if I said that I’m not a little curious about how they’re gonna try to recover though (assuming they are at least trying)

Lmao, they really just retconned the entire anime. What even was the point? If you’re gonna do this, at least make the previous stuff worthwhile. It’s not like what we’ve seen this season will inform much of the newly announced 2nd season, since they skipped everything important.

This anime was bad. Really bad

This season was alright. I don’t think it was the same quality as the previous seasons.

Good anime, meh ending. I would’ve liked to see more of Kano’s rekindling with her mum and Mero, especially her mum.

Damn, glad to see Kumiko having the guts to do the audition blind, despite knowing that she’d probably win if it wasn’t. It’s sad that Kumiko didn’t win, but it is what it is. Poor Kanade as well…

I actually preferred Kumiko’s blind audition. Imo, it had more feel to it, which tbf, might not necessarily be desired in a competition like this.

Whyyy though. Why does this get a new season immediately but way better anime don’t?

The new season is pretty good relative to the OG, but nothing can match the OP and ED music of the original.

Agreed, especially the OP. The new one can’t match the old OST either for me. Kevin writes some gorgeous stuff, but the old one fit better imo.

That prince was one-dimensional for an OP. His haranguing the witch got old quick.

That’s the least bad thing about the show imo haha, but yes.

Not everything is finished yet, but:

• Astro Note: really fun and good vibes with a retro feeling style.
• Konosuba S3: still one of the best comedies, even so much time later. Kazuma and party are still such a breath of fresh air.
• Hibike Euphonium S3: really good. A shame that there isn’t much playing shown, but the character drama is sooo good.
• Jellyfish cant swim: pretty good. Nice and heartfelt.
• Spice & Wolf remake: I think I might prefer the original, but this one’s good too. I like the slight change in her voice and personality.
• Mysterious Disappearances: I like this a lot. It’s nothing special, but it just clicks with me.
• Delicious in Dungeon: good fun and gripping when it got serious.
• Yuru Camp: cute, but imo it’s a step down from previous seasons. Just doesn’t feel as comfy for me.
• Gods Games We Play: dropped after 5 eps. It was really boring.
• Kaiju No.8: it’s fine. A lot of similarities with AoT, but not as good so far. Pretty standard battle shounen imo. Kafka may as well be a teenager. ED sucks ass.
• Many Sides of VA Radio: I like this one. The 2 mains are fun together.
• Date A Live V: it’s fine. I like the premise and ideas a lot, but it executed pretty meh. At least this season is better than the previous 2 and is still fine when Kurumi is not in the ep. Music is still fire though.
• Unnamed Memory: bad. Just bad. Started fine, then took a nosedive real hard halfway through, making it clear that the 1st half wasn’t actually fine and that they skipped everything important.
• Chillin’ In Another World Lvl 2: good fun. Rys is fun.
• An Archdemon’s Dilemma: good fun as well. Would like to see more.

The season itself was fine overall. No large standout like last season with Frieren and Apothecary Diaries.

Might still pickup:

• Wind breaker
• Girls Band Cry (if I can find proper subs)…
• Train to the end of the world

Ended up watching it after all… This episode once again makes it clear that this anime skipped a fuckton. Everything important happened offscreen and stuff didn’t make sense because there was no setup. It’s like this anime is produced by shippers who only care about seeing the ship sail.

How nice of Leonora to give the missing princess a fortress with servants and luxury. She didn’t seem all too distressed at all. She was also found pretty much immediately.

Also, what was up with that amber castle thing? Previous ep it was said Leonora was the one who encased it in amber, but why does it make her more powerful?

Damn, it really has been that long ago huh.

Can’t believe it’s already over. It’s just so good.

Started watching lvl 2 super cheat powers. Pretty fun, though I can’t unhear Kiana from Honkai Impact when I hear Rys.

I agree with Kanade. Even if she’s not doing it on purpose, Mayu’s constant “I’ll forfeit the soli”, is quite insulting. She seems to think Kumiko will not surpass her and she absolves herself of responsibility of actually forfeiting by putting the ball in Kumiko’s court. Almost like Mayu’s baiting Kumiko.

Also, it was great to see their previous senpais again. Nicely dressed up too. Yoroizuka playing the piece that caused her so much trauma in previous seasons was great to see as well.

I’m curious what Kumiko will end up doing for after high school. I’m not quite sure I understand why she doesn’t want to do music, but it’s fair enough. You can also do music outside of school of course.

The manga has a lot of trashy moments, but a lot of heartfelt moments too. I quite like the manga.

Finally the secret’s out. I would’ve liked it earlier though. Kinda felt like they were stretching it out as much as they could. Good episode.

Though I still dislike the ED with a passion.

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