One Room: Third Season

What kind of things can happen in “One Room”? Right. You can get the “VR” experience of your life without spending hundreds of dollars for a device. There is no doubt that the future will belong to the virtual reality and with the anime "One Room" Studio Zero-G fulfills this dream even for us poor anime fans who are only willing to sell their other half of kidney for their waifu figure.
After the first two seasons, “One Room” is finally back with a third season. The principle is simple, you ARE the MC and see everything from the POV. You see familiar girls again or ... meet new cute girls. Each scene is short (about 4 minutes), but very nicely designed.

STORY&CHARACTER:
You’ll start your journey with the new girl Akira. She is a lovely blonde girl who takes care of the flowers and is therefore a member of the gardening club. Because of her, you decide to join this club and help her with all the work. Regardless of whether it is already late in the evening or even on school holidays, you value the time together with her.

Your little imouto Momohara is back! You definitely want to support her wherever you can. With her great effort she has earned only the very best. It would be nice if she would accompany you through everyday life soon.

With Minori another girl you met before entered our little room. She has already conquered your hearts before and there is nothing that makes you happier than being together forever. Experience all the beautiful things together and have fun, your dream has come true.

With Saya you get to know a cute “onee-chan”. Starting as neighbors only, she got a permanent place in your hearts very quick. Without her, life wouldn’t be that good, she helps you everywhere she can. There is no doubt that you want to make her an integral part of your life. Fortunately, she has the same opinion and you two will become a sweet couple.

With her, your journey into the "One Room" experience began. She is THE girl that you will surely remember the most: Yui Hanasaka. You finally decide to make the next step. You want more that she is just your girlfriend. Life and the good days with her have only just began!

ART:
Everyone who is already familiar with the two previous seasons of "One Room" will directly love the style here as well. The environment is beautiful, the scenes are designed in an interesting way and most importantly: the girls are so lovely and cute!

SOUND:
We see the same scheme as in previous seasons again. Every girl has their unique ending song. The music and lyrics also fit perfectly, it's just great to hear their singing at the end of each short episode.

ENJOYMENT:
As someone who already loved the first season, I was extremely happy when the third season was announced. As a VR fan, I have a lot of fun looking at everything from the POV perspective. There is no question that this series is very special. After the first episode in the first season, everyone knows for themselves whether this is something for them in general already. You cannot except a whole story or plot here but the cute- and happiness is the special magic that makes you happy.
I can only say for myself that I really enjoyed it. To end the third season with the same girl as the whole journey started is just lovely.

I would love to see a fourth season with our current or new girls, both are fine!

I NEED SEASON 4 RIGHT NOW!!!

Story: 10/10
Every arc has a different story and relationship to tell. First arc is senpai-kouhai relationship, the girl is awkward around people because she transfers schools often, but find solace in being in the same club with you. Second arc is imouto, she wants to study in Tokyo, and she also wants to live with you, her onii-chan. Third arc is childhood friend, trying to stop their family business from going down. Fourth arc is an office lady helping you with your studies. Fifth arc is your neighbour.

Art: 10/10
All the girls are so fucking cute.

Sound: 10/10
Voice actresses sound exactly as ... I would imagine someone in real life. Soundtrack is soothing to the ears. Ending is catchy.

Character: 10/10
All the characters, even the ones I'm not into, are full of personality. My favourite has to be the imouto. The way she turns into a tsundere when you refuse to let her live with you is so fucking cute.

Enjoyment: 10/10
I don't really think I need to say more. I have rewatched all the episodes this season multiple times for multiple enjoyment.

Overall: 10/10
I NEED SEASON 4 RIGHT NOW!!!

The first forum post on this season was about how unexpected it was, and people agreed. However, if you read my season 2 review you would have known this to be completely expected and only inevitable. The One Room franchise returns for its 3rd instalment, with zero g remaining at the helm of bringing kantoku's work to life. The franchise could be perceived as being many romantic stories throughout Japan, but given its self insert POV nature, i cannot do this. Thus, at the end of the review I have created the official 100% accurate One Room chronological watch order, based on 0 evidence. Before ... we get there, the new season gave us 5 girls as opposed to the usual 3, lets run through them (spoilers of course):

Kotokawa Akira: The opening arc brings us back in time to our school days, with fellow gardening club member Akira. A blonde girl with an accent, Akira struggles at making friends due to her parents occupations moving them all around the country. The time we share with Akira growing carrots and being stuck in school during a storm together might just lead to a blossoming relationship. Watch to find out ofc

Momohara Natsuki: The lolicons were well happy with this, imouto returns after being absent during the second season. You return to your family home briefly for a catch up with your imouto, who is the same as ever. The episode ends with her discussing the possibility of moving in with you in Tokyo in 1 years time, so mayyybe see you in s4 for that one.

Nanahashi Minori: We are reunited with another previous cast member for a singular ep, Minori and yourself running the hot springs for a day while her father/grandfather are away. another nice little catch up to show that one room doesn't forget its cast.

Orisaki Saya: The second new cast member of this instalment, Saya is introduced as a drunk, lonely office worker who wakes up hungover in your bed. This arc takes place back when we are applying for university, so she offers to tutor us. The arc focuses on her help, but also her two large distractions we cant help but notice. This arc was an eye tracker challenge i'm sure we all failed, but she was fun.

Hanasaka Yui: The face of the franchise, the one that opened its first season and concludes its 3rd. Yui returns and is now working, which shows the time difference between S1 of her applying to uni, and S2 being her uni arc. Our relationship with Yui has come far, with her even banging out some super flirty cards for couples. The season concludes with you and Yui being married, and finally leaving your One Room, the room that has seen so much over these few years, this could truly be the conclusion of the franchise.

You: As per, gotta review our development. We are certainly improving, but still oggling like a madness. With a heightened focus on romancing all the girls this season, as opposed to 1 or 2 in the previous instalments, its safe to say we're a bit of a harem protag. The final ED card of Saya's arc displays this perfectly, as it would appear (spoilers) we Smashed (but considering Yui exists, we dashed too). The final arc shows we have grown into a proper man, a husband and a father. Big up us one last time.

Art- The art remains great, still easily recognisable as a Kantoku work and Zero-g do well to maintain the consistency of the style typhoon graphics and themselves had previously presented, and having consumed every Zero-G anime (bar idolmaster chibi), its safe to say visually this remains one of their best.

Sound- Again, the same remarks i made in the S1 and S2 reviews could be made here, with the ED songs being largely forgettable (even moreso due to 2 of them only appearing once), but the voice acting was great, with the new voices, especially Saya's, being made perfect for their characters and is near unrecognisable to some of the voice actors previous works.

Enjoyment- 10

Overall- The 3rd instalment of the one room franchise remains true to itself, with a more overt and intense focus on romantic developments, while continuing to elicit bonk behaviour and cringe across the globe. But is this the finale? Natsuki appeared to suggest it is not, but the final ep would serves well as the conclusion of the franchise. Should they make another and continue with this current 5 girl format, I could see one arc for imouto 1 year older (perhaps even meeting our wife Yui), 2 eps being allocated for catching up with Moka from S1 and Mashiro from S2, the next 4 going to a new girl at your place of work and obviously rounding off with Yui, focusing on parenthood and work. However should this be it, i have no regrets, and the franchise capped off with an actually good finale. And finally, the watch order :

1 Akira- 2nd/3rd year of highschool
2 Saya- applying for uni, so end of highschool
3- Minori (S2+S3) job while at uni (she's a high schooler so this age is the max before you're self inserting as a nonce)
4- Moka- idk where to put her tbh, but i feel uni age is good
5- Yui (S1)- you're still at uni, helping Yui enter
6- Yui (S2)- You've graduated and work, Yui at uni
7- Imouto (S1+S3)- she visits while you're a working man, you visit her after
8- Yui (S3)- both workers, married
10- Mashiro- Lavish apartment block not the same as before, must be where us and Yui moved to in s3, so this is the last girl.

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