Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka IV: Shin Shou - Meikyuu-hen

If you're still here by the time you're reading this short and sweet review, there's no need to actually do a recap on the prior seasons, to which if otherwise, please go back and watch the 3 seasons, then come back to this one.

The ever so popular LN that is Fujino Omori's DanMachi that's coming back for its 4th season, and potentially the largest since this was first announced to be a 2-cour series (which later became a split-cour), drives the audience back to Volumes 12 and 13 of the LN (for the 1st half) where the Hestia Familia under Bell Cranel and his gang ... of adventurers from all across various Familias, join forces to tackle the Dungeon's new unknown: the Lower Floors which contain this signature point called the Great Fall, that encapsulates this huge waterfall that's estimated to be 400 meters wide and twice that in length, marking its beginning which lasts from the 25th until the 27th Floor. And this is said to be the most dangerous floors that adventurers must be at least Level 4 before they can explore this side of the Dungeon, or otherwise it's one-hit KOs, and survival is only barely scraped by the least of coincidence and luck.

The only things to note in Season 4 going forward, is that aside from the LN author himself helping to supervise on the pacing of this 2-cour long story, just about the only new character that's introduced so far is yet another Xenos creature: Marie the mermaid, which like Wiene in Season 3, is yet another female that follows Bell Cranel's never-ending "salute" of picking up girls in the dungeon, though her use case isn't really that much known yet aside from falling in love with Bell after saving her from a strong monster. So, take it as you will about the usual DanMachi trope that's already a mainstay from the very beginning.

Regardless, everything that I've mentioned in prior seasons can be taken here with J.C.Staff's already great production, plus the OST, with sajou no hana's OP and Saori Hayami's ED for the 1st half, which all are pretty good. I mean, if you're enjoying DanMachi or vice versa, it's a no-brainer for anyone who is still keeping up with the anime to go ahead and continue the progress.

I whole bunch of nothing happening most of the time, on what was supposed to be the intensivecharacter development ark of this series, with almost everything that happens leaving a feel thatit could have been condensed and fitted into a 90 min movie.

First it starts with a slow and boring recap of how strong their family bounds have become, with not much to be shown, while at the same time using most of the show's time with what i will call BRDs, or just "boring repetitive dialogs", a trend that makes a comeback through this entire season right up until the very end. Then ... it starts the first plot, a prey and predator game that separates the MC from his group with the intentions of developing their independency of each other, showing if they can handle themselves on their owns, what would have worked well if not for the constant BRDs, folowed by the lacklusting fighting choreography, that progressively gets overused, with a problem that i will sum up into basically being flashy fast fights, where you cant follow the characters movements, and understand what's happening, and lacks the proper animation to give the impact and weight needed to match the sound effects being used.

We get now to a pause with some filler content and more BRDs, leading up to the next plot, an incursion to go after an strange assassin, that is more elaborated than the one before, with a very interesting revelation and plot twist at the end, but still have the same problems, with constant BRDs and lackluster fighting scenes. Then it finally leads up to the final plot of this season. A powerful mysterious unstoppable monster that needs to be stopped, but not without first delivering some more BRD, and even though being the final fight scene of the season, it still have the same fighting choreography problems. All of that finally ending up with a cliff hanger for the part 2... Also, every episode of this season ends up with cliff hangers...

Each episode of this season feels simply like pain to watch, with almost nothing is being developed, lots and lots of scenes filled and wasted with completellysskippable content, the fighting that already wasnt exactly that great of a thing, now somehow becoming even worse, and it didnt even ended up in a properly way, i will still need to wait even more just to see what happens in the end.

Without any doubt this was simply one of the worst seasons for this series. But still, i'm anxiously waiting to watch part 2

When this series first started airing I was intrigued. Here was a story that wasn't nothing new in the way of anime stories go, but it was seeming self aware and ready to take strides towards creating a story that had depth, development and importantly plot. It introduced a MC that was cognizant of his inadequacies and created a goal to strive towards.

However now here we are in S4 and everything that S1 started, this season killed.

The MC is still weak minded (But hey don't worry about power up because he's got "God Mode" to help him level up), whiny and incompetent and sorely ... needs saved by humongous amounts of plot armor. They have thrown out the actual plot in lieu of fan service and tom foolery which of course, keeps up with the status quo of the garbage already out there. There is no story line other than the wash, rinse, repeat story line of the weekly big bad.

As far as those mysteries they put out there: Yeah forget that we've got HAREM and BOOBIES.

Seriously, for a series that had such a good solid start, it sure became a dumpster fire in a quick minute. Not surprised, but highly disappointing. Bring out the rest of your dead, then drop them and this one in the funeral pyre because they are all victims of the dying anime industry.