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Komi is a show with a lot of great ideas and a lot of really bad ones:

Story(6)
At its heart, this is a gag comedy, and while watching it, I wish it wasn't. The show I would say consists of 90% comedy and 10% romance, with the comedy being okay at first, but then annoyingly repetitive or infuriatingly obnoxious(anything with Yamai).
But when the romance does rear it's head every now and then, I think it is really, really nice until it is abruptly cut off by one of the side characters.
In summary, I wish the story was more... well... storylike than comic strip.

Art(8)
Animation and artwork ... in the first few episodes are pretty fantastic, dipping a bit as the show goes on but still keeps an overall great quality.
Background art is actually a bit unremarkable being quite plain and simple but its nothing to be too upset over.
I like the character designs for the most part, being very expressive especially through the eyes and all the different body types are great too, and who can complain about komi's mom's design, or komi's mom with long hair.

Sound(7)
I dont have much to say here. I do like how much silence is used whenever komi is involved, but for such an acclaimed manga based on someone who doesnt talk, I feel like it could have gone a lot further with sound design.

Characters(5)
Characters I like:
Komi: She's cute, acts adorably, but god everyone needs to chill tf out about her.
Tadano: Generic MC but with some funny backstory details that make him way more likeable.
Najimi: A convenient writing tool being Komi's foil, but still a likeable character since there so bubbly and friendly. I also like the more or less straight faced Trans rep that gets more generally accepted among the cast as the show goes on. I feel like theres a lot more to her character than what we're shown.

Characters I don't like:
Yamai: I loathe this thing, I loathe this type of thing. Her voice is the most obnoxious voice I've heard in a while and her personality is just plain gross. Take the worst element of the show: Everyones obession with Komi, and multiply it hundred-fold, and you have her. "But, thats the point of her character", ah yes, here's a plate of poo, but its a plate of poo! Yes sir, that is the point.
Enough about her, One problems I feel with all the characters is that they exist in service of Komi in this weird way where, You might like this one character like Agari with her introvertedness and all, but no, she's actually a raging masochist, "how dare you think she is in any way comparable to Komi!" Essentially every other character exists to make Komi look good while being some form of ugly degenerate themselves which is just a little dissapointing.

This show is good as a weekly watch as if I were to watch in one sitting I'd have quit by ep 4, but watching it sparingly, it is a nice melt into the couch show that doesnt demand much from you. I do wish it was more of a romance though.

So... Gou happened and we're half through sotsu and only now we're back to the same point from which the halfway point happened in gou. It's very rare to talk about a show thats pacing is obliteratingly slow.

I have to praise studio passione on the utter balls they have. They managed to stretch the content as thin as possible and make 39 epsiodes out of 12 episodes worth of animation.

The art style is still really unfitting (and not in a "Subversive" way), though it does have a scene here and there where they actually try something interesting. But for the most part, it is literally ... the exact same as the previous season.

Sound is like the previous, not too bad, except i hate having to listen to satoko so much, and oishii for the most part i'm not a fan but I have to commend the performance in his "big moment". OP sucks again as it comes off as a generic action horror song and I don't really care for the ED.

For characters I'm just gonna talk about satoko and some of her victims briefly. Satoko is just annoying, like... I get it... she's evil... you dont have to spend half this season explaining every detail of what she did... just show us the oishii one and we get it. The victims of the curse I feel were to quick to be paranoid, like it would be a much better idea, if it went more in depth on there descent into madness rather than just satoko poppin them and going crazy pretty much instantly.

The reason I keep watching is mostly because of morbid fascination with how they'll rope the other ryukishi series into this and how it will drive sales from crackpot newtypes who still think this story is deep rather than just being "dang, these kids are psychos"

I'm a mega fan of Log Horizon as a whole, so this season has me a little on the worried side of things.

Story(6): This seasons stories start out extremely bad with an election arc. It is extremely boring with too many straight dialog while sitting around tables scenes. So many characters were under utilized in this arc. I'd almost suggest anyone to skip this arc(ep 1-5)
Next arc was pretty OK, but its told in a diminshing kind of way. but it has a little more intrigue in it at least.
The last arc is the best of the season as we get to see a ... good few developments in the existing cast and also that ending was pretty great, showing that LH handles romance better than most romance shows.

Art(8): This season has a similar artstyle to season 2 (same studio too) but its animation is pretty poor in comparison to the rest of the series. I loved the various character designs and outfits characters had this season which is par for the course in LH. LH has always had great setting and background designs too but this does score a little lower than previous seasons in that regard.

Sound(5): LH has had fantastic music for the first 2 seasons which is why this seasons music is so dissapointing. The newer music pieces sound out of place a lot of the time and im pretty sure they dont follow the main theme at all. They almost sound like stock music used in crappy F2P mobile MMO's.
Voice acting was pretty good throughout. though i wasn't really floored by any of the performances, Minori and Akatsukis VA's have definitely improved since S2.
Regans voice actor was changed and its not great imo. R.I.P. Keiji Fujiwara, you were fantastic!

Character(10): I am very biased in this area just because I like LH so much, I can't help but love all of the LH characters and they continue to be delightful to watch in this season.

Overall(7): This season could have done with a second cour like other seasons. All of the arcs feel kind of disconnected from each other unlike other seasons where they did a great job of weaving everything together within the season. I do hope we continue to get more seasons just because I love LH so much and want to see the whole thing animated but I'm a little fearful for that going forward.

This "3rd season" per se, is a long shot from its previous entries. My main concerns is its presentation although the story does have its problem in comparison to the original too.

Story(6)
More or less covering the same arcs as in the first season almost verbatim but with slight changes here or there. Maybe a different character does a thing slightly differently for the fanbase to theorize obsessivley over as to what it means, but so far, only the ending to each arc changes where a different character does the killing. I've seen people say "its good for both newcomers and OG viewers" but at most ... I would think new viewers will think the story is fine while OG viewers will be bored by the same story and off put by the visual/audio presentation. The OG had amazing direction that allowed the story to be told through visuals, but gou always either comes off as too flat or too tacky with its direction. Somewhat of an uncanny valley area where they didn't commit enough to the intensity so as to just look awkward.

Art(3)
FLAT. Artwork is too bright and makes everything look really flat. Hinamizawa has never looked more boring and the character designs are a mixed bag of mostly really bad, to a few characters who dont look half bad in this style(lookin at you Chie). Keicchi's design drives me insane. He looks way too babyish and his jacket is shit, I miss assault jacket keicchi... I think the arts biggest problem is that its just too clean. Clean artwork in most cases means animators take next to no risks trying to do something interesting and just try to make a servicable product, which this comes off as, a product. say what you want about even the first season, there was a lot of visual stylistic flourishes in those 2 seasons that made them the cult classics they are today unlike gou which will definitely deminish the shows rep imo.

Sound(4)
Voices are wierdly obnoxious in this. even though its the same voice actors(JAP), they are way too shouty for a lot of it(mainly keicchi). Also the characters quirks through dialog like rikas nipahs or satokos laugh are abused to hell and back as if to say that is the entirety of their character Renas voice is probably the standout performance. she does a solid job and still feels like Rena.
The ost isnt noteworthy, like the OG i guess, but the OP and ED are letdowns being kind of generic "horror/thriller" anime songs but some may like it. The first 2 OPS and the 2nd ED of the OG series are all legendary imo.

Characters(3)
I feel like the characters personalities are all stripped down signicantly in gou. Keicchi seems like a purely reactive character who can't do anything unless someone tells him to, taking away the moments where people recognise him as K is a diservice to my boi. He really is the character that gets the worst treatment in all of gou. All the other characters have there most obvious quirks inflated and abused, take Shion for example. She has serious anger issues in this and is constantly flipping her shit at any moments notice, while in OG, she would get pissed but her personality would actually fluctuate like a normal human being rather that just going from blissfully happy to batshit angry the next moment. Most side characters are insanely flat and one-note.
Also fuck that cat mouth thing they keep doing with all the characters, it is hideous as fuck and only serves to distract at every moment.

Overall, Gou is kind of a pointless entry as far as a I see it, a merchandising cash cow even, shoving as many recognisable elements from the orginal with reckless abandon just to make us go "duh, I remember that, duh, I cant wait to get that Rika in a septic tank figurine". As far as Im concerned, Higurashi finished with the OVA's after the second season. If they wanted this to be a continuation, they should have maybe written one or two completely new scenarios for the characters seeing as they can be endless with Rikas whole situation.

*MINOR SPOILERS*
BNA has next no patience when it comes to telling its story, I feel like so many details are skipped over and the show zips from scene to scene without regard for sensical transitions.

The show seems to have similar episodic story telling to kill la kill while being a bit looser with the structure, it seems more interested in just showing "cool" scenes rather than moving the story forward a lot of the time, which I feel it should be doing the latter.

Art-wise the show is phenomenal with a gorgeous colour palette that can shift the tone of any given scene pretty seemlessly, it's ... trigger with somewhat bolder colours, think kiznaiver but a bit messier. Fight scenes are good, but not as high standard as triggers other works.

The character designs are varied but overall an absolute treat to the eye, with pretty great personalities along with pretty great voice actors although I can definitely hear Jiraiya from Naruto with the rhino guy. One problem with the character moments though is how hamfisted they are, we don't really get much time to be comfortable with a lot of characters and everything just happens too fast for me to really care about what is going on...

On that note, the pacing is pretty horrendous. Story beats happen too fast and any emotional payoffs in the story are squandered with the ADHD feeling production.

The biggest downfall though is the editing. From what I recall, there seemed to be no filter between scenes, one second michiru is talking to a mob boss, next second she's teaching kids and the next they are being shipped off in containers, I swear this is almost how this part of the show plays out just cutting directly to each part without any buildup to it, and it definitely doesn't feel intentional.

A lot of people will compare it to Beastars because "animal people" I guess, but Beastars is so much better constructed, written and thought out with its setting and society, while this show just plays the whole "humans are dumb and ignorant and evil" and act those ways relentlessly. I'm mainly referring to the dolphin girl episode where the humans just lock her in a (fish tank? idk) and she is clearly drowning to death, the girl who put her in there is just like "I thought she could use some water" while still not observing that the dolphin girl is pleading for her life, just writing about this made me bump down the score for the show.

Unfortunately, this feels too much like a "seasonal" show where you'll forget about it at the end of the season, and that would be fine for some shows, but this feels like it should be something so much more, along the lines of Kill la Kill or Gurren Lagann but it seems to be more of an artistic exercise for Trigger staff rather than a full project.

Luck and logic to me, is one of those series that knows what it wants to be, in that it is not supposed to be all that groundbreaking in any sense. Its a nice small show that is heavily cliched, with entertaining action and extremely easy to follow plot/story...
SPEAKING OF...!

Story (7)
There's not much to go on about here. Good guys defend the city from bad guys that come through these gates from hell or something like that, sprinkle all of this with personal dramatic character plots (each character gets an episode) and top it off with the biggest bad they have to fight at the ... end. Like i said, easy to grasp.

Art(6)
The art in general is standard fair, though there is quite a heavy use of 3D for the action scenes of which some might find jarring, it is kind of strange seeing the characters so still in 2D and then very kind rubbery ragdoll movement with 3D.
There are some 2D scenes where you can see that the animators screwed up, like one scene at the end of episode 3 i think, it looked like the game was having server issues, but then i realized that this wasn't a game, it was an anime.
The character designs were nice, all of the transformations were pretty neat which nicely fitted each of there personalities.
Some of the action scenes can seem rather lazy though, with the typical "character performs attack shot" and then switches to "character getting hit shot".

Sound(8)
Personally, I quite like the BGM, I might even hunt it down somewhere soon. Its mostly the action scene BGM I like with its sci-fi orchestralish sound. I really like the OP too, it kept me from skipping it every episode, The ED however is not to my taste.

Character(6)
The characters are not very interesting, they are very cliched and i will list the main team of them here.
Yoshichika tsurugi - The main character of the series and... well... thats it... he IS a main character. uses a shield as his weapon (tank).
Tamaki Yurine - The intelligent leader type girl, uses a controlled ribbon thing and a wand as a weapon and also heals (healer)
Chloe Maxwell - The energetic arrogant girl, uses a flaming broadsword and often charges into battle without second thought (DPS)
Mana Asuha - The quiet mysterious girl with a troubled past, uses guns, mainly a sniper, and also sneaks around by turning invisible n stealthy n stuff. (support/ranger)
The characters are all teamed up with goddesses that combine with them to transform, but these goddesses are the most disappointing characters in this series since there nearly completely shoved aside and we learn next to nothing about them. I'd say i wouldn't even notice if they were removed from the series altogether.

Enjoyment(8)
For what it is, I really enjoyed this series, it was something i could sit down and watch without getting so invested that it would consume my life. Its a cliched "save the world show" and it knows well. As a finished series, i would recommend this to anyone who's got nothing else to do and just wants a quick anime fix rather than re-watching a presumably better series.