Zero no Tsukaima F

So.... The 4th season of Zero no Tsukaima, and let me tell you why I scored this so poorly.

All through out the whole series Louise has not changed in any aspect what so ever. She still goes on with the same routine, "oh I'm going to trust Saito from now on" and ends up frying his ass at least once in each episode.
This season would have been some what bearable if Louise had some character development, but unfortunately that is not the case.
This also goes for the other characters as well, almost NOBODY has really developed through the series. Because of this each ... episode is just the same thing over and over again, and to be honest I'm sick and tired of it.

This is my first review, so lets start n_n
Zero no Tsukaima F, maybe the worst season of the ZNT series, plus non of al the Zero no tsukaima seasons were never such a masterpiece, but this season, oh, this!... i never expected such piece of... poop. By the way, let's start by sections.

-Character: The same thing as the other season~ "Saito-Kun i love you", 2 second later "Saito-Kun you stupid dog! EXPLOXION KJSJBHJKFDS!" is really annoying and people get tired of the same thing, sometimes i wish that Louise would be less dumb and pick another one to, at least, make Saito jealous. Also, some ... of the enemies that are in te OP, they just appear in 3 chapters and they piss me off, they don't do Nothing!they just stand there because yes. The same with others. I think the only extras who did something in the anime were Tiffa and Siesta... But just in an echii way. Characters doesn't exist in this anime: 2

-Art & Animation: I really like the art, i've seen better, but is still something that makes it special, but the problem in this anime is the animation. Sometimes it get's really lazy, maybe animations were made with sony vegas (ba dum tss): 7

-Story: Is nothing new, i've already seen Saito dissapear and then appear again in the previous seasons, a lot of boobs and and the Saito-lovers and blah blah... Really tedious, at least the fight scenes were enough enjoyable to make me put interest in the anime: 3

-Sound: Nothing special, is not bad, actually is good, but is really forgettable: 6

And finally:
-Enjoyment: Did i enojoy the anime? no, is as simple as that, no, i didn't enjoy it. The scenes who were comedy" it was just a box about to explode of fanservice. In all the anime i just laughed at 1 scene. the fight scenes were really ok, if those scenes weren't tedious i would enjoy it more.

-Final Result: the anime is like this: First 8 episodes are fanservice-explosion-conflict-more fanservice- drama-conflict resolved-Fanservice-explosion That's all, the rest of the episodes are just drama-saito's gone-drama-saito's back- conflict resolved- fanservice again. Just like the Third season. It was a waste of time? Mmmmm... let's say yes: 3/10

Zero no Tsukaima F.
The Familiar of Zero F.




I actually had realistic hopes for the final season. Especially since the first 2 episodes were reasonably solid despite the fan service. But this season managed to teach me otherwise.

My conclusion is now as follows. It's a perfect example of descending quality that was pretty weak in the beginning anyway. Season 1 was clearly the best here and it has lost more and more. I can't decide whether season 3 or 4 can now symbolize the worst of the series.

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The course of this season was a little different. Compared to the others, this season has had a solid first 2 episodes, whereas it got worse and worse until the end. The closing episodes of this season were therefore also the worst. Whereby it was exactly the other way around with the other seasons.

Besides that, I think it's impressive that this season has managed to make the others seem completely irrelevant. By 1. The antagonist "King Joseph" received a completely irrelevant conclusion and almost looked like a side character. And 2. the implementation of the prophecy regarding the "magician of the void" has been an abysmal joke. I wont go into Detail here, but it was just waste of ressources.

Spoiler !
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Story episodes - fan service - even more fan service> a minor event -> you suddenly see Tiffa's nipples ( the anime suddenly need it? -> final boss spawns completely without context and meaningless -> finale begins -> a plot Armor after the other> end.
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To be honest, I found it impressive and sad at the same time how massive the last episode was and the main thing was that something was brought to the table. They didn't even bother to explain anything and practically had the characters say "I don't know how and why, but the main thing is that it worked" - very aptly, honestly, that's how I felt for 4 seasons.
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This is just some amazing level. Only few Anime can be this pointless after all.



Story

You will certainly remember King Joseph, who was involved in all events between seasons 1-3. And also of the prophecy of the magicians of the void. Well nothing was made of it. Not only that Joseph had a completely irrelevant finale, which made all his previous actions appear like filler episodes. No, the prophecy was a bad joke too. Likewise the final fight and the conclusion. To be honest, I can hardly say anything about this, I lack words to describe it.

I don't know if the novel / manga had a different flow and was changed by the studio, but I really hope so.


Animation / images

No significant or positive changes, remained the same level as with the predecessors. Apart from the fact that the first episode had a slightly improved animation style. With Tiffa's breasts, however, they have cut their budget unprecedented.

Characters

In the whole season there was one scene that actually made me proud. It was Louis's decision and mindset regarding Episode 11 and its plot. Completely understandable and I like the way she acted. It was by far her greatest highlight.

Otherwise nothing has changed. The characters remained monotonous. There were still characters that I personally found likeable. Like Guiche, Kirche and ... even Tiffa, as long as she wasn't abused for her hardcore fan service again. Unfortunately, the character jokes remained enormously monotonous and offered no variety. The same thing was chewed on over and over again, just as in dialogues.

At least 20x the same relationship problems between Saito and Louise with no real results. Saito makes out with other women, Louise gets angry, Saito gets angry (expresses amusing comedy scene irony) and follows the relationship crash.

The new characters that you also see in the intro were completely irrelevant. By the end, they raised more questions than they could answer.

Music

To be honest, I find it a bit disappointing that the fairly solid Osts from Seasons 1 and 2 have so rarely been reused. One has often inserted into the alleged main scenes, quite monotonous East, which the scenes could hardly underline. Then I should have played the intro song more often as they did in episode 12, would have had at least influenced the atmosphere a little more positively. As a kind of puzzle / minigame theme that is inserted into character deaths.

Conclusion


You can look at this title, but you shouldn't have any expectations. Let alone, if you didn't like the first season, you should generally keep your hands off it.

Had this work landed in more capable hands, one could have created a very worth seeing anime from the setting and the plot.