Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD

For those expecting more of Season 1 and 2, prepare for disappointment. For those who enjoyed the more light hearted Futari Wa Milky Holmes, I'd say the same. This anime is a sort of compromise between the poorly received FWMH and the original two seasons, and it generally fails on all accounts.

The main girls have been relegated to daily cameos, with their personalities merging into one. Everything that made them individual characters has been forgotten, and they've basically been flanderized. Arsene and the original phantom thieves, and the genius 4 (other than Kokoro) are not in this, and the main character is a new ... face, an idol who also has the same toys. What follows is an incoherent mess that lacks the charm of the original series but brings nothing new either.

I feel like a lot of the original writers left, and what remains cannot remember what made Milky Holmes popular in the first place. The new characters are mostly charmless, and the old ones are different and seem forced.

From what I understand, unlike the general free-form 'anything goes' scripting of the original 2 series, this one was more tightly scripted. Watching it feels less like the seiyuu having fun with their roles, and more like a bad attempt at a magical girl parody.