Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan: Ψ-shidou-hen

Pretty unnecessary season with 5 episodes being filler and anachronistic. 6th Episode is all that's relevant, but also kind of unneeded.
Felt like usual low effort Netflix work. More of an epilogue season like Pokemon Mezase. To be more specific, its essentially like six totally different OVAs broadcasted as a season.

Season 2 had a well done ending, keeping things vague. There was no reason to explore it further, that too for a basic 15mins reason as shown in episode 6. Rest all the the episode/shorts were predictable and formulaic, well too much to make it entertaining after the long experience.

Most of the recurring characters were barely ... existent, not more than 10mins. Worse yet another transfer student with a quirk was added amidst all things. It was not suited for an epilogue of a story with all major adventures over and done with prior.

I get this is adapting from the manga but like not everything needs to adapted. Kaguya sama skipped a bunch of chapters to keep the initial episodes engaging. Ultimately this one was a borefest. If you just want to pass the time and casually see an episode after work or school, you may not feel as antagonistic to this season as I am.

This is only for this season of Saiki K!

I LOVE the original three seasons. I rated them 9/10's. However, this one was not the same for several reasons. The first being that the entire english cast is different from the original. Second the episodes were not as well written. Lastly there was only six episodes for the entire series. If we had at least twelve I think my scores would of increased. I was very excited for this to come back but it just wasn't the same. Very disappointed.

I will ... say that the new characters they introduced made the series watchable.

I watched the original Saiki K. directly prior to watching this. According to MAL there was also a 24 ep season that I couldn't find, plus another one-off episode that I also couldn't find that aired between this and the original, so the transition between the two was a little jarring. To be blunt, I wasn't a huge fan of the original Saiki K.; for me it was very hit or miss as whether or not an episode was funny. There were a few that had me laughing the majority of the episode, but there were also quite a few were I sat staring straight-faced ... at the screen for the entire episode. This season was more of the latter; quite genuinely, I believed I laughed twice during these 6 episodes, and in both instances I would have to honestly say that said "laugh" was more of a light snicker than an actual laugh.

Story: 1, basically all the episodes are just jumbled together scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The original Saiki K.'s story was nothing to write home about, but this was just sad. Even as standalone pieces, each of the 4-5 plots they'd go through in a single episode were simply overly predictable garbage, there's really no sugar coating it.

Art: 7, Solid and consistent art. The original had a slightly different style, which adhered more to my personal tastes, but the art for this season certainly wasn't bad.

Sound: 5, Watched the English dub for both the original and this, for some reason basically every voice actor changed, which was certainly a step-down for basically every character. Nendou's VA in particular couldn't hold a candle to the original, which made his scenes in particular much more difficult to enjoy. You can tell the new VA's really tried to imitate the original voices, and I appreciate them putting that effort in, but unfortunately that effort wasn't enough.

Character: 5, There was little to no time spent developing any character beyond the original. Instead of trying to actually build characters, they simply just showed a quick flashback to the original to go, "oh, here's how this character acts". Nendou was my favorite in the original, but the change in his VA and is overall lack of importance in this season really made it hard to enjoy him at all.

Enjoyment: 3, As stated previously, I laughed twice, and for a comedy, that's pretty deplorable. Also the pacing of the dialogue felt like I was watching on 2X speed. It felt like they went with the approach of, "If we rapid fire as many lines as possible, something has to make someone laugh, right!?" Needless to say, it didn't work for me.

Overall: 5, I didn't want to hate this, while the original certainly wasn't my favorite comedy anime of all time, I did get a fair bit of enjoyment out of it, but this was just a sad remake of something that, in my opinion, was already overrated in the first place.

If you watched the original, and want a comedy that will actually make you laugh, skip this, and go watch Haven't you heard? I'm Sakamoto.