Kimi ni Todoke 3rd Season

Summer is in full swing, and so is the love between Sawako Kuronuma and Shouta Kazehaya. From attending summer school together to meeting each other's parents, the two enjoy quality time together while tackling the feelings of self-doubt and emotional strain that come with their newfound love.

Meanwhile, Sawako's close friends, Chizuru Yoshida and Ayane Yano, struggle through their own romantic dilemmas as their past experiences with relationships clash with their present feelings. Full of inner turmoil, the youngsters' desire for intimacy persists through their second year of high school as they weave through the labyrinth of indecision and insecurity that is love.

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Kuronuma, Sawako Main

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

Kazehaya, Shouta Main

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Sanada, Ryuu Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Yoshida, Chizuru Main

Sanpei, Yuuko Japanese

Yano, Ayane Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Kurumizawa, Ume Supporting

Hirano, Aya Japanese

Arai, Kazuichi Supporting

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Miura, Kento Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Jounouchi, Souichi Supporting

Yamanaka, Masahiro Japanese

Sanada, Tooru Supporting

Hatano, Wataru Japanese

Isobe, Maaya Producer

Shimizu, Norie Producer

Matsuzawa, Kenichi Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Yamada, Chiaki Sound Director

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Sep 23, 2024

Chuy_diazz

Recommended

10 years of waiting for a continuation and personally it was worth every year of waiting. Objectively the creative decisions that were made may not have been the best for the work.

In my heart the season gets a 10, because seeing Sawako and company once again made me really happy. Reliving memories from 10 years ago and seeing where my life was then and how it is now was a good exercise in reflection and nostalgia. As for the story, the fact that Sawako and Kazehaya's relationship has developed on a secondary level is appreciated because it allows the secondary characters to have more screen ... time. Seeing the clumsy progress of Ryuu and Chizuru was something tender to see, as two teenagers try to cross that thin line from a friendship of years to a romantic relationship. The story arc of Ayane looking for a person who can love her, romantically, with the same intensity that her friends love her. Honestly, I think Ayane's development is the best of the season because it's not about being able to love someone else, but about loving yourself. As for the story, there aren't many complaints, and there's not much to criticize in this section.

Where there is something to criticize is the production decisions. I don't know who said that 1-hour episodes should be made, but please let him resign or get fired. One of the most criticizable points of the story is its slow pace. In 24-25 minute episodes you can enjoy the slow progress, in 1-hour episodes the story feels extremely heavy. So many things happen that at the end of an episode you forget what happened at the beginning and in the middle. Sometimes it generates the typical "how much more is left?" I understand that Netflix finds the one-hour format to be useful in other types of productions, but the audience that anime is aimed at is so ingrained in the 20-minute format that this feels too inorganic.

I hope they don't put the work on ice for another 10 years and then close it. It's good to revive this type of franchise to exploit nostalgia, but at least if you want to exploit it today, give it the treatment it deserves.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Nov 24, 2024

WynterwithanAK

Mixed Feelings

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1 year ago at around this time I wrote my reviews on the previous seasons and even mentioned a far off third season in them, and I never actually expected it, and then it appeared on my Netflix and I was really excited. I didn’t enjoy the original two seasons anything more than a 7 but the show is special to me so I have a soft spot for it. Still though, you could imagine my surprise when I clicked on the first episode and saw it was an hour long. And then the second was an hour long too. And then all of them ... were. They did that intentionally.

I found it really difficult to pay attention. That might just be a problem with myself and my rotted brain, or it could be that the episodes are 1 hour long each without much substance at all. Or it could be that the subtitles were flying around from the top of the screen to the bottom every few seconds. Either way, it was not an interesting anime. As I mentioned there was little to no substance in any of the episodes. In some instances some character growth is seen and K + S advance in their relationship, but it’s only a small percentage of what goes on in the show, and again the episodes are an HOUR long. I really liked the portrayal of the stage in a relationship where you encounter a problem that you don’t really know how to solve, and you drift away, requiring a dramatic maturation to fix the issues. But other than that there is no substance in the show. Honestly with how the relationships of the other characters ended up, it would’ve been better off leaving the story where it was at the end of the second season. They really butchered it with Chizu, and it was hard to be interested in Ayane + Kento but that might just be because I’ve been disconnected from the story for a year.

Updated character art was definitely something that was needed in the show, and the new visuals are certainly better. Though I have to say for something releasing in 2024 they are not up to standard. That doesn’t particularly matter though, and might be a more stylistic choice since the landscape art is still stunning. I can’t complain about the music either, very fitting, nothing exquisite though. This time, the characters acted much more human compared to the first two, it wasn’t insufferable to watch Kazehaya try and speak with Sawako, but you know…that’s a pretty low bar. Happy it was passed though. That might sound weird but it you saw my other reviews you’d get what I mean.

Really everything that could’ve been said was said in seasons one or two. So it was just a lot of nothing. I’m still happy it released as now there’s more content, but really, it was just OVAs. 6 one hour long OVAs……..

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 21, 2024

2LongDidntReview

Not Recommended

Season 3 of Kimi ni Todoke is basically the reason why I enjoy watching NTR.

Kazehaya having a nothingburger dilemma that causes drama/tension in their relationship, which is then instantly resolved is utterly pointless that it's actually worse than watching filler.

There is no real reason to focus on Kazehaya and Sawako anymore. In fact, this whole season could have easily just diverted full attention to Sawako's two other friends and it would have been much better than whatever unnecessarily long detour of a season this was.

In fact, Kazehaya getting NTR'd by Pin would have been enjoyable to watch while he soyboys in the corner.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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