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This season can be divided in two parts, the good first 3 episodes and the other 9 bad ones.

The first three episodes are "complete", they have a start, a middle and an ending story, a new character is introduced with their motives and the results of those, that is a good enough arc.

However, things turn sour as the other 9 episodes go on, for instance: Bitch's role is so stupid in this season, it feels like the author is writing for toddlers considering how repetitive she behaves; the other three heroes are still cringe and they behave like spoiled brats, there could be other ways ... to deal with the outcome of season 2; episode 5 introduces another new character and a sense of danger (poorly), that is never spoken again, and yet a different "danger" happens later on that leads to nothing.

As other people have said, the greatest flaw of this season is the lack of direction. There is nothing wrong with a training arc or a gathering new allies trope, but when you watch certain episodes you end up thinking: "couldn't this be better worked? Couldn't the author turn this one episode issue into a 2 or 3 episodes and properly develop this character?" Ok, Naofumi occasionally says "we have to prepare ourselves for the Phoenix", but in those 9 episodes nothing is achieved, the episodes end and the results are given in a silver platter.

Just to be clear, the show doesn't have to be action all the time, but proper development is needed, and unfortunately there is not enough in this season. New characters are introduced that are more interesting than the other 3 heroes, which isn't a problem, if a character lacks development you simply give it to them, but the author took the easy way.

By the way, it is disappointing seeing the beautiful opening with detailed art and smooth animation, only to get a considerable downgrade to the anime itself, it isn't bad. It feels like those McDonalds' ad thing where what is shown on the ad and what you really buy aren't the same thing, you'd still eat it, but the ad looks better.

I love this franchise, it has a very rare form of humour in Japanese media that appeals to me.

This season was not in the same level as the previous one and its OVA, there are the same good jokes in season one, president Shino and secretary Aria with their sexual innuendos, Suzu being conscious about her own height, Kotomi and her suspicious incestuous actions and finally Tsuda dealing with all of them. What really threw me off this season was how a side character that is really annoying got more screentime than before, and that's Ranko Taka, the green hair newspaper club girl that is ... always trying to get a scoop. She makes things awkward, not even a funny awkward, just awkward. If they really wanted to give a side character more screentime, why not do it with Uomi... sorry, onee-san? Sure, in the last two episodes there are a lot from her, but there should have been more. Sure, some might say she is kinda like Shino, but she also has her own thing after she became an onee-san and she even has that awkward moment with Suzu that she always feel the need to hug her and rub her back.

So the whole reason for not considering this season as good as the previous one was the newspaper girl, I hate every moment she is in scene, she doesn't add anything and isn't funny at all, hell, even Igarashi, that one that is afraid of men, is funnier than her and she isn't supposed to be funny.

I love Seitokai Yakuindomo, it is one of my favourite animes ever, however there is something about this anime that makes me sad for not understanding Japanese, the innuendos. There are several puns in this show that if you don't know Japanese they will go by unnoticed, sometimes translator will spend sometime explaining what the joke was about (but doesn't explaining the joke make it less funny? Well, if you don't even know the language, how would you understand the pun in the first place?), but there are other times those jokes aren't explained, which is a shame. Nevertheless, this is a very funny anime, ... but I must say it is a niche Comedy, the blue humour doesn't appeal to everyone, however if you enjoy those things, you will love this anime, I will definitely read the manga afterwards because I am sure there the translator will explain those jokes the anime translator missed.

What a terrible run, what was once an interesting anime in a sea of generic isekai has become yet another generic isekai.

This season is basically divided in two parts: the first one is mostly about Rudeus having a relationship with a side character that gives of that filler feeling to it since they won't have any active role or relevance to the main story; the second part is about Rudeus meeting Sylphie, but they just keep on stalling this meet, or rather having Sylphiette reveal who she really is.

This season is also the cringiest so far, edginess levels that are very embarrassing to watch, the ... first part is the worst.

And we spend 12 episodes with Rudeus trying to fix his impotence, I am baffled with how bad the story is written, at times we are supposed to believe he is a 15 years old, but he has impotence? Coincidentally an issue if you add his 34 years old from the previous life. Not only that, when he has sex with other teens "his age" are we supposed to forget he is actually a 49 years old having sex with a minor?

This anime is pathetic, at first the universe seems interesting, even if some aspects - specially the magic - aren't properly explained or have a sloppy explanation to it, but after the very first season you can notice a drop in quality, but this second season? I have never seen the quality of the material gets stale so quickly. Terrible story, if you aren't into edgy content, skip this fire dumpster.

This is how Makoto Shinkai reaches his first major block, a great example that beauty without content is just shallowness.

The story is too packed however it never fully develops anything. Suzume remembers Souta despite seeing him when she was 4 and she cannot even see his face? It is implied that Suzume's mum died from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, but why does it have be so subliminal? Also, why does Makoto Shinkai have Suzume ask around about her mum as if she was doing it for several days (at least this was the impression I had instead of someone asking over and over)? What is ... the worm? Why does it want to destroy the region it is in? Why does Suzume "love" some dude she knows for 3 days tops?

If this is a film about grief, why is it so sidetracked? Even better, why does Makoto Shinkai uses Souta as an element to "help" Suzume overcome the lost of her mother? Specially with a romance that felt forced through the narrative? A story that could have been told having Suzume and Tamaki - the aunt - as the main characters since it would deal with two issues at once: a teenager that blocked - from her diary - the lost of her mother and a 40 years old woman that, despite loving her niece, feels conflicted about taking her in and "losing" her life.

Instead we get a generic romance, in a below average story, where the ideas that could have been the main focus are treated as minor elements, still it has the beautiful art and animation from Makoto Shinkai, so it is not "bad", but that does not make it good either.

This anime depicts what chuunibyou see when they are having their delusions of grandeur: main character is basically a god (he is literally all powerful, all knowing - at least for his followers - and all present), he has 500 elf waifus of all ethnic backgrounds and the whole late 2000's emo vibe to it thinking he is the last cookie of the package.

The show has this recurrent gag of having the main character in the main spot even though he says that he wants to be a background character. Sometimes it even feels like he is auto sabotaging, because how can he be so ... dumb?

In the end , this show is dumb fun, if you can look over this whole chuunibyou-esque behaviour, you might enjoy it, otherwise you can pass it, there is nothing new about this show.

Stone Ocean could have been a great input in this terrible series, Jolyne is probably the most likeable JoJo, before the most popular Joseph and my person favourite Jonathan, but her character is terribly used as usual by the creator of the story, the same can be said about Weather Report. All the other character are either forgettable or feel forced into the story, like Ermes, Anastasia and Emporio.

The story itself is a clusterfuck you are left wondering what the villain actually wants to achieve, some elements of previous JoJo's are repeated in this season which shows a clear lack of originality, despite the author ... trying to give you the impression that is supposedly a homage to previous JoJo's, it isn't, he is just lazy.

To be honest, I can't even say "if you like the first 2 seasons, you will like this one", which would be a lie, the narrative in this season is really bad. Remember how in JoJo Part 3 there were a lot of pointless enemies, this season has some pointless enemies too, you could literally cut them from the story and it wouldn't make a difference. Still, don't think this season will be the same patter as the first two.

I dislike JoJo, Part 6 seemed like the author could redeem himself, but he ended up writing another dumpster fire, where Jojo fans praise as something wonderful when this is far from the truth.

Tokyo Revengers is one of those mangas that build up its story so high only to see itself crumble from the author's lack of verisimilitude.

Being a time leap story there are some fundamentals that every reader will be curious about: why is the main character time leaping? How is he doing it? When is he travelling to? Is the present affected by the changes in the past? Most of these questions are answered throughout the arcs and for most of the manga the time leaping is quite consistent and well explained on those fundamental questions. Except for the last arc, we do have learn new ... things about time leaping, but the the last arc goes against what was well established alongside those way over 200 chapters.

The story itself is fair, Takemichi goes through some trials in order to overcome his coward nature just to save those he love, and sometimes he goes way over any normal person would, his victories sometimes might feel undeserved, but he will bust his ass trying to get it, so at least it is not delivered in a silver platter to him. His character grows on you and many others in the story too - side characters and antagonists alike -, character development is well distributed amongst side characters and, up to a point, it is quite easy to remember all of them, in later arcs the amount of new characters introduced is too much - considering you are also keeping track of the "old" side characters - and they only appear in a few chapters.

The art style is a bit rough, but each male character has its own characteristics - female characters aren't that common in this manga, so it is fair to explicit what I mean - that will hardly make you confused on who's who, not only that they give off the "delinquent" image that bike gangs have in Japan. The action illustrated on the fights is nice, even though some fights end up being more fiction than reality, still they are well drawn. The scenarios on the other hand are not the centre of attention, I might be misremembering, but I don't recall nothing that stuck with me, other than scenarios that you would see in every slice of life.

In the end, the experience reading Tokyo Revengers is good for the first 200-ish chapters, the final saga with the Three Deities Arc and Kanto Manji Arc doesn't match the quality it has early on, whether by time leap events, new side characters and antagonists or the story itself. Those last two arcs have 71 chapters, I wished the third arc from the last had a better "ending" feel to it - so recommending people to stop there would make more sense and a feeling of closure -, but it has direct connections with the last two arcs, so dropping the manga without reading those arcs will feel like something is missing, still worth a read, even though the out come isn't in pair with the quality of early arcs.

In a 20-episodes season, I wasn't expecting 6 filler episodes, especially episode 9. All of the filler episodes can be skipped (7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 17) and you won't miss anything, even because some of them don't make sense like how two antagonists interact on episode 9 and on episode 10 they seem to be interacting for the first with each other.

This series is also a bit weird because it feels too short by the amount of upgrades the Magic Knights get, but since most antagonists are boring and the fights are shallow if the show was longer it would have been a drag.

Funny ... thing is that I watched a couple of episodes in the 90's (I have a vivid memory of that waterfall Zagato's minions hide), but I was never interested in this show, even now as I was watching it, I took a long time to watch only 20 episodes of this show. It feels a bit a drag, all characters besides the protagonist trio are forgettable, Presea is good too, but being a side character she doesn't show up much.

Something worth praising is the opening, it has beautiful animation, the singing and the lyrics are great, probably one of the best I ever heard.

Honestly, I'm not writing this review about the whole show per se, but for people to skip the whole filler episodes, they are not worth your time, and don't have anything good to add, unless you are REALLY enjoying the anime.

Kakegurui Twin is a canon prequel for Kakegurui that happen right after Mary Saotome joins as a 1st year student in the school most fans don't even bother remembering its name because being a school is irrelevant.

The first thing you will notice is Saotome's personality retcon, watch the first episode of Kakegurui and the first episode of Twin, they aren't the same character, so this is a huge issue for the character because we are not talking about a spin-off, or an alternative setting, this is a canon prequel and we are supposed to accept that Saotome went through a "reset". Then we get Hanatemari, ... isn't it weird how a character so connected to Saotome was never mentioned in Kakegurui before Twin? Not only that, it feels like we are being somewhat mocked by the writer of the manga, because one of the most criticised characters in Kakegurui is Suzui and I bet the writer, as an evil genius, thought "I bet you all won't be complaining if 'Suzui' is a cute girl", damn and he got us, Hanatemari is cute waifu material and she also has the Yuri bait for those that like that. Hook, line, and sinker. Saotome also has a second friend, Yukimi, from the literacy club and she is probably one of the blandest characters in Kakegurui. As for the main antagonist, she is settled early on as Juraku Sachiko, she is a Kirari Momobami rip-off and her pet, Sado Mikura (btw talking about her, why does she, as a mitten, act so rude towards Saotome? Kakegurui lore established that already or is it another retcon?), is a rip-off of Igarashi Sayaka, the bad side of her at least. To put it simply, it feels like Kakegurui Twin is retelling the events of Kakegurui if Saotome was the protagonist instead, sure she isn't gambling against the same characters Yumeko did, but I'm talking about the essence here. Do you want another example? Kakegurui Twin has a pink hair girl called Kurume Kurumi, Kakegurui has a pink hair girl called Yumemite Yumemi (they were probably avoiding a copyright from themselves). Another character that becomes the antagonist is Mibuomi Aoi, his motives aren't clear yet and his "organisation" Full-Bloom seems suspicious these 6 episodes weren't enough to scratch the surface, there is also his fiancée, Miharutaki Sakura, which is also a rip-off of Igarashi, but the good side of her, the one that is concerned about fairness and justice.

As for the story, it seems that at first Saotome wants to make friends and she quickly achieves that, so not that long afterwards she gets tangled with Mibuomi and she is introduced to Full-Bloom and his plan to take down the Council President. Miharutaki gets jealous because Mibuomi is so focused on Saotome and decides to gamble with her with a help from Sado because Juraku has also her eyes on Saotome making the mitten jealous as well. Saotome ends up winning the bet and Miharutaki is discarded like trash and you can't help but feel sorry for her - even though she acted cocky in the previous gamble and she had bet herself her own post if she lost.

I was a bit sadden that the opening was only instrumental, when it started I felt like we would get a banger like Deal with the Devil, it is a good opening, but the lack of lyrics was disappointing. The ending was cute and alright, I think the animation will be more memorable than the song itself.

The art is alright, if there is something that the manga is praised is the beautiful art it has, this anime didn't capture its beauty, even the "ugly" faces Mary sometimes do when she wants to mock others are kinda lame here, some other times it feels like character are stuck in time, which brings me to the animation being subpar also the way their mouths are as articulate as sock puppets you won't be able to stop noticing that. BTW what's up with the green-ish tone we have in some scenes?

Overall, it's alright, I like Kakegurui even though Mary isn't my favourite, but I enjoy watching/reading stuff related to it, it is fun, but I can see this as not being something becoming that popular.

Also, if you can look over Mary's retcon it will probably be more enjoyable, I couldn't so it wasn't as good for me.