Reviews

A3! Season Autumn & Winter is just as enjoyable as Spring and Summer. The two new troupes are diverse in age and personality. Though they mostly stray to certain archetypes, the characters are likeable. The plays are just as engaging as the past. The stakes in this season is relatively higher than the previous as the final performances will make or break the Mankai Theater. Furthermore, they have an enemy troupe against them called the God Troupe who will do what they can to take them down.

I have some minor nitpicks about this season. The morally gray nuance the characters have in the previous season is not really there at this point. The characters' new rival God Troupe has a god complex who seem cartoonishly evil. They seem more like enemies than rivals because they are so into destroying Mankai by any means necessary for no good reason. The God Troupe is a weird bunch.

Production quality is more or less the same as Spring and Summer. The character designs are nice and I like the way lighting is used in this season. That being said, I began to notice its limitations in animation, namely when the characters nearly got to a fist fight. Characters would seem stiff, and while the performances still made the plays fun, the animation held them back a little bit. At least their faces look okay.

Overall, this is a fun addition to A3 and I recommend it if you already seen Spring and Summer.