Maybe I'll just give a tiny preface. I watched the first season back at release, and honestly the show hooked me. The characters were an honest highlight. The situations they were trying to resolve, how it related to the members of the club and each had their own way of tying to solve the problem. Who was the most effective? Why was it effective? What did it say about people? These were interesting ideas, and it was a great way to build each member of the club as well as the classmates involved as well. Not to mention done in a humorous fashion as the Comedy part of the shows title suggests.
The art and animation in the first season was also really good honestly. Expressive, animated, I know it wasn't to everyone tastes, but I preferred it to the stereotypical Shoujo animation that is so clean, and gradient and glowy... which was exactly the direction the new studio went with for Season 2. That said at least Season 2 carried over a lot of that Club work character building so I generally didn't mind it.
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That brings us here to Season 3:
And HOLY ... boy did all of the charm and appeal of the characters and the story just get SUCKED right out of show. I'm not entirely sure if this is something that occurred in the manga, haven't cross checked it really. It just went full romance drama with zero charm at all.
Additionally every episode visually look the same, and I swear half the season was spent in the same rooms with the exact same backgrounds, with no life in them. Little pizazz to the animation, and it was honestly the most generic prom plot. The issue of the prom was also wasn't even solved in a way that honestly felt like it was making any point. I guess Hikigaya finally does things that he wants to do, and mans up, but still it felt so lifeless. What a repetitive slog watching each episode week by week.
I could barely even tell this was actually My Teen Romance Comedy SNAFU, cause the comedy was also gone. It was just love triangle, three friends trying to make everyone happy, so no one can get together, until the male protag makes a choice for the girls. It just went full on generic shoujo... especially with the comedy cut out.
If I had no investment I would've dropped the show, but two seasons in, I had to see it through. It's a real shame that something that was quite unique fell into such mediocrity.
Doubt this review will sway anyone from watching, cause hey, once you are so far in, you just gotta see it through. Still you might like reading this just to find someone else like yourself that might have been disappointed too! Or maybe it will temper your expectations and you will be able to enjoy this season more.
