The Familiar of Zero F.
I actually had realistic hopes for the final season. Especially since the first 2 episodes were reasonably solid despite the fan service. But this season managed to teach me otherwise.
My conclusion is now as follows. It's a perfect example of descending quality that was pretty weak in the beginning anyway. Season 1 was clearly the best here and it has lost more and more. I can't decide whether season 3 or 4 can now symbolize the worst of the series.
The course of this season was a little different. Compared to the others, this season has had a solid first 2 episodes, whereas it got worse and worse until the end. The closing episodes of this season were therefore also the worst. Whereby it was exactly the other way around with the other seasons.
Besides that, I think it's impressive that this season has managed to make the others seem completely irrelevant. By 1. The antagonist "King Joseph" received a completely irrelevant conclusion and almost looked like a side character. And 2. the implementation of the prophecy regarding the "magician of the void" has been an abysmal joke. I wont go into Detail here, but it was just waste of ressources.
Spoiler !
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Story episodes - fan service - even more fan service> a minor event -> you suddenly see Tiffa's nipples ( the anime suddenly need it? -> final boss spawns completely without context and meaningless -> finale begins -> a plot Armor after the other> end.
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To be honest, I found it impressive and sad at the same time how massive the last episode was and the main thing was that something was brought to the table. They didn't even bother to explain anything and practically had the characters say "I don't know how and why, but the main thing is that it worked" - very aptly, honestly, that's how I felt for 4 seasons.
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This is just some amazing level. Only few Anime can be this pointless after all.
Story
You will certainly remember King Joseph, who was involved in all events between seasons 1-3. And also of the prophecy of the magicians of the void. Well nothing was made of it. Not only that Joseph had a completely irrelevant finale, which made all his previous actions appear like filler episodes. No, the prophecy was a bad joke too. Likewise the final fight and the conclusion. To be honest, I can hardly say anything about this, I lack words to describe it.
I don't know if the novel / manga had a different flow and was changed by the studio, but I really hope so.
Animation / images
No significant or positive changes, remained the same level as with the predecessors. Apart from the fact that the first episode had a slightly improved animation style. With Tiffa's breasts, however, they have cut their budget unprecedented.
Characters
In the whole season there was one scene that actually made me proud. It was Louis's decision and mindset regarding Episode 11 and its plot. Completely understandable and I like the way she acted. It was by far her greatest highlight.
Otherwise nothing has changed. The characters remained monotonous. There were still characters that I personally found likeable. Like Guiche, Kirche and ... even Tiffa, as long as she wasn't abused for her hardcore fan service again. Unfortunately, the character jokes remained enormously monotonous and offered no variety. The same thing was chewed on over and over again, just as in dialogues.
At least 20x the same relationship problems between Saito and Louise with no real results. Saito makes out with other women, Louise gets angry, Saito gets angry (expresses amusing comedy scene irony) and follows the relationship crash.
The new characters that you also see in the intro were completely irrelevant. By the end, they raised more questions than they could answer.
Music
To be honest, I find it a bit disappointing that the fairly solid Osts from Seasons 1 and 2 have so rarely been reused. One has often inserted into the alleged main scenes, quite monotonous East, which the scenes could hardly underline. Then I should have played the intro song more often as they did in episode 12, would have had at least influenced the atmosphere a little more positively. As a kind of puzzle / minigame theme that is inserted into character deaths.
Conclusion
You can look at this title, but you shouldn't have any expectations. Let alone, if you didn't like the first season, you should generally keep your hands off it.
Had this work landed in more capable hands, one could have created a very worth seeing anime from the setting and the plot.
