I expected more-- this is maybe the most neutral I've ever felt about any show like this one.
It has some moments were it executes competent, emotionally aware writing-- especially with Gabimaru's character --but those moments were pretty scarce. The rest more-or-less fell into the box of standard shonen action, with all of the tropes associated with that: cliché dialogue and story path; anticlimactic character deaths; lots of fanservicey moments (which I can excuse in this case since many were actually crucial to the plots and themes); vague power systems (there are multiple here); and enemies that are built up as being infinitely strong but are easily combatable by the end of the season.
If the action managed to be fantastic (like Jujutsu Kaisen, for example), this show still would have managed to be great; but it's just okay. The visuals are okay, the characters are okay, the music is okay, the animation is okay, the story is okay... etc. It's worth watching, yes, and it did have a few fantastic episodes, but I'm just opinionless after this season.
