Reviews

It wasn´t as terrible as the previous 2 Seasons, but it was still awful enough. Can someone please tell the Studio to stop making the entire season just one fight in the same setting? Especially when the enemy uses an iteration of the same trick the enemy from last season used. And again, I stopped counting the number of moments where they ALMOST sliced the demon´s head off. At some point repeating the same tension-builders just causes annoyance. Just like last season, by the end I found myself skipping forward, cause it became unbearable. That fight should have lasted 3 episodes and not 8. The backstories would have been much better as just stories and not flashbacks in the middle of fighting. And AGAIN: Who cares about the demon´s backstory at the very end? At that point the viewer just wants the thing dead. If you want us to have some nuanced feelings towards that thing, maybe start with the backstory before we get exhausted 8 episodes later, hoping for it to just end already.

The start of the season truly wasn´t bad. I liked the glimpses into the world lore, into possible history, etc. That´s the only interesting stuff here and they abruptly quit it in order to drag out a fight for 85% of the season. What an absolute shame. I would have much rather learned more about characters and the history of their world, than watched that repetitive dragged out battle. We all knew how it was gonna end, so what´s the point of pretending that it had anything but artificial tension shoved into it to the point of rolling your eyes at the slow-motion slashes.

Don´t get me wrong, I like me a good battle. But pacing is so important, as well as context. If an anime is ongoing, hat 100+ episodes and spends 10 each on various battles - sure, I get it. It makes sense. But an anime divided into season with 11 episodes each can´t work with that formula. Who in their right mind thought that it´s a good idea?

After last season I said I won´t watch it anymore and got roped back into it by thinking they might have learned from those bad last 2 seasons. Nope. Nope. Nobody has learned anything.