Honestly, this season feels like an abomination . Outside of the characters and some of the setting, this feels like an entirely new anime . A terrible one at that. I haven't seen a drop like this EVER in my life. The plot fell, the MC became an NPC version of himself...... The animation stayed about the same, no worries in that departament. And outside of the MC the other characters didn't really change.Shiori is still at the top of the waifu food chain. But since all the other characters hit off the MC, and he became a charicature of himself... Yeah,you know the rest.Not to mention the previous premise of conquest was ... abandoned? Not really, but no new heroines are introduced outside of the ones already conquered. Some of them get only screen time and one line or not at all.
And the reason i liked the MC is also gone. He wasn't really robotic previously. He also clearly had an ammount of care for the girls he conquered and they left with a net positive even without their memories. Now? He acts like he lost half his brain, and only the part about the conquest remained. Now he does it without a care about the other party. Robotic. Careless. Not to mention so much drama happens,and so many random stuff..... They also forced a harem sorta route. Usually i don't mind a harem AT ALL. But the way they shoved it in ... Yeah no thanks.
And now ... Chihiro. I clearly stated my distaste for this NPC girl in the previous season. But after i was shown more of her and the way she is as a person... I changed my mind. I like her now. But after that rooftop event.... Going into comedy again... Like what ? Brother you cannot,i repeat CANNOT be serious about that . Not to mention it only gets somewhat .... acknowledged..? by the MC in that awful lackluster ending(that rooftop event). After that, i couldn't get laughs outta myself anymore. I just couldn't.
And then that ending came along.... Forget about it being dissapointing for a second,because the concert scene... Jesus Christ.... The author for whatever reason despises Chihiro i thought at that point. And then they show her face and .... I god damn teared up a little. I felt bad for characters before, but it was so bad this time around that i PHYSICALLY felt an emptiness in my stomach at that moment. I didn't even feel that bad for Sakura(Fate series) for gods sake(probably cuz she at least had good boy Shirou,Chihiro has god damn nobody).
This was supposed to be a lighthearted romantic comedy kinda show,with some supernatural spice. After the Chihiro arc ending they actually try to go back to that atmosphere.. But they just lost the plot for good after that.... I was supposed to leave with a smile on my face man,that's how it went for both the other seasons..... Instead i left MISERABLE.Just MISERABLE man.....
They RUINED in half a season what they built in the last 2. Unless we get an arc where Chihiro gets to have a real not fake/forced smile on her face i geniunely don't want another season EVER . That's how bad they got me to feel for her. If that would've been the author's goal from the start, then i would've given this a hard 10 and one of my kidneys at how succesful it was. But that was not the goal now was it. If you enjoyed the last two seasons, skip this one . Or watch to feel what i felt. At your own peril.
