I can't say I recommend this. I've been watching this series each season ongoing since 2015 but I'm calling it. I feel insulted by all the exposition, leave some room for viewers to think for themselves and figure things out or at least explain things only once.
No surprise whatsoever. The plot is straightforward, no turning back, no back story, nothing. Straight from an elementary student's writing.
The story of each episode is quite literally: the party encountered danger, one character showed their power, the problem solved. Then another problem appeared which needs a character to get stronger to solve it, the character gets stronger, the problem solved.
Easily the most brutal and gory season, so much blood and deaths, yet I cared so little. Why? Characters were introduced just to be torn in half within 2-3 minutes. The writer wants gore and deaths yet doesn't want to lose any well established characters. Every death ends up feeling so cheap yet gory and disgusting, it's like watching someone step on insects just for the hell of it.
You can make a fight feel difficult without killing nobodies if you use your imagination a bit more, many other animes managed to do it. You can also go the other route and make it sad by killing people that viewers have established connection with, many other animes managed to do it...
I also have a huge issue with the way they repeat things over and over and over again. Ryuu's past was explained at least 3 times in the last 2 episodes and over 5 times in the season, and the way everyone just stops fighting and listens to the story being told over and over just irritated me.
Many character's do some real frustrating things, for example at some point in the story we get introduced to a character that has an ability to foretell the future in her dreams, yet nobody wants to listen to her, even though her dreams proven consistently accurate.
Bell's actions don't make sense and are frankly... Stupid. A person kills hundreds of people and brags about it in his face, and Bell just decides to spare him and let him go continue doing what he does best, kill innocents.
The sound is great. The music fits well and is generally acceptable. Nothing seems out of place and the voice acting is great, with each character's voice recognizable even if without seeing their faces.
You actually have to be high as hell to enjoy watching this, you need to throw common sense out of the window, otherwise most character's actions will frustrate you. You also need to pass out when they explain the same thing 3 times in the same episode, then wake up at the good parts (good animations btw). Probably not watching the 2023 season.
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