Classroom of the Elite III

By this point you know what you’re going to get with these You Zitsu seasons. Good to great experience for anime onlies and an awful experience for fans of the source material. YZ season 3 is more of the same. If you’ve enjoyed the series to this point and are presumably anime only, you’ll love season 3. It covers the climax and conclusion of the first school year and has some of the hypest moments in the story. If you’re like me, a LN reader you’ll find this to be another abomination from Lerche and at this point are probably just watching to seehow bad it gets. As an anime only viewer this season will probably come off as really thrilling and engaging. There’s a lot of twists and turns and the exam stakes are upped tremendously. In particular, Suzune’s development as a leader and the external forces getting involved at the school are the big highlights. The students are placed in one perilous situation after another and as usual Ayanokouji pulls strings behind the scenes to get the result he wants. But sadly, as a massive fan of YZ, I just can’t believe how awful a season this was. There were massive cuts to key story moments, emotional climaxes that didn’t hit because they weren’t properly built up to, exams being basically power point slides, rushing through entire volumes in an episode.. it was bad. And it’s hard to separate the anime only experience from the source reader/viewer experience because of how invested I am into this story. I really do love the characters and the exams and all the behind the scenes tactics Kiyo pulls, but the anime just doesn’t capture that. It makes Ayanokouji out to be so one dimensional and edgy. It makes the exams look like side points when they are the whole focus of entire volumes. There’s so much planning the students put into these to succeed and it just gets cut out. I do fully understand that in a dialogue heavy story you’re going to have omissions, but there’s still series like Oregairu(even though I hate it for other reasons) that do this very well. This just feels like a soulless cash grab that’s only YZ in name, but retains none of the heart and spirit that’s in the source material. And we haven’t even touched on the production values. I think the only thing Lerche care about in this show is making sure the thighs look good, which is a plus, and making sure Suzune shots look beautiful. Other than that, the animation is pretty bad, character models can be quite off and the production in general is decent to subpar. One thing I will definitely compliment them on is the use of shadows and lighting in certain scenes. For some reason, Lerche like to change the background of certain LN scenes, maybe because it’s easier to animate, or less stress on the staff, but some of them are nice. Others not so much. The OST they use during hype moments is as usual on point. I will definitely compliment Lerche on their use of music throughout the YZ adaptation. So, what’s the verdict on YZ season 3? Is it worth watching? Well, simple. If you’ve liked it up until this point you’ll love this. It’s the best arc so far, biggest stakes and the most interesting exams, not to mention the world opening up and exterior forces coming to challenge Ayanokouji. Up until now, he hasn’t had much competition, but that looks like it’s about to change. If you’re a LN reader, it’s probably worth just watching in the background while doing something else to just to laugh at how some of our favourite moments have been butchered. It’s definitely not going to make any new fans of the series. I’d encourage anyone at least remotely interested in this franchise to get the books. YZ season 3, gets 6 out of 10

Classroom of the elite is an absolutely disappointing dog pile that trample everything it trying to build up.This show is the definition of stupidity diguse as intelligent.It has a very interesting storyline about a school set up as an environment for students to compete each other,which it made to promise about a psychological thriller with high stake battle between people with people but this is where the problem start. The show supposed to show the intelligence of the students but all the strategy it use are really simple and one dimensional with no back up or consequence that make the intelligence not very convincing andalso make the show has no stakes because we know the main character will never lose. And a lot of things the students do just explain as "they predict it" and no more explanation as if the author can't really explain it and just make it to be a cool moment. The show itself is very shallow in the fan service that express through how the camera angle work and the degine of the female character. The character is very poorly-written too The protagonist, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, is painfully dull. He’s portrayed as an emotionless genius, but his lack of personality makes him more of a plot device than a character. He doesn't grow, doesn't change, and worst of all, doesn't seem to care about anything, making it hard for viewers to invest in his story. His aloof attitude may be intended to create mystery, but it ends up making him unrelatable and flat. The supporting cast isn’t much better. Most of them are one-dimensional stereotypes: the cold, ambitious Suzune Horikita is just your typical "smart but distant" girl, while characters like Kikyou Kushida are written with such exaggerated duality that they come off as cartoonish rather than complex and some character that have no meaning to tehe storyline like Sukura who just make to be the main character crush that slowly build up a slow-burning harem which has in the most morderm romcom has.The power competing between the students are reduced to shallow manipulations that lack real stakes or depth, and the show tries too hard to seem edgy but in reality it know well what it is about not a psychological battle show with many learning about human nature and the harshly reallife but rather an slice of life romcom show that offer no meaning to the things that it trying to set up from the first episode. Visually, the show is competent but nothing special. The character designs are generic, and while the animation is clean, it’s not enough to save a series that’s weighed down by its uninspired writing and overreliance on cheap psychological tricks. The environment is very bad too,a school with point system and a city that have anything you need in real life.That is a cool idea but the author never truly explored the deeper the nature and mechanism of this school to create more strategic potential.This is what the low-skill writer would do, instead of putting the characters straight in real world,they optimised it to be a small world because they don't have enough experience to comprehend how harsh the real world is. Conclusion,this show is just a mediocre psychological show that trying to be something deep with many layers of meaning but turn out to be no more than a guilty pleasure show.

To start off my 100th review ever on myanimelist, this season was very good. I'm glad we didn't have to wait 5 years for another season. It started off a bit slow at first but started building later. Like the previous season, we get the usual game aspects with even tougher challenges, but I can feel a sort of shift in the overall story as the games aren't as long anymore, and they're leaning more and more into Ayanokoji's backstory as the episodes progress. This season's ultimate focus was his relationship with Sakayanagi, the class rep of class A, and how he would triumph againsther antics. This season pretty much completes his evaluation of all the students within his grade level, like how last season was about the previous class C and Ryuen. Though what I noticed most is how Ayanokoji is secretly building up allies from all different areas. I can't help but feel that this is building up to something big beyond the games they play at school, maybe something we will see in S4 or maybe S5. Though even with some surprises, things are going Ayanokoji's way as he continues to gain knowledge and learn more about the students, staff, and the school. Definitely didn't expect that ending of the last episode, but that's definitely an Ayanokoji thing to do. The music is great. Love listening to the opening and endings. Overall: Solid 9. It was a great season, and I can't wait for season 4.

I've been following this series since the beginning, and I've gotta say, it just keeps getting better and better. The characters, the plot twists, the themes... everything is just so masterfully crafted. I've never been so invested in an anime before. Ayanokouji, Horikita, and the rest of the gang are back, and they're just as complex and lovable as ever. I swear, Ayanokouji's deadpan reactions are my spirit animal. And Horikita's growth? Unbelievable. She's like a whole new person. But what really gets me is the way the show tackles social commentary. I mean, it's not just about the education system anymore - it's about classism, privilege,trauma... it's like the show is speaking directly to my soul. And that ending?! I'm still trying to process everything that happened. I won't give away any spoilers, but let's just say I'm ANXIOUSLY WAITING FOR SEASON 4. Like, I need it now. Overall, I'd give Classroom of the Elite Season 3 a solid 10/10. It's a thought-provoking, emotionally draining, and utterly captivating ride that'll keep you guessing until the very end.