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Scholek

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Shakugan no Shana III

May 30, 2014

Intro

I felt compelled to watch this anime since I watched the previous two seasons. The reason I felt compelled to watch it is because I  needed closure on the magnetic love between Yuji and Shana.

Story

I thought the previous two seasons were great. The setting where Yuji struggles against his fate as a torch was simply gutwrenching and I could feel the terror of his existence vanishing. The story continually degraded in the third series until every episode seemed randomly inserted, improvised, and impossible to follow.

Animation Sound

It looked okay and sounded good. I can't give it a superb mark because there aren't any scenes I feel like rewatching. The fight scenes were fine; I didn't notice any major problems with consistent quality. The show isn't SAO or Attack on Titan eyecandy.

Characters

Most importantly Yuji seemed very unintelligent despite his great planning and motivation. I feel like Shana, and numerous other characters, completely lost their ability to communicate with each other. The constant introduction of new characters that I didn't care for was entirely irritating. The poor attempts at suddenly introducing characters that I didn't like and trying to make me sympathize with them was upsetting.

Finale

It wasn't satisfying. The characters were botched. I didn't like it so I'll pretend that this was not the final season that I watched. I'll replace it in my mind with a new reality that did end up satisfying me.

4/10 story
7/10 animation
7/10 sound
4/10 characters
5.2/10 overall

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