>>87807
>deedenial
Pffft! Cool, educated opinion you got there!
>>87812
1. This season of Iruma-kun focuses too much on the festival and concurrent ingredient quest, which also causes the show to go all over the place with character arcs who are not part of the Misfit class, often with characters we will never see again outside a cameo. It would have been better if the whole festival was either compacted to two episodes or gutted completely in favor of training with the mentors
2. As a corollary, the show lost its touch on the theme of the first two seasons: the coolness of being the underdogs and misfits. The Misfit Class is not treated as misfits this season, but rather as a group of important characters in your generic fantasy, on a quest for the various Macguffins of the Harvest Festival. I would have liked if the season instead juxtaposed how even though they have an officially high status, that status does not confer any change to their nature of being misfits. I did not see any hint of that, except with the cool, purple haired fujo-bait guy and his muzzled lion friend when they were with Furfur.
3. Outside the date in Carla's funland subspace, we have not seen enough cute romance moments between Iruma and Ameri or Carla. In fact, none of the other characters have cute romance moments as well. Sure, there was Lied and Elizabeth, but that relationship seems too ambiguous and one-side and played purely for laughs than for warm fuzzy feelings like Iruma and Ameri or Carla.
4. Both the OP and ED are garbage, the ED especially. My ears bled everytime I heard it because of how stupid it sounds, easily the worst of 2022.
5. No Dark Iruma, no buy
6. I feel like the mesugaki loli tutor, Bachiko, was wasted with the hyper focus on the festival. A shame too, because I like her character and thought she would have been one of the highlights of the season, like she and Iruma would not get along for at least half of the season, but then it would begin turning around where she starts admiring Iruma for his virtue and strength.
tl;dr It lost the charm of the first two seasons. Here's hoping that a S4 will be better than this, if there is one.