Same shit different day sums up my overall thoughts on this season of Classroom of the Elite. I will never expect more from this series ever again because after years of this anime it still does the same crap over and over and over and over and over and over again. STORY/CHARACTERS Recapping the plot the school year is almost up and the classes have more exams to do. It has been 7 years now since season 1. I have made up my mind about this series more clearly. COTE is a series that has good ideas but they are executed in really underwhelming ways. There is a lot of buildup for these dumb exams theyre takingie people talking to each otherfor multiple episodes but when the exams happen its anticlimactic and boring. There is just no conflict or sense of consequence its just people talking to each other about what they plan on doing. Its so mindnumbing. It also..ugh im sorry CAN WE STOP WITH THESE STUPID EPISODE TITLES? Not only are they pointless and fake deep but they have nothing and i mean nothing to do with the episode itself Also the whole high school gimmick dictating these students lives starts to get tiresome. Because the anime never really convinces me to care about any of them. There are too many goddamn people in the show to keep up with. And even if that is the point these characters are ridiculously hollow and boring to see on screen. The antagonist this season is basically Ayanakoji: Part 2 but with more emotions I didnt hate her just the characters around her. Horikita couldnt save this season because despite warming up to others. She tries negotiating with people who hate her which is just dumb. I appreciate the plot with her brother but the anime does little to no justice no sense of artistic direction or enhancing it from its source material. It felt like I was watching a history documentary at 12 am on a Wednesday. I completely fell asleep on the episode that concluded her character arc because surprise surprise it was painfully boring. And the anime still does that bullshit where it takes itself way too seriously. This right here is the mind games you are in store for with Classroom of the Elite. One quote that sums up my frustration with this anime is when one characterGreen haired short dude is talking about his past in middle school dealing with bullies. He says that him dealing with them is like seeing the darkest depths of the human psyche. Wow. I just cant. Serial killers? parasitic politicians? domestic abusers? suicidal people? trauma victims? and the mentally ill? Yea fuck em all truly the darkest and most depraved of the human psyche come from a bunch of bullies in middle school. This is the most r/im14andthisisdeep thing possibly ever. I mean yea I get it school bullies are pretty ruthless but the greatest depths of human darkness? Give me a fucking break writers.Such an ignorant and closeminded representation of how humanity works. THOSE WHO CAN NOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT I guess God was on a budget though because the rest of the show was like overdosing on melatonin.I legit dont even remember what happened in like 80 percent of the season not because I didnt pay attention but I just did not care at all. Even when I get invested there are just some really stupid and convenient plot moments that just take me out of the show. The ending is absolute ass. MY THOUGHTS ON AYANAKOJI THREE YEARS LATER. So after three seasons with Kiyotaka do I like him as an MC? Not really. Im still sick of his lack of a personality Im sick of him coming up with solutions out of nowhere and ruining any tension. Im sick of how many times he talks about how he is the best at whatever but doesnt try too hard because it would be boringnot like the anime wasnt boring enough already. Im sick of how the show just makes him this Messiah who just solves everyones problem conditionally Im sick of how everyone just likes him despite how boring he is. I dont like any of his interactions because as seen from the past two seasons his interactions and connections mean nothing to himbut hear me out. He actually developed a little. Dont get your hopes up I did say a little but I am concerned with how hell play out. The anime caught me off guard for moments because it felt like at times Ayanakoji cared about someone saying he would protect them buying them presents and whatnot. I wasnt convinced with these moments because I felt like the anime was bullshitting me for thataha gotcha moment i actually dont care plot twist that he did in both seasons.But this time around Ayanakoji wanted to feel more of these moments not for some prize or intel but to at least understand more of these emotions. This is a commendable angle that Im sure the anime will just disregard in later seasons.And there was one time I related to him. The facial expression Ayanakoji makes is the same facial expression I made while watching this anime. ART/ANIMATION The anime still looks very bland and boring with subpar animation and direction. Its like why even bother being an anime when you dont take advantage of the endless artistic choices that can be made in the realm of animation? At this point COTE could just be a liveaction show even then the actors would be able to show more emotions than the multitude of characters in this anime who make one facial expression and nothing else.One notable shot in this anime was when two people were playing chess and their hands were so obviously CGI. It looked like crap to be honest. It reminded me of the CGI hands Kakegurui had back in 2017. And then my mind wandered off and thought if COTE had the same visual flair and lavish artistic direction that Kakegurui had it would be really good. Im not asking for this anime to be a style over substance type of thing or give the characters kookie faces I just want the anime to dooooooo soooomthing that justifies its existence. MUSIC And the soundtrack isnt intense yet bland now. This time its intense and annoying. It repeats that bass drop creepy track literally every time a character speaks now and there was one track that sounded like something from Death Note. It was this overthetop choir opera ballad. But it was so on the nose that I just laughed every time I heard it. I guess the anime was really feelin itself trying to channel all the Light Yogami vibes but I doubt this anime has the balls to kill people. I mean we all know that life in anime just ends when you leave high school. ENJOYMENT So as you can tellI enjoyed this anime a lot and I think it is a really good one. As much as I wanna say Im too old for this shit. I cant. Season 1 of COTE aired when I was in my senior year of high school so I thought I was the perfect target audience for it. But I found it mediocre. Then more and more seasons started coming out of the same crap. What makes this season hard to rate is how good it is compared to season 2. I barely remember the first two seasons but I remember even less from season 3 which I just finished a day ago. All I remember is this season having more bullshit than the first two. It goes back to that internet argument on if forgettable is worse than bad since bad is more memorable. In my opinion no. That time you broke your leg is more memorable than that time you got a paper cut but would I rather get a paper cut than break my leg again? Yes. Real talk though I still think episode 8 is the best out of the three seasons but the other 12 episodes of pure boredom/frustration/sleeping/head shaking do not make it worth the time.