Reason for Watching: Well I have already watched Season 1 and 2 after all~ TL;DR: Story is really weak and slow, but the musical aspect and pretty characters are satisfying to watch. This season is pretty weak, as compared to the previous seasons. The story is VERY slow-paced, and a little messy. The introduction of new characters is fine, but with the increased of characters, it seemed that the story has lost its focus. I can understand wanting to give the new characters some action to blend them into the plot. But unfortunately, it seemed like that's all the creators was able to do, just giving somescreen time to the new characters as well as the original MCs and Support Characters. The storylines of the new characters and the existing characters did not come together at all. We know through the hopelessly optimistic narration from the main MC that the characters' stories are somewhat connected. But that's all, just a narration POV from the MC that their storylines are indeed coming together to make a full complete story. But in reality, the story failed to display that to the audience. Never mind if the new characters lack their origin story for the audience to know how they have come to be, the story never really make full use of these characters to even develop the main MCs and main Support characters. It just seemed like the creators wanted to create and showcase more pretty boys. (I am not reviewing the musical storylines as part of the story aspect, I consider them under Sound).

As with the previous seasons, the Art and Sound are a cut above the Story. The animation (reviewing this under Art) for this season seem to be lacking more than the previous 2, not like the animation production was really stellar for the previous seasons, but in this season, it is a lot more obvious that the animation is lacking. There are a lot of still frames instead of animated movements, and is most obvious when the moments build up to some sort of surprise/ revelation, and the scene is just a motionless character with some sound effects to create the "oooh" element. Or even more lame is that instead of showing how awesome the character is through animated movements, they just added a few frames of feathers and/or droplets of sparkling sweat. Though after all is said about the animation, the design of the characters, the stage, the costumes, and the lame sweat (hahah~) are really pleasing to the eyes, It would be great if the animation quality can match up to the Art style of this anime~ It would be more dynamic.
The musical aspect did improved significantly as compared to season 1. Hahaha~ Now the musical scenes are more naturally build-up and followed-up by the regular scenes. Though there's one thing that doesn't sit well with me since season 1. That is, there are several instances with sound effects of a gaming scene. Quite the irony since most of the songs in this series are pretty fabulous, yet the sound effects of certain motions and "revelations" sounded really cheap. But overall, is not something I will discount the Sound score for.

For the Characters in this season.... I do think that the new characters introduced are pretty interesting and refreshing. But as I mentioned above, the story really did not showcase them enough. The new characters are underdeveloped, while the existing characters are developed, marginally, through rough and awkward storylines. All the character designs in this series are pretty much above average, even among my top scoring animes, it is just a pity that the story cannot bring out more of the characters' persona beyond their introduction.