Review of The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3

After S2 where I barely understood anything, as it had LN adaptation problems (from my understanding at least), S3 was better adapted from what I felt, but still felt really fast, leaving details outside the story and things just "happen" without much of a proper set-up beforehand. It also doesn't help that it felt more like a filler season, where nothing major happens in term of "end game" plot, we're just running around trying to tick tasks off our lists of "to do". What I really enjoyed was the animation and that opening. Really big improvement and it hyped me up for it. That alonedeserves a 9, but sadly if I mix the story in, everything goes down to a 7.5, and I gotta round it down because I'm tired of shows with bad plot/adaptation that just use animation to try and save everything.

This is clearly an anime for light novel readers and I bet they're really enjoying it. For anime-only watchers, eh.... I enjoy it with my brain off. But if I try to think about the plot or try to guess things, everything falls apart.