Review of KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 3

KonoSuba: Even God's Screaming in This Wonderful World! 3 This season is an improvement and a step back in some areas, I'll start with the positives. Kono Suba 3 is an improvement in the characterization of darkness. I HATED her in 1 and 2, but season 3 has moved on from her only lines being to say the "please beat me" joke to a double-sided coin: serious and "teasing of words" character where the coin flips sides depending on what's appropriate in the scenario - I like this darkness. She shines 10 fold as a believable character who's actually likable while keeping her lewd side under wrapstill the moment strikes.
The world-building in Kono Suba 3 is also a step up, events actually have consequences that affect how the story turns out, well done.

Now for the negative.
The show is in a weird state with tropes. If you dont know Kono Suba is a show that makes fun of typical tropes found in anime. but what makes it weird in S3 is that it's now troping itself. I dont mean it's making fun of the tropes it made, Im saying the show now has tropes exclusive to itself. For example, irony poisoning. It's like a rule for kono suba: any sincerity or seriousness has to be retorted with some dumb quip. Why even try to have these moments if you're just going to throw them away? I feel so disappointed every time it happens, and the best part is that it happens every damm time, it's so bad. It's so afraid to be genuine and it kills me because I feel for these characters and the writers take a fat sloppy poo on ALL OF IT.

Aqua is put on the shelf for this season, she is relegated to screaming, and 90% of her script is screaming. Is there anything more to say because it's just: 'high E pitch noise' the character. That poor, poor voice actor. god bless your soul.
Back to tropes, 70% of the jokes devolve into two characters screaming at each other while one shakes the other. In fact, there is a music cue that is played every SINGLE TIME. All of the jokes that made me laugh never ended in a screaming match. Loud does not equal funny.

Overall alright, I dont think it's good enough for a 2nd watch anytime soon. but I do see it as an improvement over 2. Darkness FTW