Strike the Blood IV

If you have been following Strike The Blood to the 4th season, this season is great with the character development that Kojou has. Kojou is finally reaching the final arcs of the story. "No senpai, this is our fight." This iconic line is ubiquitous as usual. My only gripe with this season is that the release schedule is too erratic. Similar to last season, the vision at the end of the first season is coming full circle and is likely going to happen in the next and final installment of Strike The Blood. This season honestly, if you could understand without the terrible subtitling has ... moved considerably into understanding Kojou and the past of the Progenitors. This has been a pretty good run. The animation quality has been rather stable and good. The characters have developed rather well into their own unique traits. In all, this is a really well-made guilty pleasure anime and has evolved into its own fascinating story that has no comparison.

Honestly this is a VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY confusing storyline and it shows from the previous seasons, it's very difficult to understand unless you've read the LN or something. Anyways the story comes by as really difficult to understand in the beginning and still confuses me to this day, the art is still good, the sound is pretty decent but it's been overused for so many occasions, characters have been the exact same since season 2 besides some new additions. I didn't really enjoy this and just skipped through portions of the episodes. I still have no clue how they are releasing a season ... 5 to this but I guess it's popular I don't know, not a lot of people like it because there's like an episode every 3 months to complete this so I wonder how long season 5 will be. Anyways overall it wasn't really enjoyable, only thing I enjoyed was the action scenes but even those are overused, everything has been basically recycled over and over again to create a promising show, which this doesn't whatsoever. If your a big fan of this series, go ahead and watch it, but if you are just joining in on the show might as well go read the LN and come back to see if you understand it, which you probably still won't.

The underwhelming subtitle work continues with quality that is enough to turn off all those even devout viewers in this fourth installment of the series.

Season 4 is a new beast of confusion, with Kojou ending up places with no explanation as well as no explanation with the ending of the first arc. It is then followed by a jump cut to after everything is already said and done. I hope to God that episode 4 will be explained clearly in the next two episodes in September or will leave much confusion with viewers.

Don't get me wrong I enjoy the Strike the Blood series and all ... the quirks it has, but the recurring "No, this is our fight" line had long run it's course back in season 1 but has been repeated to the point of disgust in every episode of the series.

The ecchi portions of the show are enjoyable but they can get a little old, with the animation being pretty attractive. But I still look forward to the harem ending which is one of the reasons I push on.