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After seeing the very entertaining season 2 I had high hopes for the final. Well it was a dream but nothing less than a nightmare.

Story:
Not only it's confusing and never really gives any answers, it almost annihilates the previous seasons. Almost nothing your learned does matter anymore because all they do, is either prepare for a fight or they're fighting. In the end you might have to fight as well but against boredom. New Characters are introduced left and right, so sometimes I couldn't even say which side they actually are. The end is neither revealing nor satisfying. If you watch the first and ... the last episode you don't miss much IMO.

Art:
About the same as it was. No complain here.

Sound:
Good as before and basically saves it from being a total disaster.

Character:
This is the real drama of Final. The carefully built characters and relations are thrown in the trash. Besides Shana accepting that she loves Yuuji all other relationships are meaningless and Shana does only fight anyways. Kazumi loves Yuuji? You can't really tell. All other school colleagues are more or less gone and have no impact on the story. And finally Yuuji. The character you probably cared about in the first seasons: is gone! Nothing he did matters anymore. His training with Shana, well forget it. The new Yuuji/god combination is now the enemy and just annoying. Overall I could not connect to any of the cast that I liked so much before. There's simply no logic in their behaviour and nothing made sense from the beginning to the end.

Enjoyment:
The whole season was torture for me. Seeing how they destroyed everything they built in former seasons was painful. A bad start, boring never ending fighting and a dull end. The series made a u-turn which I couldn't follow. I honestly envy all the people who enjoyed this. I really (ほんと) wanted to like it but as I didn't care for the story, the cast and most of all didn't laugh or even smile once, I just couldn't. Final killed Shakugan no Shana.