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I am utterly blown away by this season and it's finale. I'm a manga reader so I knew what was going to happen, and I was able to guess by it's pacing, and it still got me. I thought it was a normal 12 episodes, lost my mind at the cliff hanger, and came back down to earth when episode 13 started playing.
Seeing the culmination of all of the excellently complex characters at the end of the culture festival was incredible, even better than I remember feeling when I read it.
It's funny till the very end, without undermining it's most impactful moments with ... a cheap jab or gag, it never undermines the it's own characters.
I literally popped of, the way you would at a goal or a touch down. I kept throwing stuff at the wall and punching my bed. I was screaming.

When I read the scene in episode 13 I knew that it wasn't just one of the best romance scenes i'd ever watched or read, it's one of the best scenes PERIOD.

It's a spectacular show of every theme and character point leading up to this.
Absolutely incredible. Every part.

This is literally the weirdest thing I have ever seen. I honestly recommend it. Not in the "watch the entire thing way" Oh god no just like, skim it. It's a good laugh at the very least. If you laugh at it. I can't imagine why it actually exists. The "logical" assumption is that it was meant to fall asleep with but it's interrupted so many times that can't possibly be it. And even then I don't think it's long enough to be for sleeping either. It's talking directly to you but the camera angles don't really even support that idea. And why the ... panty shots....? I have so many questions. 10/10.

Usually in harem animes I think "Why this character? Why does everyone want to fuck THAT one?" But here it feels justified and the protagonist's relationship is developed with those characters and it's before their "harem" is really established. There's no leaps in logic for all of the characters to be in love with her. Catarina is a very likeable protagonist too and not just a vessel to show us the other characters. She's reborn into the world, not transported. So while the show is technically an isekai there's no disconnect of Catarina from the rest of the cast. She has parents, and grew ... up in that world. The "harem" is just her friends she's grown up with who ALSO are all in love with her, secondary from their character and personality.
Objectively speaking, this show is not a 10 (maybe it's more of an 8 or 9 to me). But I feel like I have to give it one for how much fun I have watching it.