Quanzhi Gaoshou 3

It's hard to know where to draw the line in this review between this season, the previous seasons, and the live action drama adaptation.

Sequentially, S3 of the anime is the last of these I've seen to date, and while I feel the latter challenge league drama was better illustrated in the drama, But some areas seem glossed through.

Mucheng remains <3

Music remains iconic. The soundtrack is well established. And it hits many of the safe soundscape points of the previous season.

Animation is smooth.

Art is most like S2, but it has shifts I believe. honestly, at this point I hope to see ... yet another shift for S4. (Of high caliber quality)

Voice acting is peak. 11/8

This was satisfying. I'lll rate it a 10/10 in conjunction with the other seasons and drama in the outlined viewing order. (s1, s2/drama, s3) the ultimate conclusion feels better with the anime after the drama in terms of viewing order.

I want to see S4 go all out!

Honestly while the animation was okay, and the voice acting on point as always, it feels like much of the story is being skipped to "push it along".
Also the translations. Oh god let me talk about the subtitle translations that it's all been changed too.
I think it's some major corporation with push that must have taken over, as the original source material has been re-edited to backdate to these translations. (Clerics are now Charge-clerics for example for some unknown reason.) The character names have been changed. One Autumn Leaf (Who's name resulted from SMC as a child mis-remembering a line of ... poetry that was supposed to be One Leaf in Autumn) is now called Ever-Stay (Which completely invalidates some character and world building later on.) Team Happy is now Demeter for .. reasons??? Excellent Era is .. Honest I forget the name that's how much the new ones piss me off, I am refusing to assimilate the terms. Lord Grim is now Stolord.

These are changes that didn't need to be made, and honestly, from what I've heard elsewhere, piss off more than just me among their existing non-Chinese fanbase.

Anyway back to the story. I think the studio has lost sight of the fact that for all this was an action-in-game anime, with out of game drama, it was actually a CHARACTER driven story. By brushing over a lot of the character moments and frustrations with interactions - and sometimes the background character tweaks this creates - they are doing themselves a serious disservice going forward.

Non-Anime related for a moment here and back on the translations. I know of people who've gone back to re-read the original novel, and are all "WTF is this shite" when they see that they've back-dated the translation terms into the novel. And even the people doing the manwa online are struggling with it, I see the comic bouncing back and forth between old and new terms not only from chapter to chapter, but panel to panel. The cognitive dissonance is real.)

Back on the production. The music was good. But over-all this felt very much like a season that was rushed through to make a deadline, which is counter to what people wanted. We're fine with waiting longer for seasons, if we get GOOD seasons. But as a continuation of the story of our much beloved characters, this was a hastily rushed mess, missing a lot of the foundations that would have made what they DID include make sense.

Over-all I'm not angry. I'm just Dissapointed.

It's sad to see how the story divergerted. This ist just a bunch off fighting sceens without any love in it. If you watch season 1, the anime and the storyline was so promisefull. Than they have used those crappy ai translating subtitle without any controlling in season 2 and 3, which make to watch the anime painful.

You aren't even capable to read the subtitle without pausing every few seconds. the subtitle are to fast, to long, mutiple times the same sentence. meta infos which has nothing to do with the actions and only confuesing.

And to make it worse, the translation sometimes ... doesn't make sense at all. So, i guess if you don't understand mandarin, you will have problems to follow the storyline properly.

The long intro and outro with plenty of adds for softdink and chocolate, doesn't make it better. - at least you could see, what was for the producer most important, than making a good anime