ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ 4th Season 2年生編1学期

This is easily the best animated episode of the entire series, S2 EP12 does not even come close to this. Noriyuki Nomata saved the series and they delivered an insane finale. Even though this season had its problems in some parts with the grainy filter and the premiere being weak, in the end they still delivered a good adaptation with their limited resources. Nomata has a vision for the series and Im grateful for his involvement with this project.

I found this fight infinitely better than the Ryuen fight. Maybe it’s just me but I found the Ryuen fight to be absolutely terrible. To each his own but I feel like the hype of the moment carried that fight and people let that distract from the fact that they made it a very dark setting so they didn’t have to put as much detail into the animation, and in the actual fight I thought the choreography was painfully slow and there weren’t even many hits thrown. The moment was definitely a climax and THE first major Ayanokoji showing we got, but I felt like it was just like “Yea we are gonna make it dark, throw in some “thud” sound effects, and every exchange will be one parry into one counter-punch, but it’s the big fight so you will like it.” The sheer amount of movements and actions in both fights in this episode I think makes them incomparable to the Ryuen fight.

Nothing to say but just an absolute banger of a season. I would not have believed a single soul when they say COTE will get better and it did. And yes it IS for the better cuz of the new direction, that they care enough to bring out something great out of this series and seems like everything was already planned to produce more seasons and I would say right now, they gotta run it back lol. (W lerche) Just a few words to the people that worked on the series, Thank You for Season 4🗣️

Right back at you regarding watching with eyes closed. The fuck you on about? Are we even watching the same show? In fact, a look up your 4-year account post history show you only started posting 19 days ago (from episode 13) on only this sub and this sub alone, and nearly every one of your post, including this thread, is either complaining about the non-existent animation problem, or irrational rambling on irrelevant DEI and trans stuff bordering on the outright weirdly obsessive. You might have made a bit more sense if you were talking about BL or yuri between the characters, but no, you went full retard. Obvious ragebait troll is obvious.

This season was so gorgeous, love all the stories that developed in parallel as well as character designs, very well performed and engaging in almost evrey episode, each character idenitity and personalitie were very well presented, I cannot be more happy by having thase an re zero on the same season. I could wait a long time to have this same quality on next season. Makes me wonder if I should try the LN someday...

This was quite an enjoyable episode from start to finish, the fight choreography was very well executed and to me had some of the best action set pieces we've seen for any season thus far, my overall thoughts on the episode are this: Island Fights Ichika vs Horikita and Ibuki- It feel like an impactful fight not just for being an aggressive showing of the White Room's dominant opposition but depicting Horikita as someone now capable of cooperating with others (That she displays by convincing Ibuki to stand with her) Showing that Ayanokouji's efforts of nurturing a "budding genius" is slowly but surely coming to fruition P.S. [I originally never expected Ibuki/Horikita to come out on top here and did feel Ichika might have lost a little too easily though she was injured but that's a minor gripe if anything, and overall it dosen't spoil my enjoyment of this fight in general] Tsukishiro/Shiba vs Ayanokouji & Kiryuin- Thematically, this feels like a climatic end to the Island Exam as The Acting Chairman and Shiba sensei desperately hold a last stand attempt to get Ayanokouji expelled, but Aya elicits a physical message on why he's the masterpiece of the WR, able to hold them both at bay (though some of his dialogue seems to suggest he may be fatigued or at lower capacity) However his senpai Kiryuin comes to his aide, i appreciate this because to me this is a similar foil/parallel to Koenji's own direct/swift disposal of the 3rd Years and demonstrates a key difference between the years (and suggesting her own autonomy irrespective of Nagumo's agency) Evidently year 2 is noticeably more unified as a group having each class lead by a leader and less civil disputes, while the 1st and 3rd years are noticeably more splintered with alliances and factions within Classes 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D whilst Nagumo holds a centralised grip upon the entire 3rd Year student body whilst not having everyone subjugate to him (Kiryuin, Kiriyama, etc) Making it feel as though there's a precarious stack of cards just waiting to fall for the 1st/3rd years but we'll have to see The White Knight/Wild Card - True to his word the lovable self-tailored narcissist Koenji has taken the no. 1 slot, but considering his contrarian/spontaneous attitude i take his attitude of being wholly care free and abstainment from tests to be dubious at best and down right misleading at worst yet only time can tell what Koenji will do The Taste of Ruin - Nagumo now having been displaced as the top scorer in the Island Exam has been thrust into the throes of despair, in addition to his critical loss to Ayanokouji it begs the question, does he falter and drown within contemplation and misery becoming a shell of his former self or will he double down on his control and become even more ruthless/unforgiving as a ruler, it will be intriguing to see Within a similar plight, Ichinose now finds herself at rock bottom (now being class 2-D) putting into question her honest and sympathetic approach towards her class and whether it will serve as her demise if Honami Ichinose is incapable of change and continues to rely on the crutch of others [This is a hypothesis i have as an anime only, but i feel Kanzaki may make his move within the upcoming parts of Y2]