Enen no Shouboutai: San no Shou

I'm surprised nobody has written a review of this season yet so here I am. I was quite excited for this season and was expecting it to be the anime of the season. It has not been anime of the season for me nor has it even been close to being. It's been a bit of a dissapointment.

Doesn't mean it's been bad, it hasn't, the story is still quite good, Fire Force has always been pretty interesting, and the visuals can still be classed as above mid, it's just this season doesn't look nearly as good as the first 2. The animation was always ... one of it's strong points and this season has been quite lackluster: lazy coreography, still frames, lack of ideas and so on. The pacing has also been quite slow and redundant.

In conclusion, Fire Force season 3 is a good watch, nothing more can be said. If you were expecting crisp action like in the first 2 seasons , this will feel like a kick in the nuts. It sucks at first but you eventually walk it off and get on with it, it's still worth the watch.

Preliminary review based on 6 episodes -
It can get better or worse from here.

This season is split into 2 cours. First cour has 12 episodes.
Half the season has ed and the plot progress has been slow to say the least.
Compared to season 1 and 2 which had good pace, this season seems like a drag.
There have been implied and explicit revelations with half clarity.

The only saving grace and focus of the season seems to be good action and fight sequences with decent animation.

There is way too much time spent on recap of last episode and too many still scenes with just background music and angle ... of view rotating or other such POV techniques.

The OP soundtrack is good.
The direction is poor for this season. The screenplay is average. Seems like they are messing it up while animating, directing and editing.

I haven’t read the manga and the third season makes me never want to. Absolutely terrible third season with horrible writing and pacing and sub par animation compared to season 2. Episode 8 and 9 are a complete waste of time that does nothing to advance the plot or add to the story, i guess its supposed to be funny but is not at all. I actually don't understand how this anime scored so high it hasn't done anything to warrant a score of 8. The fight scenes are lame compared to season 2 so far. There is a ridiculous amount of unnecessary padding and ... filler. For example character standing still while only mouth is animated and the camera slowly pans for minutes at a time, unnecessary flashbacks for minor events. The world is supposed to be coming to an end and the characters just acting like its a normal Tuesday which makes the show have no weight or gravity or sense or urgency. Then they add jokes is the middle of what are supposed to be serious moments ruining the scenes and tone. If i had to describe this season in one sentence it be Just "an overall disappointment". I don't think it will improve in the three episodes left. I wagger they will have an all out fight in the last episode/s that they spend their entire budget animating and thats garbage to me because it means everything up until then is half assed.