English Dub Season Review: Classroom of the Elite Season Three

Overview: 

Fresh of defeating Ryuen, Ayanokoji has gained the trust of Karuizawa. But to beat the likes of Class-A’s Sakayanagi he’ll need to gather more “pawns”.

Our Take:

The biggest problem with this show is that sometimes the lulls in the action and mind games can be boring. But when this show is at the top of its game it’s one of the best, even if Ayanokoji is almost too “perfect” as a protagonist. He’s not a good guy by any means but until we get further along it’s hard to tell just how “evil” his plans are. I have no clue what he plans to do, but I enjoy watching him do it. If he’s to be believed he wants to live a normal school life since everything up to this point has been pretty messed up for him.

There was finally some romance in this season, though I use the term loosely because I don’t know if a character like Ayanokoji is capable of love. How he worded his thoughts gives me some hope for the future because he realized he needs to learn about romance. I understand that is going to be a minor part of the show but I don’t want to see him break any hearts even though I’m 90% sure he will. Especially after some of his thoughts about Ichinose, for her sake, I hope she’s never in desperate need of his help.

There weren’t any cool fight scenes this season but the animation was still good for what it was. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before but one of my favorite parts of this series is getting to hear a different side of Justin Briner. You probably know him best as the sweet and fluffy cinnamon roll that is Deku from My Hero Academia. But in this, he gets to let out his cold and calculating side, even some of the villains he’s played don’t sound as emotionless as Ayanokoji.

While season two was airing we got the announcement of season three but no such luck this time. I hope we get a fourth season because I’ve heard that going into the second year is when things start to get interesting. But as for season three, I greatly enjoyed my time watching it.