User blog comment:B214/Season 3 discussion/@comment-1359322-20150622034706

Overall thoughts on the season.

Not really the best season, the mix and mash wasn't really the best, and the cutting of the scenes did ruin what i would feel is good. So here goes.

Pros:
 * 1) Loki's curse, it strengthen the impact on how much Raynare's action on Ise affected Ise. In the LN, only subtle hints were given, here it's much impactful.
 * 2) More screentime for various characters, especially like how they added pivotal role for Ajuka, Great Red and Ophis for their original context.
 * 3) Divide Dividing Juggernaut Drive. I was expecting only 1 Juggernaut Drive, so having a chance to see Vali's JD is quite a good addition to me.
 * 4) Arthur, or to be exact the Caliburn, in the LN we barely know a thing about the sword, at least here we get some info on it.
 * 5) The hints on future events, among the best the Down Fall Dragon Spear protecting Asia, feels much better here than just being introduced randomly in the LN.
 * 6) Rias in Scale Mail, well i know it's not the best thing, but i don't think it's the worst either.

Cons:
 * 1) Removing of the first Rating Game. No matter what i feel that the removal of the RG was a bad move. I'm not going to talk about everyone but just Saji will be enough. Not only did they remove Saji's character development but they even ruined it completely by having the Vritra Gears implanted into him without side effects. Saji's character is almost the parallel of Ise which was strongly shown in the Rating Game, in the anime not only did the similarities was removed, they even made the rivalry and mutual respect Ise and Saji strongly displayed towards each other look completely not existing.
 * 2) The power scaling, i can't tell if it's a good thing or a bad thing. They make everyone especially the one who fought Loki seem much stronger an make Fenrir look weak.
 * 3) They didn't make Kiba use Durandal, seriously they remove that just to add Sairaorg punching Midgardclone? Why?
 * 4) Loki's curse. I'm sure most will be confused on i'm placing this here after putting it on the pros but that's because it's also a con. The moment they change the main target of the curse to Rias it kinda lost its purpose. To me, BorN was focusing too much on Rias' feelings or specifically Rias herself rather than focusing on character development for others like the LN does, so the Loki curse was a huge con on that.
 * 5) The target of Loki's curse, this is another thing i find is bad plotting. As mentioned in 4, BorN focused too much on Rias at the expense of others. The curse if used properly on other characters might be a much solid plot.
 * 6) Lack of actual character development. None for Saji, none for Sona, and minimal for the girls.
 * 7) More screentime for characters, another pro that is a con at the same time, i don't see any good reason for all those random Sairaorg bits, it doesn't really help in making him look strong. Irina and Rose too, while its good to see them have more screentime, i can't shake off the feeling that they are just background characters for the second half.
 * 8) Dimensional Gap, i don't understand a thing about how it really works anymore.