Forum - View topicNEWS: Classroom of the Elite TV Anime Gets 5th Season
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BalmungHHQ
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Great to have it confirmed so soon! The 4th Season was great.
The Year 2 Fall semester has a lot of intense moments, so I'm extremely excited to see what's coming next covered in the 5th Season! |
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Aerdra
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Not surprising, but still welcome news.
This series will probably get a full adaptation eventually. |
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Zhou-BR
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Yeah, as far as I know, this is one of Kadokawa's top-selling light novel series and the author is still pumping out new volumes at a steady, reliable pace, which makes them more willing to keep promoting it with an anime adaptation. |
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RobbiRobb
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What a terrible day to be a completionist. Nothing ever happens in this show. It's all pointless word salad. The fourth season was probably the most disappointing so far, looking absolutely horrendous thanks to that ugly filter. It wasn't even worth for the fighting, because it was all pointless anyway. Maybe something actually happenes in the fifth season...
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FilthyCasual
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Another fun season, nice.
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Hopeless Weeb
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What exactly about this series strikes such a chord with the domestic audience for it to have this level of success? I watched the first season way back when but I really don't get it.
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Bleys
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I'm honestly happy for the fans of this show, but I don't get it either. I dropped it early in season 3 when I finally admitted that two things would never change. One, the only characters who ever seemed to be having fun were the antagonists. Two, Ayanokoji is the dourest, least charismatic sociopath I've ever seen, and I've been acquainted with a couple. I can't stay engaged with a show that has a boring protagonist. We can't be the only ones who don't get it because after the first two seasons were voted in for episode reviews, the third and fourth weren't. |
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Zhou-BR
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Personally, I like how frank the show is about the main character's sociopathy, which makes it easier for me to accept how uber-capable he is. Also, the games the students are forced to play are well-though-out and filled with scheming and twists. It's like a high school version of Kaiji or Squid Game, although it doesn't have as much panache as Kakegurui. |
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Covnam
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Nice to see it confirmed
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#yoobik
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I find the games *sound* complex and potentially interesting at first whenever a "lets list all the rules!" episode happens, but then it just resolves with some cop out. He always wins for some random reason that makes the game and everything that went on pointless because he's *just better*. It kills all possible interest in the games. Who cares to absorb yet another lengthy set of rules when they're not going to matter. I had to give up on this show. It costs how many YEARS more to find out what happens to these teen psychos? Too high a price. |
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Aerdra
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I don't think that's true at all. There were a couple instances where Ayanokōji punched his way out of a problem, but those were the exceptions. In fact, many games actually feel like fair-play mysteries, where understanding the rules and observing the actions of other people is enough for astute viewers to guess how the protagonists might solve the problem. |
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BalmungHHQ
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Yep, pretty much this. I also want to add this to the discussion in here: I don't know where this idea that everything that happens in the series is arbitrary or "word salad" that just leads to Ayanokoji "always winning for some random reason", when in a lot of cases, especially earlier in the series, his philosophy was that he deliberately tried not to stand out, let alone "win". Heck, even in the most recent 4th Season Ayanokoji spoiler[did not rank in the Top 10 of the Year 2 Island exam. He had other stuff to take care of.] Basically, outside of a few really specific situations where he's cornered into taking action, he tends to approach most of the Special Exams relatively casually. Situations where he does engage usually had some outside factor in play that led to him choosing to act. And even then, the narrative takes care to present a lot of the rules and depict the approaches various other characters take to the exams to supplement what we see Ayanokoji do. Now, I think if you aren't fully in the fold on what this series is putting down, it's easy to fixate on Ayanokoji alone since he's the protagonist, but at its heart Classroom of the Elite is an ensemble story. Every character, even minor ones, have their roles to play and many of them develop in unique and interesting ways throughout the series. (One example is Ishizaki: the way he is now and the casual relationship he has with someone like Ayanokoji would be totally unimaginable if you're only familiar with him as "that one underling of Ryuen's" we saw in Season 1.) Heck, many of the characters I find most charming in the series actually get very little screentime, lol. (Of course, I enjoy seeing the many regulars too.) Anyway, I feel it's pretty rare to see an anime that treats its minor characters with as much care as Classroom of the Elite. It's a unique structure that you actually don't see very much, and I think that's a huge part of the draw of the series, and part of why it's maintained its popularity. I see a number of people in this thread have claimed they just don't "get" this series, and in some ways I can understand why, because it is a pretty unorthodox work in many regards. But if it clicks with you just right, then perhaps one could understand how for someone like me it's become one of the best light novel and anime narrative experiences I've enjoyed within the past near-decade, and I can only remain thrilled that it's still doing well enough to keep more of the anime adaptation coming. Because by its very nature as a slow-burn character drama, this is the kind of story that only keeps getting better as it goes along. |
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SinisterOracle
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I’m glad to see that we’ll have another season but I hope they can find a way to make it more interesting, for lack of a better word. It’s gotten so formulaic and predictable that it’s beginning to take the fun out of the show.
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jdnation
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While I agree that S4 is kinda duller compared to the previous seasons (a big part being ANOTHER Island adventure test... really? While different it still felt recycled), this show does have interesting hooks that keep me coming back.
The premise of this school for elites presents and prepares them for the ACTUAL REAL WORLD their well-off/influental/powerful parents send them here for - to learn that merit is not enough, you also have to learn to be manipulative, conniving, and cutthroat. You need to know how to use or bribe/buy-off people. You can do this nicely or coercively. You grow up fast and put idealism aside because it's sink or swim to survive and the real world and society will never be lenient. So come out on top, or make yourself useful to be worth keeping around, or survive by hook or crook. That is the real draw of this show - an intellectual battle royale within a school microcosm of society. And now a scientifically bred super talent sociopath, the kind of guy considered antithetical to the same society that also hypocritically rewards this sort, has entered the school. But the mystery remains as to what exactly Ayanakoji wants here. He doesn't need to be there, the audience knows he is an unbeatable character archetype representative of the system - so what is the draw about a character who is obviously written to succeed? The answer lies in the back and forth about who Ayanakoji will end up being at the end. He wants to learn about actual relationships and experiences with other human beings. We don't know if his approach to others and thinking is genuinely malicious, or simply a flaw of his raising and training he could overcome with time and real world experience. We learned this season that other people helped him escape and go to this school, perhaps out of pity. While you could definitely argue that this show doesn't always make the best use of these premises - likely constrained by writing that must be appropriate to the publisher's target demographic while considering the high school cast - it is definitely a very good premise with enough long term set ups and intrigue that promises to unfurl over the long term, and it is doing enough right to keep people coming back, from action to comedy to romantic drama, cliche as much of it is. Even if we consider this an average show, it floats at the top end of the pool by being effective at it's simplicity. And simply put, viewers want to see how this story ends. |
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