Everyone’s favorite cutthroat high schoolers are back, and they’re going to camp in the mountains for a week. The plan is for everyone to be split into groups with members of other classes, and then they have to work together with those teammates throughout the week. Groups that fail to pass a series of tests at the end of the week will see two members expelled from school. Of particular note, there’s conflict brewing between the current and former student body presidents, and the inscrutable sociopathic genius protagonist Ayanokoji finds himself getting dragged into the kerfuffle. Who will wind up tricked, betrayed, beaten up, humiliated, and/or expelled this season? Tune in to find out!
I feel like the best possible viewing experience for this anime would be to wait until it’s absolutely complete (however many years that takes), and then sit down and binge every season back-to-back. Because I think that’s about the only way you could keep track of everything that’s going on. So many characters, so many relationship dynamics—and so little long-term memory of them of all. I managed to recognize a fair number of characters and even remember a little bit about several of them (helped by the occasional flashback to prior seasons), but there were still interactions in this episode that left me scratching my head wondering what the history was between two characters. That said, this is the absurd, gritty, high-stakes high school psychological thriller you’ve come to know and love. If you enjoyed the previous seasons, this one will probably be just as entertaining. I plan to tune in.
Classroom of the Elite is streaming on Crunchyroll.
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