To Your Eternity season 1 was a display of phenomenal story telling that played with emotions and feelings, that pulled you in and didn’t stop pulling until you were sobbing into a pillow.
Season 2 was (imo) somewhat lesser to s1, but not by much. It was still a fantastic ride and a genuinely heart pulling anime, this time with much more action and higher stakes.
S3 so far has been a dramatic drop in story telling quality. S1 and 2 had vivid characters that, within moments of showing them on screen, you were already attached, and yet s3 is losing that touch. Halfway through episode 9, I was ready to drop the series. The end of ep9 has given me a bit of hope for the following episodes and I’m going to stick with it for the overarching plot, but it isn’t hitting as hard.
The themes in this anime are insane. I seriously need to learn how to write a story like this.