Zero no Tsukaima 3 – 12 (Final)
[8:48pm] Aroduc: That was awful.
[8:48pm] Aroduc: Truly awful.
[8:48pm] Totali: I don’t believe it.
[8:51pm] Aroduc: Believe it, Naruto.
[8:52pm] Totali: Dattebayo?
My final impression is included…
Summary:
Louise has a dream where she sees Saito and Tabitha getting along better than they should. When she angrily tries to use her explosive magic, she is alarmed to find that she cannot. When she wakes, she further panics to find that she has really lost her ability to use magic. Tabitha meanwhile teaches Saito how to read the book she has in her possession, crediting him as her life saver. When Louise appears to tell Saito her news, he is unable to find it as alarming as her. When Tabitha claims that she will protect Saito in her place, Louise continues to worry. Colbert meanwhile travels via airship to the students’ location. Previously, he had met with Henrietta and Osmond to discuss the situation. Believing that Colbert wouldn’t have enough forces, Agnes offered some of her help.
While the students travel together, Saito expresses his amazement with his ability to learn the language in Tabitha’s book so easily. Tabitha credits this to the Gandalfr, describing its abilities. After hearing about this, Louise panics at the thought of losing Saito once again. She quickly asks him what he felt like when he lost the Gandalfr previously, but Saito is unsure what she is talking about. The group is interrupted when something large falls from the sky in front of them. This turns out to be a large knighted beast, who Sheffield is revealed to be riding on top of. The students quickly engage combat with the monster, but are unsuccessful for the majority of the time. When Louise is captured by Sheffield, she refuses Saito’s help despite her loss of magic. Saito is eventually able to save Louise with Tabitha’s help, then embracing her after realizing what she had been worried about.
When Colbert shows up, he introduces a large artillery gun to Saito. Using the Gandalfr’s powers, Saito soon has the students help him operate the machinery. Because of the enemy’s magic, however, the first shot is ineffective. The group realizes that Louise must use dispel magic, but she is still unable to conjure magic. Tabitha claims that she will take Saito instead by kissing him, but when Louise sees this, her magic instantly returns to her with her wishes against this. With the spell cast, the students are able to defeat Sheffield’s monster. Although losing in the end, Joseph is delighted to see the power presented before him. In the airship afterwards, Saito scolds Louise for worrying on her own. When the two reaffirm that they love each other, they share a kiss once again.
ED: When the students return to Tristain, Louise is offered a new position by Henrietta as her sister of royalty. Saito is also offered his Chevalier’s cloak back, and Tabitha is recognized as Princess Charlotte. Louise gets jealous when Tabitha gets close to Saito, ending with the usual antics.
Impression:
Even if it’s not saying much, this episode wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Although it seemed like a rehash of the first part of this season, Louise’s losing her magic abilities was a fun conflict to watch as Tabitha got closer to Saito. It was pretty cute when Saito comforted her after all her worrying towards the end of the episode too. As much as I like the main pairing, Tabitha has been one of my favorite characters since the first season. If not predictable and random at the same time, seeing her get all blushy and kissing Saito was very entertaining. I also want to know where all these freaking weapons are coming from. Do they really just fall out of the sky for Colbert to find in his free time? At least they give me a chance to make fun of Saito for calling Trinity to send him abilities in the Matrix… The end of the episode looked like it could make for all kinds of epic with the characters’ new roles, but then again, I thought the same when Saito was made a Chevalier in the beginning of the season. It’s pretty obvious that a fourth season is underway, but I’ll leave it to the final impression for my thoughts on that.
Final Impression:
When I first saw Zero no Tsukaima, I went into it without any real expectations for it. After finishing the first season, I loved it. It was a great mix of romantic comedy with magic fun. Having established my anime blog only a few months before the second season came out, I quickly jumped at the chance to talk about the whacky story of mages and familiars. This turned out to be a huge disappointment by the end, however, with just too much serious business than I thought the series should have had. By the time the third season was announced, I could only hope that it would make up for the bad taste that was left in my mouth. J.C. Staff certainly lightened up on the heavy plot that was present in the second season this time around, but with even worse results. With the excessive fanservice that I have grown to hate it most anime, and episodes that seemed to be completely out in left field, the train that was Zero no Tsukaima had no where to go but into a wreckage of boobs.
Why were characters like Tiffania introduced, only to become eye candy for the rest of the season? Even characters like Siesta, who previously had somewhat respectable roles, just became useless pieces of Saito’s ever growing harem. The opening suggested several potential stories, like Saito’s new stature and Tabitha’s relationship with him, but these plot elements were barely touched on. What exactly did we spend the whole season watching? When censoring appeared in the broadcast version of the series, in places that typically wouldn’t be censored in the first place, I could only believe that J.C. Staff had become desperate to make sales on its failing franchise. I am not a novel reader, but I can only suspect that it must be doing better than this horrible adaption. Of course, where the series stands now, there will have to be fourth season. At this point, I’m not sure what to think about it. I would probably watch it for completion’s sake, but if I’m still blogging around the time it comes out, I don’t think I would even come close to feeling like talking about it.
…and I blogged To-Love-Ru to episode 15. Case closed?
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It’s been a while. I remember when i used to like this show. What happen to good old days?! They stretch this anime too far. I don’t even think it had any plot.lol. I have to say Tabitha really improves her character at the end. I did love the fan service though. It will be funny if they mad another season that takes place in Satio world,lol. Should i be sad or happy that this show end?
What this show needs is more GARness. That’s right! GAR!
Saito x Guiche!
Guiche x Julio!
Heck! Saito x Guiche x Julio!
And singing in battle! Transforming fighters! GERWALK MODE! Whoops… Wrong show that.
Honestly speaking, I had hopes when this show first came out. Then it went horribly wrong 2nd season onwards.
And yes, things fall out of the sky for Colbert to play around. There must be surplus Russian 155mm SP guns lying around.
Sigh, where can they go from here? The first half of the season was tired censored fanservice often involving a useless side character, and the other half was a yawn-worthy rescue of another useless side character (sorry Totali). I think the only time I actually laughed was when Saito was forced to promise never to look at another DFC again.
Needless to say, this is the last Zero series I will ever watch.
I’ll plan to watch Zero no Tsukaima from season 1 to season 3
should I watch it or is it just a waste of time?
Grace says: MWHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Watch at your own risk.
This series is such a waste of time! The amount of plot development could have been crammed into a single season. I’ll probably still watch if they have another season, though.
Oh boy what a half-assed season… literally. Only 12 episodes is so disappointing every time… You don’t even have time to have plot development in such a short timeframe… just really bad fan-service. 24 episodes should be a minimum…
Then in season 4 Saito starts having sex with everyone but hasn’t yet sexed with Louise. Louise eyes go empty for awhile then on Christmas Saito realizes he wants to be with Louise and dumps Siesta! Then Siesta kills Saito and by stabbing him many times! Then Louise and Siesta meet on the academy roof where Louise kills Siesta and opens her up to see if she really was pregnant! Then Louise takes a trip on a very nice boat.
OMG SPOILERS.
No this how season 4 would be Saito is deeply in love with Louise since 1st year of high school. Saito has his friends Siesta and company where Siesta is in love with Saito and hates Louise for being since Saito is in love with her. One day Saito wrote a love letter and by accident Louise see it and told him she is doesn’t interested in class F students since she herself is in class A. An unexpected event happened, the earthquake destroyed Saito’s house and Saito’s father was a friend of Louise’s father and Saito move in with Louise. Saito blackmailed Louise one day if she don’t help him on his studies he will reveal Louise during childhood days dressed up as a man. Fast forward, finally both of them graduated in highschool and Louise entered the same college as Saito since Louise didn’t take the Tokyo entrance exam for helping out Saito in the hospital. Louise finally made a move and kiss Saito and even told him she’s just give his birthday present. Oh another fast forward… Saito and Louise married, another fast forward… Louise become a doctor and Saito tried to become a nurse… another fast forward. Louise and Saito have a cute child named Tabitha who is in love also with Saito and don’t like the boy she see in school. [the story is going to end next week]
Saito has to be the biggest idiot ever.
Ever.
Lol @ arigatou. That tokyo entrance part looks more like Love hina rip off XD. Anyways, well i did like the series it’s true that some things need to be corrected but overall i think its pretty good, and of course there will be a 4th season Saito didn’t kill Sheffield or Tabitha’s uncle, only destroyed his golem. I do think it’s Shana’s turn so i don’t see the 4th season coming anytime soon, but oh well, either Zero or Shana will be good since i like both of them.
Well, SnS and ZnT are on alternating seasons. Breaks and new chapters for the novel would likely be out for new content. As for the anime, this is the only one for the season that tried to be canonical as possible, so I don’t think dissing it would be proper…
Unless you dub Strike Witches as one…
why is one of the visions for the 4th season a exact model of SCHOOL DAYS? honestly that ending was freaking me out so unexpected…but anyways this is a znt post 4th season cool… plus if your thinking school days couldn`t have a second season think again…5 words… it was all a dream…i mean seriously they only killed people of because they couldn`t think of anything…P.S. the new season is aired on a nice boat.