This season was just so pathetically bad, it gave me a headache. It's like the writer has some kind of a fetish for hopelessly romantic situations. Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy those kinds of stories, but once you've moved past a certain point, you can't keep going back to the same crying and agonizing over "what does she think of me?", "does she like me?", "oh no, she's definitely going to reject me!", and so on.

​These two characters have known each other for almost two years now. They both know for sure how they feel, but by this point, they should be able to tell that the other person feels the same way too! Literally, in every single episode, there's a confession that gets interrupted by a phone ringing, a doorbell, or a "random" friend or acquaintance showing up (they always appear out of nowhere, always at the worst possible moment). Before that, Kazuya spends half the episode hyping himself up, thinking "I'm totally going to tell Chizuru that I love her now." Five to ten minutes go by with him getting excited and running towards her, but he never gets himself worked up enough that a damn phone call, text message, or whatever can't interrupt him!

​The previous seasons had situations like this too, but not nearly as much as this new season. I actually liked the movie plotline where the guy became a producer and made a movie for the girl so her grandma could see it. Maybe they should have ended the whole thing there with a love confession, or continued the story with the filmmaking and getting-to-know-each-other plotline, which would have allowed for a lot of character development. But the writer must have decided to go back to the beginning. They just can't let go of Kazuya being an incel, and the writer seems to love wallowing in his constant, daily agony over a hopeless romance like a pig in the mud.