Quality
are Season 3 feels genuinely off?. The Season 1 adaptation was the best; Season 2 did see a drop in quality—whether in terms of animation or the many scenes cut from the manga—but it was still enjoyable. In Season 3, the facial expressions feel disconnected from the bodies; it looks like faces were just pasted onto bodies with minimal movement, breaking the characters' sense of continuity. It turned into a generic, mass-produced anime that prioritizes quantity over quality. Grand Blue has a unique identity, yet in Season 3, Iori loses his signature "scumbag" vibe, and Chisa is reduced to a run-of-the-mill heroine, lacking the cuteness that was previously emphasized. Even the opening sequence is vastly different; the original opening used diving imagery to mask the fact that comedy was the main focus, whereas the new one highlights cringeworthy comedy instead.