Osomatsu-san 3rd Season

It seems most people who write review have very negative feelings towards this season, which I quite strongly disagree.

I personally have quite favourable view towards the AI Twins. They installed new dynamics in the first half, and during the second they provide plots that cannot be delivered by other characters.

The other development which I enjoy very much is about Nyaa Hashinoto, which developed not only herself but also Totoko and arguably Osomatsu.

Even if it might not be as good as Season 1 it is definitely more enjoyable than Season 2. I don't think those negative reviews below represent the mainstream view on this ... season.

If I had to choose one word to describe this season, it'd be underwhelming.

Not bad per-say, just underwhelming. It honestly doesn't feel like I've watched another season of Osomatsu San. It was just so.. bland. I miss the weird bullshit from season 1. Not to say there was a complete lack of weird bullshit, but it felt cut back. I'll blame the Riceballs for that. I respected the staff for trying something new, so I tried to approach them with an open mind. However, all they did in the end was steal screen time from other side characters. I found myself missing Chibita and Iyami ... a lot. And Homura, who never even made an appearance (still pissed about that.) Looking back, my favorite episodes, like Mt. Takeo and Cosplaymatsu, were episodes where the Riceballs barely showed up, if at all. Also, maybe I'm nitpicking, but all of the Matsus felt slightly OOC the entire season. Just a little, though, not enough to really bug me.

So now that I'm done bitching, let's talk about the upsides. Most of the skits, exluding the Riceballs, were decent. They made me chuckle and that's all I can really ask for at the end of the day. I also really liked how Nyaa-Chan was developed this season. And, all flaws considered, I still anxiously waited every Monday for the next episode.

Anyways, art and sound are as good as ever (OPs still slap) so not much to say there.

So, was season 3 worth the wait? Eh. Am I gonna stick around for season 4? Absolutely, but that's because I'm already in too deep in Matsu Hell to escape at this point.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS CERTAIN SPOILERS
It's so sad watching an anime so colorfull and enjoyable as osomatsu san, become the shadow of what was it before.
Everything about this season is souless.
In season two pierrot already squeezed everything that they could of season one, and add some boring jokes to it, nothing too special, some episodes were good at least. Also realising merchandising of "handsome" looking matsus for some reason on every media, games, posters, dakimakuras, everything they made fun of on season 1 on the first episode. They made fun of stereotypical handsome ikemen, but now, Pierrot converted them in that. In products.
Season three now doesn't ... even guides on the first wacky season anymore, they follow the season two and the movie, that focused more on some "anime drama" with handsome cartoons.
What happends with osomatsu san 3, is that is not fun anymore. Its filled of long seirous segments with sometimes bad repetitive jokes. Kinda sad when you see that the only two tags that is has is "comedy" and "parody".
And all the main characters are ruined too. They now are just some neets that f*ck around and do nothing for changing who they are, the only thing that they changed, is that they went from funny, wacky, gross, and expressive cartoon characters that hated each other to a bunch of annoying, family friendly hobos.
The only thing that is good is the opening, its like is the only good thing they know to do. The art is pretty colorfull and all that jazz, but i dont came here to watch pretty looking imagery, i want some dirty jokes god damn it, i dont care if the animation looks bad or good, i want the parodies and comic reliefs i came for.
Overall is just dissapoiting, i used to love this anime for being in such an unique way an anime so cartoony like, so expressive, so mean and yet so fun to enjoy with. You shared the cruelty of the characters because deep inside, you also want to smash annoying people to death, you want to murder happy people when your life is sh*t, you want your unpresentable family to dissappear, you laugh to their deffects because everyone has them too.
Comedy is a refflect of our society with exagerations, cartoon characters are supposed to be goofy, because the real world is goofy and the cartoon characters exist to show us how damn goofy we are, and as it seems, osomatsu san 3 forgot about this and accidentally take itself too seriously.
Plain and bad characters, repetitive jokes, bad stories. With only 9 episodes it made me lost all the faith that i had for the franchise and the future that could been.