This is the season where you stop trying to follow the plot and just let GoHands drown you in teal light, absurd swooping camera moves and rain that catches every color in the frame. Reviewers aren't exaggerating when they say some cuts out-animate Attack on Titan, because the show cares more about the way a coat moves through a Dutch angle than it does about explaining itself. What it gets right is the weight on the Kings: Munakata's Sword of Damocles cracking a little more every time he holds the line, tiny Anna carrying Mikoto's red like an inheritance she never asked for, Nagare's jungle turning ordinary phone-scrolling civilians into a mob. Fair warning, you have to watch Missing Kings between episodes 1 and 2 or the whole thing collapses into pretty noise. And the reason you stay is Fushimi and Yata, still circling each other, still unable to say the thing.

In a modern Japan where history has taken a strange turn, seven Kings hold great superpowers and share them with the clansmen who follow them. Blue stands for order, red for chaotic flame, white for irregularity, and green for reform. After the Gold King dies, the Dresden Slate that grants the Kings their power is left exposed, and Nagare Hisui, the cunning leader of the Green Clan Jungle, sets out to seize it by any means. Reishi Munakata and his Blue Clan, Sceptre 4, stand against him, yet his crumbling Sword of Damocles puts his clan and the country at risk. Anna Kushina and HOMRA, still reeling from their losses, are drawn into the conflict, while Kurou Yatogami and Neko are left exposed with their friend Yashiro Isana, the Silver King, still missing. Supernatural action unfolds as the clans resist Jungle's forces.