Pretty bold move for the last season of a long-running show to be entirely filler, with the first half of each episode taken up by bewildering live action idol-project segments and short cartoon segments that aren't even canon to the already-not-canon main show. Even the opening sequence was a montage made up of footage from the show rather than anything new. Shugo Chara was never a particularly stellar series to begin with, but its characters were likeable and for the most part it sent a healthy message to kids about not limiting your ambitions to fit into a box. That being said, I'm a firm believer that children's programming can also be good. For the most part, despite its shortcomings in terms of depth and storytelling, I still enjoyed it for the characters and the albeit formulaic 'monster-of-the-week' magical girl themes. The final season, however, was the final nail in the coffin that neatly did away with every last thing that made me like the show in the first place, topped off with a disorganized disaster of a finale.
Review of Shugo Chara!
