u/servantphoenix

Industry: "An anime season is 12 or 13 episodes. Fit in or stretch out what you are adapting."

Chad J.C.Staff: "Season 5 is 15 episodes, because it's how much we need to fit in the whole arc and give it a satisfying ending."

The payout at the end, seeing >!Syr/Freya cry and accept herself as Syr!<was so damn good and satisfying.

Being a permanent dragon, like an Adult Gold Dragon, is cool AF roleplay-wise, and I absolutely love it. Plus, it means your character is essentially ageless.

However, from someone actually playing as one right now, mechanically, it is actually not as game-breaking OP as it seems for a few reasons

1. You don't have legendary actions. This is a massive decrease in your offensive capabilities, as it essentially halves your DPS compared to a real CR17 dragon, going from 6 to 3 attacks a round, averaging 60 damage a round. At lvl17, basically any character built for DPS will easily outdamage you significantly, especially with magic items, and especially in nova damage.
2. A lot of abilities the dragons have are great against a party, but not against monsters. AOE Frightful Presence is not useful when so many creatures are immune to frightened. A massive fire breath is not as useful when so many monsters are resistant or immune to fire.
3. You lose a lot of your out-of-combat utility. Like sure, you gain some as a Huge Flying Dragon can bruteforce a lot, but you also lose things like Teleportation, Sending, Tongues, and a bunch others, without which the party might suffer.
4. For a lot of combat encounters, you are simply too big. The ceiling might not be high enough. You might be fighting in a corridor or a narrow cave. Sure you can Shape Change, but then you are no longer fighting as a cool dragon.

I think the main benefit of being a perma-dragon in combat is just having a giant body on the field that can soak up a ton of damage while dealing back some, and when it's killed, you still have a full caster with all their resources except a 9th-level spell slot. Out combat, the best is being able to permanently fly the whole party around super fast. I think both of these are very powerful and absolutely worth a 9th level slot, but not game-breaking OP.

(Note: I know that RAW, you could equip magic items in dragon form to make it stronger, but the DMs I played with ruled it as "the statblock already accounts for the dragon using the magic items from its hoard to buff its stats" and thus didn't allow magic items)

The first one needs you to do Hanshin Daishoten and Nikkei Sho. Both are Senior Year Late March, which means not only you cannot do both in one run, it's also the same turn as G1 Osaka Hai, so they have to be throwaway runs.

The second one needs Arlington Cup and Zealand Trophy. Both are Classic Year Early Apr, which means not only can you not do both in one run, it's also the same turn as G1 Crown/Tiara Satsuki Sho and Oka Sho. So not only have to be throwaway runs, they also probably need to be MANT throwaway runs, since umas that can run those usually also have one of those G1s as career goals, and MANT is goal-free.

EDIT: Nice Nature can do it all in URA Finale as she has no conflicting goals and only need 4* mile sparks to fix aptitudes.