Kyokutou Chimeratica

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Kyokutou Chimeratica is a series that stands out for its obvious love of the medium of visual storytelling, even if a limited run time did not give it a chance to develop much beyond the beats of a typical shounen kaiju-killer. World-building is the bread and butter of any fantasy series, and the effort that the author put into the aesthetic storytelling of Chimeratica is its definitive strength.
Every society has a history and culture that is encoded in its clothing, food, buildings, and social norms, and everything in this series is drawn absolutely bespoke to fit the author's vision of this particular world. The incredible ... effort that was put into the design of the backgrounds and the characters is, unfortunately, largely wasted on a story and cast that remain fairly underdeveloped given the brevity of the series. Yuri has potential as a protagonist-- a mercenary spearwoman who hunts monsters in the interest of economic self-enrichment-- but the broader cast is lacking in chemistry, and the character writing generally feels like a largely unimpressive rehashing of the same old tropes (although, even in that, the fact that the author clearly reads and loves the fantasy and action genres is abundantly clear).
Good fantasy series take time, and the fact that Kyokutou Chimeratica achieves what it does in a serialization of only 37 chapters is something worthy of respect. Hopefully we will see more from this author in the future, but until then, Chimeratica is a fun way to spend an hour or two if you've already exhausted the likes of Dungeon Meshi, Made in Abyss, or Kaiju No. 8.