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People like long stories spanning years over a characters lifetime showing their growth along with their allies, enemies, and world as a whole. It worked for Berserk, it worked for Kingdom, and it absolutely, positively, did not work even slightly for Grancrest Senki.

The issue with Grancrest Senki is that the writer forgot to put the story in the story. the best comparison to make is to a Minecraft content creator who "did a little mining off camera". In between each episode, and occasionally each scene, the show will lurch forward to give the viewer a recap of the awesome plot that happened off camera. The ... point at which this comparison breaks is that after your favorite youtuber does his off camera fuckery, he will take those resources and make a nice house or upgrade his gear, Grancrest Senki on the other hand simply tells you "Hey, look some cool stuff happened while you weren't looking, now time to catch up with these cardboard cutouts we like to call characters! oh would you look at that time's up see you in a few years!"

There are some shows that I dislike just as much as Angel Beats, but with those shows I can put together some fathomable reason as to why others might. I didn't like season 1 of demon slayer, but I can't argue with its superb animation and admit it works as an average shonen story. I don't like SAO but it did have an initially intriguing plot and if you like isekai then it could be for you.

Angel Beats, however, does not have a single thing I could pull out of the depths of my ass to compliment this show with.

The characters are flat, with ... such basic personalities that they can be summed up in a sentence, NAY, less than a sentence. Somehow the writers imagined that inserting a shock value backstory and one joke into a character makes them compelling.

Any time the show was able to get within even the same universe as making me feel a single thing it would restate some bad joke that has already been forced down our throats since the beginning. "Oh no Yuri's past is soo sad what a bummer... oh look its the angry guy doing his classic bit...being angry"

if I ever consider rewatching this show I think I'll instead jack off to a picture of Whoopi Goldberg, as that would give me more pleasure than this wannabe hallmark movie

I have never had a bigger disappointment than when I watched B: the beginning.

I initially was exited to see it, the premise was promising, a somewhat supernatural mystery with a cool vigilante guy. In addition to the seemingly great fight scenes. However, this very quickly was dropped to focus an a half-assed story that had me checking every five minutes if I accidentally skipped to the second season. B: the beginning felt that a mystery means not letting the audience know anything about the world or the characters until the very end, having the reveal be incurably boring having me wish that they let me ... just imagine my own ending as any monkey with a keyboard can come up with a better one.

the show seemed like it couldn't decide to focus on the slightly better serial killer plot line or the brain dead secret soldier plot line. Not to mention that the only thing connecting them was a character tangentially relating them.

When writing the show someone accidentally picked up a book on creating the perfect blank slate character and made that the MC. I cannot for the life of me tell you one interesting detail about him other than his powers being a cool sword limb.

The only part I could enjoy was when Kokuu fought Izanami, I would not be surprised if the entire budget was sunk into that one scene and the janitor for the studio was left to finish this mess.