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If you enjoy every isekai anime that comes out, then you'll like this one as well. If you laugh at them, you'll laugh at this one too.

So. I had some, some, hope this might be a semi-okay show. I had some expectations regarding it.
What kind of limitations did being inside a sword have? Examples. Can't move on its own. Can't attack its own. Requires a master to wield it.
Answer: No. To all of them. Master is optional. Free movement. Unlimited movement.
Would it be funny? What kind of humor was it aiming for? The generic kind so no it wasn't funny.

Conclusion.
A generic adventure show about a ... guy and a girl.
Yes, it's physically a sword. But if it wasn't what would change? Nothing. Why? If she's under attack, and can't fight back, he can do it for her.

What I would have liked to see.
She falls unconscious and he hopelessly shouts at her for her to wake up, because without her as a wielder he's hopelessly useless, and can only watch her die to an attacker that would pose no threat to them if she was awake. *Not this exact scenario, but something that would highlight his inability as a sword*
(This example is in no way related to the anime because I couldn't get through episode three or two. Or one. If this happens, and something like what I would like to see happens, then tough. In episode one, it was established that he can move, and attack on his own, and clearly doesn't need a wielder to use him. It doesn't matter if he does better with a wielder blah blah blah.)

TLDR:
I would like for the sword to have restrictions that one would expect with being an inanimate object. It does not have that.

The animation is lackluster.
The dialogue is generic.
The music was forgettable. The most positive thing I can say about the anime.

I sped it up to twice as fast, and still tried to speed it up. Because nothing interesting or important was happening. I couldn't keep watching because my brain was negatively dying inside of my skull.

The two first episodes were pretty good. The male lead is this protagonist who resorts to violence at every second. The female lead hasn't really dealt with people before and is quite standoffish. Naturally, as the protagonists, they are destined to fall in love. Surprisingly by the 2nd episode, this happens. And once again there's the sufferance of not knowing what to do with a couple who is together so they have these two characters dance this little, love don't love game that's unsatisfying. It's the same fight, in different fights. From the getgo, it's established these two characters are suffering from an inability ... to properly talk to each other. That is to say, she can't actually think about the problem, and he reacts to violence in every situation. After the 2nd episode, they regress and keep being stuck in that regression, having the same tired argument over and over. I had such high hopes for this.

I watched the two first seasons, which followed each other rather closely, the film, an ova, I believe, and then finally this. Like season 2, the first half of the season is dedicated to a lengthy flashback that, in this case, explains the mysterious origins of a side character. One of the main side characters, if that makes a difference, but a side character. And I'm still not sure why. It could have to do with the illusive Dazai, being perhaps a fan favourite, but what do I know? I don't even know if he is a fan favourite. The plots of Bungo Stray dogs ... have not ever been very complicated, get the protagonist (season 1), fight the enemies (Season 2). Simple. Where the success of season 1 laid was in the multiple characters and the little side characters and their stories. Not many of those, mind, but it felt like there was a continuation of what happened before to what happened next. A rise and fall of incidents as it were. You could track the progression of the plot, the logic.
Then comes along season 2, and you're thrown into a flashback leaving about half the run time for the actual plot. Fine, one of those characters shows up on the screen, so not a total waste of time right? Well... Only I don't see the connection between that past and the present, except to explain why Dazai switched sides, only I liked not knowing. It didn't, and doesn't, really matter. One of the good points of season 1 was the sense that relationships were well established before our protagonist walked in. It felt like a world where things had happened and while they were important at the time, didn't have relevance now. So why bother with it now? So they defeat the boss, who, shockingly, has motivations for doing what he does, hinting at a book. So what do you think happened? I wanted to know more about the book. They were willing to kidnap a human for I can't remember how much money but essentially a fortune, and destroy an entire city. Boom, gone. For one little book. A gimmick, of course, it could have been a magic wand for all it matters. But they set the stakes quite high for this tiny book, and we didn't even get to know what was in it, or where it was. So curious I was.
Imagine how bored I was of flashback when yet another one presented itself for the 3rd season. By that point, my interest had been quelled by time, so I was so fed up with the extremely lengthy flashbacks that I just stopped watching it. Until this year, where I revisited season 1 and 2 for the nostalgia and the humour which I liked. Where I once more got curious about this blasted book. Of course, there were a few cool fight scenes here and there, thank you Bones, well done once more, which was worth watching it for. How OP isn't Dazai's former partner's ability? (That's how much I remember him, Gravity-ball guy)
Anyway, I got through all that to maybe discover the antagonist was the villain of the flashback. I really couldn't care. He was frankly unimpressive, except for the first scene he was in. And so were the rest of the characters. Where did Dazai's intelligence wander off to during most of it? His cunning plans that I saw in season 1 and 2. The man who let himself be captured because he wanted to. The man who predicted his comrades' abilities and desires so perfectly that no one important actually died? The Mafia's boss danger and cleverness? His charm and power? Where is the dangerous chief of detectives? And the very detective himself? I think they just removed him because of how big an inconvenience he would be. That is to say, the antagonist would have been taken down by him within the first episode (episode 5 or6, I think. Yeah) if he was a part of the ordeal. Half the show, ladies and gentlemen were spent on a flashback. A pointless flashback. 6 episodes to tell a story. Granted it wasn't a very good story. And again with the plot, it had nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with that book. There was no continuation of the last storyline, nothing. I was quite disappointed. And they didn't even get to fight the villain or see an epic showdown of wits.
My point?
Where did Bungo Stray dogs go off to in this season? Because I'm pretty sure I didn't watch the same characters I did in season 1. And even season 2.
My conclusion? If you want to watch it, go ahead. If you found season 1 enjoyable, season 2 less enjoyable, you certainly won't enjoy this lacklustre story. I wish I could say otherwise.
Sorry that you had to go through my bad review on so many levels.

This is an issikai. If you have seen/read "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!" you'll find a lot of the same traits here. The protagonist wakes up as the newly born unwanted princess and spends her younger years gaining the affection of her father, who for her first years is conflicted about protecting and loving her, and wanting to kill her. Princess' mum died essentially because of the princess, or so it's heavily implied. It was partially cutesy and partially annoying, the significant scenes were downplayed because of the protagonist basically being a grown-up, and having this "you're such an ... asshole" in those first years. The story continues when she's 14, having a debutante, and then sometime later, the amnesia trope strikes again, making her father forget all about the protagonist for the next eternity it feels like. Now, in its defense, it tries to do something properly out of it, not just an off-spin thing like most amnesia stories. On the downside it tries to make something properly out of it, not just an off-spin thing that lasts two seconds.

There's a lot of things I haven't mentioned, and I'm not sure how much further I'll read, it's becoming rather stressful to read. But suffice to say, if you've read "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!" you'll more or less be reading the same kind of story. If you loved that one, you're likely to love this one as well. But, if you're like me, and found the entire thing rather annoying, and tropey, despite its efforts to not follow tropes, then I suggest you leave it well alone. It's very charming and cute in the beginning, but I wouldn't say it's worth it.

Pathetic doesn't come close to describing the atrocity of this. Have you seen those one-second glibs that are looped for five minutes? Yeah... Every damn sex scene. Plot? What plot? Characters? What characters? Oh, you mean those dolls that are having sex. It's the creativity of a boy who has just discovered what sex is and has stolen his sister's barbies and is crashing them together in the imitation of sex. Don't bother watching it. Not worth it. I would give a worse rating if I could.

Plot? The end of the world. Whoops nevermind, it's not happening.

Why is there a minimum requirement for a review? ... What more can I say? The characters are none existential. The anime treats rape in the same way they always treat it in hentai. Like it isn't rape. It's the "oh, no, don't do it," in the driest tone possible. What was the budget? Did they even break even?

This might contain some spoilers, if you give a flip about not knowing I suggest you don't read this.
It's a furry anime, the animals looked good as far I could tell. The first two episodes were the high-point for me. it wasn't revolutionary plotline wise, and when her hands started stretching I went "oh gods". And downhill from there it went. The story was never anything new from the get-go. Outcast flees to outcast city to live there. I could predict every plot that happened before it happened, maybe the most astounding thing that happened, and that says very little, was in the baseball episode ... where they lost the baseball championship. And that wasn't very impressive either, I would feel rather more annoyed if they had won.
I've already mentioned the plot so let me mention it some more, it's filled with cliche after cliche. Able to predict the plot from beginning to end. It brushes over important things like inequity among beast-men, how living in such close quarters with each other causes them extreme built up stresses that aren't relieved which causes them to go into a "rampage" in other words kill all on sight. Instead of dealing with that on a real basis, they made it into an "it's the humans' fault" which was spotted long before it happened. Granted "it's the humans' fault" also turned into "I'm THE purebred wolf, and I'm the ruler, nay god of humanity."
It ticked all the boxes of cliches, one by one. In many ways, it was quite stressful to watch because of the sheer stupidity of it all.

I'll say this for the show, it had potential, it did pour it down the toilet, set it on fire and flushed it out and then exploded the pipelines, but it did have potential in the very beginning.
The "I was human" could have been more interesting.
The way they represented scent, in the beginning, was interesting, but they dropped that as well.
I wish they had gone more with the socioeconomic route of this show, exploring in a more natural way how the city works, its upsides and downsides. How living with so many different species in one place affects them. They really didn't address how there were carnivores living with herbivores and omnivores, and so on. It was really just "we're actually humans who look different. We'll only have animal traits (not talking about physical characteristics) when it suits the plot).

I'll confess I haven't watch beastars which I believe is a good comparison, not because I think the show is bad, but because the show is so good that it puts me through a lot of emotional stress which is very hard to deal with. Basically it hits too close to home, and they're far too human, which means very likely it's a fantastic show.

The plot is predictable if you have several years of reading, watching, and otherwise enjoying different kinds of media varying between books to anime and films. Don't let that stop you from watching it. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the plot is the weakest point, that is to say, it is indeed predictable. Don't expect Pratchett's level of humor or writing, or in general, ingenious.

The cast is huge, following largely three Kings, one lacking in memory (Shiro), who is, of course, the protagonist, and has his own little group. After that, there are two groups of lesser characters, Red-clansmen and Blue-clansmen. Two or three people you ... follow more closely than others.

This is a complete work, and although it has more after, at the moment my investment in the show has all but been completed. Which is really nice, it's not often I find anime that finish in the same season they started in. (I'm looking at you, One Piece, among others.) I strongly suggest, if you don't have anything else to watch or want to find something new, watch this, it was worth watching it to the end.

Anyways I'm rambling and tired, so I'll continue.

It's presented as a crime-mystery kind of deal. "I can't have murdered this person, but that certainly looks like me." At which point it spirals into a "who am I" in order to find what's ACTUALLY going on. It's a tragedy, which was an unpleasant, pleasant surprise. What makes this show a good anime are the characters and their interaction. Like I've said, plot vise, it's very simple and very predictable, but if you think of it as a story where the plot is an excuse to have the characters, although not entirely waterproof, a lot better.

Good points:
Good character(s) (interaction).
Not black and white, good and evil.
Good soundtracks.
Good, clean visuals.
Sometimes okayish flashbacks.
Tragedy.
Doesn't over-explain or hand feed you every little detail

Bad points:
Simple plot.
Too focused on Shiro.
Flashbacks.

I'll try to explain my opinions cohesively. This probably isn't the best idea I've had.
With such a large cast, it's impossible to get everything very exciting, or more than one dimensional. Which I think is fine. There is some, little, character growth, again I think that is fine. Not every story or every character needs to change in some way or another. Not everything is a life-changing process, and with thirteen characters, three main-casts, there really wasn't any time. This isn't GOT. And again, the anime gave a lot of attention to Shiro, which was meh, he wasn't a very interesting character, one way or the other. The clans and their interactions were way more interesting.

So, in accord with the guidelines, it's very hard to write a review without spoilers, which I always find ridiculous because I've put through so many "spoiler warnings" that I have a tendency to reject something out of hand if people insist of talking about it "without spoilers". In other words, I'm getting progressively more annoyed with myself, MAL, and writing this review for saying essentially not to put spoilers in. Ooh.

Anyway, the characters follow archetypes more than personalities. But it's their interaction with each other and the world at large that's interesting. Shiro is interesting only when he's being chased by someone else. That said he has good interaction with Kuro and Neko, his supporting cast. One which is his loyal pet and the other tried to kill him. Leading to some rather interestingly gay moments and tickled my fancy rather well without actually being sexual or gay in nature. Which is always a bonus, don't ask why it just is.

There is an antagonist, but he's such a tiny presence in the anime it's hard to even call him that, so for the intents and purposes, Blue-clan and Red-clan are the antagonists of the show. For their own purposes, they want to find Shiro. Funnily enough, neither of those clans are evil. Certainly, Red-clan supposedly causes more violence and destruction, but in their cases, it's more of shades of grey than good or evil. Pick your form of evil, essentially.

Flashbacks are mostly something I wholeheartedly reject and frequently complain about. Considering the slow but steady pace of the anime, there were instances where it was nice to see a flashback and other times where it was entirely unnecessary. Overfeeding information while providing little new information or context. Or the context provided wasn't needed. Like the origin of the Kings. Entirely unnecessary, entirely boring. So they pulled out the shitty version and the okay version.

So there are several things that the anime didn't explain, like new gimmicks, it was oh, gosh that gimmick appeared, wow, and then no explanation. I like that because if everybody knows what it is on sight, then how the hell are you going to naturally explain it to the viewer? And if it's important to know what it is, include it naturally in the story and don't have a character or "god voice" shove it down my bloody throat.

Shiro's arch is simple and one of the most predictable things in the entire anime. An overused trope, done in the way of tropes. And baptized in Trope.

Anyway. I'll end it here.
It's a good watch. It's not the best in the world, but I would recommend this to the right people. I don't know if, you who have gotten this far, are the right person. I can't tell you that. Give it a try. Like with broccoli, you won't know until you try it. And there are some really bad ways to treat broccoli.

This is a story about a girl who is reincarnated in another world, this doesn't matter at all to the story. On the good side, she starts from the very beginning: Birth. Becomes a maid without the aspiration of wanting to marry, (the principle is that unmarried women become maids as a way of finding a marriage partner) is recruited by a mage to become a mother to a child that can inexplicitly kill her. The first time they meet, this child is gagged and bound, crying inside a magical circle that's supposedly designed to protect her because the magician who adopted her thought that ... was a good idea. Lily forgets about this way too quickly, and so does the child, Jill.

The art is okay.
Characters:
Lily, the maid/mother suffers from protagonist syndrome. Simply she can do things just because. She also suffers from heavy-duty cluelessness
The magician, Leonard has a non-personality. He just sometimes says nice things without having a clue while doing stupid clueless stuff. He's forgettable.
There are three main spirts in this story: Sid the cat is clearly in love with Lily the maid. He's calm, handsome, and kind.
There's a girl: I can't remember what her name is, she's a tsundere who's in love with the third spirit.
Amdo is the third, and he's a bird. That's all.
The daughter, Jill, is sort of cute, in a forgettable manner. She says mommy and daddy a lot. And that's her personality traits. Be cute and say, mommy and daddy. A lot.

Plot/story.
The plot is pretty much a slice of life sort of thing with a decent, but an unimportant magic system. Which is probably why it's decent.
The story is forgettable at best, things happen, if you miss a chapter or two you haven't really lost anything.
Lily is the proclaimed royal maid, she can fix any issue almost instantaneously, and at least that's nice in a way because it prevents drawn-out drama like a lot of romance mangas suffer from. She can always spot a problem in the making and deal with it very quickly. E.g. Spirit-Girl is angry at her, she talks to her and discovers she's in love with Amdo the spirt. Problem solved. She talks with the wife of the crown prince discovers she wants children, shouts at the crown prince, Jill the girl enamors the crown prince with her girlish charms and he wants to make babies. Lily is nearly thrown in prison by the one person who doesn't like her. Anyway, this happens a lot. She can solve all personal problems. She can prevent people from fighting.
Anyway, so there is a good chunk of people that are in love with Lily secretly, Leonardo the wizard, two other wizards, Sid the spirit, several of the soldiers want to get to know her. And so on. She is majorly clueless. She can see everyone else's love affairs but her own.
This does influence the plot. The supposed romance between her and Leonard the magician goes nowhere because they are both clueless. In Leonard's case, I doubt he even knows what sex is, or love. Or anything romantically because that's how the writer heavily paints him. Even though women are apparently throwing themselves at him left and right.

Lily does die and is reincarnated into this fantasy world, but if you removed that it wouldn't influence the plot/storyline very much. She had a lover she pines over, she creates ketchup and mustard in this world, and knows a bit about menstrual cycles and trying to fall pregnant. And that's it. Her love died in a tragic accident, she loves to experiment in the kitchen, and because Leonard is rich beyond your beliefs, he can afford it. There you go, no need for an incarnation cycle. NONE.

As far as character conflicts there aren't any. Which is needed. it's all solved either instantaneously, not really addressed, or somehow it's okay.

Jill, the daughter, is abused by her guardian, Leonardo, the first thing Lily does is untie her, and say "we're going to talk about this" in what comes off as a stern tone. It takes a long time for her to actually do it I feel. And never does it in a meaningful way.

It's explained that Magicians when they are young especially, can't control their magic and when it goes out of control, they can easily kill people. Which makes them extremely dangerous. That's his explanation for why she was tied up, and Lily is just like okay. And she has a few words with Jill and the daughter is all like okay, I love you daddy. Trauma averted I guess. Oh, and she doesn't care that Jill could accidentally kill, doesn't bother her one bit.

There is also this thing where people with black hair has a high density of mana, which makes them particularly dangerous and therefore a lot of magicians in this world will just randomly ask Lily, "aren't you afraid of us" implying of course that they can kill her so very easily, and maybe not even on purpose. And Lily is just, nope we cool.
Her daughter nearly kills Lily because someone is denying that Lily is her mother, and Lily doesn't seem to care. She doesn't even deal with the insecurity that her daughter displayed by losing her temper in that situation.

Point is, there is a lot of potential good character conflicts that could lead to the characters growing. Only it never happens. It's always "we good".

If you want to read a romance manga, it's an okay read. It'll occupy your time, and there are worse. The romance feels forced and very slow. I wouldn't want to watch the anime because it would all just take too much time and be uninteresting to watch essentially.