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Since I did not see this talked about in the other reviews:

This is a very high grade battle anime.
The animation in the fight scenes is superb!
Only in a dedicated martial arts animation scene from a movie, or a dedicated, high budget martial arts series, are you going to see this kind of quality.

Absent are many cost saving measures of the genre, like reused animations,
or extreme closeups/motion-blur/pauses for exposition.
The framing makes it so that the moves that characters make are clearly visible, and so that the choreography can be seen clearly.

All this, as well as the excellent sound design, make the fight scenes very impactful, at ... least to someone such as I,
and I have returned several times to rewatch some of the fight scenes.

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The story is a pretty simple hero's journey,
which apparently infuriated some people, judging by the other reviews,
but I could find nothing wrong with it. It is Shounen after all.

It takes its time for a very profoundly executed, very emotional sub-arc in the first third of the Anime, which is not common in the genre.

The characters are very archetypal, but done in a sincere and endearing way,
and realistic enough to not be complete stereotypes.
The most stereotypical stuff is done for comedic effect, mostly.

The main character in particular is very simple, but he has clear character motivation.
Although a simple one, he has a reason to fight and to grow stronger.
Something that is sadly often missing from MCs in Shounen battle anime lately.

The title of the anime is a little misleading, because the Harem aspect of the anime is very underplayed throughout the whole season.
Compared to other Anime I would subscribe that label to, here it too is used mostly as comic relief.

I saw Danmachi compared to SAO a lot, and it certainly has a lot in common setting-wise.
If you have seen the first season of SAO, you can imagine this as being similar to the first half of the first season.
It is however not as much of a power trip as that one.
Although the MC in Danmachi has become fairly strong by the end,
he is still leagues below most of the Characters he hangs around with.

Since I enjoyed this Anime way more than I expected I would,
I would recommend anyone who likes the genre even a little to watch it.

5/10 - How the Mighty have fallen.

Since the reviews here are all extremely positive, and since I watched the last two seasons back to back, I'm gonna review them both.

First of all, for anyone who has not yet watched the series:
The first 2 seasons are amazing, and the third one (movie) is very good!
After that the quality drops quickly though.

Where in earlier seasons the anime revels in showing drifts, and mixing up closeups on the steering wheel and pedals with shots of drifting tires and the rear of the car coming very close to the guardrails, all while awesome eurobeat music is playing,
in the last ... two seasons, less and less attention was put into these cool moments.

Where in the earlier seasons the commentary from former rivals on the roadside was ecstatic and interesting, hyping up the race even more,
in the last two seasons, it is monotone and boring, and much more about pseudo-philosophy than about technique.

The animation quality dropped extremely over the course of the series, after peaking in the second and third season.
This is probably due to harsh budget constraints,
since the Anime was serialized in a very unusual pay-per-view way in the last two seasons.
The clunky 3D-animated cars of the first season are something I longed for all throughout the last three seasons, since it allowed for long, smooth shots of drifting cars, but even this seems to have been above the budget of the series at this point.

Last but not least, the pacing of the races:
Where in the first two seasons there were normal races mixed in with bunny races, starting with the Third Stage, the series was all-bunny race all the way, and it shows in the uncreative ways the races end.
After this point 90% of the races seem to be decided by spin-out, which made every race's conclusion more boring than the one's before.
This coupled with less and less interesting opponents, lead to the last two seasons in particular becoming a drag to watch.

It took a lot of willpower to not drop the series after the fifth season,
but it took even more to not drop it within the sixth one, or skip to the last episode.

When an anime I used to enjoy immensely changes into something I need willpower to sit down and watch, I cannot give it a better score.