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Cliche? Check
Randomly warped to another world? Check
Harem? Nope

Kenja no Mago, for much a terrible show that if you watched it you should feel ashamed for it, but is it really this trash as people make it looks like? The real answer is not really. BUt why then, why is it so bad-talked? This can me summed up in one word: "Expectative". The expectative that we finally get another good-writen isekai show, which we've been absent of one since Hai to Gensou no Grimgar aired, mind you. But what dows this have to do with anything at all? Well, it's simple, it's entirely like how some ... people go watch Violet Evergarden expecting action and find it boring instead, much like so, people went watching Kenja no Mago expecting the new Re:zero or the new Overlord.
Which is completely wrong, since in any point at all KnM stablished itself as as a Good-Written or original show. With this in mind, I'll start with which are the real problems of this show.
First of all, being an isekai. This should never ever be considered a problem or negative point, but for Kenja, it is. Think about it, it's completely unnecessary for Shin to be transported into another world, since he starts as a baby anyways. What's the real point of it being an isekai show aside from commercial and popularity values? There isn't any at all, he could have very well been just a normal citizen of the world, he's the grandson of the most powerful character in the show at the beggining, nothing would have changed at all.
Secondly, TOO MANY CHARACTERS. KnM has way too much relevant characters, which that if they would get any development, the entire 12 episodes would have to be dedicated to each one, which obviously didn't happen at all, and ironically, the villain is the one to get an entire episode on his story and the only to get some "development"(if you can count that as development lol)
And third, the is no plot nor an objective until we get to episode 10 and 12 respectivelly. Which is really ironic, because one of the only advantages of writing an isekai is that you always can use the cheap objective of the MC wanting to return home or know why he was transported into this world. But like I said, it's isekai just for having an easier time into getting popular :v, and the show instead focuses on showing us the Slice of Life of Shin and the training of the other 11 friends.
With all this negative points, is there even anything good on this show? Well, there is, it isn't the biggest relevant stuff, but it's something that at least puts it above other isekais like Smartphone or Valkyria.
First of, KnM isn't a Harem, this is weirdly a big plus to me, even tough I like harem, and it also does not use the infamous "dere" copy-paste personalities that almost all other isekais do use, which in itself is also a Double-Edged Sword, as since the author opted for not using a copy-paste personality, he didn't create a remarkable personality at all for a bunch of the characters. But why is this a positive point? This leave the author free to develop those said characters in the future(at least in the Light Novel, as I know there isn't gonna be a second season).
Second, Shin is not the only overpowered character, unlike ALL other isekai(except Grimgar), which characters exist only for being romantic pairs, harem members or comedy fodders. Which means that the author can show the training and the development of said characters, fact which becomes evident in the last two episodes, where they use their team-work(which for the first time in generic isekais, was actually shown them practicing, in fact, until episode 9 almost all we get are their everyday lives and training), and if Shin is, for example, the equivalent of "Jiren", his friends are "Goku Super Saiyan Blue", where even tough Shin is the strongest, his friends aren't just rescue fodder for shin, and rather companions. And this opens up the possibility of the author doing better and better fights in the future.
Kenja also has an interesting, but not much explored Magic System, which sometimes are shown shin applying formulaes that he knew from past life into his magics, as example on the flying magic were he manipulated the gravity.
The animation, well, it's not my strongest point to judge this, but it's not bad. It has a bright and colorful color palette that did translate well the overall mood of the show, it had decent action scenes and the most important, the magic effects were explendid, which since this is a magic anime, this should be an important aspect, right?
Soundtrack wasnt too shabby either, nothing remarkably, but I enjoyed the OP, which was very creative to me.
In a final evalutation. Kenja failed in being something new, and was a good example of "More of the Same", in an isekai meter of evalutation, this gets a 7, it was infinitely better than Smartphone and Valkyria, but it isn't anything new either, and cant compete with Re:Zero. In an overall anime rating I give it a 5, as an anime it was right in the middle, wasn't trash as people forced it to be, but isn't the greated thing ever. Summing it up and taking the medium, it gets to the 6 grade. Which summed with my personal taste modifier gets it a 7, which is the value that will be on my profile.

Tensei Slime is THE isekai of the season, with a great first episode, it presented a relatable main character and how he ended up getting into another world but in a slime's body, all of this on a great animation budget and a good background music. I personally enjoyed it very much. The plot itself wraps p pretty originally and in a good way it connects up beetween events, in a not-rshed pace everything gets developed in a way that you get to really like most of its characters.
Rimuru himself is the star of the show, this cool slime fella is imensely cool, cute and ... pretty likeable, he is a good guy, everyone in the anime likes him, everyone watching the anime likes him, he's the kind ideal protagonist a show should have, and most of all, he's original, I mean, when did you see a talking genious magician slime before? I say, never! He being a slime is the main reason everyone likes him, he's jsut original, if he was a simple teenager japanese boy, it wouldn't be the same thing.
Most of the sub-characters are great, we get to know the goblins(which in this anime are good, as opposed to the goblins in a certain other anime), they're carismatic, they're likeable. Same thing can be said about the wolves, tough less carismatic, the leader of the bunch is pretty cool.
Animation-wise this anime is great, I simply love the opening theme's animation, it's really well done, as well as the general animation, nothing feels bad or rushed in it.
OST, except for the great OP theme I don't think there's something really great about it, quite forgetable I must say :/

And that's about it, a more great than good story, a outstanding art, a ok music, a great character and of course I had a outstanding enjoyment.
Overall a great show with imense potential.

Death March to a Parallel World Rapsody is very refreshing and relaxing anime, it's not great desconstructor like Konosuba or Rezero was, but it did well on what it tried to do and that is, nothing. Yes, you did not read wrong, this anime is a very simple Slice of Life on a parallel world, nothing more, nothing less. At the start of the anime, you see a little of Satou's past life, as a proggramer, to me that was actually very important and fresh, because I always found myself asking: "what the hell Kazuma or Subaru did on their past lives". It's just something ... that won't matter anyway to the main plot of most isekai anime, but it's nice to see more of the character, even tough Satou may be seen as an self-insert character(to me he is, as I'm also game developer), not everyone can relate easily to him, expecially his logic. I mean, most of you would like to be some kind of overlord on another world, but to Satou and to myself as well, he did the right choice, of hiding his powers and make himself as a simple merchant. Even though he is most probably the stronger person on that world. But what he want is really enjoying a happy life with the girls he took to be their guardians. I mean, they may be his slaves as that world says, but he takes care of all of them, as if they were his child. Unfortunately the only female characters with some sort of relevance or at least a bit developed is Arisa, so I'll get to her in a bit. First of, Arisa in the inside is a grown-up woman from japan, as is Satou, so her action do make sense, even though she is in a child's body. She also is the character responsible for most perverted moments in this show.
Another strong point of this anime, in my opinion, is the Art, the characters and scenery are beatifull, even though the animation lacks a lot, a few episodes had action enough to take the score down, so for the part of illustratring the scenery and characters, silver link did a well done job. The sound is also gorgeous, both OP, ED and the music at the end of episode 10 are magnific, as well as the BGS at overall.
You can't say I didn't enjoy this anime because I really enjoyed it up, it was a very refreshing anime with the "another world" theme.

In overall, this anime is better appreciated if you like isekais and can get through the first episode, as it makes the anime look like another battle isekai.
In summary:
Story 5
Art 9
Sound 9
Character 7
Enjoyment 10
Overall grade: 8

This is my favorite series of all time(anime+novel), so maybe some parts may be just me. Okay let's start, this anime has been adapted from the Light Novel by the same name written by Shimizu Yuu, it has that cliche feel to it at the start but the story only gets better as it goes on, unlike most other harem series(zero no tsukaima, I'm talking to you), what I mean is that while this does not have that unique setting that most people want, there's actually a very big world built and it's very well used as the story goes on.

Now let's talk about ... the anime's individual parts.

Story 9/10:
Why I'm not giving 10 since I said the story is that great? It's because I'm rating the anime, not the novel, the anime cut off some parts from the novel, but it's nothing of a big deal.
Soooooo, the story starts with Kamito, male MC on the forest looking for the Areishia Spirit Academy, when he meets the most probably main love interest, Claire, she's a cute redhead, but she's tsundere. Kamito then gets to the school and soon meet the other girls of his Harem.
Does not sound original does it? Yeah, does not but that's the start of the story only, if you think this would be just a magic school with harem, then you're deadly wrong and I'll explain why.
Lots of times you'll see the antagonists points of view and they all have reasons and motives of their own to do what they do(though Eva Farengart does not get developed at all due to them having to cut less important stuff), even so sometimes it's predictable to know what will happen and sometimes it won't be.(Like when you would expect Kamito to beat Jio on their first encounter) with there's not much to talk about the Story in the anime as nothing much happens and Areishia Academy arc of the story is mainly just to develop the main characters and their relationship as well as introduzing the bases of the story.

Art 9/10:
I'm not picky with Art, but Seirei I think it's really good, not as good as Boku no Hero or No Game no Life though, but the animation is top notch and really fits the anime.(Just hate the damm fog that won't let me see Claire at the first episode.)

Sound 9/10:
Well this . is much subejective, but I think the BGMs are all very good and really fits the anime. I also really love Shukusai no Elementalia and Holy Domain songs, I think they're supposed to be a second ending/opening? The actual op from the show is average though, it's that kind of type it's best enjoyed if you like the show. On the other hand the actual ending is very catchy and is my favorite anime ending of all time.
Characters 9/10:
Kamito Kazehaya: Male protagonist, he's a very capable Harem protag for once, I mean, he's not dense, not wimpy, not a pervert and is actually capable of fighting in combat, unlike many other Harem protags who can't fight that much. The only thing I do not like about him is that when he was 13 years old he cross-dressed and became a trap character. :|
Claire Rouge: Probably the main love interest and the first girl to join Kamito's Harem. She's an arrogant bitch ojou-sama that's awfully bad at cooking, but her love for Kamito is the most strong, but since she's Tsundere she won't show it. However Kamito does know that she and the other girls like him and he says later on the Light Novel that he can't correspond because he already like Restia and that if he takes them, they won't be able to use magic anymore. He talks that to himself though.
Rinslet Laurenfrost:
"You mean character from Harem the least developed?"
Google about Rinslet.
Jokes aside Rinslet is a ojou-sama, she's tsundere but not as much as claire, but she's really tsundere when it comes to Claire, since she won't admit she likes her as a friend and keeps telling they are enemies.
Ellis Fahrengart:
Ellis is the captain of Sylphid Knight and hates Kamito, but when he saves her from Jio later, she joins his Harem. She's not really tsundere but she does feel ashamed when weird stuff happens.
Fianna Ordesia: The naughty princess that wants to make Kamito hers at all costs, she was once save by Kamito when she was 13 and is in love with him since then, when she joins Areishia Academy just to met Kamito she feels sad he does not remember her.
Terminus Est:
Well, you can't spell "Best Girl" without Est in it, she's Kamito contracted spirit and has a human form as a cute kuudere loli, she also does not care to be naked, as long she has her kneesocks on, to her she's only naked if her legs are exposed. She's really nice and don't you dare drop this anime before she appears. If you'll do, I'll know and you'll see what happens. hehehehe
Other characters:
Greyworth Ciel Mais: She's the Areishia Academy principal and a hot woman.
Jio Inzagi: Best character of the anime.
Restia Ashdoll: Oops spoiler from the Light Novel.

Enjoyment 10/10:
It's my favorite.

Overall 10/10:
I give my grades mostly on enjoyment and story, so I choose 10.

I watched this anime because my sister forced me to.
I found the story interesting at first, but it disapointed me, it had everything to be an amazing anime, but because of it's poor storytelling, organization and logic, it had me feel sad.
I don't know why it has SO MANY fans.
Maybe cuz Kirito is OP and everyone wants to be like him, oh my god.
I liked the opening and even downloaded it's mp3 to my cellphone, the art was cool and well drawn as well.
Characters are bland without personality, expecially the protagonist, Kirito, I think even Klein would be a better protagonist, because at least, Klein ... is newbie and would have room to improve, has personality as well.
Kirito: OP as hell and without personality.
Asuna: Cute but weak and useless.
Klein: Cool but unused, has personality, my fav character.
Yui: MOTHERFOCKING stupid Deus Ex Machina.
Silica: Cute loli, okay to me.
Liz: Best girl.
Suguha: Incest girl.
Generic elf, firend of Sugu: Generic and useless.

Villains:
Stupid the two.

Enjoyments:
I won't say I hated it, but it was medium-low to me, there are better ones out there.

Overall: 4.