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What I like about it:
+ That interesting idea in which the target of assassination teaches the killers to kill him. Yep. He even encourages them, and find all their hidden strength in each person and take it all out in the best way. Awesome.
+ The ending song. It works so well. I'm glad they didn't change it for 22 episodes.
+ This show will give you interesting lines and teach you how to navigate yourself and make your talent shine at its best while still being yourself. (some are kind of "you don't say", though)
+ You will never forget this iconic yellow octopus teacher, ever.

What I ... don't like about it:
- Have you ever find a scenario in movie where you feel like there's no way it will work unless the author want it to work? Something like an escape route that feel forced to exist, or a plan which obviously more risky but they ended up succeeding for no real reason. Yeah, you will find it here too, quite often.
- That outrageous school system is approved? Well, let's just assume all the parents, society and government in this world is just made of paper who will only say and act just to bring background story under the author's intention. Should be more interesting if the society is opposing this school.
- Occasional exaggerated metaphor. Oh, I can't spoil anything here. But really, sometimes the metaphors are just 'meh'. I'm not even sure if it's for comedy or serious thing.
- Another disappointing detail: That half-destroyed moon. Isn't that going to make changes to earth in one way or another? No? So apparently, it's just for show. A waste of idea.

What I feel indifferent about:
- Art is okayish.
- Plot is nothing exceptional.

Overall:
It's pretty fun to watch. The story is mediocre, nothing stands out. What's really interesting is the relationship between the teacher and his students, and of course, his teachings. Nice waste of time.

There are two kinds of people: those who watch mystery as comedy, and those who watch comedy as mystery.
Mayoiga is the one responsible for it.

-------- Story (3/10):
What would happen if a bunch of troubled people who want to run away from their life come together just to be lost and trapped in a mysterious village?
Apparently, Mayoiga gives you two answers:

1: The Mystery and Drama

It's quite good mystery to be honest, it makes you really curious about what actually happens there. Each episodes often ended with cliffhangers, and through out the series you will find yourself wtf-ing your screen. What actually happens next are often ... pretty shocking. However, don't expect any foreshadowing. This is the kind of mystery where you don't find any foreshadowing but the revelations keep on surprising you.
The Drama is... Well, some are cliche, some are rather interesting.
Then, at the end of the series, it tries to convey a kind of messages to the audience through the psychological drama, although a crappy one.
Regardless, I personally like the ending, it's not the boring optimistic happy ending, neither it is a completely bad ending.

All of those mentioned aspects would make a pretty good anime, if only you can ignore the other face of Mayoiga...

2: The Laughs.

There's a good chance you will look at Mayoiga as the "it's so bad that it's good" kind of anime.
There's some reasons you would laugh from this anime:
First, because those people are a group of not so logical people, how the characters react with some incident and interact with each other are often so weird and funny that you can't hold your laughs.
Second, is development that doesn't make sense, or just plain forced that it seems so funny.
Third, is awkward things which the show tries to tell in a serious way, but turns out to be so hilarious. Or, trying too hard to be unique, but ended up being awkward.
For example (minor spoiler) : A monster that ended up remind you of 'Digimon' and 'Thomas and friends', the monster should be scary but looks hilarious instead. Example for the later is a detective who constantly and literally check extra fat in her stomach whenever she think. Like, why?
Forth - is the plus, and actually related to the first point - is that some characters gives you rather catchy lines (in a hilarious way) frequently, like a constant buzzkill, which is very quotable or really worth for meme.

Now, I'm not even sure myself anymore if the show coincidentally making it so hilarious or the creator actually trying to put some funny aspect in it.

So is this 'laughs' part makes the show worse or better? Personally, I found it adds the enjoyment. lol.

Overall Story:

Let's check the whole story from the start. The first episode gives a solid feels of mystery and horror, perhaps you will expect some gore. Knowing the background idea, this series could easily promise a crazy and chaotic anime (in a good way). Which is why people has such expectation: A mysterious chaotic bloody massacre, or at least a kind of like Danganronpa.
But unfortunately, that's a wrong expectation.
Instead, it started as mystery and tried to graduate more toward psychological drama at the end.

Considering the background idea which it started and the final idea which it tries to graduate (which both are actually great ideas), Mayoiga is a perfect example of an anime with great idea but very poor execution - ended up somewhat hilarious.

-------- Characters (4/10):
- 20 characters. I'm not even sure if I can remember everyone correctly.

- The big number of characters create awkward-paced dialogues.

- The character development feels rushed and forced.

- Most are stereotypical, few are quite original.

- Wrong expectation is: They all have the same amount of role. The truth is: Some has major role, some has minor role, some just being there to make some laughs aspect in the series, some are just addition to the number - perhaps so that it feels realistic enough to have enough member (20 person) which make that fishy trip seems less fishy.

- There's around 5-8 characters that has no depth nor has any purpose to exist in the story. Perhaps their sole purpose are just to be the normal character that doesn't stand out, But the fact that they looks kind of unique, make us think that they're wasted. What's really wasted is when we think they're interesting but they actually don't have any role and we never get to know more about them.

- There's a lot of characters that until the end, we never know their dark past and why they're there trying to start over their life. Some people might say that the series clearly doesn't have enough time to do the right thing for the characters. Heck, even some pretty important characters doesn't have clear background story, meanwhile some random characters has clear back story. Regardless, at least we want to know everyone's story, no matter how short. But we never get it from this show.

- As mentioned before, the characters often make some weird/stupid actions and comments. Don't blame them for being illogical/retarded or accuse it as a bad writing. After all, that's exactly what the story is. They're troubled people whose soul/psyche hurt by their own life that they want to start over a new life as a new person, but unfortunately they are trapped in that panic anxious situation (albeit the anime show it with kind of awkward slow-paced mystery). Thus, It would be more irrational if they all are rational in their positions.

- The good thing is: the characters cast serve a fairly good mystery. The one you think is suspicious is actually just a red herring. The one you think doesn't have important role is actually a very important character toward the end - sort of like that.

-------- Music (4/10):
Opening is catchy and has a kind of dark feels.
Ending gives you the mood of hopelessness,
and the "unlucky hippopotamus" song is rather funny but disturbing.
There's this eerie soundtrack that reminds me a lot to a soundtrack in RPG that always there whenever I'm in a dungeon and near the boss room, which is nice especially when it plays in the last episode near the end of this anime.
the rest is... well, they don't catch my attention, to be precise, they're boring and bland.
The worse thing is, there's this part where it's showing a dangerous panic scene, and I'm pretty much sure I hear a music that sounds like soundtrack for comedic drama. I laughed despite what I see in the screen.
The thing is, sometimes this show will give you weird experience, since there's a chance you will be laughing while an eerie soundtrack plays in the background. Weird.

-------- Art (4/10):
I can't really give any comment here. Everything is average, but nothing is really boring or plain.
The character has diverse design and good.
But some of the monster looks strangely laughable.

-------- Conclusions:
Mayoiga is a strange anime - in a funny way. It's hard to find something as strange as this.
A fairly good mystery with hilarious things, the characters are done wrongly, and graduate as crappy psychological drama.
Try it if you still not sure, you will definitely know if you're interested to see it until the end through all the strangeness or just can't stand it.

Now, I can't just ignore an unusual show like this and say nothing.

---First, let's examine the genre.
Sora no method, at first, it is said to be Slice of Life and Sci-fi. That's actually an interesting mix. And with that cute character? Seriously, that's how I start to watch this show.
But the unusual part of this show is here. After one or two episode, you will notice that there's a hint of mystery here (surprised?). Not really suspenseful, though. But it will keep you tilt your head. You will be constantly pondering questions like: "why she's like that? why she want that? why she do that? ... why she didn't do that? what's happening here?" Yeah, and you can only keep watching this show, bearing all the boredom, just to know the answer. Perhaps it could've been great if only executed better. So is it worth as mystery? not as far as that.
So how good is the slice of life part, then? Well, to tell you the truth, I don't think it's slice of life of any kind. True, there's some part where you see cute girls doing slice of life things, but I think that is pretty common even in non-Slice of Life anime, especially anime nowadays, right? Rather than that, mostly you will often see a lot of people crying around people's relationship. So it's more like drama rather than slice of life, correct? So is it drama? Neither. How should i say? Even when the characters are in uptight situation, it doesn't feel uptight enough. You see people crying, there's no slice of life scene there, but the atmosphere still feels relaxed enough, even made you sleepy. Strange, huh? Don't even ask whether this show will make you cry or not. I really doubt that.
School? Well, I will say it's OK. they are students, and there's some club activities.
So what about the sci-fi part? Hmm... You can't say it's sci-fi just because there's UFO in the show, right? I mean, there's nothing scientific at all. The show doesn't even tell you where the instruction to call the UFO came from, or explain any background explanation worth to be sci-fi. They just somehow have it there from the first place. That's all. If we are in literature, it's more like a touch of magical realism rather than sci-fi. But it's also not even close to be a fantasy, as the only magical thing in the show is just that crystal UFO hovering above the town.
And so, i'm sure this part where Sora no Method doesn't succeed on bringing the merit of any genre, is one of the reason why this show is not popular.

---Next, let's see the story. Don't worry. No spoiler here. Maybe just vague minor spoiler. But still, skip this part if you want.
Sora no method is about a group of a friend. They're very close in the past. They had a special place to gather and play around. For some reason, they started to be separated. Several years later, when they finally meet again, they are having cold shoulder to each other. Apparently, there's a mysterious incident in the past which makes them troubled. At first, it appears as if a certain someone is the one who's supposedly to blame. But actually, every each of them is secretly hiding something related about the incident. This show will be about those group of friend trying to fix their relationship and strengthen their friendship with the help of a not-so-human cute girl. But unfortunately, if that really come true, something bad might happen.
Wait.
Sounds familiar? Yeah. While the other named AnoHana is a so-called masterpiece of tearjerker drama in anime world, this one called Sora no Method is not so popular.
Now, please note that the story I sum up above is just the big plot or main point of it. It doesn't mean Sora no Method is very much similar with AnoHana. Nope. The overall detail of the story will be very different. I mentioned AnoHana just to give you a better idea on the story of Sora no Method. If I may say, compared to AnoHana, Sora no Method has more positive vibes in it and much more relaxed feels. I will not spoil anything.
What else is different? The ending. Again, I will not spoil anything so watch it yourself if you want to know. It might not like what you expect.
The problem in the story is: it is boring. The execution is bad. The conflict cannot pull you in. You might even ask, why I even watch this?

---Then, what's good about this show?
The Art.
After watching it, the character design doesn't really stand out to me (maybe just those twin brother and sister)
But what's really stand out is the scenery, it's so beautiful. I really like the sunset, the lake, the monuments, the mossy observatory, the sunflowers, the meteor shower, and the sunflowers in the final episode. And especially, in one of the episode, you will see the most beautiful UFO ever! So gorgeous it will give you chills!

---What about the music?
Well, expect something sweet and beautiful from 'fhana'. If I could describe the music in a scenery, it will be like watching glittering star in a beautiful night sky. That kind of feeling.

---So, is it worth watching?
Only if you have time to waste. Or maybe if you need lullaby or some boredom in your fast-paced insomniac night.