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Well, good things first, this anime season is at least a bit better, than the first one, it is also one of the few at least passable game to anime adaptations. The music and art is okay, the art actually looks pretty nice, especially in fight scenes.
So ontonthe bad ones, literally everything else. Im an idealist type of person, but when the literal power of friendship is the ultimate power up, its a little sus, its not a power up in a resolve/spirit/fighting spirit kind of way, but a literal power up. Yeah, interesting. The plot is more confusing than any science above 5th grade ... level to someone with an MBA degree (Shoutout to all the prestigious universities out there doing fuck all), while the characters themselves are the definition of "if 8 year olds found out about DND, but could not read the rule book". The MC only speak every three to five business days (but its better than it was in the first season) and I dont want to spoil anything, so Im only gonna say, that the mystery about the Mc when it was finally revealed just was a huge letdown, but at least they tried. The other characters are passable, the female kinda Mc trio are actually exemptions from the aforementioned 8 year old's Dnd rule, as they are suprisingly well written.
I know its from a game, so Im inclined to not give that much flak to the anime itself, but they really made some weird deciwions with it. Trying to mend the game world and anime world together? -Didnt work
Trying to be a Konosuba clone then switching to a more emotional psychology approach - didnt really work out either.
I like idealistic, fun and light hearted anime, but only if it is either strictly fun (no unnecessary drama like here) or when it actually meets with great writing (like with Konosuba and Gintama).
So, TLDR: If you want some cute, but utterly pointless, confusing and straight up bad stroy about friendship or you just want to immerse yourself in a mobile game adaptatinm that is actually watchable, you should watch this (but please leave your brain in a safe place in the meantime, otherwise you will be prone to an aneurysm). The fine next to the six in the score is more of a fine just leave me alone, than a this is some fine gourmet shit, but there are way worse shit floating out there in this toilet of a world, so at least this anime makes it a bit better place.

I could not say this anime is bady but it was like watching an identity crisis unfold on a plate. The anime clearly tries to be more than it is (and it could have been), but lacks the effort to do so. I much preferred the slight mystery, or more like lack of explanation of the earlier episodes, rather than the later episodes where the overnarration made me want to hang myself and the supposed explanations just made everything weird and less understandable.
The charavters are mostly bland, but therenare a lot of them and most of the time they are fun to watch, but there ... is a lot of wasted potential there. One aspect I both liked and disliked was the world building, for a chill anime about a periodically appearing restaurant from another world it actually showed a fair glimpse of the other world in the characters backstories and trough the charavters eyes, but they left a lot.of questions, especially fundamental ones unansweres and there is not enough info to pierce together anything meaningful about the worls, other than basic geography, not even the character dynamics helps this (which mostly go unused sadly).
The art and music are pretty decent, especially the music, op is good and the ed is okay I guess, the bgm during scenes were well placed.
So my biggest frustrations about this show is that they did not know what they wantes to make, did they want a chill out restaurant story, a chill out fantasy story or a normal fantasy story?
No one knows and it shows, as the various plot points just beat each other to death with their stupidity most of the time, instead of complimenting each other (I can not write more about this without spoilers, but if you decide to watch it, this will be painfully obvious in the last 2-3 episodes).
So TLDR: All in all its a pretty chill out anime about a restaurant appearing sporadically in a fantasy world and having a lot of fantasy guests, but it wants to be an adventure fantasy or a full SOL at times and it they made these themes in such a bad way, that they cancel each others good points out.
It is still relaxing to watch tough if you turn your logical brain off.

This anime really feels like the writer/writers just had no idea how to write anything do they looked at some Z category Rosamunda Pilcher romance dramas and tought: Hmmmmmmmmm, this shit I will make, stop me, you can not *Lego yoda death sound*
The writer probably went like this:
Writer: How to write compelling characters?
Writer: Dunno
Writer: Hmmm, okay, but at least I should write a good setting with a good story for a romance, how to do that
Writer: Dunno
Writer: bbbbbbbbut at least I should be able to write good dialogue even if the characters are shit right?
Writer: Dunno, but what if instead of all these unnecessary things, ... we would just make High School musical with even more drama and even more annoying characters in a japanese anime setting?
Writer:...........
Writer: You son of a bitch Im in.

Have you noticed the unnecessarily high amount of quoting too many media to reference an idea, yeah, thats literally the dialogue of half of the characters, while the other half somehow has normal, but boring dialogue.
I dont want to go into why the plot is stupider than a dead gold fish, along with the characters being even worse, the other reviews did that way better already, you can read those for minor spoilers and brain cancer.
But credit where credit is due, for a romance anime the animation is pretty good and the music isnt bad either, not great, but better than average, a shaky 7/10.

So overall, if you like unnecessary shitty drama, dumber than literal rock characters and with a plot so shit that I cry for another season of Arifureta in the meantime (dont watch that either), then you will probably enjoy this while the surgeons remove your brain tumors, if not, please dont waste your time, as the series maybe will get better, but with such a bad start even if we would get AOT/One piece level in romance writing from the show it would not be able to make up for these episodes

So, this will be a preliminary review, as I could not force myself to get trough this anime, which I rarely do, but you will see the reasons in the review.

So, overall, I have seen way worse animes out there, altough this is the rare exception where the promise of the show was already pretty bad, usually its a great promise with shitty execution, this show had a shitty promise with an even worse execution.
The first episode used the words loli granny a lil to much, the humor is really just badly executed slapstick humor, but it has its ups actually, the jokes are pretty ... mediocre, but can be fun, except the sexual jokes (aforementioned loli granny being a bit too much into out MC for example), those are terrible and make the whole show just way worse. The characters are non existent up until now, world building also got thrown out the window in the meeting room (since this is a preliminary review its a lesser point from my perspective, please look up other reviews who actually suffered trough this, but they pretty much say the same). Characters are plainer than British food, no development for them or anything at all. Literally 1 minute backstories, which always gets thrown out the window the minute they meet our MC.
Art is mediocre, not bad, but just average, fight scenes are good, but they saved the money on the rest, it actually did not bother me, as Im more into the plot and characters than art, but if you are a visualsexual, you will not get a good rub out here. The music was also okay, forgettable, just like the art, neither bad neither good. Plot holes and illogical thinking is the bame of the game here, and even tough some say the anime does not take itself seriously, I have two points against that:
1. You can not take any logical fallacies and plot holes and say "Yeah, but they did not take it seriously" and be like thats a good answer, just because a comedy is supposed to be comedy, shit writing is still supposed to be shit writing. Yeah, the submarine engineers probably did not take themselves and the submarine seriously, but its all good, oopsie daisy.
2. While the anime most of the times aims for the comedy, there are actual serious moments, and from the other reviews serious fights and clashes going on, let alone speaking about the dark subplot at the beginning which affects the whole continent, so yeah, the anime at beast tries to pull a Gintama, but fails miserably.
Let me write out a scene which made me stop watching this whole show without as much spoilers as I can manage.
Two female characters to the FAMOUS INFO TRADER witch (Their own words - will be important) to ask for info about a lost person they are looking for.
Character one: We are looking for this person
Info trader: I dont bither with lost "insert title"
Character one: How did you know she is an "insert title", nobody said it.
Info trader: Oh shit I fucked up.
So to summarize, you go to an info trader to get info about someone, and they actually have info about them, you do the suprised pikachu face, and they to the suprised pikachi face about you doing the suprised pikachu face. Goddamn. This exchange kinda sums up the anime from my own experience and from reading other reviews here and on other sites, so yeah.
It can be fun sometimes, but overall this is shitty writing with shitty jokes trying to be a gold plate while not even making it out of the trash can.

Just an FYI before you decide to watch this anime, it has a suprising (even tho most of the time badly executed and overall not really good) plot twists in the first 4 episodes, so dont as you probably can deduce from the tags, dont expect a typical fantasy show, thats the most I can write about that without spoilers.
Now onto the review.
This whole show is weird, but not the good kind of weird, altough it is pretty early you judge that, as this weirdness can lead to interesting story developments. My biggest pet peeves with this anime is that it feels like it wasnt ... tought out really well, it is riddled with plot holes in the first few episodes, for which we should have had the answers already as they are pretty basic things (hope they will correct that on the oncoming episodes, but probably not) and that the anime itself doesnt know what it is or what it wants, like watching a constant identity crisis on the screen.
The anime in itself is not that bad, but it needs a whole lot of better story development and just overall development in the oncoming episodes to overcome the constraints it set on itself for no reason. But at least the op and ed slaps tho.

Humor is subjective, luckily this anime is factually just bad, no need for subjective opinions, the only good thing about this is at least what you see in the first episode is more or less what you get in the others, only with an increasing amount of characters (Its only 4 episodes out when I write this, so we will see if this remains true).
I have two theorys about the creation of this anime, both being equally bad for the creators.
First, this was supposed to be a Nichijou type weird/comedy/SOL anime, but they took all the wrong turns, they selected all the wrong dialogue options
The ... second being more plausible and honestly sadder, is that they just wanted to capitalise in the roaring meme industry and pulled a "how do you do fellow kids" move and tried to sell this off as something funny and watchable.
In short, the characters are pretty bad, even for a "comedy" anime, the setting is just dafuck level bad and tieing into that is the gag humor (the setting, or more like the lack of any character with an IQ of above room temperature (in Kelvin) is supposed to be reinforcing the gag humor) just does not stick. Its like they throw a handful of shit in every minute at your face from the screen and see what sticks. It can be a good tactic, but here it is not. I think this is a prime example of what happens, when the marketing team decides to make an anime as a quick cash grab, because #relatable#memes#brainrot#buymerch

To be fair there are way worse animes out there and we did not get to see the full season of the anime, so it can get better (doubtful), I would not give it big hopes tough.

This is one of those anime, where 1. The writers had no idea what they wanted to make 2. after scraping together their braincells enough to write something they still were not good enough writers to make their point subtly with normal settings, so they were like: Hmmmm, what if we make the setting, that literal man eating beasts are human like (antrofomorph is something, I dont know how to spell it, basically hard furries), but are discriminated against, then 100 year war broke out between them, beasts slightly won and now are racists against the humans instead of the other way around.
I mean, aside ... from the characters being boring, the setting and story being bad and lazy as fuck and the art being subpar, the characters somehow tend to forget their own story, and are only racist when the plot wants them to be, like a switch goes on in their minds or something.
Also, I cant really fathom how is this a love story, let alone shoujo, when the whole premise of the show is that there is a han sacrificed every year for the beasts, but at least the side characters have some interesting personal developments (instead of the MCs).
So, thats about it, there is nothing else worth mentioning about this.
Anyone who compares this piece of garbage to Beauty and the Beast (not the OG Grimm books one, we have the adjective grim as a reason in english), they are kinda the reason Disney is unable to produce anything other than toughtless garbage these past few years, and please dont disgrace the OG Disney Beauty and the Beast with comparing it to this garbage.

Im not even going to pretend that I want to write a comprehensive critic/review about this series, but lets do a shorter review without much spoilers.
It took me around 50 minutes to watch the first 24 minute episode, because such shit happened, that every 20 seconds I had to pause and look at the imaginary camera, with an "are you fucken kidding me" look.
The story doesnt really have any direction and it deals with sudden tone shifts in a very bad manner, the first, around 6 episodes are lighearted mostly, then it throws you into some tragic backstory/loss/after all this found new purpose thing, but ... the funnieat thing, is that it goes literally nowhere (I dont know about the sequel seasons) and goes back to a lighthearted adventure right after. How? Why? I dont know.
Mc is as op as you can get, but one thing that I liked is that even tough the story, charactera and fights were boring and honestly pretty shit they were consistent and the writers at least forced some creativity into the fighting techniques, at least in the beginning, after that they got a bit lazier. And that kinda sums up the series, characters and the whole world, whose only purpose is to cater to the mc in some way for some reason. No originality or depth found for either of them. The other good thing is the concept of the mc actually building a community and not just fucking off into the sunset, even tough ita pretty badly executed, it was a good concept.
The music is forgettable, at least the voice actors did a good job and most cenes have a fitting bgm.
The art is really something, it is a bit better than average most of the time, but there are segments where you feel like you are having a psychotic episode after eating a bit too much from your friend's funny brownies, the art style completely switches to some unhinged I dont even know what.
So the anime is pretty average or bad, based on your expectations, but if you literally turn your brain off and just watch the episodes without a single tought behind your eyes, it can be a fun anime, hence my score being 6.
This anime is seriously overrated/overhyped in my opinion, but that has more to do with the fans than the anime itself, so that is not paet of the score, just an fyi.

Ah sh*t, here we go again.
So, this anime is about an introvert kinda gamer boy, who is also shy and never had a girlfriend (original, am I right), who one day on a dare asks out the most popular (pretty fake) gyaru girl from his class (and possibly the most popular in school). He is ready to be rejected as he has feelings for her (a crush), but to everyone's suprise she says yes, and to lest give it a chance.

So, I will try to continue to write without spoilers from now on.

Story: I liked that in the story, the writers sometimes present a more ... mature and realistic way of romance and relationships (loke talking about sex in a healthy, not pervert way, talking about the need to support each other and help with each others past traumas, 16 year olds having the body of adults but not mature enough so they get i to 2-3 months realtionships mostly for sex), the romance between the main couple actually feels well paced and organic for like 10% of the time.
And now comes the remaining 90%.
Like damn, the writers really did not k ow what to do here. Lets start by saying that the Fmc is a 16 year old whore (okay, okay, she just had some issues, which was never expanded upon so I can cut her some slack, but I will write about this more in the characters section).
Most of the time, instead of the more mature and honestly way better starting attitude to romance, the series devolves into indirect kiss and handholding, aint no way (you maybe get pregananananat).
Its hard to write without spoilers, but as you have seen above with the Fmc, this is a very "I have zero idea whats going on" moment from the writers.
Then you have moments, where you just look at the window after watching them, and think like "Am I that stupid, or they are", moments where the story is so forced into drama and conflict, or forced to get out of conflict that it physically hurts to watch.
I would have more about the story, but for the sake of spoiler free review, lets move on to the characters (Not that there is really a coherent story anyway). Have I ever mentioned how stupid the story and the things that keep happening are?
No, well, they are.

Characters: Generic, 2d, average maybe even bad, plain stupid, thats how I could desribe them. The generic fake gyaru Dmc, with the generic kind introvert gamer nerd Mc. The show shows some promise in this department in the first few episodes, as we see that their actions have some semblance of motives, past traumas that needs to be conquered, the characters are not only what they look like, but it is left hanging, as these are never expanded upon, you can make a hedcanon out of them, but no depth was given to the characters.
On that note, the side characters are as generic as they can be, not to mention they only are there when the story needs them, they dont really exist outside of that, or at least not shown.
Generic I will hurt you if you hurt my bestfriend but in gyaru form - check
Generic introvert gamer nerd friends, who piss themselves when a girl talks to them - check
Generic everyone talks about me behind the main couples back (except their friends) background characters - check
Generic other love interest, who tries to steal Mc - check (to be fair, she is the most well tought out character in the whole show, but its still very weakly written and never expanded upon, so that says something).

Music: To be fair, the bgm and op and ed were good, nothing out of left field, but they made the show much better.

Art: This is another department the show lacks, the character designs are simple, which would not be bad, but they are either moving very awkwardly or only be seen in still shots, and the background looks like someone throw a paint bucket at a canvas most of the time, so pretty bad all in all.

So, this series is another let down, it showed some promise at the beginning, but it was probably never the writers intention to make a masterpiece out of this, only to make some quick buck from lonely weebs who got no otber romance anime in the season.

Well dear reader, where to even start.
I will start by saying, that Im probably a little over critical with the series, as Im tired.of half assed cash grab lazily written pilea of nothings marketed as animes, even tough this series is probably not better than my score in a more objective light (this looks to be affirmed by the other, better written reviews).

First, the story. Oh my where to start with that. This is basically a Rosamunde Pilcher or any C category romantic happy ending drama copy. They just made it into anime, but everything is literally the same. I literally saw this same story ... in one of those films, of course with different characters and not set in Japan, but 90% of the story was the same. The story is just, well, meh, average, kinda bullshit, you get the point. Without spoilers, there are some secrets and plot twist you see from miles away, they are all bullshit and lazily written anyway (the whole setting is that).
The thing that bugged me, is that the writers had absolutely zero idea about Luxembourg or European culture at all, other than from a quick wikipedia article and google search. It would have been a way better idea and story if they made an anime about their own princess abandoning the royalty for love. I can kinda understand the japanese now, who hate weebs who think they know everything about Japan while only watching animes and never doing a minute of research.
The only good thing about the story, is that they knew it was shit and it probably would only live for one season, so they wrapped it up in the season, they did not leave an unnecessary cliffhanger, where you would be needed to buy the og source material to know what happened to the characters you could not care less about.

The characters and the way they are written is just infuriating at this point. A slice of life or romantic series lives or dies by its characters (to be fair, good characters can save almost even the worst stories, but not vice versa), and this series died by a lot of wound, one of them the aforementioned characters.
The best character is the Mc's cat AKA Nyanko big the big boss, and we only heard his toughts for like an episode (if I remember correctly we heard his toughts in some episodes for a few lines later, but thats it). Our Mc is dumb as rocks and it was never explained why, other than his tragic backstory, which was also not explained properly, and it was not explained how it affected him either. Our Fmc is just a cheery girl, thats her personality, the side characters are meh, we never get some real depth to them other than some forced story bits or interactions, and their personality is completely restricted to their assigned position in the story (for example, the ever supporting, but eccentric bestfriend, is literally that, he has no other toughts behind his eyes other than being a supportive homie by doing dumb shit and being a self proclaimed, albeit with some proof chick magnet, or the bodyguard/beast friend bestie of the Fmc, her personality being a tsuntsun, scary I will protect Fmc from everyone type of sthick). The story tries to build some humor around the characters, but it becomes tiring real quick, when the no progression + shit characters + slapstick humor combo hits, it hits harder than any Super Smash Bros character combo.

The music was okay, nothing bad, nothing sock blowing.

The only aspect where the anime shines is the art, it was clean and beautiful, very crisp, it gave a cheery tone to the whole anime, which would have been fitting, if not for the bad story machinations.

So all in all, if you are a caveman, who coincidentally can understand japanese, or a sub/dub language and you have as much emotional IQ as "haha, women, haha men, go in cave, good time be", then this series is for you, if you do not fit the above descriptiom, you will just waste your time watching this.