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I wasn't sure about writing this review to be honest, but after watching the 9th episode (the latest at the time of writing this) I had to.
I'll write it with my usual structure, but there will be some heavy spoilers in this one, so be warned.

Story and characters: 2/10
The story revolves around Yamamoto Mito, a beautiful girl that "was never loved by anyone" and was rejected by her family because she was too beautiful. When her parents died in an accident she was passed around by relatives who all rejected her for being too beautiful, and she, for some reason, got into the habit of ... crossdressing and pretending to be a boy. When her last relative threw her out, she began working and living on her own under the guise of being a boy (a disguise that somehow fools anyone and everyone, despite her literally looking like a girl, never acting masculine, and never disguising her voice...). Mito is however always fired, not because she's a bad worker but because "he" is such a beautiful boy that it disrupts business...
Depressed, Mito stands on a bridge, contemplating suicide, but ultimately deciding not to, when a weak gust of wind somehow pushes her over the end. Then she's rescued during the fall by the heir to the vampire world, Ruka, who offers her, or "him" to become his blood bank slave, as he can't drink from women due to past trauma. Mito accepts and begins her/"his" life going to Ruka's school and workplace, as well as trying to love and be loved by Ruka, so that her blood can taste less disgusting (blood tastes bad in this story, but gains a delicious strawberry taste when the person have experienced being loved and cared for a lot). There she meets traumatized "bad boi dhampir" Ren, who's mother abandoned him at at the age of 4 or 5 to run off with his vampire daddy. Ren becomes the second love interest and things develop from there.
The story is a goddamned mess, and it and it's characters are all so stupid that I felt like a Bloodborne Brain Sucker was leeching off my brain while watching it. The pacing is bad, and the story takes the most cliched and stupid tropes from both the BL and romance genres and ramps it up to 11. Mito is quickly loved by everyone, despite constantly moaning and inner monologuing about how no one loves her, when Ruka finds his "Destined Partner" she will be alone again (yea, Vampires can only become true vampires in this world by finding and shacking up with their "destined partner" which they will love eternally), and that she has to please Ruka and make her blood better tasting for his sake... By episode 3 Ruka has already fallen for our MC(though he is in denial), and by the 2nd episode from Ren being introduced he is as well. Already in episode 5 or 6 Ren confesses to Mito, but convenient fireworks make her not hear him(the tropes...) and he is perturbed by how gay he is. Ren later finds out Mito's secret and both confesses again, as well as steals a kiss from her in episode 8, whilst Ruka is away at a vampire gathering to find out about his destined partner. After Ren's kiss, Mito runs off (dressed as a girl) and runs into Ruka, who just got back, and he finds her to be his destined partner, as well as the girl who traumatized him as a kid, when they were apparently BFs and he suddenly sucked her blood.
Episode 9 concludes with Ren turning 17 and suddenly gaining a special dhampir power... the power to make one wish come true, if he wishes whilst drinking the blood of the first person he ever loved (Mito obviously), and he uses this once in a lifetime, law of the universe bending power, by tricking Mito, to turn Mito into a real boy, because he already loved Mito before finding out that she was a girl, and by doing so he can both commit to being gay, and avoid Mito being taken away by Ruka as Ruka's destined partner (as destined partners have to be of the opposite sex), AND I QUIT!
Usually I would talk about the characters, but they're so bland as if to be non-existent in this shit-show. The only personality in this show is Mito's "woe is me, I need Ruka", Ruka's "I love magical girls", Ren's "I'm a sad boi, and my dad stole my mommy away", purple-hair's "I'm the cute girly guy and love atomic blonde", and atomic blonde's "girls, boobs!"...

Art and sound: 7/10
The only actually good thing about the show is the art and sound. The art is the regular shoujo, big eyed girls and pretty boy band bois deal. The voice acting is quite good, and the soundtrack and background noises are competently done.

Overall: 4/10
This show is bad, not un-bearably bad, but enough that probably only those who truly needs to have that itch scratched can really enjoy it. I was on the fence about dropping the show up until episode 9, but when Ren suddenly, out of nowhere, uses a never-before-mentioned power to turn Mito from girl to guy, I just said: "Fuck this shit. I'm out".
Just to preface this, I am a guy. I am not gay, but I have found enjoyment in many shoujo manga and anime, both straight and BL ones, but this shit was just too much. I'm saying this having enjoyed things like Rosario Vampire and UraBoku.
Unless you really need to scratch that itch, you're probably better of not watching this absolute travesty of storytelling.

Gekai Elise, aka Elise the Surgeon, follows Elise, a formerly selfish noble woman from another, early renaissance period-ish world with some magic, that was reborn into our world after being executed for her crimes in her original world. Suddenly guilt-ridden, she spent her new life (as an unwanted orphan of course) training to become and becoming a world famous surgeon, saving lives to make up for her sins in her former life. She gets famous for the fact she never has made any mistake in any surgery or examination, being haled as a miracle.
On her way to an important conference and an important surgery on ... the other side of the world, her plane crashes, and she literally saves every passenger, despite her organs literally hanging out of her body, collapsing and dying just after saving the last other person, as the rescue personnel rushes towards her. She wakes up, having been reborn into her old life as Elise de Clorence in her original world, a few years before the events that led to her execution. She decides to change her fate, and that of the whole country, by becoming a surgeon there as well, continuing her work, instead of becoming empress/queen. She makes a wager with the King to this extent, and goes under-cover in a hospital as an assistant to prove her worth.

Story & Characters: 5,6/10
The story is fine enough, but there's really nothing special about it. It has an enjoyable, but not complex plot. Elise's world seems to fit an early renaissance, yet they have medical knowledge and tools, like those from the early 20th century, with medical terms picked straight out of our modern medical world.
Most of the problems with the story revolves around it's characters, despite there being several interesting characters, these characters are not fleshed out properly and are left un-finished (something I hope they remedy if there comes a second season). Some of these characters are relatively un-important, but some have major roles in the story (such as both the princes).
One of the most major character issues (to me at least) is the MC, Elise. To put it simply, she is a definite Mary Sue character. We are shown backflashes to her first life throughout the series, showing her behavior and "crimes", as well as often flashing back to the moment crown prince Linden executes her, yet, despite Linden in that moment explaining that her actions were so vile that her whole family had been executed and the country was in ruins, the crimes we are shown are mostly... her being friends with his younger brother Mikhail, leader of the noble faction (which opposes the royal faction, lead by Linden), and her being selfish. Elise is never shown as actually doing anything bad, other than being a spoiled brat. There is nothing to justify how she and her family was executed (she "did no wrong"). On top of that, Elise is literally stated to NEVER have made ANY mistake in ANYTHING medical. She is literally written as the "perfect miracle doctor/surgeon", being 100% correct in everything, to the point that all other characters in the medical field, in both worlds, basically bows to her as a goddess and sucks her metaphorical dick. Prince Linden, which had liked her when they were children, but who had grown to despise her (despite her unconditional and obsessive love for him), quickly fell in deep love with her after she started working in a hospital, as well as Mikhail loving her for some reason, the doctor she works with falling hard for her, the King adoring her, etc. etc. Basic Mary Sue trait, as literally everyone loves her except for the unredeemable bad guys. She is always the center of attention, being the smartest and most beautiful, etc., and her only faults are that she originally was spoiled and self-centered, but now only have a terrible handwriting and can't fight.

Art & Sound: 6,3/10
The visuals of the show are fine, with pretty, though a bit generic, character designs, but is dragged down by mediocre animation whenever there's action, which luckily is quite in-frequently.
The sounds and voice acting is fine. Not much more to say about that.

Overall: 5,9/10
Gekai Elise is an enjoyable show, but the character is an un-faultable Mary Sue in most situations, which makes the stakes feel shallow, and unimportant. Overall, I would still recommend it, but I would ask those about to watch it to lower their expectations of they're expecting a well-crafted, complex narrative. I hope there's a 2nd season and that it improves upon the 1st one and makes up for it's shortcomings.

Long before Solo Levelling got animated, I had already heard tons about how good the LN/manhwa was, but no specifics, to the point that phrases like "inferior Solo Levelling" and "Solo Levelling lite" and the like was common place.
So, did the show live up to the hype?
Simply put... no.
I haven't yet read the manhwa/LN, so I can't give any definite statements about that, but based the anime, it's not that great, and I don't get how it got such a good score (8,41/10 at the time of writing). I'll break the review up into categories, as usual, before summarizing. I will be spoiling some of ... the story as of yet, but not much, and most of it can be found in the Synopsis anyways.

Story & Characters: 5/10
The story follows an event several years ago, where magical "Gates" to other pocket dimensions started opening all around the world, containing new, special and world changing, resources, and monster hordes that guard the resources and treasures, and will enter our world to wreak havoc if they aren't culled in time. Due to some sort of energy leaking from the Gates (or something. It's not explained at all, just, gates appear, people get powers), some people are born with, and others are "awakened" to, having gained special abilities that allow them to fight the monsters. Apparently only these people, now dubbed "Hunters", can damage monsters (which is incredibly contrived, as rifles, sniper rifles, missiles, etc. can't do anything to the monsters, yet a weak person with a normal kitchen knife can, as long as they are a Hunter).
A short time after the Gates first appeared, humanity manage to create machines able to determine the danger/difficulty level of the Gates (E, D, C, B, A, S, with E being the lowest and S the highest) and predict where they'll spawn, and similar equipment to determine if someone is a Hunter, as well as the strength of the Hunters and their classes (just like in games, and with a similar ranking system as to the Gates). To the public, a Hunter's strength cannot be increased and is fixed after their awakening, and the only way they can grow is by altering their tactics/strategies, thinking and reaction, and by working on their martial arts skills (but unbeknownst to the public there are a select few that have a "second awakening", which is the only way to become a S rank Hunter, but is incredibly rare). The resources found inside Gates have become an integral part of world society, both to create better weapons to fight the monsters and as incredibly dense energy sources (which are also completely eco friendly), and Hunters have thereby become an important part as well (to the point the Hunters that become murderers and serial killers, etc. are never killed or locked away, but can work off their prison time by entering Gates).
The story manly follows our MC, Jinwoo, a South-Korean Hunter, dubbed the "Weakest Hunter of all mankind" as he's so weak he doesn't have any skills, and can barely even stab a goblin. No matter how much he works out he doesn't gain muscles, don't get faster or stronger, and he basically always comes back from even the easiest Gates severely injured. Still, he continues his work as a Hunter, in order to pay for his little sister's education and his mother's medical bills (she's afflicted by a disease that appeared with the Gates, which causes people to fall into endless sleep).
One day Jinwoo and a group of other Hunters are exploring an E ranked Gate, only to find a Double Dungeon (another, higher level, dungeon, hidden inside the Gate's main dungeon). They decide to enter, to disastrous results, as they are trapped inside a giant kill box. Some survive, due to Jinwoo's skills at deciphering the riddles in the Double Dungeon, only to leave him for dead. Jinwoo also barely survives (through pure plot armor, as he gets his legs and a arm chopped off, and literally gets his whole body crushed to much and sliced in bits by giant golems) because he completes the Double Dungeons challenge. Time stops right as he dies and a hologram pop-up screen appears, telling him he has 0,01 seconds left to live, unless he says Yes to becoming a "Player", which he obviously does.
Jinwoo awakens in the hospital, completely un-injured and gets another pop-up (which only he can see), telling him the "System" wants him to do obligatory strength training, or face a penalty (which nearly kills him when he doesn't complete the daily challenge the first day). He begins completing the daily challenges, gaining Stat Points and other rewards that make him stronger, and after a few weeks he's released, now much taller, stronger, faster and more handsome. He decides to use the System to become the strongest Hunter ever.
The characters range from pretty ok to blank papers and tropes, and the story reeks of the normal, weak guy is actually, or becomes, the strongest in the world trope from the first episode (scratch that, as you get it even from the cover art), and there is no surprise how the plot unravels. Jinwoo literally wins basically every major fight through pure plot armor and going "I'm not gonna give up! I'm gonna get stronger!", and just winning it, which is very frustrating, as some of the fights start pretty interesting...

Visuals & Sounds: 8/10
The visuals are definitely where the show shines. The frames and drawings are crisp, clear, and the effects and battles are engaging and cool to look at. All the characters and backgrounds are well drawn and visually succinct. The only real flaw visually is the fact that they make use of some, slightly above average, CGI sometimes, which doesn't jell with the rest of the art.
The sounds and voice acting is well above average, but nowhere near top quality.

Summary: 6,8/10
Solo Levelling is an ok to good show, if you want an edgy power fantasy, but suffers from mediocre writing and an extreme case of over-hype. It's a perfectly fine show for those not looking for a convoluted or complex plot, and I would definitely recommend Solo Levelling to those looking for a kinda fun power fantasy, but it is definitely not as good as many are saying.

Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken: Coleus no Yume is... bad. I'll make this a short one.

I have seen all of Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken as of writing this review (1st of November 2023) and I have thoroughly enjoyed most of it. The MC may be a bit OP, and most problems are solved too easily, but there's much enjoyment to be found in the series, wether it's the humor or just relaxing to a likable main character fixing problems and fighting spectacular battles. Coleus no Yume, however, is just not good on an objective level. The plot is not only cliche, but also badly ... written with a cop-out happy ending where everything is resolved perfectly in an instant by character who just show up at the end, and even Rimuru (the MC) is just standing in place as if frozen in time for almost half the last episode while everything else is resolved, and it is treated as if nothing is wrong. Everything about the writing and characters in this special is weak as an 80-year-old with late-stage terminal cancer. Both princes adored their little sister and each other, but was instantly ready to kill each other without even saying a word to each other. The sister knew the truth of everything all along, but just didn't say anything. The sister was severely ill and blind, but literally a teaspoon of honey in her tea cured her. Oracle kept warning Rimuru that the "archdemons" were such bad business that he might not stand a chance, but he easily crushed them, only to stand by for several minutes. All the characters from the rest of the series has been dumbed down to mentally challenged (retard) levels or worse.
Worst of all, the pasing was so atrocious that I almost dropped it halfway, despite there only being 3 episodes in this OVA.
Given more episodes, better pasing and a more interesting andin-depth background for the Royal Family, their supporting character and the investigation plot, this could've been great, but it seems we were given a 2 minute plot outline stretched nanometer thin on a dirty road instead.
Not recommended.

Dark Gathering is... very mediocre.
As of writing the review I'm 11 episodes into the anime, and I can't see any special reason to keep watching. If you don't like spoilers, don't read my review, 'cause I'll be spoiling a few plot points (nothing especially major though)

Story & Characters:
Synopsis: The story revolves around 3 characters, Keitaro, Eiko and Yayoi, as they travel around, defeating and capturing evil spirits for the purpose of finding and saving Yayoi's mother from a really powerful evil spirit, the "Spirit of Death", which caused Yayoi's parents to crash their car, killing her father, injuring Yayoi and kidnapping Yayoi's mother ... (yes, the spirit kidnapped the mother and no one seems to have noticed outside Yayoi). At the same time the group is searching for a way to lift the curse inflicted on both Keitaro and Eiko when they were young.
Keitaro: He is the MC and the world revolves somewhat around him. He has a natural ability to attract spirits and has a very strong spiritual sense, but can't see them (except when the story wants him to see them, which is never explained and a big plot hole). Keitaro is a pathetic wimp who cowers and cries over everything. He is weak, but somehow has fought off hordes of ghosts through his life. He's supposed to have serious social anxiety and problems talking to others (which is basically never shown), yet he's popular (and apparently somewhat handsome, though he looks like a stupid kid). He has a fear of getting others involved in the fact he's being constantly chased by ghosts because of the incident that left him and Eiko cursed (which he feels real bad for), but backflashes show young Keitaro as confident and able to handle almost anything supernatural with ease. He is literally useless unless the story needs him to not be, constantly being overshadowed by the other 2 main characters. He stayed shut-in in his room for more than 3 years, not studying and losing his conversational skills, but somehow he's easily at top of his class when he rejoins at the end of highschool (because he's apparently very smart, though he never shows it)

Eiko: She is Keitaro's childhood friend and Yayoi's older cousin. She's 1 or 2 years older than Keitaor. Eiko has always loved the supernatural as she can't completely understand it, though she cares about little else as she's a "literal super genius" and therefor understands everything else, therefor finding it boring. When they were young Keitaro saved her from a spirit that standing by the road (she can't see or sense spirits btw, unless the plot suddenly needs her to) by telling her not to go close to a certain spot. the next day another girl was hit by a car and killed in the same spot he told her not to go close to. After that she would drag him around to haunted places to have him save her from spirits (and fell in love with him saving her), even though he said he didn't like it (why did he keep being friends with her? not explained. plot hole.) Eiko was the one that got the two cursed, but somehow the show makes it so it's Keitaro's fault, making him beat himself up about it, and making Eiko "so gracious and kind-hearted" for not blaming him for it. The show quickly reveals that Eiko is obsessed with Keitaro, to the point of stalking him in various ways and wanting to be "just hers" (did I mention that Eiko is a super genius, making industry breaking surveillance systems and much more just to spy on Keitaro?). The show tries to both make her the "cool, brave, handy and beautiful super genius" and at the same time "creepyyyy", supposed to send chills down your spine, but she falls flat in all regards. Eiko's genious is the type that only work in gag comedy, and her "creepiness" just falls flat and feels stupid (especially the forced, black-eyed smiley face bs). She overshadows the MC through being just so "awesome", and is apparently famous for her genius and beauty all over the country and some places outside it.

Yayoi: She is the driving character. She is a 10 year old Mary Sue. She was born special, having skull shaped pupils and red irises, as well as the ability to see the real world and spirit world as a constant split screen show. After the car crash caused by "The Spirit of Death" her eyes aligned, merging the spirit and real world for her, making both clearer, granting her superhuman strength, speed and agility, as well as making her a super genius rivalling Eiko and giving her knowledge straight out of her arse about things she should know nothing about. Yayoi literally just goes around beating up spirits with a crowbar (sometimes a baseball bat) and storing them in her collection of teddy bears as an army. She has resistance to damage and plot armor aplenty (except for the few times the show suddenly needs Keitaro to bail her out). Her plan is to collect spirits in her dolls and make them her servants, then get them to eat each other until only a few strong ones remain, then use those to capture even stronger ones (like some stupid horror parody of Pokemon), until she has a strong enough army to face down "The Spirit of Death" and save her mother (who has been gone for at least 2-3 years, which means she really should be dead...). Despite having no training, never having read up on it or gotten advice on it, Yayoi always knows exactly how to deal with spirits, and can do thing no real spirit hunter/specialist or exorcist has figured out... that all evil spirits' weakness is getting a crowbar to the head and some salt sprinkled in their eyes, which in her case immediately forces the spirits into one of her dolls (which she fills with pieces of herself and those she cares about so the spirit can't attack them, though in all other mythology that would make it a doll that curses them, not protects them). Yayoi always comes out on top. She eventually challenges an ancient, evil god. The next day she says she fucked up challenging a god, before literally seconds later suddenly stating she's already killed a god before...


Art & Sound:
Art: The art in Dark Gathering is a bad attempt at mixing the art from Mieruko-chan with a generic shounen anime. The characters are generally bland, the backgrounds are stale as old bread, but sometimes the Mieruko-chan-ness bleeds in, though not enough.

Sound: The sounds in the show are ok, but Keitaro's voice is gnawing at the ear drums, and nothing stands as good in any way. It's all just... standard...


Overall:
The show is supposed to be a horror and adds some humor, but is pretty terrible at both. The show just ends up as a contrived monster battler. The characters are bad and would've fit much better in other shows. Dark Gathering plays very lose with it's rules, and the rules mostly follows Yayoi's convenience.
If you want horror, look somewhere else. If you want comedy it's a pretty bland dish.
The show is one of those that are just annoyingly mediocre. It's not good, but it's not bad enough to outright hate or to really make you want to quit it. It's just there. I probably could've kept watching to the end, but I decided I have better show to watch and better things to do.

When I decided to review this show and saw that it had a 7+/10 rating I was beyond surprised. I'm going to "spoil" the beginning the show, though there's really nothing to spoil. I'll start with a short summary of the first 4 episodes.

Summary: Yuuya Tenjou is fat, ugly, non-athletic, and not particularly smart. Because the rest of his family are beautiful and popular they hate him (because he's ugly), and everyone, including his family, bullies and torments him 24 7, with the only exception being his grandfather, who loves him more than anyone. His grandfather dies, but made sure that everything he owned went ... to Yuuya, despite Yuuya's parents being so shitty they tried to use lawyers to steal it from him. His younger twin sibling actively ramp up the bullying.
One day Yuuya sees a beautiful girl being harassed, and about to be raped, by some thugs and intervene by being beat up by them until the cops arrive, before stumbling away. The next day is middle school graduation for him, but after being bullied again he runs home, rages out and breaks the bathroom mirror, leans on the bathroom wall, and discovers the wall is actually a trap door, leading into a room full of high fantasy magic items. Among the items Yuuya sees and opens a stone gate, which leads him to another world. Upon entering the otherworld Yuuya instantly gets 3 skills: Otherworlder, Master of the Door, and Master of the House. Otherworlder allows him to instantly learn any skill he tries his hand at. Master of the Door grant him full and sole control of the Gate, which turns out is a super OP magic gate that is indestructible, has a multitude of powerful and convenient abilities, and is so mysterious and OP that not even the gods know anything about or can do anything to it (only the Master, aka Yuuya, can control it). Master of the House grants him the house on the other side of the Gate, which has an impenetrable barrier, which makes it so nothing can enter without Yuuya wanting it, not even gods, and Yuuya can control everything inside the barrier. The House has a ever-, instantly-replenishing, no care needed, garden with superior vegetables that permanently increases their eater's stats (so he literally has infinite stat points in anything he wants).
Yuuya finds a bunch of weapons there, which when he picks them up, instantly makes him a master of that weapon type, and is revealed to all be so OP that just 1 of them is enough to instantly break any world (Death Scythe can cut through anything Yuuya wants, and even just touching it can kill even gods. Bracelets/fist weapon greatly increases all his physical strength and abilities, and he can just decided that a single punch becomes literally infinite punches, meaning it has infinite damage. Etc. All the 8 weapons are like that) Yuuya is surprised by a Crimson Blood Ogre lvl 300 pounding the barrier, throws his spear at it, instantly killing it, and going from lvl 1, with 1 in every stat, to lvl 100, with 1000 stat points in every stat and 20 000 points to distribute as he wished. He goes back home and transforms from short, ugly and fat to skinny, muscular, tall and the strongestest and fastestest and handsomest guy ever.
Ep 2 Yuuya goes to school again, but he's hot and strong now, but when he reveals who he is his siblings and their bully lackeys try bullying him again, only to be stopped by the girl Yuuya saved in Ep 1, who is a wealthy, high status girl who instantly recognizes him (despite him having completely transformed during the 2 days since he saved her) and asks him to join her at her high status super school, free of charge, and denounces his over-the-top-evil-siblings because she's done a background check on them. He later goes to the otherworld and hunts monsters, rescues a princess and goes to bed.
Ep 3 Yuuya has a trial enrollment at the new school and is instantly super popular because he's sooooo awesome now. He decides to join the school after a talk with the head of the school (which is Kaori's, the girl he saved's, dad). Later he, again, goes to the otherworld to hunt monsters and saves the same princess, who asks him to marry her.
Ep 4 Yuuya invites the princess and her entourage to his otherworld house, where she again proposes to him, he's invited to meet the king, and makes a promise to come join them at the castle some time later. He then goes back to the normal world and goes to school, where all the girls and most of the guys fawn over him, his younger twin siblings arrive with a motorbike gang that somehow rides straight through the thick iron gates with not a scratch on their bikes. They go on to over-the-top-evilly try to kidnap Kaori so they can torture her for denouncing them (as if consequences don't exist). After a short panic attack Yuuya jumps out of the 5th story window and lands unharmed, before easily fighting his way through the whole bike gang to save Kaori in seconds. The cops show up and the day is saved. The leader of the bike gang tries to kill Yuuya's younger twin brother for making such a bad plan, and the cops just stand there and watch. Yuuya saves his brother and instantly the twins go from hating him, to admiring and loving him.

Review
Story & Character: There is barely any story in this show. There is no character or story progression (Yuuya just suddenly gets everything handed to him). The characters are so shallow and badly written that they're not even 2d but 1d (everyone is and over the top exaggeration, and it's easy to see that the writer likely was ugly and un-popular in his youth and is now projecting a super exaggerated version of his life in his story, and making himself super awesome)
Visuals: The best part of the show. The animation and art is crisp, cool and nicely fluid.
Sound: The voice acting is pretty good, and there is some good, though often a bit lackluster, sound design and sound effects.
Overall: The art, animation and sound design of the show is pretty good, but the story and characters are so abysmal that it doesn't matter for much. The story is so badly written, in fact, that it actually hurts my head just to know that something this bad was actually serialized and given an anime...

There's little needed to be said about this show but...
it's utter garbage.

Characters: The characters are flat and boring, with absolutely no depth to any of them, including the main character himself.
Story:
EP 1. MC walks aimlessly around the city when 2, 10 year old or so, girls come running out of a convenience store. A man comes running after them with a knife, so angry he's trying to stab them to death, but for some reason gives up the moment he knifes the MC (despite psychology meaning that if he'd already be that angry he wouldn't have stopped and would've killed the girls, something he ... doeasn't. obviously just a base to kill off the MC). MC reincarnates as the son of a high ranking noble (ofc), with genius level intellect and abilities (ofc).
The world he reincarnates into has magic and (because it's the worst kind of isekai trash) for some reason has game status screens. Apparently everyone, when they turn 5 and get baptized, are blessed by 1-2 gods with blessings ranging from level 1 to a max at level 5, which determines their abilities and what they can do in life. The MC (because he's trash isekai protagonist and loved by the gods for no reason) starts out with level 10 blessings in literally everything, meaning he's already a god (he even gets the blessing of the Creator God, meaning he can instantly create any kind of magic when he feels like it), and has more than 100 times the mana of the greatest mage ever to live from level 1 (which turns to millions of times the amount of mana by the end of episode 3). There is literally nothing he can't do.
EP 2. MC shows everyone how super special awesome he is and declares he's going to be a high ranking adventurer, to protect their smiles. He's given 2 tutors and instantly shows that he's 1000s of times better than them at age 5, instantly, "accidentally" fondles their boobs and is instantly loved by them.
EP 3. MC is now 10 and going to the capital to go to school or something. He instantly, at over 4 kilometers away, senses perfectly the exact number of a group being attacked by monsters (which he instantly counts accurately) and rushes to them in seconds, annihilating the monsters. Shocker. The royal princess and the 1st daughter of one of the most powerful noble families, just so happens to be in the carriage, and they both instantly falls so in love with him that they're practically drooling over his d, despite all 3 of them being 10 years old (because he's so super special awesome).
Voice and sound: The voice acting in the show is mediocre at best, and it feels like all the best sound effects are stock sounds from low quality games.
Visuals: The visuals are the best thing about the show, but even that is just average.

End result: This show is trash that isn't worth the bran cells needed to read the stupidly long name it has.

Ooyukiumi no Kaina is a hard show to review...
On one hand you have an interesting world, with a lot of questions you want to see answered...
On the other, there's mediocre CGI animation, and, worst of all, tons of plot holes and holes in the world building.

The story: The story revolves around Princess Liliha, who escapes enemy troops by attaching a big basket to a "natural hot air balloon?", riding it up, through the membrane that encases the planet, "the Canopy". Up there she is rescued by the young man Kaina, who lives with a group old folks there ("the top of the canopy is literally ... outside the atmosphere, so how'd Liliha survive?")
After Liliha is woken up and greeted by the last residents of the Canopy, she and Kaina are gifted with a few high-tech tools ("pocket laser cutter with infinite battery life"), which they use to climb down the "Orbital Tree" (literally dozens of kilometers), upon reaching the bottom they are immediately caught by the enemies, the Valgians.
The rest of the story revolves around rescue plots, and Liliha and Kaina's struggle to stop the Valgian invasion, and to find a way to get to the Great Orbital Tree. The story ends abruptly after Kaina defeats the admiral with his deus ex machina laser cutter...
Characters: There are several interesting characters in Ooyukiumi no Kaina, but there are also a lot of really shallow and stereotypical characters as well. (The evil commander that just loves violence for no reason, and is soooo terrifying and dangerous, despite the fact his eyes shows him as blind...)
Voice acting and sound: Despite some shaky voice acting here and there, the sound department is probably where the show is the most competent. The sounds actually fit the environment (no adventurous music when you float on the snow sea, just the sound of the wind), and most of the voice acting is quite good.

Points of Contention:
The snow; The snow in Ooyukiumi no Kaina does not work like normal snow. It is somehow much lighter than water. So thin, in fact, that you can't float in it, and yet you drown in it like water. To be able to float in it you need something called "Snow Foil".
Snow Foil; We know nothing about snow foil other than that just touching a little piece of it allows you to float up to the top of the "Snow Sea". It seems the creators of the story haven't even though about how, from what, and who makes snow foil, nor how it actually works. (Plot Hole)
The Snow Sea: The snow sea is a vast ocean of only "Snow", that covers the whole surface of the planet, only interrupted by Orbital Trees and their roots. We know not where it came from, or how there is so much snow. (Plot Hole)
Orbital Trees: The orbital trees are gigantic, thin trees that grow from kilometers down below the Snow Sea, and grows dozens of kilometers above it, forming the "Canopy" with their connecting branches. The orbital trees are the only source of water, and one of the very few sources of food for people in this world. For some reason, most orbital trees have died, and the rest are following, the only exception being The Great Orbital Tree, which is introduced in episode 7 or 8, and lies beyond the Great Oceanic Trench.
The Great Orbital Tree: An orbital tree that is slightly taller and much thicker than the other orbital trees, and shows no sign of the decay and death of the others, rather seeming to be bursting with water and life.
The Great Oceanic Trench: A vast "Oceanic Trench" that blocks the way to the Great Orbital Tree.
Oceanic Trenches: Areas where, for some reason, snow foil either doesn't work, or have a greatly reduced effect, making them impossible to traverse normally. No reason seems to have been thought out (it's like they just thought "we have to do something so that it won't be too easy") (Big Plot Hole)
The cities and catapults: All the cities shown in the show, with the notable exception of the Mobile Fortress of Valgia, are made out of stone, despite there being no surface to walk on outside except the orbital trees... All ammunition shot with canons and catapults are rocks as well... Where do they get the rocks and marble, et.?! (Giant Plot Hole!)
Weapons and ships: All the weapons, ships, canons, etc. are made out of metal (except the standard Valgian soldier's "bone club"). But there's no place where they could get metal! (Giant Plot Hole!)
Clothes and Fabric: There is no sources of any kind of fur or fabric shown in the entire show, so where do they get all the clothes from?! (Giant Plot Hole!)
Food and animals: Outside to part of the show that takes place in the last village in the Canopy, people are never shown eating food, only drinking water. There's almost no animals or creatures other than humans shown, just the "giant tree flies", "caddie flies", "snow horses" and "snow whales". Where do they get their food, and where do they get animals like the snow horses?! (Giant Plot Hole!)
Snow Horses: They are obviously created to move in the snow sea, yet even they need snow foil to not sink and drown! (Big Plot Hole)
Snow Whales: The only creatures that seem to be able to move freely in the snow sea. The only thing they ever do is swim around randomly, just a spectacle (Pointless)
Caddie Flies: They seem to only exist to repair the membrane of the Canopy, and to be hunted and eaten. They don't eat or do anything else. (Plot Hole)
Giant Tree Fly: Seems to only have been created to be a big predator and threat in the Canopy, nothing more. (Useless)
Movement in the Snow Sea: None of the vehicles that traverse the Snow Sea have any kind of mechanism to propel them through the sea, instead they just have a stick... You push a stick/lever in the direction you want to go, and the vehicle/boat/etc. just moves in that direction... no need for a motor or power source... Just stick a wooden or metal stick into the middle of your boat and point it where you want to go, and, magically, you get infinite movement in that direction... (Giant Plot Hole!)
Mech and ancient tech: Kaina gets a pocket sized laser cutter in the beginning of the show, and it has infinite use, as long as you let it rest from time to time, and it never needs to get any sort of power source replaced... The Valgian Commander has a giant ancient mech that he can pilot remotely by just putting a mask of only bones and a piece of glass on his head... it doesn't need any power source either... In the last episode Kaina turns his laser cutter to the max and fires it at the giant mech, revealing it to be a stapler sized death ray that can shoot a 3 meter radius, and hundreds of meters long, super laser that vaporizes anything. (Giant Plot Hole!)
How did people get to live at the top of the Canopy, and why and how did the world become like it is?: None of this is ever answered, despite bein an important question... (Plot Hole)

Conclusion:
Despite the fact that I like Ooyukiumi no Kaina and think the premise is interesting, when it comes to honestly reviewing the show, I can't give it a high rating, as the plot and world building has enough holes to make a swiss cheese blush, but I can recommend it if anyone wants to see an interesting premise.

Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei is a weird one. On one hand I enjoyed watching it, on the other I was annoyed by huge gaps in the logic and reasoning of the story.

Story: The story revolves around Anisphia Wynn Palettia, royal princess extraordinaire, inventor and genius, who was re-incarnated in a world full of magic and fantasy (something which has no importance other than the fact she makes items from our world through "magic", and that she says it once at the last episode as a "big reveal" that nothing comes of), and Euphyllia, the daughter of the most powerful and prestigious ... noble house after the royal family.
The story starts off by Anis' little brother, the crown prince, publicly shaming and falsely accusing Euphyllia (who is his fiancé) of treating another girl horribly, and announcing him breaking off their engagement and wanting to be with the other girl. After that Anis rescues/kidnaps Euphy, declaring she wants her (cause Anis is lesbian, but Euphy wasn't in the beginning). Euphy becomes one her assistant in magic research (though she never actually helps with anything, as far as we're shown in the show), and Anis tries to mend and heal both Euphy's reputation and her heart.
The story end with the two of them screaming how they care for each other and battling each other over which of them is going to sacrifice themselves, becoming queen regent to allow the other to fulfill their dream, and effectively ending both their family lines, as Euphy is suddenly lesbian as well (and basically marries Anis), none of them intend to have children (because they're gay for each other), Anis' younger brother has been exiled and forbidden from having children, and none of their parents are planning any children, effectively wiping out the monarchy.

Characters: There are a wide variety of characters in the show, but most are either full on stereotypes with no depth to them, or just shallow as a puddle anyways. Anis is a genius who creates magic technology, but there's no explanation for how (it's just magic, ooooo). Euphy is insecure, but the bestest magician ever with the mostest talent.

Art & Sound: The art and sound is probably the best part of the show, with great voice acting and nice music and overall sound design. The characters look pretty and the magic fancy, though it's taken so far it's basically just a spectacle. Sometimes there's CGI and it looks mediocre, but that's just in 2 out of 12 episodes, so it's not horrible.

Problems:
Magic: The magic system, rules, etc. has a façade of solid, but it's actually soft as sludge. There is no actual rules, it's just "magic". Anis has no magic, but somehow, completely un-logically and un-explained, she can just stuff some things together and she's made a revolutionary magic item or "magic technology". It's pretty bad.
Cause and effect, logic and reason:
Anis gets cursed by a dragon she defeats with her "mana blades" (a dragon is physical but later hitting physical things is the weakness of the mana blades!?). The curse never actually does anything. Anis just gains some knowledge from the dragon and gets a tattoo that gives her random dragon magic powers.
The other girl from the beginning, Lainnie is revealed to unknowingly be a Vampire (which is somehow a trait inheritable, not transferrable through blood). Because she is a vampire she has a big magic crystal instead of a heart. Anis' brother rips out her magic crystal heart and stuffs it into himself, becoming a vampire, in order to brainwash the country into becoming a good country. Lainnie drinks is no longer a vampire, but drinks a little blood, and somehow re-forges a new magic crystal heart. (Nani!!)
The maid just suddenly becomes Lainnie's lesbian lover and blood donor (despite both of them seemingly being straight).
The king and queen just accepts their daughter being lesbian and steps down, meaning the family will come to an end as the prince has been banned from having children (because he's a vampire now)
Anis and Euphy instantly succeeds in their "magic revolution" creating magic for all (including dresses that just gives you perfect flight ability, but without any way to logically have actually made it. it's just fanfare, "look how awesome they are" stuff at the end of the show...)

Overall:
Though I enjoyed Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei, the writing is pretty poor, there is little to no logic and rules to the world and actions of the characters, so if anyone's looking for complex narratives, tightly written stories, etc. I would look elsewhere. If you just want a somewhat enjoyable show to turn off your brain to, this is as good a show as any.

*Spoiler warning ahead*

If I had to sum up my feelings on Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! in a short sentence I would call it: ridiculous and fun.

This anime starts showing a girl get kidnapped, going back in time to explain how it ended up this way, before jumping over to the actual main character, shining light on why he is how he is, and how he became it.
The MC is a guy who just couldn't let go of his dreams of becoming a super hero, specifically an anti-hero, and he worked towards that goal his whole life, in secret, beating up criminals in his spare ... time. The he gets hit by a truck and dies... classical isekai...
When he wakes up again, he's been reborn with his memories in a world of swords and magic, and he immediately utilizes this to his advantage, developing his magical prowess and fighting criminals, again in secret. One day he rescues a blob of meat and experiments on it, randomly curing the blob of it's curse, revealing it to be a elven girl. After this he makes his entrance as the Lord of Shadows, Shadow. They subsequently find other cursed girls, curing them and creating the Shadow Garden, his little private militia. Later the girls, leave for a long term mission.
The plot then skips forward several years and the MC is about to join the magical "Dark Knight" academy, where he looks for opportunities to make himself look like a extreme version of a stupid, useless mob character, to make the entrance of his alter ego, Shadow, look cooler.

After that the main story and it's beats ensue, but I won't be spoiling anymore.

Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! looks to be just another OP MC isekai, but it subverts it by giving the MC an extreme and fun personality, as well as just going absolutely bonkers on all the ridiculous sht he's up to, to the point where you're just left laughing and wondering what stupidly over powered, yet interesting and fun, skills and coincidences he will show next.
I can safely say that I had a blast watching this show, and if there's anyone with a hunger for fun power fantasies, I can definitely recommend Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!.