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Let's get the basics out of the way. The protagonist buys slave warrior girls that he'll have sex with, that's the premise of the show. If the idea of that bothers you, don't worry, you're only missing one of the most dull, uninteresting shows of the season.

Despite a bland art style, washed out colors and uninspired generic fantasy setting, the truly unwatchable part of the show comes in the form of it's pacing. For a dungeon crawler ecchi show, it's incredible to imagine that it takes 3 episodes for the protagonist to get a girl in his party. But with the powers of narrating every ... overly cautious, boring observation about the world, his OP skill system and how every single interaction works, you'll watch an hour crawl by realizing nothing fun or interesting has happened!

Lightning round time:
-Protagonist is whiny and horny and "considerate" and has no personality beyond that
-His first slave is shy, virginal and constantly floods him in compliments because he's a generic OP isekai hero, this is their whole dynamic
-The dungeon has had 1 enemy so far in 5 episodes, a walking tree that get's one-shot by his OP sword he constantly talks about
-More time is spent with the protagonist narrating his opinions on stuff like MP usage, stat allocation and financial management than on doing anything adventurous
-The ecchi is either generic fanservice that you will not get to see because it's just risque enough that it's censored to oblivion, or is just sex. Either way it's so few and far between in the existing episodes that if you came to watch an ecchi show you're going to be very let down.

Long story short, it's an isekai that has nothing fun or exciting happening, and it's an ecchi where you get nothing ecchi to see. There's better shows that cater to either of those needs than this without making you feel weird about trying to make your "hero" someone who is eager to buy slaves so he can have "consentual sex" with them.

I liked this show better when it was called Talentless Nana. With a near identical first episode designed to shift both the genre and focus of the show for the sake of subversion, the problem is that what you're left with after having the show subvert you once is it's just generic fantasy slop.

The show's setting is so eager to pretend it has this great idea of "What if lots of people got isekai'd?" that it doesn't have a single original idea outside of that. Will a cold murderer with a tragic backstory have their hard shell cracked over time by the sweetest, dumbest ray ... of sunshine that could exist? Will we spend an episode as the executioner fumbles with her feelings after she instinctively protects that smile despite her orders? Will the executioner learn that goody goody actually has an equally tragic backstory but chooses to keep being happy because friendship? Only time will tell!

Nah but genre fatigue aside, the show looks and sounds fine, it's paced decently, and assuming it wraps itself up it'll at least make for a nice sweet one and done. But it won't be because it's a light novel adaptation, so expect a soft unsatisfying ending with light yuri overtones after defeating a mildly interesting bad person who probably works for the same institution the protagonist does because something something corruption.

What is there to say about Season 2? The dynamic between characters has changed, the central struggle of the hero has changed, and the plot has changed. The question is, are these changes for the better?

Story - No. Naofumi was interesting because he felt like a very proactive character. He was finding his own solutions to problems, and the fact that he had to fight to earn anything made him engaging to watch. Now, he follows the plot, dragged by the nose by someone who randomly gets headaches until they remember the plot so we can go to the next set piece. Will the plot ... eventually be interesting? Who knows, but until the plot remembers that it was about the characters interacting off each other and not simply being told where to go, and what to do, it's not a very fun watch.

Art and Sound - It's fine. Competent, but utterly unremarkable. The CGI is serviceable, the music does its job. So far if there is animation to appreciate, it hasn't happened yet, thought that's hardly surprising considering the fights are purely against a big CGI thing, and mass produced minions.

Character - Good lord no. The screen time seems to barely remember to follow the original trio, and now is obsessed with two new girls; the lady who gets headaches telling her the plot and the most sniveling, whimpering, wall flower you can imagine. Even the main cast, when the plot remembers to include them, seems obsessed with coddling these two and assuring the viewer that these girls are both very important and very interesting. How? By having other characters just announce that they are very important and very interesting at least a couple times an episode.

A third into the season, maybe things will change for the better. I hope so, but there's no way anyone could recommend this show by going, "If you were a fan of Season 1, you'll definitely like this.". At best, this season is probably enjoyable for people that just love generic fantasy/isekai and want their seasonal spoonful of it, no matter how flavorless and bland it might be.

Look, it's a shonen action series in its 5th season. By this point you're either in or you're out if you're a normal viewer. I'm also aware that there's nothing in this season so far that would ruin a normal viewer's enjoyment.

However, this is nearly a full season of wasting your time. We're likely to spend 10 or so episodes on the kids play fighting with each other. There are no stakes, there's nothing at risk, and at the end we'll get the most half hearted "wow, we've all grown" as a conclusion because nothing of value will have been conveyed. This is doubled in ... how bad this is because we have to spend time with the most worthless nobodies of Class B, giving them equal screen time and consideration as we do the characters in Class A that are equally nobodies, despite entire seasons of screen time.

It was...fine when it was the sports festival, namely due to some gorgeous animation in a handful of scenes. There's poor animation in this season, with all but one or two moments being reduced to characters floating in the air or standing still and thinking at each other.

We're nearly a hundred episodes into a show, and we're spending an entire arc on the kids showing off moves we'll never see again when we could've had this wrapped up in 3 or 4 episodes tops. If you want to watch just nobodies use magic against each other as they tell each other how cool each other are, or how sad they are that they didn't do their best, this will be a lot of fun for you. If you care about a single element of the story though, this will be dull as can be.