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I see this series using the "noble" commoner becoming lord/king with the help of others. While this type of story may not be awful, this anime fails to write a compelling narrative or "adventure" for the protagonist.

I am going to start with the world of Grancrest Senki. There are two factions Alliance and Union, both in which are lead by people who inherited their positions from their parents. This show tries to get the audience to care about these individuals, however I cannot sympathize with them at all due to their actions and respect given to them despite them not earning it or be deserving ... of it. In a world where strength determines rank, it seems the highest "ranked people" cannot defend themselves and require their subordinates to aid them at every turn. How did these people get so highly ranked I wonder? Does inheritance also give you power/ "crest"?

This leads into my next point, questions. This narrative has little backstory and tremendous vagueness, some of the questions you may ask include:
What are lord laws? How do crests work? How many races exist in this world (i.e. supernatural)? Why does the Alliance and Union fight (i.e. motives? was one of the leaders a tyrant perhaps)? How is one guy with a dagger so feared (he doesn't even use his "crest")? Is Villar actually a womanizer (he picks hot women and makes them wear skimpy uniforms)? Doesn't that seem like his words don't match his actions?

Although I believe there to be quite a few negatives, if you like good action over plot and a rated E romance (I don't count episode 9) you can find it here. Overall good for boredom.

In this review contains minor spoilers( if you have seen past episode 3 there shouldn't be a problem), nothing that would ruin the plot, i am merely reviewing the state of the anime by describing the huge flaws in the characters.

The main character, a boy in episode 1 practically loves gemstones in search of one that will bring him to another world. However once finds that gemstone and arrives in that work all i seems to want is to leave and return back to his normal life. To me at least this seems to be quite the contradiction and bad character design, to see a ... boy who is described as "charismatic" and "brave" enter into this new world that he was looking for and seems only to complain and what to leave the instant he gets there. The prince which i believe to be equally as terrible as the MC seems to derive the majority of his hate for the current king from the fact that one day he heard to maids talking and apparently the current king was an enemy of this "true" father. For some reason this lead to a cycle of hate towards the man who raised him and clothed him. Just because of that weak reason led the prince to attempt to kill him and even overthrow him. Some may say well the prince befriended his teacher and this king exiled him, well the teacher defied the king not because he had scientific reasons or any type of evidence that the surface world would destroy Endora but just because of a "gut" feeling that it would be bad. For a man who claims to be a scientist he doesn't appear to be very convincing in his role and it makes sense why such an individual would be banished for challenging authority with no evidence and little reasoning. Overall the ideals and reasoning of the main characters made this anime lackluster and quite bad, i have not seen much of the anime but from what i have seen its a time waster at best and not something worth investing into.