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TLDR: Plain, simple, feel good.

"365 Days To The Wedding" doesn't pretend to be something that it is not. ie it revels in being very average. But sometimes that all you really want. No convoluted plot twists or complex back stories. It's just 2 average people who pretended to be getting married and developed emotions along the way. Honestly though, you would swear the main couple were in high school, and I think the author retrofitted the story for adults. The art, sound, voice acting and pacing were all good. It lacked originality and strong dramatic content of a better story. Nevertheless, enjoyers of romcoms would ... gobble this up as it resonates with feel good vibes and charming characters you want to root for.

TLDR: A moving story, that subverted my expectations numerous times but not always in a good way.

The premise is right in the name, setting up your expectations of what to expect and the story delivers while managing to a very wholesome show. An unexpected death leaves the remaining family consisting of a father and daughter, unable to truly move on. The story then explores what happens when the mother returns in the body of another family's child. The obvious drama of how this is handles while we slowly discover the who, what, when and why is cleverly mixed with external pressures of life and how ... they deal with the challenges as they come. It can be a be a bit to wishy washy at times for no good reason and several plot twists were just unnecessary or took the show in unwanted directions. This is all too apparent at the overly neatly tided up ending. This isn't to say that the show is bad as it does tug at the heart strings really hard, and the characters are way more charming and mature than you would expect. Overall, the art, sound, voice acting and pacing were very much on point leaving you to focus on the story. Clearly a lot of thought was put into this as nothing felt forced or contrived.

If you need something around the holidays to keep you from going numb, this could be ticket but expect the hardcore viewer slice-of-dramas to be disappointed.

In a sea of generic isekai, "Kono Sekai Wa Fukanzen Sugiru" tries to carve out something a little different.

The story is meh. The art style is not my cup of tea. But the delivery is where this anime stands out.
The show starts out with our MC helping out a village overcome a very unique interpretation of dragons, only to fail when we were led to believe he succeeded. This was all part of the plan as he is not a hero, but a game tester looking for bugs. His seemingly overly emotional reaction to the village being wiped out was somewhat later explained when it ... was revealed that his been in this Virtual Reality for quite some time. The game apparently bugs out and one of the villagers is revived an insists on accompanying him. It was also later revealed that this was not a bug, but one of the game's Artificial Intelligence manifesting as a Non-Playable Character. Why? The other game testers just decided to be delinquent by abuse their privileged debug mode powers to amuse themselves and ruin the game. Not being able to directly intervein, it relies on our MC, who apparently is very skilled at finding and exploiting bugs, as well as actually game mechanics, to destroy the game testers debug tablet.

The hook is mildly entertaining as the show was easily binged. It's not winning any awards but there a lot worse this season. It does have a little charm and likeable characters as we end up cheering on our MC's motley crew grind their way through changing objectives looking for a way to log out.

Overall, this show is worth a watch but only if you exhausted the season heavy hitters.

Japana wtf? We start off with cutesy anime that I don't have to pay much attention to while I do work and randomly throw in some bloody gore. Who is this anime for? I know there is an audience, and the anime execution was pretty good but who are the people watching this? We start off with our MC, an assassin thief sort of character with a fairly generic backstory that accidentally breaks the dungeon 4th wall so, the administrator has to come out. Our MC then gets wrapped up in with the inner workings of a dungeon. Every episode explores a couple of aspects ... of the dungeon's operation in a slice of lice way but then were hit with periodic appendage dismemberment. Seriously, who asked for this? It is not hard to watch but one minute you have 7year old content but swings to Pg13.

TLDR: Well, it's better than bad story with good animation.

Let's get the cons out of the way:
- This is the laziest animation I seen this season and I just watched "Bye Bye Earth". Photoshop filters to make backgrounds look like bad artwork, CGI mobos... Hell even the main character and support were bad CGI at times.
- Cliche premise. For some reason Japan is obsessed with transporting an entire class to another world. This time they didn't even bother with being hit with Truck-kun. They were in it. And yes, our beloved MC was the weakest who get separated and became the strongest so far.
- ... The writers goes out of their way for you to make "evil" characters hateable. It is very cringe and jarring.
- Low IQ plot that's been done before so many times.
- Tig bitty elf girl. Everyone like big bouncy ballons and a pretty face but needles exposure and unnecessary nude scenes cheapens the story.
- Stupidly OP MC. The few times he got hurt later on, he really didn't have to. The over dramatization of fights where he basically single combos the monsters just took away from the moment.

There are Pros:
- The MC is flexible and not bound by a holier than thou code. This leads to some "practical application" of his skill set, which is often lacking in these types of stories. ie the dead don't talk and sometime venges is necessary. He stays low key and doesn't get wrapped up in a whimsical romance. So, the story is not a complete bust.
- Voice acting and sound was decent enough not to distract you.
- Decent pacing keeps you engaged while not rushing through plot points.
- Only the second time I've seen the mechanic "his class is so low he gains XP very fast", which makes sense.
- The world is diverse enough not to have you sleeping away.
- At least a few characters got a back story explained.

All in all, this is worth a watch for isekai fans but it not something to rush to. The only reason I it gets such a high score from me is the MC does what need to be done, which tickled my fancy bone. Otherwise, it's a solid 6.

This story is a better show than I am viewer.

It starts of in a rather cliche manner but rapidly gets serious in a nonchalant way. The universe is crafted rather uniquely with obvious elements of classic anime fantasy and a touch of Alice in wonderland. Belle, our Alice, is our protagonist, or so I am led to believe, and is the only pure human surrounded by furies. They don't think of her as human since they don't know what that is, so she is just lacking in their opinion, but she isn't really ostracized either. An interesting move is that their version of animals is ... 1/2 plant. Swords are grown and not made. Battles are fought in acts resembling a play. Thing get really strange, and a lot of detail went into it.

This is where me as a weak viewer looking for a quick fix comes in. The pacing feels slow when it really isn't. Everyone's motivations are clear and sufficient back story is given so that you are not lost, but something about the execution of this still seems off. I found myself dozing off and having to skip back to rewatch the part of the show I missed a lot.

The sound and voice acting were decent. The CGI was jarring as always. The finally, while not a cliff hanger, clearly is setting itself up for a second season but I doubt it is coming with this show sub 7 aggregated score.

TLDR: Potential wasted.

The whole premise of the series; speaking Russian while the boy secretly understands, is basically underutilized while the rest of the show is an almost standard romcom, hence the 5 rating. The all-too-common tropes are in there. Honestly, there is nothing fresh beyond the first episode. The sound, voice acting, and animation is fine. The story is uninteresting because...it's been done a million times before. The characters are boring, so you don't get invested, again because it's been done a million times before. I kept watching because I was hoping some fresh would happen, but it didn't. If you're a romcom fan, I ... guess it's worth a watch to get your fix but it is not worth the time imho.

TLDR: I feel like piece of my brain rotted with this series.

Dude gets isekaied to be reborn as a goblin....blah blah blah.... gains the power of what he eats..... pulls a Captain Kirk by having sexy with almost everything female. And it's the last part that make my head hurt. This is basically a hentai without the nudity. He literally gets the skill LEBIDO. If the girls are not attracted to him for being OP, they submit to him from Stockholms syndrome and as a last resort, he just rapes them till they fall for him. Whoever came up with this shit watched the ... category section of a hentai site and asked themself, "How can I squeeze in everything and still be allowed to air on TV". There might as well have been no plot for this to add value to.

To say this show was stupid would be an overwhelming understatement. If there was a show to make you go outside and walk on some grass, this would be it. I genuinely feel bad for the team saddled with the responsibility to make this animation a reality.

All is not lost as the series manages to mediocre enough in other areas as to not be unwatchable...but why would you want to? It's as though there was a demand for a new place on the anime sex scale. [Hentai]->[Ecchi]->[Whatever this is]->[Tasteful Fan service]->[Sex scene that adds value or context to a plot]

TLDR: Generic but enjoyable.

Listen, this is not another Slime or Jobless isekai. Just some plain ole turn off your brain fun. Our MC gets zapped into your bog-standard fantasy world by truck-kun no less, with prior knowledge about everything because it's a game she completed. If you didn't guess from the name, she's not the protagonist. Yeah, I know, it's been done a million times. What separates this one is our NPC MC is a dead pan, let me avoid all the problems in a common-sense way while becoming OP and caring the plot along, is likeable. The characters, while not the greatest, fulfill ... their roles and grow on you. Even the annoying ones. The animation is not horrible and if you squint your eyes. the CGI is not distracting. The sound and voice acting gets the job done. There is not much else to say. It's a generic isekai but a good way to waste a Sunday evening on.

TLDR: Lost of potential but dumb

This show has a lot going for it. Funny characters, comical story lines, good animation and voice acting but the story and characters are just dumb. The show starts off with the weekly staged power ranger vs doomed monsters. Why? Who knows?! You being to feel sorry for the monsters and they go out of their way to make the power rangers seem evil. They give some flash backs on select characters but ultimately it really never justified why they are doing what they are doing. Our MC goes from likeable to stupid every episode. The world mechanics are inconsistent. ... There is dissention in the ranks of the power rangers. Nothing makes sense. The best you can do is squeeze off a few laughs and move on.