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Vivy is a great work so far. If I could give it a score as of writing, I'd put it at 9.5.

Premise:
The premise was overall not new, but there was nothing wrong with that. With stories nowadays, pretty much whatever you thought out will have something similar in the world, just obscured, hence not brought in the limelight. What matters generally is how the premise is used or how it was executed. For Vivy, the execution of the premise is well done. Hundreds of years in the future after Vivy was created was where Matsumoto started. Was it weird that the (probably) top scientist at ... that time managed to send an AI back in time? It's questionable but not impossible. I mean, that was hundreds of years after AIs at the caliber of Vivy was created. With AIs, advancement of technology would be rapid, that it's not that out of place for there to be a method to send information back in time, but was not officially recognized at that time probably it being under a testing phase. At the least, I believe that's the story in the background on how Matsumoto reached Vivy.

Characters:
Vivy is an highly advanced AI. She was at the point of having almost-human interactions. The existence of Matsumoto probably shorted something and made Vivy somewhat more human-like. In any case, the characters, despite being AIs, is not a simple cardboard character. Both are trying to stay true to their mission. They have their goals align but they have different methods of execution. This is a plus since it is not exactly a "do this, do that" story. The characters argue. They try to voice out their concerns. And at times, one convinces the other, which at the point of writing, made some character development for Vivy. However, Vivy herself has conflicts with herself.

The latest episode also portrayed that the characters that Vivy encounters are not cardboard characters. They have a history and a reason to do what they had to do. They developed in the past and which is why we seem them as they are bow.

Art and Sound:
There's not much to point here. It was all superb.

Tensura suffers from pretty much what majority of the isekai stories have out there.

First, Rimuru was reincarnated with a cheat ability. Isekai OP MC with cheat ability check. This is as generic it can get for isekai stories. As a slime he got predator AND great sage. That's a cheat ability on top of a cheat ability. Then with both cheats, he became pretty much overpowered in just a few weeks along with the name blessing with Veldora. Was there a struggle? Somewhat, but the blessing and his cheat pretty much makes those struggle pretty much a given now. There's no difficulty at all.

Second, the ... territory progression. Imagine creating the one of most technically advanced nation in just about 2 years. All the other nations existed way longer before Tempest was born, but lo-and-behold Tempest has become more technologically advanced than most nations in just about 2 years.

The city-building itself is unrealistic. The city was like built in a year and it's design was already better than other nations. The presence of advanced technology is understandable but the rate of it appearing is unrealistic, considering that there's practically only 4 skilled dwarves in Tempest. Sure, magic exists, but chalking it up to "magic" and just whip out a very advanced civilization is a very lazy approach to world building.

But wait a moment, we have a justifiable reason for the stunted technological advancement, right? Yes, Tensura has. That is the Great Tenma War. It is a time where angels descend from the heavens and pretty much targets the most technologically advanced nation. It's an understandable reason, but despite that, nations which experienced that a few times already never devised a countermeasure and just supposedly decided that stunting the growth of technology is best answer. That's pretty much the decision for almost all nations in Tensura. And in all honesty, with all those prideful rulers and in Tensura, none of them rose to the task and tried. With such an event happening every 500 years, somewhere around 100-200 years after each war should be enough to for the next generation of prideful rulers to not care about it and develop a countermeasure. But no, most nations just sat there without preparing countermeasures and let their nation sink every 500 years.

Rimuru is dumb as shit. This is literally one of the main reason Tensura has a plot. Rimuru was an adult before reincarnation. He is a working adult, remind you. That means, he had experienced and met so many different individuals, good and bad. Despite that, Rimuru has practically almost no sense of caution when confronting others. He comes out as a person that almost literally trust anyone he meets on the get-go A very generic personality which can be seen in a lot isekai protags. In addition, there are a lot of cases and problems which would have been easily resolved if Rimuru just stopped and listened to his very OP skill Great Sage. Majority of the time, Rimuru just chalks it up as a joke and shelf it.

You can even say that Great Sage is the brain, and Rimuru is the heart. Since, for the most part, he just stopped thinking and did whatever. This is despite him becoming a ruler of a nation. He wanted notes from Gazel on how to rule a nation but he barely uses or improves upon those knowledge. A huge waste for character development, honestly. This is also despite that he was an adult and should have at least the bare minimum idea or knowledge of management. But his experience as an adult was also thrown in the trash as well like it did not exist at all.

Last is the rest of the cast. Every single one of them is basically a Rimuru fanatic. If Rimuru says to take their own life, they most likely will. Them not retaliating when the humans swooped in to burn the city was the most frustrating part of the story. Every single one of them is so focused on making that be "good to humans" true that they rather die than not follow it. At that point, everyone was just an unthinking puppet. Rimur just started fixing this after they died.

Overall, Tensura is generally fun, but falls into a lot of problems people tend to ignore.

I knew there was a manga of Horimiya, but I heard there will be an Anime and decided to watch the Anime first to get an overview of what it is supposed to be. My verdict? The anime is overrated and it failed to make me read the manga any more than it should.

Perhaps the manga is great as the others claimed. Others claim that you "should" read the manga to know what is going on and how the characters were fleshed out. But the gist is, if the Anime requires you to have already read the manga for you to understand what is happening, ... then it already failed as an Anime. Period.

People will most likely claim that "It's the same with other Anime". True enough, most Anime requires you to read the source material to get a better understanding of what's happening. However, most Anime skip the mundane stuff and things that "can" be removed to make up for the limited air time. Despite that, it is mandatory to show the stuff that is mandatory to the story. This is hard to achieve, of course. Barely few are able to achieve this. However, that is not the case with Horimiya.

Horimiya is a rom-com with an emphasis on romance. And due to that, in order for romance to buildup, you need to stack scenes to build a bridge between two characters. However, that did not occur in the "Anime". They practically skipped that development between the main characters in one episode tot he point that their relationship feels too disjointed to even ship the characters.

Evidence of this is in the forums where others claim that there is a romance buildup in the manga and they confirmed that the Anime is skipping a lot of content. But then again, this is a rating for the "Anime". Whether the manga is good or not is a different story.