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That this anime is tagged with romance is insulting to all the other great romance anime out there. The first episode began with a lot of promise, but after that promising start, the romance withered and died on the vine. If the two main characters had any chemistry to start with it quickly dried up, a casualty of this rushed adaption.
Speaking of rushed adaption the main story has been given no room to breathe and characters no chance to be developed. I honestly wonder why the studio even bothered to adapt this story if they were only going to botch it this badly.
Furthermore, the ... animation is just barely passable as average and the fight choreography is all but absent which, for me, is the final nail in the coffin.

I can't dispute the fact that this looks great, fantastic even. The background is almost a character in and of itself in how detailed it is and even the background characters are well-drawn.
The opening and ending themes are real bangers you can bop to as well.
Unfortunately, the plot is not doing it for me. The main character Arajin is so cringe at how he interacts with Senya. He talks, no yells, at him in public and people are like huh? I get it's done for laughs, but I hate the trope. Because of this the jokes are kind of falling flat.
But my biggest problem is ... that Arajin is leaning on burrowed power. He thinks with his dick and hasn't done anything to deserve this power that has been handed to him.
I'd rate this higher for the music and animation, but the plot really drags the score down.

MC exists and hot girls throw themselves at him. That would be a more accurate title.
The writing, to put it succinctly, is godawful. The story begins with a fish out of water premise. The main character, Tsubasa moves to Hokkaido from Tokyo because his dad has moved for work reasons. The first person he meets when he arrives is Minami whose sum total of her personality is that she is a gyaru.
It is painfully obvious that the MC is self-insert character as he doesn't seem to have much of a personality, let alone any interests and hobbies. As far as I can tell the ... only thing going for him is that he is the new city kid from Tokyo, but apparently, that is enough for Minami who hogs his attention for two entire episodes. In fact, the MC goes to school, but the only person he talks to is Minami, and then she invites him to her house. At this point, I have to ask myself what kind of any percent romance speedrun this is because quite frankly I've watched hentai with deeper plots than this.
In the third episode, we get to meet the second Hokkaido gal Akino and Minami tells the MC she wants to befriend her because she looks super cute, this conversation takes place while they are literally sitting next to Akino. I facepalmed so hard I almost concussed myself. Later on the MC catches Akino in a compromised position and despite only knowing the MC for less than half a day she shares a deeply personal secret with him. Did I mention how terrible this writing is?
Aside from the writing, the other terrible thing about this show is that the kingly proportion of the animation budget, what little they had to work with, is dedicated to the Hokkaido gals. The rest of the anime is stills stacked upon stills and often the only thing being animated is the lips. Not even the MC escapes from this treatment he as bland as background character.
Don't waste your time with this trash there are several much superior romance anime, some of them are even airing at the same time.

So from what I've heard, the source material for this anime is an ecchi and if Studio Passione had stayed true to the source material it would have elevated this anime into the realms of guilty pleasure and out of the ho-hum doldrums we find ourselves in.
Unfortunately, that is not the case and what we are left with is a hot mess that tries to be too many things at once and falls short of all of them.
We have the reincarnated demon lord stuck in the body of a ten-year-old, this makes some people uncomfortable but it's a bit of a nothing burger "thanks" to ... the lack of ecchi anyway. But the problem here is that we don't really get to find out (so far) the MC's primary motivation or his patron goddess's stake in all of this.
This is set in a futuristic world plagued by attacks from the mysterious "void beasts" but the anime does a poor job explaining why this is happening.
There is also the school setting with a ranking system, but aside from the one episode where the female MC gets her power-up, this is left to rot by the roadside on the way to nowhere. Also, the female MC is now a vampire, because why not?
All together it's a lot of moving parts that don't mesh together well and often get neglected.
So why am I still watching this? Because the female characters are cute and the VC cast are killing it.
If you are bored and feel like some anime junk food check it out, but don't expect it it be more than a flash in the pan that will only see one season and then quietly sink into obscurity.

What a failure of a show this was. After watching Immoral Guild and KamiKatsu I was really looking forward to a bit of guilty pleasure ecchi so you shouldn't have trouble imagining how disappointed I was when we got served up whatever slop this was.

This was supposed to be ecchi, but it was so lame that a normal anime heavy on the fan service would have been more titillating. The girls looked okay but were let down by the animation (except for the stills in the ED), and their personalities were flatter than the paper they were drawn on.

As for the comedy, entire episodes would ... go by without even eliciting a wry smile from me and more often than not would only get a "heh" out of me, which on the scale of laughs is equal to a meh.

TLDR; this anime was shit and I feel like shit for putting up with this shit. I hope Gekkou goes out of business and all their employees have to find work as sanitation engineers where they belong.

It is really bad and I've had enough, I don't know why I stuck with this to the end. Maybe it's the same mentality that draws your eye to a bad car wreck or watching a train derail in slow motion.

The one positive thing about this anime was the character designs, but everything else was trash. The animation was subpar and the music was ok, but nothing eye-opening.

Probably the worst thing is the plot which is so patchwork and messy you'd be forgiven thinking it was created by chatgpt raised on the worst the isekai genre has to offer. If a plot point wasn't resolved ... with indecent haste it would often get dropped. Characters get introduced and then all but ignored afterwards (RIP Kaede). The empty wish fulfillment was amusing at first but gets old pretty quickly.

This was just a bad anime and I hope the studio fails because they have some great talent that could go on to illustrate great things, but they will never reach their full potential sticking with this terrible studio.

Ok, so five episodes in and I've decided to drop it, why? Because it follows the Peach Boy Riverside formula of airing the episodes out of order. Something that I personally find quite annoying.
If it wasn't for the broadcast order this would be a perfectly fine addition to the genre of Cute Girls Doing Cute Things.
The music and animation are great and the Japanese VA cast is certainly stacked with a lot of popular VAs so there are no complaints in that department. The plot is also good enough to carry the anime, however by the end of episode three, the anime is done. ... The big showdown has occurred and the following episodes are just about the team training for the mission that they just completed.
Therefore I think that the best way to enjoy this anime is to wait until the season is done and then watch the anime in the proper chronological order.

I am someone who has never played Arknights and never even heard of Arknights before this season. I've given this 3 episodes and to be honest I have found Arknights to be a very average anime.

The animation is ok, but the unsaturated palette and the fact that Reunion has a budget to give their grunts a uniform is very telling about how cheap it really is. But they do take the time to make most of the characters look unique so there is that.

The OST is very average too. Not terrible, but it doesn't grab your attention either. In a season of banger OPs this ... isn't good at all.
Character development is below average. We get introduced to a bunch of characters and I can understand that if you are an Arknights player you will know who these characters are and their backstories. You may even be excited about seeing your waifu animated. But if you don't know who they are then they are just a parade of faces you don't get to learn anything about before they get shuffled aside for the next one. I don't hold out much hope for anything more either since there are only 8 episodes in this short season.

Lastly, the most egregious fault is the "doktah" the self-insert cardboard cut-out is terrible, it just leaves a gaping hole in the story crying out for something of substance to fill it.

If you are a fan of Arknights you probably want to scream at me about how wrong I am and that this is the best thing since sliced bread. However, it is my opinion that if a story struggles to stand on its own, then it is not a very good story at all. But if you are curious about Arknights and thinking about playing the game then I suppose it might be a good starting point... maybe.