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This anime is a love letter to all visual novel fans out there, bringing us to travel into the sight of the scene when they only started to grow. Without all these predecessors, we won't be able to see big names like Steins;Gate, CLANNAD, Fate/Stay Night and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni grows into whatever it is today.
Originally a doujin manga only focused on development of such games, the anime brought it a step further to expand the story to the current reality - where visual novel scenes are slowly declining with generic MILF NTR games is dominating and other either closed for good or ... sacrificed themself to the wave of gacha games, and a person named Akisato Konoha, frustrated with the reality tried to bring back the scene to its glory and by time-travel shenanigans, she was brought to where they started.
This is where all callbacks of otaku culture is being heavily summoned - positively or negatively, it tells us how was the otaku culture back in the 90s closely with close details and a lot of references are made. Truth be told, you might need to do some research if you want to get the maximum of its references, but once you know, you'll appreciate this anime of being so detailed on it and you'll learn to appreciate the culture even more.
The anime also brought us to alot of dilemmas of the scene - the technology transition between PC98 to Windows, the story of companies gambling themself just for profit, and even to adapt with everchanging sentiments of otaku culture. If we imagine ourself being on the eyes of Konoha, Mamoru and the rest of Alcohol Soft, you might want to question yourself that as a game developer.
The anime even goes as far as being meta, though my less-liked feature, but then it brought us with provoking question on how do we expect for a good visual novel - was it the story? Music? Art? It's all up to us to answer.

While I am not expecting visual novel scene will be back after this, at the very least, we still have time to appreciate this media before it would end up being a damned underground scene again.

At a first glance, a rakugo-based show with a Taisho era setting might scratch a lot of people head, since that's probably not much that people are interested more, and looks like a lot of research is needed to understand.

But well, it's not like that, and its not hard to follow either. My Master Has No Tail is a story of journey of life, which would be relatable to many in present times despite its setting. And each of the cast has a very interesting background to see about, and has their own way of life to look into. Rakugo is just a centered idea, ... the rest is how they pulled it out.

Not going to prolong this, I enjoyed the story and the casts a lot. And you'll not losing things with guides given from the No Tail Tales even. A good watch for the mind and soul. Especially Mameda always being adorable each week.

Dear all VN readers - don't be swayed by false reviews in other side of the internet that claims that this is a blasphemy of an adaptation. Those saying that are just losers who quits the anime when it's in the lowest, just like people who quits the VN trilogy because of Extra. This adaptation is just as decent as it could be, and it's really good.

S2 has managed to bring some of the crucial part of the series to another level, despite setbacks that I can say forgivable due to the reality of the anime ground. Especially the most anticipated battle where half of ... the season is dedicated to it - and that's despite speculation that it would be sped up horribly as claimed by those false reviewers. It's doing fine by itself - very good battles and epic drama in it.

Yes, I could admit it can be better, but the anime is fine, I repeat, fine to watch it if you enjoyed the VN enough. No need to be shy and hesitative just because you hear things are wrong. It done its justice to the VN its own good way.