(Average) Fairy Tail

NOTE: Watched season 1 and part of season 2.

Series in one sentence:
A girl with the lamest magic powers ever gets accepted to the most reserved and talented magic club known in the country, without issues. Okey then.

Series in more sentences:
A young girl dreams of entering the most well-known magic guild, called Fairy Tail, and become a great wizard like them. She is quick to get accepted and embarks in many quests and adventures with her new friends at the guild.

I started watching this series because I remembered a friend praising it to me almost 6 years ago. He made it seem like it was pure brilliance, but I was less than impressed.

I'll be honest, it's been a while since I last saw it, but I really don't want to go back to it to check the facts. It started getting over-dramatic and boring quite fast, it didn't take long for me to stop caring about the series.

A thing I don't like about animes is those stories where the main character gets a bunch of "best friends ready to die for them" within the same second she meets them for the first time, and this anime was quick to push this girl in that situation.
Nevertheless, I did think that the characters had an awesome introduction. I dare say, all characters started out better when they..started out. For example, the dark-haired ice boy likes to fight with the pink-haired guy and often takes off his shirt. Especially when explained why he does that, it's funny. But eventually, both traits stop being a running gag and become more of an occasional easter egg.
And then there's the red-haired warrior maiden that didn't waste any words and everybody feared, but then all of the sudden she becomes casual with the two that were afraid of her just 2 episodes ago. All these years they were intimidated by her, but when this blonde girl gets into the mix, they are fine hanging out with her all of the sudden? It did not make sense to me.

The nail that sealed the coffin for me was when the main character's stupid overdramatic backstory entered the scene. The backstory itself wasn't that bad, even though I still don't know the details of it, but when the others started risking their lives for this girl they really don't have a decent connection with and she in response started sobbing for them, I had enough.
A bunch of strangers sobbing for a bunch of strangers does not get me involved in the story.

I would've liked the series better if the characters went on regular quests; but things escalated rapidly, and I don't think the characters know each other enough to be put in such situations. I found this to already be the case when they tried to save that village in the first season.
I just did not care.

(Average) My Little Monster

Series in one sentence:
Two mentally crippled people drag on an already short series by breaking up and falling back in love every episode.

Series in more sentences:
A loner girl, fully lacking emotion, ends up being the love interest of a boy with anger issues. Unfamiliar with the feelings he presents her, she is in battle with herself on whether or not she should accept him. He, on his turn, acknowledges her as the only light in his life and isn't able to let her go, though his uncertainty causes this to happen often.

I can appreciate characters who get to the point, but the episodes felt rushed because of the continuous changes of mental state these two were put in.

The speed in which the characters fell in and out of love with each other was ridiculous and became tiresome fast, and by the time the story knocked it off, the series already ended with the lamest conclusion ever. There are only 13 episodes, so I guess you're supposed to read the manga if you want to know the rest of the story, but based on what I saw, I can't say I care about seeing these two failure children together. Near the end I leaned more towards this blonde guy and the leading lady, but as intriguing as that romance was, very little screen time was given to it. It really was just a background thing.

My Little Monster's horrible writing isn't hard to miss, sadly, but it became even more apparent whenever its characters showed off their "Dr. Phil relationship analysation gift" and flawless knowledge on how others felt about their crush, but then acted oblivious the moment it concerned their own love life.

I wanted to accept this show as something deeper; a psychological story, a look in the minds of two socially restricted people, if you will. But it wasn't anything like that, as the series doesn't talk about these things in detail.
It felt like both main characters just went with the first emotion that crossed their minds whenever things went well or things went badly, which made for a messy story.