(Average+) The Rising of the Shield Hero

Series in one sentence:
Goofy from Kingdom Hearts is a loser.

Series in more sentences:
A lazy college student is suddenly warped to an RPG-like world, together with three strangers, each from an alternate version of Earth. They're told to be heroes a prophecy says will save their world from upcoming doom, and are informed they can't go home as long the attacks are going on.

The other three summons are gifted real weapons to work with, while Naofumi carries a shield and can only be a support character, making it hard for him to level up without help.
As the shield hero, he receives no respect from his surroundings, and when his short-lived teammate accuses him of molesting her, things go downhill even more and he's forced to purchase a sickly slave to fight his battles for him and give him that wanted chance of getting back home.

A simple adventure that's easy to follow, but it's weird to see the main character start off optimistic and youthful, but the rest of the anime be dark and brooding, even after things have improved and he's surrounded by people who worship the ground he shits on.
Let's say he aged 20 years after that false accusation and never recovered, I don't know.

The entire "devil shield" plot was wasted screentime as well. Every time Naofumi called upon these dark powers, the same drama happened, as if nobody learned from last time. It decreased the seriousness of it for me.  
It goes like this: Naofumi allows himself to get swayed by the evil voice that accompanies this power and becomes evil himself, even though he's only ever targeted his rage at the beasts he was already fighting. Still, everyone around him acts like he has become a problem and shout out at him. After only a few seconds of this, he's reminded his life isn't shit at all and comes back to reality. The end.

Why were his teammates so on edge every time? Just don't touch him and let the guy take care of the fight, seriously. I couldn't muster a shred of care for any of these scenes.

What else is there to mention.. perhaps I would've liked the bird to have stayed a non-speaking bird that isn't after Naofumi's dick, and more explanation as to why the shield hero is so hated, since the latter wasn't really explored.

Season 2, I guess?

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5-5-2022 UPDATE:
Holy damn, season 2, I can't watch this anymore, stopped at episode 5.

It immediately throws you into a boring, basic adventure, wherein none of the characters say or do anything to make you want to stick around. It relies on the audience caring about this randomly inserted turtle minion with an existential crisis, as for the even less interesting green-haired girl, it was laughable.

Lowering my original score, I'm not watching the rest. It had 5 whole episodes to reel me in, that's about 2 hours, but offered me nothing. A possible/probable season 3 I won't visit.

(Average+) If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord

Series in one sentence:
Little devil girl who looks nothing like a devil turns every adult man into a sappy fool.

Series in more sentences:
A young and talented adventurer finds a little girl during one of his travels and learns she's an exiled devil, more importantly, her father has died and she's alone. The girl's situation and trauma plays on his heart strings and he decides to take her in himself. 

Everything she does excites him and he becomes addicted to her love, while she does everything she can think of to please him.

For starters, I didn't think the girl was all that cute. She was very "moany". Maybe Japan finds that kind of voice acting cute, but it never ceases to annoy me. Not every facial expression needs to be accompanied with a sound, you know. But I got the point; the girl is smoll and innocent and all that.
To see the guy go absolutely berserk over how cute she was was funny, but it would've been funnier if I knew what kind of person he used to be before that period. I can't even tell you if he has a personality, besides being in love with his new daughter.

As for the story itself, it was basic. The first few episodes were great; here the girl was young and only spoke a few words, but the moment she could speak and went to school, things became pretty boring.
Here we have a mysterious child, described to be a devil, with a backstory attached to her and her race, and the anime explores none of it. It only teases you by sharing a sentence's worth of info now and then. 

Only sometimes a real conflict happens, like people trying to kidnap her for money, but every other time we get plot elements like a female friend getting pregnant, a stupid whiny wolf baby who won't stop screaming when she doesn't get her way, or the girl showing worry she won't get to be with her foster father when an adult.. riveting.
One episode had these extremely lengthy scenes that showed these two doing absolutely fucking nothing. It hurt my soul, like the creators didn't know or care how to progress the story that day.

I guess it's not a waste of time, you can watch this and be entertained, I'm just a bit disappointed the show didn't "do" anything truly exciting.

(Average+) Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist

Series in one sentence:
Alright, I see people flying in the air shooting beams from their hands, but it's all atoms and tricks!

Series in more sentences:
A studious orphan from a prestige, but bankrupt family slowly finds himself surrounded by demons, who argue he's the descendant of King Solomon from the Bible with the power to appoint one of them as the new leader of Hell.

His mind only accepts logic based in realism, though, and he rejects all supernatural occurrences that stare him in the face.

It always hurts to sit through a series that's nothing but missed potential and loose ends. It had alot to offer, but couldn't explain the basics of the basics. Like, what exactly was the relationship between Solomon and the devil, Dantalion? Why did the guy like him so much? What exactly was his purpose as his servant, was he just bringing the guy tea every day? It all seemed pretty gay, yet the flashback scenes didn't give a lengthy and natural look into their past interactions and the relationship Dantalion has with his present day "reincarnation" is non-existent.

Said subject, William, goes through absolutely no character development. He stays his atheistic, angry self, making the last few minutes of the final episode pretty meaningless. Why is he feeling gloomy over the disappearance of characters he hardly interacted with, or always scolded into oblivion? He never showed gratitude for the many times his ass was saved or even said thank you to Dantalion for paying his school fees. It's the one concern the character has all throughout the series and he won't even accept the gift with a smile or take the offer a second time. William is all about using people to get a leg up, so why didn't he do it here?
No noticeable friendships were established between him and the other demons, and the one who's supposedly the most important in the story, Dantalion, got the least screen time out of everyone. Usually he was hanging out with the school's jocks. Those guys were his friends, not William.

Characters I couldn't care less about kept getting more dialogue and appearances; one episode even stars a woman never seen before to tell this hasty love story with another undercover demon character attending William's school. I don't care about this, damnit Makai Ouji, and neither do you when looking at the fact this man hardly makes an appearance worth mentioning after all that. The woman is never seen or mentioned again, either.

This anime made me feel so unfulfilled.

(Good) She and Her Cat: Everything Flows

Series in one sentence:
She and Her Depressing Life: Everything Blows.

Series in more sentences:
The story of a young girl trying to take her first steps into adulthood, narrated by her old cat. Sometimes a description can be that simple.

Seeing the amount of episodes and the running time of each made me skeptical it could tell a story worth telling, but this is a very well-paced, inoffensive, emotional little series. Or short movie, rather.

I don't know what else to add, no regrets.