(Good) High-Rise Invasion

Series in one sentence:
"The masks won't kill you, they just want you to commit suicide, but if you don't, they will kill you".

Series in more sentences:
A high school girl wakes up in a strange city, patrolled by mask-wearing killers, and comes to learn it's some kind of special dimension that tries to breed the next god.
Determined to reunite with her brother and bring an end to this ruthless system, she meets many allies and enemies along the way.

The anime jumps right into it and sometimes throws explanations at you that really aren't that well explained, but I liked what I saw. Good, simple entertainment. The main female lead could ruin the serious tone a bit with her overly quirky responses, but she grew on me.

What did bother me were the abundance of panty shots and the inconsistent rules. The series starts off with the statement that masked people will never kill you, as they want you to become desperate and commit suicide, except then it follows up with "but they will kill you when you don't commit suicide". So, an entirely pointless bit of info.
I also recall hearing that the people that take off their mask or get it damaged will get targeted by other killers and feel urged to kill themselves in addition, but this rarely happened. In fact, a masked character strolls along with the main cast and is allowed to retain his memories without his mask even attempting to punish him for it, something that did happen to someone else prior.

I didn't get it, maybe I missed a bit of info, maybe the anime just isn't that logical, but it was still worth the watch.

(Average) Junjou Romantica

Note: Only watched season 1

Series in one sentence:
Boys who have been ploughed in the rear multiple times still question whether they're homosexual or not.

Series in more sentences:
Follow the growing romance of three couples, all intertwined with each other in some way. Don't know what else to add, that's the anime.

All "pitchers" are dark-voiced and long-faced sexual harassers with skyscraper legs, all "catchers" are aggressively loud and big-eyed; and many of the characters in this show looked so much like each other, it was hard to distinguish them. It was Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi all over again.

There was also this theme going on where every couple had an age gap and some form of hyperfocus was put on it. For example, two of the featured couples starred an adult man with a high school boy, while one pairing had an age difference of merely 4 years, yet the show still felt the need to make one of the guys go "I'M 4 YEARS OLDER THAN HIM, I'M AT A WHOLE DIFFERENT STAGE IN MY LIFE".
Like, alright, calm down. The 35-year-old considering the inappropriate advances of the 17-year-old wins the awkward award here, you're fine. I like how that particular story went absolutely nowhere, as well. Should've been left out.

The romance between the actually odd couples felt off. Legally speaking, it's fine for an 18-year-old to date someone who's 10 years older, but all the teenage boys in this show act like unruly preteens, which makes the interactions with their way older love interest not feel to be on equal footing.
And then of course there's the repetitive sexual coercing that always involves the bigger guy grabbing the other one's wrist and just doing what he wants while the other yells "no, stop, etc.".

Many of the side-plots didn't go anywhere, either. What happened to the main kid's one friend at high school, who was trying to get with him? And why is this one guy, who we last saw trying to kiss his male colleague professor, suddenly claimed to had been crazy in love with his female teacher and unable to settle for anyone else since then?

Junjou Romantica loves drama and to prolong it, as is made clear by how the main kid gets stuffed all the time, yet every new episode he argues not to be in love with his assaulter. And I'll have to say "assaulter" here, because that's the only accurate title you can give a man who is constantly told "no".
The story is a mess. There were some alright ideas, just nothing that excited me.

Focus on one romance, don't turn the younger characters into emotional children -or just increase their age- remove the sexual harassment scenes, and let the series itself be about self-discovery and the journey towards the romance.
With all these characters forcing themselves onto everyone, I'm surprised there wasn't a storyline that involved calling the police. But after getting fondled against their will, things always turn back to normal for these boys, and that's an anime trope that needs to die.

(Good) Yasuke

Series in one sentence:
Look out for that evil pries-never mind, new villain.

Series in more sentences:
An African servant catches the attention of the well-known Japanese lord, Nobunaga, and earns himself the honourable role of samurai.
After a long run of successes and being his favourite, an enemy raid urges his master to choose death, and Yasuke abandons the samurai life to take on a more humble, but fruitless existence.

20 years later, he gets himself involved with an upcoming war revolving a young girl and the great powers she possesses.

There are only 6 episodes, so the main events are rushed, but the show managed to use its time well. I would've enjoyed it more if the season was longer and allowed for more relationship building, though.

This is like a very detailed concept series for a bigger anime series. Having that said, I hope they'll consider making more, mainly about the past of Yasuke.

(Average+) Sakamoto Desu Ga?

Series in one sentence:
A 15-year-old who looks like a 20+ man does childishly lame things with style.

Series in more sentences:
A seemingly perfect high school student catches the attention of everyone he meets, but while he has many fans, jealous male students constantly try to challenge or sabotage him as well.

Good premise and charming at times, but the anime could've benefited from Saiki K.'s speedy delivery. It wants to be a zany show, but it moves a tad too slowly for that. With some minor tweaking, it would've been a drama.

The jokes are alright, though none made me laugh out loud, and Sakamoto is described to be this awesomely cool guy, while many of his "solutions" made no sense or were generally pretty lame. But I guess that's part of the comedy.

I was more interested in the serious storylines, but these were just as often clumsy in their direction and not that much time was spent on them. The school delinquents got alot of screen time, while their storylines were the least interesting parts.

Comedy or drama, it's hard to say what genre I'd prefer if both need work. I'll likely not watch this series again, but if there ever comes a season 2, I will check it out. There's an interesting theory floating about on what Sakamoto's departure at the end entails, and it definitely makes his goodbye (more) saddening.
To me, the theory excuses Sakamoto's odd problem solving skills as well and makes it look like he was just trying to have fun.

But well, a theory is just a theory, and a show needs to be graded on what it actually is.