(Average+) A Destructive God Sits Next to Me

Series in one sentence:
Cat kid is tortured by his delusional classmates.

Series in more sentences:
Seri wants to be left alone, but has a knack for attracting strange characters who live inside their own made-up fantasy.

The main perpetrators are the two childhood friends, Hanatori and Tsukimiya; the former who believes he's the reincarnation of a knight named Sturmhurt, with an evil god locked inside of him named Miguel, while Tsukimiya likes to egg him on for his own viewing pleasure.
After convincing Hanatori that Seri is his reincarnated partner in arms, the delusional boy refuses to leave him alone and unceremoniously dubs him "Gestöber the Hierophant of Ice".

Though Seri suffers many embarrassments because of the two, he still finds himself somewhat caring about Hanatori. Occasionally.

The plot on paper is really fun, but with some minor edits, I think this could've been a whole lot better. There were many set-ups for comedic moments, but it seldom took an entertaining route to the conclusion.
I was intrigued here and there, but wouldn't watch this again.

I liked the main character, Seri, but his thoughts were real repetitive. I think that was the point, but while the show explains why his awful friends are obsessed with him, I never got an explanation to why Seri stuck with them. His opinion of them is so bad, he worries he'll stab them to death one day. That's pretty serious, I'd say. So, why does he make a 180 whenever he sees Hanatori cry?

The show also hints that Seri's similar to his "friends", but this plot point was never explained, either. "He thinks he's special, that's why he wants to live a normal life"? Special, how so? What does this sentence even mean?

I also thought that the chibi art style was intrusive. It's pretty distracting to see a tiny fat-faced character standing next to a normally drawn one. Hanatori's character design especially rubbed me the wrong way. He was chibified/dumbified the most as well, even though he was shown to have good grades and started out as someone who cared about keeping up his cool act. Further on the series, this became less part of his character, and he would just sit there with his friends, being minimalistic and "cute".

Like I said at the start, I don't think much is needed to make this a more comedic, appealing watch, to the likes of Saiki K. even. It's something they could've considered for season 2, but the series is not popular enough to warrant more episodes, so this slightly above average show will remain its legacy.

(Average+) The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat

NOTE: Stopped watching after episode 9.

Series in one sentence:
Man who wishes to no longer be a tool for killing agrees to become a tool for killing and gets reborn within a family that wants to raise him as a tool for killing.

Series in more sentences:
The best assassin in the world is betrayed and killed by his own organization before he's able to enter retirement, but his fleeting soul is summoned by a goddess, who wishes to make use of his services and kill her world's hero; destined to go rogue and destroy all of existence.

Wanting to take this opportunity to have a new life, free from being emotionless and other people's tool, he agrees to get reincarnated and save this other world from doom.

Surprisingly slow start for a genre that likes to rush things.

It was alright, but this show doesn't really introduce a direct plan, rather a slow method of preparing oneself until the hero goes berserk. None of it was particularly "fun" to watch, which made the flaws this anime had stand out even more to me.

For example, the end of episode 7.

Fucking embarrassing that scene was. I don't want to see literal children talk about giving blow jobs or whatever. Why is this being brought up in this otherwise serious story? Damn inappropriate.
Preteens shouldn't talk like this, especially a girl who was about to get sold as a sex slave just some time prior -a terrible fate her friends have already lived through. Why is she acting like a ho, while her job is to be Lugh's sister. Try to have some damn class, World's Fucked Up (Ass)assin!

After this, I kept on watching, though the pessimist in me was hoping the rest of the series would go downhill, so I could quit on it. This show already wasn't doing that great of a job entertaining me, after all.

So, episode 8, normal business, then episode 9 arrives and starts off with Lugh's mother wanting to see the erection he had back in episode 7, which that absolute miserable servant of his told her about. How is that allowed in a high-standing household? If you can't chuck that fool out because of her magic abilities, verbally destroy her, have her know her place. Untrustworthy wretch.
Making a fool out of your master is not funny and his mother should agree with this sentiment instead of showing up in her son's room to further embarrass him.

Speaking of wretches, the adopted sister apparently needed an entire scene to explain to Lugh that infidelity should be considered, because he's so wanted and nobility is more than welcome not to be monogamous. Disgusting, what a way to thank a person for literally saving your life.
After that, she dared to threaten him into considering her as a side-wife well. Jump in a ditch, clicked the episode off right away, enough of this.

If you've watched this show already, you might very well think I'm hammering on moments and dialogue that barely lasted a minute and it's not worth it, but I've grown tired of these kind of scenes in anime. Disappointment always hits me when random perversion is thrown at you in an otherwise normal, serious story. I don't fucking like harem animes, it's a deceitful genre that often shows its head in other genres. Like, you try to be invested in a story and the early relationships the main character develops, then suddenly, a bunch of horny bitches show up out of the woodwork trying to suck him off.

Go away! None of you are interesting characters! Leave, shoo!

Harem animes have developed over time, I've noticed. No longer are these swooning girls and boys each other's rival, now they're all friends and urge their love interest to give in to the concept of polyamorous relationships. Not because the love interest wants or suggested it, but because the horndogs chasing them are selfish and don't want to compete, too much work. That's not an erotic fantasy, that's a crowd of people trying to bullshit the person they supposedly love.

Where was I. Right. I'm giving this an "Average+", because I see the potential, but my interest was lost over admittedly trivial matters. I simply don't want my stories interrupted by this kind of idiocy, so I bailed. I'm really sorry.

(Average) Over Drive Girl 1/6 - Amazing Stranger

NOTE: Stopped watching after episode 4.

Series in one sentence:
I don't recall Toy Story being like this.

Series in more sentences:
A fictional space heroine comes to life in the form of an action figure, owned by an anime fan. While they develop their relationship and feelings for each other, more toys begin to gain conscience for reasons unknown.

Short episodes, yet I could not get myself to finish the series.

I don't care for randomly inserted lewd scenes that attempt to spice up an otherwise bland anime. This wouldn't even sustain your common "anime pervert", while it looks like Over Drive Girl is trying to cater to them specifically.

Every new toy that comes to life in this stupidly designed man's home gets subjected to a sex joke as some kind of inauguration, and they're not even good, I've seen these exact same ones in a million animes before, so don't mind me when I move on.

(Average+) Ranking of Kings

Series in one sentence:
Steven Universe the anime.

Series in more sentences:
The child of two royal giants is born curiously small, weak, naive, and without the ability to hear, making his surroundings believe he's unfit to take the dying king's throne.

When he's stripped of his promised crown and a grand scheme is put into motion, Bojji goes on a quest with his new best friend, a persecuted shadow creature, to find a way to make himself stronger and earn his title as king.

I'm heartbroken over my grade, especially since I'd watch this anime again over some of the better scored ones. But the problem I have with Ranking of Kings is that it has a great beginning with captivating moments, until it became the opposite of that. A decline is painfully palpable when you get such an early good taste of things.

Ranking of Kings has the bad habit of giving nearly every prominent character a tragic backstory. Some of these were really, really overdramatic, like the creators wanted the audience to feel sorry for them whilst not putting in the work. Multiple subjects were bullied or tortured by a bunch of unreasonable, faceless antagonists, and no decent explanation was given to why these people are/were that evil. That's horrid writing, truly foul.
This made me not care for the biggest offender; the mirror lady, which matters, because it's her suffering that put the series' main conflict into motion. The moment I learned the details of her "grand scheme", this promising show turned into a bore. I don't care to see two dangerous idiots (her and Bojji's father) unsuccessfully try to convince the viewer that the pain and death they caused to those who loved them stems from trauma you should sympathize with. Shit me, get lost with that.

Bojji's father's part in this mess was the most confusing element. The revealed relationship he shared with the mirror lady was lame and I wasn't feeling the unconditional love he felt for her, because the series hardly showed any scenes of them together. But also, it's hard to relate to a character who used two random women to bear him offspring, so he could use that offspring for his selfish gains.

Mirror lady isn't his blood and I don't recall seeing him share any deep and emotional scenes with her mother either, so again, why did he start caring so much for her? Why does his care for her exceed that of his own children and wives? Why is her pain more important to him than that of his first son, who is also an outcast and without his biological mother? What does it mean when he says it's his fault she suffered? What a throwaway line, only inserted for more drama.

The show doesn't just like showing off how miserable everyone's life was at one point, it also rushes their story. The moment a new character shows up, you can expect to get bombarded with emotional flashback scenes of literal seconds long, functioning as character development.
I tolerated it for the first few episodes, but it became annoying fast, because it also diminishes the pain of the one character this show should be about: Bojji. It was overwhelming, and eventually, you stop seeing the child on screen, because there are so many other characters hogging it.

I'm also a bit disturbed by the message of forgiveness this series pushes. There are multiple morally corrupt characters who would've killed Bojji long ago if sheer luck wasn't on his side. And because Bojji survived, the writers feel comfortable trying to "redeem" these losers, because, again, they have such a tragic backstory and all.
It's a flaw Steven Universe suffered from as well. Some people are horrible, selfish, murderers, whatever, and no matter how often you show them bawling their eyes out or claim how sweet they were once upon a time, it doesn't magically absolve them of the crimes they've committed.

Realistically speaking, Bojji would've been killed long ago at the hands of the people closest to him. The people who once smiled at him. His brother, his father, his personal trainer; all wet blankets who don't deserve an ounce of anyone's trust after they so easily let themselves get steered into thinking taking the life of a harmless child was alright.
The fact his own brother ordered his death is not even brought up at the end of the climax, which would've been warranted, since there was a pretty good subplot going on where Bojji feared and resented his trainer friend for attempting to kill him. At his brother's request. Which nobody cared to reveal to him for some reason.

So, why is the trainer guilted, but do the murderous mirror lady, Bojji's murderous brother, and his murderous shithead of a father go scot-free?

I think we would've had a better story if we didn't focus on these star-crossed lovers, and it was just about Bojji visiting different kings, proving his worth by fighting/debating them. If his own community is this idiotic, I don't consider reuniting with them a happy ending.
Speaking of the ending, I never liked stories that end with an underage person venturing out on their own. I'm not even sure why Bojji decided to start his own kingdom. Why not find your friend and bring him back to the kingdom you already own, what's the value in starting from scratch?

I'm sad this show took such a nose dive. It wanted to be a complex mystery, but that doesn't work when the reveal is some standard shit. 
The mirror lady was a lame villain, her redemption should've been death, Bojji's father was a dumb douche, goodbye and stay dead, and my face fucking scrunched up at the marriage proposal at the end, like ew, where did that even come from.
I'd entertain a season 2, don't get me wrong, but alot of these characters have been ruined for no good reason, it'll be hard to take the story seriously.

(Average+) Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated Into a Total Fantasy Knockout

Series in one sentence:
Basic-looking anime preschooler with a shark mouth is apparently a babe that brings all the 40-year-olds to the yard.

Series in more sentences:
Two childhood friends are suddenly transported to another world by a goddess, who treats a random remark they last uttered as a wish.

The stoic, handsome, anti-romantic Jinguuji wakes up to find the social and love-hungry Tachibana transformed into a girl, possessing an enchanting beauty in the literal sense. The two seem oddly enamoured with each other in their new predicament and become ever more aware of the other person's good qualities that made them friends in the first place.

Are these genuine feelings, or is it the curse the goddess cast on them after lashing out at her?

After having finished the first season, I can confidently say that the fantasy elements were damn boring and unnecessary. The anime shone brightest when it didn't occupy itself with all that tomfoolery and focussed on the relationships.

There was no reason for this story to play off in another world. Jinguuji and Tachibana could've dealt with the latter's transformation back home.
Not only that, but that this girl isn't actually beautiful, but has a passive magic skill that enchants anyone who sees her puts a damper on things as well, as it makes Jinguuji's romantic interest not seem voluntary. Disingenuous, even, despite some very sweet flashback scenes.

So again, I think this would've been a better watch if the setting was just their home and work life, and Tachibana's female self perhaps looked and sounded more like his male self. That way Jinguuji would be way more confronted with the fact he's dealing with his male childhood friend.

For what it was, not a bad watch, but the end conflict was excruciatingly boring, only saved by some fanservice scenes between our two strange friends.
If things were kept simple, this would've been an easy "good" rating, but too many scenes just didn't go all the way, or into the direction I hoped. I felt a bit let down. But sure, I'll watch the next season when it comes.