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Liar Liar basically has no redeeming qualities. If you're looking for a well-written show centering around epic mind battles where the protagonist is constantly outwitting their opponents, then avoid Liar Liar because none of that is present here.

Liar Liar centers around "games" that characters have to play and win to gain stars and level up. Pretty standard stuff, right? Well, it's actually not because the games are so hilariously convoluted and over-complicated, while at the same time being so simple that if you think about how they would play out for five seconds, you would realize that the game doesn't work on a fundamental level. ... And that's before you throw in the show's "abilities", where characters can just cheat by throwing out whatever bs the writers think sounds cool. Every episode spends a painful amount of time trying to explain the rules to that week's game, and then it is always undone by these cheats, making the entire endeavor pointless. (Not to mention that the protagonist can literally cheat outside of the normal cheats allowed in the games, adding an extra layer of stupidity). There's also no tension to any of the games because you know that the protagonist will whip out some crazy excuse and win at the last second, while pretending he knew what was going to happen the entire time.

In terms of plot, there is no plot. The protagonist ostensibly has a reason for coming to the gaming island, which is that he is trying to find someone he knows. However, that's not actually important because it's brought up like a couple of times in the first few episodes, and then never again. No progress is ever made on this goal. The protagonist never even thinks about how he can go about finding this person. We don't even know why he wants to find them. He has no motivation outside of "gotta keep playing games so I don't get kicked off the island", which is kind of pointless when he doesn't act like he has an actual reason for being there.

The writing is just insanely bad. The dialogue is horrible and cringe-worthy. The characters all fall into "super badass genius" or "clearly evil maniac" (or if it is a female character the options also include "harem member who will devote their entire being to the protagonist after he was nice to them one time"). None of the jokes land. The setting and world-building falls apart before you even have to think about it. Nobody has any motivations that make sense. There's a ton of moments that the writers clearly thought were shakespearean, but are just basic and hallow.

3/10 don't put yourself through this torture. There's lots of anime out there that are actually intelligently written that you would be much better off watching.

So, I had to end up dropping this show early because it just became tedious to watch. It is incredibly uninteresting and doesn't really justify its own existence. The long story short is that it is just the same tired jokes repackaged to capitalize on the recognition of Megumin as a character. There's not much else to it.

For me, a prequel really needs to justify itself. What new incredible insight are we getting into the main story by seeing this backstory? For Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen wo!, the answer is nothing. The show spends an enormous amount of time doing absolutely nothing of interest. ... So many of the jokes and plot details just amount to "Hey, remember this thing from Konosuba? Here it is!".

In the opening scene of the show, we see Megumin's motivation for wanting to learn explosion magic. After the first scene, I began asking myself "Well, now what? Isn't that the whole thing?" It seems the writers also didn't know what to do next because Megumin spends the rest of the arc just faffing about. Overall, it was fine, I guess. There wasn't anything really that made me hate the show, but I wasn't enjoying it.

The second arc is where the show completely lost me though. Eventually, the initial status quo is broken and Megumin finally leaves the Crimson Demon town. Does this lead to any story development? No. The show immediately settles into a new status quo that is even less interesting. The jokes in this second arc made it basically unbearable. It is PAINFULLY unfunny and the same jokes get run into the ground. A single bit will go on for minutes sometimes. It's horrible, and I just had to stop watching.

As a fan of the original show, I already had reservations about this prequel. I'd much rather they had just pumped out season 3 faster, instead of trying to make even more money off of brand recognition.

Let me start out by stating that this season is incredibly boring. The plot is incredibly simple, but the characters have basically no motivation whatsoever. The main character, Touma, is unlikable and still has no motivation for doing what he does. The side characters are even less interesting. The only mildly interesting character in this show is Accelerator, who is the only character to get an actual character arc.

The season is broken up into several small arcs. All these arcs do not flow into each other and feel very separated. It feels like the characters are constantly just forced into new situations and just react ... to what happens. Each of these stories is incredibility simple but feel very drawn out. This season could really be about half the length if they just cut out all the exposition and recurring gags. The fight scenes, as usual for this show, are boring and uninteresting, mostly consisting of Touma yelling at the villains until they actually fight.

The art and sound quality are the only decent elements of this season. I would not recommend watching this, as it is overall pathetically boring. The only reason I can think of to watch this season is if you are interested in the Railgun or Accelerator shows, or the Accelerator arc. Even then, I would just skip around all of the parts involving Touma.