This show is a comedy show , intended to parody a lot of the tropes in "Video game/Fantasy "Another world" anime" ... unfortunately it is declawed, the jokes are very bland and the characterization is very obvious. Parody as a genre is quite lowbrow compared to its higher brow cousin 'satire'... because of this, the story and characterization suffer.
Megumin, Aqua, Darkness/Lalatina and Kazuma are all one-note characters with no depth or interesting aspects to them, they are vehicles for the atrocious comedy... now it does have some great scenes but they are incredibly rare.
All of that said;
The art design is beautiful and far better than the show deserves... towards the end the show goes overbudget and the animation shortcuts begin to abound, alongside a huge drop in art quality so not even those things can save this trash heap of a show.
I wanted to like it, so badly... but it let me down again and again. It is one of the worst shows of this type I've ever seen.
