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I have a friend that really enjoys shows that have the tags ecchi, harem, and school in it. And at one point, I did as well. One day a few years ago, he recommended a show called "Familiar of Zero" because he can't read Japanese for shit. I never got around to it, because I used crunchyroll mobile which didn't have the first season of this show. So a few years pass and I decide to watch this show because I literally do nothing else with my life. So I watch this show, and I don't think I've checked my phone more in one sitting. The show wasn't necessarily bad, it just was so "meh" that I couldn't help but be bored. It wasn't bad enough for me to have fun laughing at it, nor was it amazing enough to keep me invested throughout the entire series. I have heard from my friend that this show is "really funny" and from other sources that it's a "comedic masterpiece" or so I've heard. I laughed like 1...2? I think I laughed like about 1 1/2 times if you lower my standards for comedy as low as the girls in Kirito's harem would go for the Kiri-dick. I watched this while talking with my friends in a discord chat and my friend was asking if it was funny or not. I replied with a question. A simple question. "Is this show supposed to be a comedy?" There were little to no jokes to it, I don't know why comedy is a tag. I think that's enough bashing on the comedy, I'll move on to a part I actually did like somewhat, maybe, not really, I'm grabbing for anything that doesn't make me look like an asshole for not liking this show. The characters in this show are...decent at best. I've heard Louise is a great tsundere, but I can't find myself interested in her. Maybe she gets better in the later 3 seasons this show somehow got, but that's not what I'm here to review. She comes off as this flat(not the way you're thinking) tsundere that's about as deep as the characters in PSO2 the Animation. She acts like a typical tsundere in one scene, then she shows some dere. Then, she's back to the tsundere. The switch between "tsun" and "dere" isn't bad, it just is "meh." I don't really care about her as a character until far too late into the anime. It's so far into the anime, I'm not sure how weekly watchers even made it through episode 5. Louise isn't the only problem. Saito is as flat as Louise's chest. We don't learn much about him at all. Was he a shut in? We don't know. Was he a functioning member of society? Pfft. Why're you asking me? We just learn that he was walking on the street, and then he runs into a portal thing that no one else can see. Then he's in a world with wizards. That's the extent of all I remember, so if anything more happens, then this show couldn't keep me invested in the plot long enough to even pay attention to the details. Backing off of Saito, we can delve into the side "characters." I wouldn't call them "characters," I'd call them "drawings will voices that move in a fancy way." I can't say much about them. We have a deadpan, a stick with balloons for tits(every highschool dxd girl except Koneko), and then we have conceited guy that does nothing. They don't get enough screen time or dialogue for me to feel anything towards them as characters, much less the people they're supposed to simulate. That's all I can comment on the characters in this show. Now moving onto the plot. The plot is pretty much summed up to "he was summoned into a different world, and now he wants to go back." Then it's hinted that other people were also summoned into this world. It goes nowhere with this for the rest of the series except when the ending hits, and it's kind of satisfying? Then the series pulled an Attack on Titan before it even came out. It shoehorned in some politics to keep the show running so maybe they can keep the viewer invested. I really hope shows drop this shit, because it just prolongs the show and keeps the viewer from watching the interesting aspects they came to watch. Overall, I didn't really enjoy this show(because it wasn't obvious enough). I don't particularly recommend this show to anyone, but if you're bored and want some half assed romance for an entire season to finally(maybe) get into the good parts, be my guest. I originally gave this show a 7, but I think I'll move it down to a 6 upon further inspection.