First of. The story, or lack thereof. There is no overall direction with it. It’s not going anywhere. It’s like the writers just wanted to show off cute girls and halfway through writing realized that they had to give the show some sort of substance. Any drama that is supposed to happen never carries any weight because it’s never built up and whatever villain that appears doesn't have any substantial motive. It is obvious that they're there because the writers have a checklist that they must complete. The latest villain, some random mage literally tells the main characters exactly where to go. Kidnaps the newest girl that is too be added to the mc’s harem. And then the mc has too work his way up a bunch of floors too finally reach the evil guys’ chamber. That is such a stereotypical damsel in distress type story that i don’t even know what's going on. All they need now is a tower and a dragon.
The characters...
It’s ok to just have a slice of life story that doesn't go anywhere but if you’re going to do that, focus on the characters. Develop them. In slice of life the characters and how they behave in their daily life is supposed to be what carries the show. Konosuba shined in this very way. This show does not. Zena for example is so boring, bland and she actually has no defining character traits. She's just a polite girl who fell in love with our main because the plot told her too. At least the demihumans bring a little shred of comedy (even if i have seen all these types of jokes before). But that is all they are there for and since the comedy isn’t anything new it gets old after a while. So the show doesn't go a more Konosuba character driven route or a more serious story driven route and as such completely falls apart. Don’t halfass two things, tryhard one.
Lastly… the mc. Wow, what a disappointment. I can’t even begin to express how much seeing his character turn into nothing hurt me. He started off strong, you see most anime mc’s are teens. Usually around 15. So when i heard that this guy was going to be in his 30’s i got hyped. I hoped this was going to bring some mature thinking too the show. I thought he, being 30 would have developed some type of character. A personality. Him being loved by a bunch of kids around the age of 15 was certainly going to be interesting. How were they gonna handle that. They didn’t. The mc in this show is painfully bland with no defining personality traits whatsoever and the fact that he's an adult isn’t adressed or ever even touched on. Not explored. In fact as icing on the cake they put him back into his 15 year old body when he gets teleported into the fantasy world. It is as if they wanted too really let the viewers know that this anime wasn’t going to do anything different. Of course he’s your stereotypical, nice guy, emotionless, always smiling, plain, bland, harem mc that you’ve seen before thousands of times if you actually watch anime.
Oh and btw, the animation sucks. Don’t even make me touch on the lack luster fight-scenes that more resemble still panning shots (i'm referring too later fight-scenes as the first one in episode 1 actually had actual animation and carried a little weight). Oh and btw, the show started strongly. The mc starts off with nothing in a world that he knows nothing about. He’s low leveled and we actually get to see him struggle and hurt. Legitimate emotions are being brought out here and thats why im so mad that the show then turned into what it turned into. Because it started off really down to earth with the mc pulling all-nighters at his office and then actually struggling in the fantasy world if even only for like 10 minutes of episode 1. But then the mc of course reaches the max level in one fight by literally wiping out an entire army with meteors. Yeah, f’ck this show.
