If you like Romance and Drama, ignore the reviews and scores for this show and watch it. It's good.
SPOILLERS BELLOW
Anyway, about the show:
The characters are interesting. They actually have a personality.
The plot moves forward in most events.
The soundtrack is very good, with a very good OP and ED.
Hanazawa Kana and Shinnosuke did a very good job on the acting side, as one would expect from them. The other actors were also not bad.
The art is good.
The premise is interesting and forms a good setting.
That's it.
Bellow I will talk about most things I read in previous reviews:
"The writting (dialogue) is bad"
Mate, I watched this in Japanese (with english subtitles and later with portuguese subtitles), and there is nothing wrong with the writing on this show. I understand quite a bit of Japanese as well btw. Nothing felt contrived or forced.
"The premise (matchmaking based on machine learning) is unexplored/ The premisse is dumb"
Again, my topic of research is Machine Learning, and with enough data, this is not impossible. Then again, this is fiction. There are several impossible em ridiculous things in Steins Gate, for example, but no one would give that good show a low rating because of that.
Some people brought up that "People would kill themselves", "People would riot". How many fucking times the show need to shovel into your goddamed face that the system works. We see a billion happy couples in the fucking screen.
And honestly, for a ROMANCE/DRAMA this show explored too much of how things work. This is not Scifi.
"Neji is weak/cuck/beta / Neji is a copypaste from every other harem show"
If you use the words "cuck and "beta" inironically you can honestly go fuck yourself. But to the anyone who are tired of seeing "weak" protagonists that can't make a decision or get nervous/anxious: Why are you watching a fucking drama? Shouldn't you be outside being a socially successful extrovert? Neji honestly felt very real.
"Characters can't make decisions/ characters are poorly written"
Have you ever loved someone who is in a relationship? Have you ever loved your best friend? Have you ever loved your bestfriend's spouse? Relationships are complicated. Specially when you are young. I see adults who I think are pretty smart making bad decisions or even not making decisions at all. All the fucking time. Do you wanna see some random normal weak ass dudes punching each other on your action shows? Then why do you want Romance and Drama to not use exageration? That's how the Genre works you fucking moron.
"This is a harem show"
Dude, do you think harem is every show where more than one person likes the protagonist? That's a ridiculous and shallow definition. What defines a Harem is SEVERAL characters loving the protagonist FOR NO REASON and also a SHALLOW DEVELOPMENT of most of the love interests. Is Onegai Twins a harem? Vampire Knight? Yeah...
"The show consists almost entirely of misunderstandings and coincidences"
Everyone hates Gokai(misunderstanding) driven plot. It's annoying and it's why I gave up on Gamers. This show is not like that. Again, people with no/shallow experience with the genre thinking Drama = Gokai.
"The art is kinda weird/The eyes annoy me"
Yet the same people rate Clannad higher than most shows. I liked it. But this is a matter of preference. When you are judging the art of an anime you are supposed to judge detail level, pallet choice, animation... stuff like that. That's why even though Clannad has aliens as characters the score is still high.
FINALLY
This is not a great show. It's a good show at best.But it really pisses me off. I really take this site seriously and I almost skipped a perfectly enjoyable show because people are mediocre.
