The answer is plain simple, up to you if you want to watch it yes or not. Watch a couple of episodes or so, but never base your likeliness of watching an anime because of someone who rated it so slow, remember all reviews are subjective. Same goes for me, but I will tell you what I like about this series.
Story - The synopsis says it all but it doesn't stop there. This anime is not all about cooking, it's more about building trust and relationships with the Ayakashi. Sure, it may sound like that with the synopsis, but I don't judge an anime from it only, I go and watch and see if I will get into it, and I did. I actually get into and was surprised that there are something else involved than just cooking for the Ayakashi and paying off the debt. I try to be spoiler-free here, so if you want to spoil yourself feel free to look for other reviews. I am sorry if this has wasted your time.
Art - Since the main setting of this series is in the Hidden Realm and not the Apparent Realm (Humans). The art remains the same as we are used to. It's not like your typical anime, it actually tries to blend the atmospheric as the Human Realm (Apparent). Although there are times that the characters looked weird at some point, but most of us know the reason.
Sound - I am enthralled by its opening and ending songs, besides there's nothing to say to this section because the anime is not action-oriented.
Character - The characters aren't really realistic but given this is not a slice-of-life genre, I don't see any reason why they should try to aim for realistic personality. The characters are here to entertain and satisfy its viewers. Either be happy or be mad. The point is you are driven to somewhat "act" whatever the characters do.
Aoi is a character that I actually want to be, but not entirely. There are some points that I don't like about her but sometimes her judgement is correct. Although there are some scenarios I don't understand why she chose to act kind. But then again, she doesn't exactly hate those person.
Just like the kid from a youtube video where he was asked what his last message was to end the video, he said "If people hate you, don't hate them". You have no exact reason why to hate those people, we just let this grew into our hearts. This is what Aoi is trying to show when she has endure those hatred from Ayakashi or the avoidance.
I won't talk the others because I don't think they will fit my "review to convince you" and also Aoi always appears on every episode.
Enjoyment - Supposedly you already know how I feel about this anime, given the score of 8 and how I enjoyed the story. When I waited for episodes to come out, I decidedly to watch them all until I realize that I was at the end of the episode. I felt sad and frustrated because I wanted to know more only to find out they don't show previews, only give hints what it will be for the next episode, at the end of the episode they will show an episode end card where it has the hint what the next episode it will be. Gives you something to think about.
Overall - This anime has one of those cases where the suspense drama starts acting up during halfway of its run, this is somewhat sad given how many people are prejudicing anime nowadays. Or comparing, but need to remind you that the anime is unique on its own, never compare an anime to another anime, this is like comparing DC and Marvel.
