--- Mile
"I got isekaied so I could serve food in a maid cafe ?"
--- Mile.
I loved the first 8 episodes of this anime. It was smart, funny, endlessly poking fun at overused anime tropes, a sheer joy to watch. Then it turned stupid serious for some reason. Instead of cute girls, doing cute and silly things in a fantasy world, it turned into a bog serious isekai which aside from being a mood breaker, turned the whole thing into who cares moments. Gags that gave you lines like the above just stopped, and it would have been better if the whole anime just stopped as well. It didn't and that's a shame.
You can do the same with this review right now. Go watch the first 8 episodes enjoy laugh consider it done. If a second season ever happens then watch the last 4 and hope for better in the 2nd season
Why was the first 2/3rds so good ? Well imagine a regretful Otaku that felt alone and isolated, finding themselves in a fantasy world that lina inverse could pop up in at any moment. She is desperately trying and failing to conceal her nature and everyone around her is seeing through it. She makes friends with 3 really cute girls and they wind up doing really cute things, in really silly ways. They get things right they get things wrong, but you just enjoy watching them on their quest. It's light, fluffy and just a really nice way to kill time and treat yourself to a smile.
Why was the last 1/3rd so awful. Well it kept the stupidity that was funny when played off of, from the first 2/3rds, but then instead of playing off stupidity with comedy, it tries to lay off that with seriousness, or with sad feels moments. it just doesn't work. You still have the stupidly OP character who hasn't got any less OP and in fact gets more OP. What's more everything that was wrong in the world, and you could just ignore, is now shoved into your face, so you can't just put aside how much things cost, why they are doing things that are funny but pointless, how supporting characters go from hypercompetent to completely incompetent in their realm. Finally you get vast swaths of "Because that's the way we wrote it", in place of actual world building. Once again something you could ignore when it was funny but not something that goes by when it starts playing it serious.
Truth be told this anime validates the old saying that, "The cruelest words ever spoken are, what might have been"
