The story is adapted from an anime, and as I understand it, is a very good story that is poorly represented here. The concept that a summoned hero is not a musclebrained combat freak that solves all problems with gimmicky cheat powers, is very novel indeed. But it is still weird that a student is the one that can bring about these changes, would be better if in his previous life he was an actual politician that people love, but was constantly abused and eventually assassinated by corrupt officials.
There is still mostly just a bunch of stills, the director really likes to make the characters sit around and monologue the story instead of showing things happening. While I dont need action scenes since this is not an action series, they could still show things like strife, riots and such happening in city xyz, instead of narrating in an office. Heck I rather pan over a still of a scene related to the narration, rather than still of the main characters that we see 1001 times an episode. Hell, the characters have to say "These people are sad", when they can show it. "There is an emergency at xxx" but they talk calmly standing still on the spot. It very much spoils immersion of any kind.
Characters have personalities, but most of the time are turned off to conduct said monologuing. Even in action scenes, the enemies can run for 10 seconds while characters monologue in their heads. They also love to pan front, side, and 3/4 views alot... but that does not develop the characters at all. By the end of this season, there is no development to most of the old characters, even if they do its very minimal. They introduced a new cast of side characters, but it was quite poorly done. "Heres Side chara F, he is good at xxx and he will only be relevant for this episode". They then become another piece of the background in the following episodes.
