I found this anime by complete mistake and i really truly enjoyed, not only are the characters very lovable but the art shines everywhere (spare the few animation goofs and the carriage CGI), The story is divided into 3 parts, ep 1 thru 4 is part 1, ep 5 thru 9 is part 2 and ep 10 thru to the end is the last part, this may sound like stuff does not have time to develop, and in a way it does not, but what it lacks in development it completely makes up for in plot progression.
Unlike other shojou anime the main plot does not get hyper repetitive, there are constant foils to the main quest our lead is taking us on, yet she still achieves plenty of "feel good" small victories which really pull you in. That being said there are a few plot holes, you know, your usual ones: "if you can teleport why didn't you do it to do this", "if you can feel whenever someone enters your castle why didn't you do that" and so on, if you are watching this anime WANTING to hate it you'll have a pretty easy time doing so, but honestly it is quite too funny and charming for anyone to really care.
My only gripe with the anime is that it has way too many characters, our protagonist builds a nice little harem of handsome men, which is completely fine, what isn't fine is when people start to feel "useless", where you almost feel like they are accomplishing nothing and just goofing off offscreen, if the number of sexy hunky capable, emotionally available and completely in-love with our MC (yet not telling her cuz they are such gentleman) were to be cut in half i think the story would improve.
That being said i also agree that given the type of story that's being told that would not exactly be possible.
As for the females, they're alright, they're basically glorified men, but instead of doing our MC's whim like the rest of the gentleman they are a bit more against her, not to sound too sexist but its just the usual "girl on girl love foil", nothing crazy.
As for the villains, they are children level villains, they are always super "mean" and the stereotypical "bad" person, the villain to the 1st part is quite bad (hehe), the one for the 2nd part is kinda obvious and extremely well written, and then the 3rd part falls flat on its face with a flat out bad one.
The last episode and the one before that lost a bit of the essence of the show, not sure what happened there but it almost feels as if the writing team was swapped between ep 10 and 11 and then the latter and 12 where just the new guys winging it, but alas, since this anime basically ends 3 times by the end you've already had your fill of good endings.
Overall i highly recommend everyone who's into traditional romance and these sort of games to watch it, i am inclined to give it a 7 or an 8 but given how funny it is and how little the flaws of the show mattered to me i'm giving it an 8, I would love nothing more than to see some sort of part 2 with a different main character and a similar premisse.
