It's nice to see they included a little bit more of the world building from the novels than the manga, and still managed to fit a chapter and a half into the episode. Animation is still keeping up, the standard of the first episode, and they are doing a pretty decent job making the episodes actually fun to watch. Overall it seems it's gonna be one of the better isekais of the past few seasons.

I had pretty high expectations of this anime since LN was praised quite a lot, and as of right now it did not disappoint. The animation quality might not be top tier, but it's up there. Overall, if future episodes will keep the level of the first one, it will be quite an enjoyable series.

After seeing what studio A-Cat did to Kenja no Deshi, and seeing the first episode, i don't have very high hopes for this anime. Kenja no Deshi was far from perfect as a source material, but the adaptation cut so much from the story and 90% of the animation was just slideshows. If things don't get better, this studio might kill yet another series

I think there are better ways of doing that without also accidentally showing that the person and the character they play are the same, especially in an anime like this.

I think the only problem i have with this anime is that the person and their avatar look the same. it makes it somewhat difficult to relate to the character as an actual person but other than that it's pretty damn good

That's something that I was really annoyed by when watching the first few episodes of Solo Leveling. They made cliffhangers in the middle/a little bit before the end of a scene, which instead of making me wait for another episode, made me want to drop the anime right there and never get back to it.
Writers often create cliffhangers that work on the premise of "How is this going to end?" in terms of a scene. Don't get me wrong, those cliffhangers are not always bad, for example (watch out cause MASHLE s2 spoilers incoming) the episode that ended at the very beginning of the fight between Mash and Macaron actually made the anticipation of the fight enjoyable. But this is an example of a cliffhanger that interrupts a scene at the beginning of it, instead of at the end.
Solo Leveling on the other hand
stops a scene during the leap of a wolf. How did that cause excitement and make people anticipate what's gonna happen next? Because for me, all it did was leave me pretty annoyed and ready to drop the anime, cause I knew exactly what was gonna happen next
So yea, writers often don't realize their audience knows how that's gonna end, and finishing an episode right before ending a scene is often just boring.
Frieren on the other hand isn't scared to finish a scene and an episode at the same time. Sure, the finishing scene might not leave you on a cliffhanger, but it will leave you excited and in the unknown of what's gonna happen next, and it's only possible because of how carefully the episodes are written. It's not the finishing scene that leaves you excited and anticipating what's gonna happen next, but rather the whole episode, or at least the few scenes before that ending scene. It will also make you enjoy the episode more because it was finished in a way that left you satisfied.
All of those takes don't apply to every single genre. For example, romance anime thrive on anticipation and are often less predictable than action shows. Being unsure if the protagonists are going to kiss or if something will come up and they will end up not doing it in the end, is something that makes you anticipate the ending of a scene more than if they kissed at the end of the episode. That makes it a lot harder to know what kind of feeling and with what information you want to leave your audience with at the end of an episode, which in some cases can spoil an entire show.

That still depends on how the story progresses, but I know what you mean. Still, I don't think you can reach smartphone level of trash XD
Still, I prefer to call shows like that "shit shows" cause they are just here as something dumb to watch, like Mamahaha from last season, or Gamers. Shows that are good enough to be enjoyable to watch, but still bad enough to watch them mostly as a joke and/or a filler.

I was extremely surprised by the second episode. Although I'm still considering this anime as basically a shit show you watch cause it's so bad it's funny rather than something you actually watch because it's good, but who knows, maybe it will be just like Vermeil in Gold and actually end up pretty damn good.

I'm not sure if i'm the only one, but especially after this episode I think that Mizuto and Isana would be so much better as a couple than Mizuto and Yume.