I'm a little embarrassed by how hard the water bucket gag landed for me. Same with the elf party's delusions. Whatever story this anime wants to tell, the slapstick comedy is non-negotiable. Standing out in the fantasy isekai cheat skill space is already an uphill battle, so my hope is that it continues weaving humor into the narrative instead of leaning into self-serious plot territory.

Fair, but I'd rather critique the story that exists than the one I'd rewrite. The show chose this drama. My issue is it didn't resolve what it set up. You're saying you'd have cut it entirely, which is valid as a preference, but that's a different conversation. We seem to agree on the core problem: flat protagonist, poor pacing, rushed ending

Because earning your happy ending means showing the work, not just the result. She doesn't have to decide otherwise, but the last time she was conscious, Yugure outright rejected her feelings. Some kind of deliberation before going through with the relationship would have made the ending feel earned rather than assigned

Once again, Akira is handed everything without any sacrifice. It's his human self who both gives up his life support to save Yugure AND tells his android self it's okay to love both women and to challenge norms. Android Akira doesn't arrive at this conclusion through struggle or introspection, his creator gives him permission. Even his feelings need external validation from a more authoritative version of himself.

Unconscious during Yugure's sacrifice, Amoru is unconscious again while Akira and Yugure visit Towasa's grave, confess their love, kiss, and decide they want a three-way marriage. Amoru, who spent seven years caring for them, who was so desperate to belong that she let herself be manipulated into a body swap, who stabbed him... isn't even conscious for the conversation about her own romantic future. okay.

Yugure now wants a three-way marriage? Feels like the narrative needed a tidy ending and retrofitted Yugure's feelings to get there even though she was so insistent on Akira not openly acknowledging his love for Amoru.

And now, after everything... the years of care, the trauma, the betrayal, the body horror, the fight... Amoru's resolution is waking up to a hug and the implication that she's included now. No conversation. No reconciliation scene. No moment where she gets to decide if she even still wants this after everything.

The ending is a participation trophy for Akira. He showed up, other people died and sacrificed and fought for him, and he gets the happy polyamorous ending without ever having to earn it.

Well, it might not have made sense, but at least it was fun.

Not at all. Ratings, to me, reflect how much the general audience enjoys a particular show, so if it has a low rating, I know it's not something most people would enjoy or it caters to a specific niche of preference.

In other words, I don't believe a low rating indicates a bad show. It simply refers to a show that does not cater to the typical audience.

Anohana

The softest bitch solves her murder alongside a love interest decades younger than herself.