Oh gotcha! It's a good strategy if you don't want to get a single weekly episode!

I think this one is a brand new release, at least on Crunchyroll. Yours must be a different one. Hopefully you won't have to go through that much cringe!

That's a pretty crude way to put it, but I can't argue with the sentiment.

I watch a lot of them, and I agree with you. I find that some have decent characters, but most are terribly bland. Re-Zero has a decent setting but one of the worst main characters IMO. Someone mentioned slop and that's really how it feels.

Not that one, but IMO Shield Hero went from mid to terrible over the seasons. I haven't even bothered with the latest ones.

Yeah that's the one. The first episodes were okay-ish if I'm being generous, but I just couldn't continue after that scene.

Thanks to your comparison, I can now totally relate!

*am software engineer

I watch them too, at least the first few episodes, but the last one I watched I had to alt-F4 mid-episode.

"I don't want slaves, but that poor super-sexy girl slave will definitely get bullied if I don't take on the responsibility of being her master. And she can't just be free because she has a slave crest tattooed on her ass cheek for everyone to see."

Biggest eyeroll ever.

My thoughts exactly. What next? Witch swimming?

I'm jelly! My partner doesn't eat meat, so I only ever make japanese curry with veggies. Still good, but it doesn't hit the same!

It is textbook palette cycling.

If you go to this link, select the "November - Mirror Pond - Clear" scene and set the time of day to around 8:12AM, you'll get exactly this image.
The dynamic palette is displayed on the right. At least on PC, you can hover over any color in the palette to see where it's used in the image.

Also, I'm pretty sure these artworks predate the internet, let alone gen AI slop.
The author (Mark Ferrari) is/was a very skilled artist, please don't disparage his work!

I love you both!