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I want to talk about a couple of other isekais too.

Log Horizon, I think establishes in world rules better than any one within its genre. But it just has zero stakes involved. Like in the first season the biggest thing that really happens is some low level world event or whatever. They spend so much time world building and just putzing around that nothing happens. Characters (at least the main ones) don't develop because they don't have opportunities to. This is a case where the base of the show overall is very strong, but they don't build on it enough to make it more than an okay show imo.

Grimgar is a show that quickly establishes a dangerous and gritty reality. But it's maybe the worst paced show I have ever seen. The cast is extremely forgettable or just unlikable, like that one dark knight character (I think that's his class). Like, he's such an ass and there is not really a good reason for it except that that's just his personality type deal. To make it worse the show tries to make you feel a sense of sympathy for him at the end, like it erases all the shit he does before that. What's worse is that people who watch the show fucking fall for that crap.

As for Overlord. I know I'm in a minority in this camp but I don't really like the show. I only saw S1 because I didn't like it enough to pick up S2 and unlike with SAO, also didn't see enough potential in it where it could become better. I think it boils down to I don't really find the characters really engaging overall, and in a show where the main character is overpowered as hell, and where it doesn't really have the level of flair that something that NGNL does.... that's really all the show has to fall back on for entertainment. I mean, Slime's Rurumu Tempest is also very OP (although in the world he's not yet the strongest in the anime), but I think it tells a better narrative than Overlord and manages to make its cast much more vibrant overall. Like, even that doofy goblin, Gobuta manages to be memorable. Like, the fucking wolf makes an impression. I'll be honest, besides Ainz and Albedo, I probably would have forgotten the cast of Overlord if it wasn't for Iseki Quartet.