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Woman dies from overwork and gets reborn into a magical world, where people invent and build modern tools reimagined to work with magic related systems: Magic stones, magical circuits, etc.

And then you can forget it all because it turns out none of that is the actual main focus of the series, but just the protagonist's personal relationship with the people around her, followed by a lot of gossip, shoulder sharing, drama, love, betrayal, and several other romance related things, while only around 10% of it being actually about the exploration of modern tools and gadgets reimagined to work in a magical world.

If you like ... soft romance and drama things, go for it, if you expect it to be any deeper or to actually explore the themes it starts us with, you will probably be disappointed

I really don't understand what's happening in this show, it feels like i'm watching something from the middle onward, where they had already introduced several deep complex topics and concepts, and i'm missing out of crucial information about the story and world... But they actually haven't done anything of that yet.

3 episodes in and i'm more confused about what's happening than what i was on the start, you can even disconsider what happens on the first episode, because as a first episode it fails miserably, they don't properly introduce us about anything crucial in the story and world, nor give us any hook other than ... the main protagonist being the only human a demi-human world, and only on the second and third episode they actually introduce hooks and motivations, but even then its all mixed up with several other unrelated topics that makes this feels like an out of order/out of direction complex mess.

Its even worse considering that the thing they were supposed to introduce, elaborate and contextualize early on, from the first episode, still haven't received any kind of proper build up, the sword attuning/spirit thing that feels like its going to be a major event/tie, motivation for story development, progress, reasoning, etc. By the third episode i only know that people in this world really, really like their swords for some unknown reason.

I can't keep watching this because it feels like i'm being forced to do their own hard work, linking and tying things properly in my head, when the people that was responsible for properly introducing, producing and directing this didn't cared enough to do their jobs. Its kinda sad to say that, because if things happen like i imagined in my head, this was supposed to be a very promising show, with some very interesting concepts and developments, but they just fumbled it all down.

Poorly done 2D/3D hybrid animation: Check
Wronged hero: Check
Secret overpowered ability: Check
Slime tamer???: Check
Bland generic companion: Check
Non threatening enemies/antagonist: Check
Overused edginess: Check

This is just an Arifureta clone, but bad

Several generic isekai tropes, bad writing, emotionless characters, low quality drawing and poorly made 2D/3D animation, and you have this atrocity, with the only "strong" point being some relatively nice visuals in very specific areas, but even then, several other scenarios look empty soulless. On everything else, they don't even tried, this thing feels, looks and smells like mediocrity, like if it was pumped directly from a factory. From character design, world building, motivations and conflicts, ... all summed up with low quality writing, and some tone deaf decisions.

Just to make it all worse, this feels like something where they attempted and overcommit into having a serious tone, and failed miserably, so you can't even make an Arifureta like turnaround, and retreat into an easy comedy/parody of sorts, because they wrote themselves into a dead end.

Watching anything, literally anything this was based off or copied from, will be a better investment of time than watching this.

Young boy has a simple life goal of throwing a ball the farthest as possibly can, by convenience of destiny he end up meeting with a professional golfer, who notices a special potential in the young boy. The golfer then tells him that by golfing he may be able to fulfill his life goals. We then start his journey of learning how to golf, meeting several other golfers, golf therms, tactics, strategies, etc; Watching the boy progress and learn new abilities to fulfill his objectives.

This is a light heart show, most of the mood and humor being dictated by the naive way the boy views ... the world and tries to complete his life goals, always with strong heart and determinate, not only to progress, but also help others in the way, even the ill intended ones. It's one of those who "warms the heart" but without being too much sentimental or dramatized, is more simple and direct than complex, what makes sense being from the point of view of a young boy's dreams.

The side characters also not lacking in any aspect, each one fighting their own separate demons to hit their life goals, some of then just lacking a bit more backstory to link some pieces together, but other then that, each one sums very well with the main protagonist, teaching and learning alongside him, and adding new perspectives to the way they view and play golf.

Its a simple show that looks very promising and interesting into knowing what will happen next on his adventures

This is one of those types of anime that focuses on moments of exposition about some topic, drinks and beverages, and the bartending role in this case, while trying to create some kind of story around those moments of exposition, and i don't think it worked, actually most of those animes don't work, unless they don't make it all about exposition, and this one failed miserably at that.

There are lots of anime that do this kind of formula in interesting ways, and several other that commit the same mistake. Mostly often they over focus on the exposition topic, being food, science, etc; and leave it ... lacking in any other aspect of story, character development and world building, creating some repetitive routines and becoming stale and boring very fast.

A big one that does this well it's Doctor Stone, having its moments of exposition, but relying on the actual now and then of the story, even when focused on the scientific development. Another great one is Paripi Koumei, aka "Ya Boy Kongming!", related to the topics of music/entertainment shows management, mixed with an strategist of the 3 kingdoms era helping a young star on her career; A last good one is Thermae Romae Novae, even tho it wasn't that well received, it focuses on the comedy and overreaction of the main protagonist when dealing with modern designs and architecture of Thermas, without creating long moments of tedious explanation and talking.

That all said, Bartender: Kami no Glass still have another great problem, it lacks emotion. Almost every character feels stale and lacks the proper facial expression for the scenes and moments they are acting in, that's an even bigger problem when the anime already don't have an interesting hook in the story, and the exposition about drinks and bartending don't do that well of a work when mixed in with the story.

The mystery of who could enter next in Isekay Shokudou, and the overreaction when people ate things in Shokugeki no Souma did a better work, even when getting strongly repetitive and stale, feeling a lot more immersive and interesting than the boring inexpressive way that this anime does this formula, all because of the characters personality and the general aura of these shows, this is even more ironic when the Bartender says something about "your drink lacking personality". Just a Mid Class disappointment...

Grimm Kumikyoku is a collection of some classic famous fairy tails, being retold with some alternative understanding of the characters and world set, giving them some new grim makeup, and sometimes adding a dark twist in the end, giving us some interesting new ways to read those classic old stories.

Each episode is independent of each other, mainly focused on the structural reimagination of the stories being told, following a simple formula that kinda reminded me of the Junji Ito collections, but less grim and dark, and with much more effort put into the drawing quality. The writing was also very good, it had ... some weird moments with some stories, but overall, the way they reimagined the settings and character was fairly well done, with some ending up deeper and more complex than what i would imagine the original ones being

The only problem its being so short, only 6 episodes, tho they all last for around 40 minutes each, it left wanting more. I hope they continue with more seasons, reimagining more of those classic stories in this same way.

Little girl flees from her village, after being outcasted for not having special powers, starting then a journey in the wilderness, while accompanied by a tiny slime she found and tamed in the way. Now we follow their adventures, fighting monster and exploring the world while trying to not get discovered and caught by her pursuers.

Its a cute little show, with an simple premise, and an interesting mystery about her hidden powers, while also being kinda entertaining to watch how she deals with the whole surviving and fleeing thing. Tho its kinda annoying how it skips over her survival training, just excusing her well versed ... knowledge of survival skills on "oh, she trained in the past".

Also, its very annoying how she can't see to stop talking, at every scene, at every time, she's talking constantly. It feels like someone in production disliked the concept of silence and immersion, of showing things without someone talking over, or thought it would make the anime boring if there wasn't someone talking every time... In a slow paced show...

Tho, in the end it's still a nice cozy anime to waste some time with. The only flaw until now being the mentioned above, hindering it down to passable or skipable, depending on the person watching.

Over complicated, unfocused and incoherent

Princess dies after a revolution and gets reborn into the modern world, where she decides to becomes a surgeon, until she dies again and returns back to her world, before the events leading to her death... Why such over complicated premise for such a simple topic as "the princess is an isekaied surgeon"?

Then she proceeds to apply her modern knowledge of medicine into a medieval world... where somehow not only no one questions where did she randomly get such level of what should be considered otherworldly knowledge about medicine, but also every medic in this medieval setting have at least the ... same level of knowledge about illness as modern ones...

After that she uses modern medical equipment in a medieval world setting... That's it, this is at the same level as that other medical isekai, where the MC uses cheat codes to spawn medical substances from thin air, and diagnose illness in people just by looking at them with his blessed eyes...

That while somehow its implied there will be some kind of nobble/royal family threat/conflict because of her actions, and a lot of other things completely unrelated to the topics of the anime...

Basically redo of healer, but without the porn

Main protagonist becomes mad after his adoptive mother was killed by the empire on their witch hunt, and decides to go into a extermination murdering spree to eliminate all humanity from earth, alongside anything and anyone in the way. Very superficial and dumb, mostly relying on explicit gore and over the top irrational hatred reactions to convey "emotions" and "feelings", while extremely relying on flashbacks and out of place scenes to tell the story, becoming very out of pace with what is happening. Also there's no slow down, no time to talk, constant action, fights, gore and shouting, ... its as superficial and dumb as you can get.

This was such a wasted potential

This show had a very interesting premise, with some deep complex emotional and psychological topics, a nice story progression, a very interesting plot twist, with some relatively deep character development, just to throw it all away near the end, rushing into the finish line and disturbing their own established lore and logic.

The characters are basically a family of strong players in a game, they help each other and act like a real family, but under the curtains they are people with miserable lives, using the game as an subterfuge to escape from reality, the main twist making it all ... even more interesting to watch. If it wasn't good enough, the game it self also doesn't exactly turns out not to be as simple as it looked, with the family now being forced to fight not only to maintain their union, but also to potentially save the entire virtual world.

Their motivations are kinda simple, but complex and well established, each one of the family members are trying to replace some aspect of their miserable lives with the in game family and features, unaware of whom each other are in real life, while trying to find some meaning for their lives. But then we get to the ending part.

This feels like it should've lasted 24 episodes at least, or delayed the main conflict to a possible second season, giving more time to deepen the character's relations and insert more conflicts and twists, to better building up the final plot. Instead they just dropped it all out of sudden, and rushed into the end, to make into a one season thing, leaving a lot to be desired. Specially the threat to Virtual World thingy felt under developed, with several events near the end feeling out of place.

It had a lot going for it, and they just fumbled. The worse part is that even if they made a possible sequel, it wont make any sense, they will be forced into a fresh start or something. They just wrote themselves into a dead end.
This show made me love and hate it at the same time, from how wasted it was