OP here, another year sucking dick.
I'd like to add that log horizon ended up a disappointment. It became a generic isekai after about episode 13, it stopped being about isekai politics and became yet another generic isekai where the MC goes do adventurer things, and it didn't do even that rather well. Early on every isekai naturally blended into the world, but then it became this forced artificial world which makes little sense after they became obsessed with explaining how everything in the mmo world works "behind the scenes" and the best in-world realistic explanation that could be come up with was that aliens did it, alienating me as the watcher over what they're doing. I started asking myself "then what's the point of what they're doing? Go fight the aliens or whatever". I think it's just really badly written and all over the place without much thought. I may be saying all this now but that's what I gathered from my watch in 2017.
I'm following Overlord and Konosuba's LNs, they seem to be the cream of the crop, but issues have emerged.
Konosuba's plots have become skeletonized repetition which even if it's a comedy and the story is not the center of it, since it still has a story anyway, the lack of attention it's given and lazyness in its writing starts sapping enjoyment from the series, and I believe the LNs are on decline. The peak is I'd say the 4-5 chapters after the anime plus the side stories from that time.
Overlord was quite interesting even if getting past the lizardman arc was a slog, but nothing is really happening and nothing has been happening for so long I'm starting to feel upset. It's all Ainz shitting his pants at any sign of danger and acting hyper carefully, taking a random opportunity that crops up (which may be a random plot created by one of his servants which solve his issues and they then pin all that on him because he's all-knowing in their eyes). /a/ has managed to perfectly sum it up in meme form. He's the japanese Mr. Bean and fumbles into sasuga. I hope that stops happening, maybe it was fun the first few times, but it's not anmore.
I'm looking into maybe a third isekai that's more like the genre, but it's hard to wade through the sea of trash that is the new trend genre.
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