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It's an awful series that only really got any following because Crunchyroll propped it up so damn hard. They bankrolled most of the damn thing and pushed it super hardcore. If you go to their homepage, you currently have like 7-11 different direct references to their newest push, God of High School. You'll see them only take down God of High School stuff for a day or two when Re:Zero has a new episode.
I put in the effort to actually watch the entire thing and it just doesn't stop having issues. It's enjoyable if you can fully shut your brain down, but that never happened for me. The fact that Raphtalia gets an opportunity to not actually be a slave and instead says "I want to be a slave," is some fucking hot garbage. It doesn't deserve any of the hype it got or the weird cameo they somehow forced into isekai Quartet. It feels like just a hard push from Crunchyroll to appeal to the "anime audience" which is assumed to be a bunch of horny teenage boys that have never had a single struggle in their lives.
I don't know if anyone actually gives a shit about spoilers regarding the end of the season but...
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The end is just so damn uncomfortable and stupid. The evil princess ends up getting revealed as the evil person that she is and the king is stripped of his titles because earlier in the show it was revealed to actually be a matriarchal society...somehow. But basically Shield Boy is finally given his opportunity for revenge and from my understanding it differes from the light novels a bit. He names the king 'shitty king' and the evil princess 'stupid removed.' The queen sentences them to death and the one good fucking scene in the show is fucking deflated when shield boy stops the execution. Like the king and princess were fully set up in a guillotine and everything. From my understanding they actually die in the book. But it's just gross feeling even if the animation studio made the action scenes enjoyable to watch.