arihuss

I'm used to the rom-com genre, and this one has a good start, but slowly falls off over the last 4 episodes

Putting aside some unnecessary fan service and the fact that they flirt with incest, the male protagonist starts acting very mature for his age and neutral towards a certain female, but in the end you see the opposite, so it seemed to me that they forced the usual unexpected romance to extend the anime for at least one more season (which is supported by the fact they avoided to touch the background of certain characters and instead focused on a random debate)

I'll watch the second season for the sake of closure, and I hope they don't take the typical direction (but probably they will if most of the fan base wants that in order to please them)

I'm a fan of ghibli and had high expectations for this one due to the awards/nominations. I don't mind that they recycle some models/concepts from other movies of the studio, even some weird physics (e.g. Mahito lifts a large backpack like a feather...), but to summarize, the problem is the final product: the characters' emotions and the conclusion of story feels rushed to say the least.

I don't want to spoil some elements and I understand that you cannot expect to cover each of the elements from a magical world, but there are so many things that they took quite some time to build, just to tear them apart and call it a day. There's no moral other than to accept his life? Choose his own path? Respect the elders? I dunno, I can only say that unfortunately it was poorly delivered.