The show starts out pretty strong. Plot is established early "figure out where we are and become (in)famous" and we get a show of Ainz's power.
The first half of s1 is pretty good but then it seems like the writers had no plan from the beginning and just started to cram as many of their ideas into the show as possible, wherever possible.
The plot has no structure. The story telling is this show's weakest point. It is all over the place. While the characters are all pretty well written, though undergo no development, the show keeps dropping subplots and taking up new ones while never really returning to and finishing any of the previous ones.
The extreme amount of pointless exposition is also a drag. Do anime writers not now "show don't tell". The dialogue is hit and miss, most often miss, but while they spend ludicrous amount of time on exposition dialogue for stuff that doesn't matter or is obvious, none of the subplots are very well explained. Only the actions during the sub-plot gets any real exposition dialogue when the plot is dropped.
While Ainz's goal from the beginning is pretty straight forward, his actions towards getting there get more and more convoluted at best, at times doesn't make any sense and are even contradictory at times.
Even Death Note with its convoluted "keikaku" had much better plot structures that had a great pay-off and you could follow the "red thread" through-out the story and the actions/thoughts of Light were easy to understand and made sense.
Ainz however seems entirely clueless and has no real direction or plans towards his goals.
The first half of s1 is pretty good but then it seems like the writers had no plan from the beginning and just started to cram as many of their ideas into the show as possible, wherever possible.
The plot has no structure. The story telling is this show's weakest point. It is all over the place. While the characters are all pretty well written, though undergo no development, the show keeps dropping subplots and taking up new ones while never really returning to and finishing any of the previous ones.
The extreme amount of pointless exposition is also a drag. Do anime writers not now "show don't tell". The dialogue is hit and miss, most often miss, but while they spend ludicrous amount of time on exposition dialogue for stuff that doesn't matter or is obvious, none of the subplots are very well explained. Only the actions during the sub-plot gets any real exposition dialogue when the plot is dropped.
While Ainz's goal from the beginning is pretty straight forward, his actions towards getting there get more and more convoluted at best, at times doesn't make any sense and are even contradictory at times.
Even Death Note with its convoluted "keikaku" had much better plot structures that had a great pay-off and you could follow the "red thread" through-out the story and the actions/thoughts of Light were easy to understand and made sense.
Ainz however seems entirely clueless and has no real direction or plans towards his goals.