Finished 2 meh series:
1. Renai Boukun : Love Tyrant
I dont mind for terrible cliche story as long as it is entertaining, but one part of anime genre that I cant get used into is when they go full absurd comedy or wacky slapstick joke. You can say that it need specific type of comedy for me to get couple of laugh. This story start from 0 - 100 in the first episode that I already feel from the start that this wasnt going to be serious type of anime.
You have shinigami/cupid which have to make people fall in love or she die. So she stuck with our MC for her survival reason. I have watch a lot of anime with this type of premise, but when it went far from having plot toward to full pointless stuff, then i stop caring about the anime at all. It tried to introduced several characters including a yandere (seriously, this killed the series for me). Not really a romance or harem, but straight full comedy from start to finish. It tried to have some drama at last 2 episodes, but I already know it will happily ever after at the end.
My recommendation is skip this. Go for anime that used their genre strength to full potential. The only stuff I liked was the OP, which i discovered randomly on Spotify.
Other recommendation : for similar style anime, Sora no Otoshimono is better overall product. For wacky stuff, I have soft heart for Pani Poni Dash. Or u want more old school harem with tsundere, Love Hina came to my mind.
2. Koufuku Grafitti
Food porn. Nothing more to say about this anime series. I kinda put high expectation because of shaft animation and how high production the anime feel. In the end, visual is just a small part of anime. You need to have good story telling, plot, character etc etc. Im at least would tolerate if it try to educate viewer with recipe or something, but not really.
Every episodes are filled with girls eating food that look gorgeous and alluring, but aside from that, u have small scale of friendship and slice of life. Food always be the major topic of every episode, but my issue that there arent much.... story. You do see the season changes, the challenge with each season and school, but there arent much story about their life.
This anime is only watchable for the food porn, nothing more. Even more juicier than other food series (atm, i think food wars have highest quality below this series). Girl characters interaction is there, but barebone.
Other recommendation : A bit more in depth probably Amaama to Inazuma which have more focus on story / plot. If you want more slice of life girls in college, Hidamari Sketch is always good. If you want more moe / cute girls, then Gochumon wa Usagi desu ka is similar stuff. Just take notes there arent many good anime for this genre (cute girl doing cooking stuff), at least that I already watched / remembered.