How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom

Just want to say that the second cour of the anime was WAY better than the first. The show definitely started out very slow (which was compounded a bit more if you were watching it while it was airing like I was) and definitely had some pacing issues. However, about halfway through the first cour things started to get interesting and really picked up. After that, there was no more looking back and the anime series as a whole really hit its stride. I enjoyed how the second season was able to touch upon a lot of different elements within the kingdom, especially later. In particular, I really liked the final episode and how things ended (not gonna spoil it). I'd love to see more from this series as the light novel and manga are pretty popular still, but they did stop at a pretty good point at the end of this season.

Held off on watching this for a while because it didn't really fit into the genres that I'm principally interested in. I was expecting the pacing to be much slower, but even being primarily drama based, I thought this was great with solid pacing throughout. The machiavellian MC was calm, cool and collected the entire time... There's little to no interpersonal drama in this, which I really appreciated. It's really just a good dude playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers. I would definitely watch more, but I'm thinking that it's over since they seemed to clear any burning questions up by the end of the season. If they do make more though, I'm here for it.