…to watch eps from a couple of inoffensive but somewhat pump'n'dump current light novel adaptations.

And going from Do It Yourself and The Witch from Mercury to these is, man.

I'm not primarily talking about animation here, just things like the amount of time or thought put into props, spaces, backgrounds.

And, you know, you can like or not like the tendency visible in gwitch to ape real cameras. But it turns out that much separates a show that imagines a camera & then manipulates the imaginary camera from a show that imagines a camera and stops there.

(These are LN adaptations with premises I kind of like!)