So has anybody else seen
High Guardian Spice?
It's Crunchyroll's attempt at an anime, notable for being extremely woke with the staff mainly emphasizing how diverse the writers were and how LGBTQ the cast was rather than anything about plot, characterization, or story, because it doesn't have much of those things to talk about in the first place.
The reviews are hilarious though, of course, somehow it's all trolls review bombing that caused it to have mostly 1-star reviews because... I'm not sure why all the vast number of people who allegedly thought it was good didn't leave reviews but there it is.
The plot's nonsensical with almost no conflict (the villains don't even
appear until episode 6... of a 12 episode "anime") and an endless array of feel-good affirmations and hugbox positivity about the characters life choices, while everything that could possibly be a problem solves itself in short order so that the characters have no reason to ever quit the stream of caring affirmations to each other. There's so little plot it has to resort to an enormous quantity of filler, when I watched the first episode I found that scenery of them traveling around took up over a quarter of the episode, it was the 7:55 mark before anything happened besides the girls cutting in line (which, of course, had no negative consequences at all for them and just got them on the train sooner) and multiple hugs and lap-sittings to make sure we're aware of how very lesbian they are. Then? we got a lazy-ass dream sequence. After that do we get plot? No! We get them sharing a bed, followed by them eating pancakes in the morning! No plot for you! Trying to get into the story of
High Guardian Spice is like eating styrofoam.
Adding insult to injury, the ditzen who made it tried to go with anime-style theme naming by making all the characters named after spices... and failed at
even this as all the mains are named after an herb and none are named after spices*.
*For them as is wondering about the difference, herbs are made from leaves, roots, or, rarely, other parts of the living plant such as flowers; spices are made from seeds. Said ditzen managed to somehow pick all leaves, flowers, etc. with no mains and only a couple of support characters being named after seeds.