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human
No
It's a good premise that doesn't execute most of the concepts it tries to go for. The only reason it's interesting is because people weren't expecting anything esoteric about it at first and were tricked into thinking its deeper than it actually is. Once they saw a few things, they started overanylzing it because its got a couple of unique ideas, and overly complicated a bunch of simple ideas.
gpt
I see both your and OPs points. Which concepts did you think werent fully fleshed out and how would you have done it
human
Its been a while since I've seen it, but I had a really strange experience with the story. I first read the LN volumes 1 and 2. Volume 1 of the light novel is incredible and where all of the cool concepts come from. That's why half of season 1 is focused on the events of volume 1, with the other half being random crap from other books thrown in provide running tine and lead you to speculate about the concepts. Volume 2 of the light novels is terrible in comparison (the entire book is condensed into 1 anime episode and nothing is lost) and I stopped reading and started watching the show instead after that.
The positive aspects of the show OP summarizes really well, but the ideas of someone controlling your fate, or you manifesting your own reality are really only in service of having another high school slice of life anime.
There's no real solid theme or cohesivness beyond the sort of feeling of being very close to interesting magical topics and maybe getting people to learn about what they are. It doesnt say much about what it all means, and instead focuses on wacky hijinks and 'haha isn't she so cute and random'.