Review of Banished From The Hero's Party, I Decided To Live A Quiet Life In The Countryside

It's taken me a while to write this review as this anime left a sour taste in my mouth when I finished it. I will keep this spoiler free, as I will talk about things in an extremely vague way. I'll be blunt, this starts off as a nice comfy anime, with Red and Rit settling down and enjoying their slow life together. As such, we have the making of a romantic slice of life comedy in a fantasy setting. That is what we were mostly expecting, that is what we were sold on... And then the second half of the series happens... It starts off 'fine' but it marks thestart of the shift away from being a comfy romantic slice of life comedy.
The really bad part is the last few episodes, where everything is thrown out of the window.
Pacing is gone, a coherent plot is gone, all set-up is gone. These episodes feel like they belong to a totally different anime.

This series was on pace to being a good anime, but the second half saw it start to decline, and then the last few episodes are just so bad that it irreparably tarnished this series. As such I can't give it anything other than a 5/10