I shall survive by using potions!

I finished ep 3
The third ep was quite bad
The first half of it consisted entirely of the main character yapping about bullshit for literally minutes uninterrupted while everyone just stares at her with mouth agape. Then she goes off and leaves the second place she was to find a NEW new life where she can live peacefully, and I'm just left here wondering what the point of these first two episodes even are if they ended up being basically useless in the grand scheme of things. I guess theyre going for a story where she cant live a normal life because she keeps fucking up by making it obvious she's special? If so, I'm not intrested in watching episode after episode of her starting over in a new city to fuck it all up again. The animation is really weak and bland. Very few shots look genuinely good or beautiful. I can excuse mediocre animation as long as there's a quality story or writing attatched, but, the writing is also very lacking here. It's just all over the damn place and feels like it doesn't know what it wants to be
The potion premise is completely wasted as there is actually nothing cool she does with them. Not only do we not get to see them being made, the process of learning and crafting, they just appear out of thin air, it's been three episodes and so far she's only used healing potions and appearance change potions for the most part. There was a scene at the end of ep 3 where she used a few more varieties, including a perfume basically, but that was like a minute long scene. Where's the creativity? Where's the actual magical effects she can apparently do anything with? Not even invisibility? Oh yeah, but make a onions sauce potion to make omletterice, yeah, that's what I'm here for fuck yeah. Come on man. I get the slight subversion that she though she was going to be in a fantasy world and it turns out it was just medival europe she got sent to, but is that really a strong premise for a show? What's the point man? Might drop, idk

Literally every FUNA work is like this. First time?

I dropped this shit too, it doesnt get any better.

You can tell this & Saving 80,000 Gold were written about the same time, they're like two versions of the same idea

Yeah I havent heard of funa before
I picked it up because I liked the idea of a potion-type anime. I like potions and have my own concept for an alchemist-type story that I'm "writing" (lol I don't actually write, I just pretend I do) which I think would work best as an SoL anime. Anyways, the show made a really bad first impression with the first ten minutes of pure isekai garbo, but I was willing to excuse it if the rest of the show was going to be good. So far it hasn't improved on that impression. There were a few laughs here and there, but nothing that grabbed me at all and I feel very mislead. Still, I try to give shows a chance even if the concept they start with isnt followed through on, but they didnt subvert my le expectations with anything substantially good. I'm fine with watching a potion show that isnt directly about running a potion shop, as you can consider that too "obvious" of plot, but atleast give me something good to replace it
I think I probably will, too. I might give it one more ep to see if there is anything at all cool she will do with the potions, but if not, then I'm gonna doomp et

Also here's an excerpt of my own idea. It would be written as a journal / recipe book of a journeyman alchemist as he runs his shop on the outskirts of a a middle-size farming town. Sometimes pages would be purely recipes for potions, complete with changes and scribbling out amounts, and silly little short-hand notes. Sometimes accompanied by detailed stories of the potion's uses or the sales tactics the seller uses to hawk his wares. Other pages would be more detailed description of the intricacies of running the business itself, like where he sources his materials, gets his glass from (he has connections with a glassblowing factory in a nearby town) and how he maintains his magical garden, which he works quite hard to keep secure. Other pages, still, would just be narrative journal entries about his life, which the following excerpt is. Enjoy

It's a standard female-protagonist isekai targeted at men. There's nothing special there. Every single work by FUNA is 90% recycled from his prior one.

I'm fine with watching a potion show that isnt directly about running a potion shop

Oh dear

We never spoke directly about it, but over the weeks she would stay more than she would go. The spare room I used for storage would empty of crates and fill with her things- clothes, toys, furniture from her old house, frogs- occasionally, which she would kidnap from the pond and keep for tea parties. I found myself telling her more and more often when I would go on trips to the forest or river to gather ingredients; More often than not I found her following me on these little excursions; Always trailing behind with her own little basket, picking what I picked, walking where I walked. One day, I woke up particularly tired after a long session of brewing and bottling. I dreaded going out to tend my garden, as I always ought to in the morning, and was delighted to see my basket already full. She was laying up on the rafters, all covered in dirt, with Bane resting on her lap and a book in her hand. The final moment came when a customer had entered the shop- a traveler I hadn't seen before. He began to tell me about his trouble sleeping on the road. I was about to begin my song and dance, as I heard the quick and familiar skipping on the floorboards, followed by the closet door creaking open, and careful walking back to my side. Just as the patron finished speaking, a bottle of Moonlighter appeared on the counter; she stood on her tiptoes, just barely able to see over it, and had a devilishly proud and smug smile on her face. As soon as the man left I knelt down and dropped the silver coins into her hands. "Luna, how would you like to be my apprentice and learn alchemy?" She looked confused for a moment, glancing up and down between me and the coins, "I thought I already was!"

(Pic rel btw, this is the scene at the end)
Well, what think? Would you watch this in anime form?

Nigga I said IF it had something intresting to replace it, dont just ignore half my statement and pretend I'm retarded bro that's rude