Fandom Problem #15,675:
When people complain (or joke... I'm bad at reading signals, especially online) that one anime has taken x-amount of seasons and the plot hasn't moved forward since somewhere around the first 10 episodes, but it actually has.
While there is one main and central plot, each of the characters has their own series of plotlines, some contributing to the central plot, others contributing to their character, and still others being complete nonsense (but so much fun nonetheless). Maybe I'm seeing it differently because I've also read the manga several times over, read the light novels and companion guides, and read enough fanfictions that were plausible given multiple set-ups that the original sources have given us, while the person I saw saying the above statement seemed to be an anime-only fan, but still. (And even then, my friends often have to take breaks from watching it with me because so many episodes are plot-heavy, according to them, so...)
I'm as much of an "instant gratification" person as anyone else, but sometimes we gotta let that slow-burn plot do what it does best and be intricately woven in a way that will have us looking back at early chapters and be amazed at how early things had been set up.
