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What are you watching right now? Why? (please read 1st post)

Finished season 1 & 2 of Letter Bee. It has some significant things that drag it down. I found the premise very interesting and having lots of potential, but instead of exploring this world that is always night, it chooses to focus on how the main character Lag always does his best and every 'villain' spoiler[except Lawrence] isn't really bad. Anyone who does anything wrong turns out not to be a bad guy or have bad intentions. It's all misunderstandings. The first season is very slice of life, and the second concentrates on a rebel group of the government, and introduces the idea that the rebels may not be the bad guys afterall (Lag works for the government). But spoiler[it never resolves anything. Lag and friends stop the immediate threat and the government gets to be a karma houdini. Even though they did horrible experiments on humans, apparently Lag doesn't care about that and decides to keep working for them.] I was disappointed when what I viewed to be the most interesting element was never explained or expanded, that being that spoiler[Lag is probably not human. I found that very interesting. My guess, is maybe he's a creature like the Maka who has taken on human form, but the Day of the Flicker caused him to lose his memories.] The fights, though few and far between, are usually pretty cool, especially ones involving Niche. Her hair is an awesome weapon, and they do a good job showing her battles. The Gaichuu are also cool-looking, but the tendency for them to suddenly stop attacking when our protagonist starts a "I'll do my best" speech is lame. And it doesn't help that the MC Lag cries an average of 2 times an episode. If I remember right, there were only 2 eps in the entire 50-ep series he doesn't cry in.
Overall, a very shounen series seasoned heavily with friendship and doing your best themes.

The problem here is that the manga is still on-going (and, last I checked, that "most interesting element" hasn't been fully explained yet) so the series had to come up with a lot of anime original stuff, especially at the end of the second season, which frankly just wasn't as strong as the stuff from the manga. I remember it did a better job than I was expecting but I still wish it had been able to follow the manga longer.