[@Leslie Hall]
Yeah over echii'ing things annoys me so I tend to stay away from those. DaL has those moments, which is why it won't make my top ten favorite anime EVER especially now that I've read the LN's XD, but the over-all plot still has everyone guessing (well the LN's anyway). The anime just needed to...well explain more things.
Like how the 'wizards' worked -_-' Kinda an important plot element. But some of my favorite anime characters are in that anime so..eh.
Oh and to stop skipping over important parts of the books which had subtle story elements to them, like the naming of some later characters.
Fanservice has it's place, but too much is...well too much.

Oh and me and my best friend went into OPM with no expectations whatsoever and to enjoy the comedy. And guess what? We blood fricken loved it. Although he has began to find some newer anime he enjoys, but main beef between us in anime is that he LOVES slice of life and I kinda hate it XD
It's just. So. Damn. Boring. (Unless it's a good romance slice of life.)

EDIT: So yeah basically the whole not explaining enough because of budget pisses me off as well XD
From what I've heard ten percent of the budget (on average) goes into the eyes or something. Might be wrong, but it's what I've heard. So perhaps instead of spending on much on their damn eyes they should focus a bit on the plot XD