>>231774>higurashiNo, that's not undebatable.
The anime as a whole is shitty, but the first season, before they were told they had to toe the line, retcon everything, and make a shitty by-the-numbers clone of the VN, was really good.
It threw out a lot of the namby-pamby shit the VN had, such as
- mundane explanations for all the seemingly supernatural events, despite one of the characters *being a supernatural entity*
- everybody being whiter-than-white, even the wicker god and the sodding yakuza
- the storyline being a steins;gate instead of a space dandy
It's the last point that really rankles: one of the best parts of the first season of the anime was working out how the world worked this arc*, and still knowing that one character doing X would make another one flip their shit, because even though the scenario is different they're the still the same people.
* the later seasons and the VN shitting on all of that and going "lol no misunderstanding" was also pretty shitty.