I started Die Neue These last weekend, having had no prior experience with LoGH. I liked it so much that I've started reading the English translation of the first book, and I'm legitimately amazed by how much worldbuilding and thought went into it. I was expecting yet another trash wish-fulfillment/harem light novel but this is real sci-fi.

Also surprised how much I love Yang Wen-li. I usually end up liking the villains in these sorts of things and I remember seeing reinhardt memes everywhere when i (regrettably) was a regular on /pol/ a long time ago so I came into it expecting some sort of edgy-boi villain protagonist story but Yang has such a strong ethos I can't help but fall in love with him. He's not "just like me frfr" but rather he's the man I wish I could be: confident, aloof, and righteous. Very few anime characters have so much philosophy baked into their character as Yang Wen-Li.