Well, for me it’s not that Charioce basically wins in the end but the way the story frames it that is the problem. My favorite style of literature is grim dark fantasy (books by Martin, Abercrombie, Bakker, Lawrence and so on). In these works there are practically no real heroes, everyone is gray, our protagonist do terrible things, good people suffer monstrous fates and villains far worse than Charioce actually triumph in the end. But endings of these works are meant to be thought provoking, meant to make the reader uncomfortable, to rattle our sense of morality, to make us see how life is hard and often unfear. The story doesn’t try to sugarcoat the actions of its characters.
Virgin soul is bending over backwards and jumping through hoops to excuse Charioces actions and it has harmed the story and most of its characters. One blatant example is what is done with Els death. Charioce gave the order for El to be killed on sight. He never recants the order; he confirms it several times, even torments Jeanne with it. The only reason Alessand does it is because he knows it will please the king and the onyx knights. Charioce is as guilty as Alessand, yet Alessand is made a scapegoat and Charioce completely washed of any wrong doings. Even worse, Favaro is made to go out of character and basically turned into mouthpiece for Charioce propaganda. And very serious issues like slavery, oppression, genocide, circle of hatred, racism, and tyranny are just hand waved away at the end. The scene where demons are still doing backbreaking work for humans for a pittance (they are still wearing rags) is downright insulting.
Instead they should have shown humans helping the demons and gods rebuild their respective homes. There is no way that the gods and demons would just let all this slide without any reparations. At the very least Charioce would be forced to abdicate. Even humans would not regard Charioce as a hero once Jeanne made it known he was the one to release Bahamut in the first place. It would also make sense for there to be a heir prepared to replace Charioce, he did plan to die. So have some young cousin sit on the throne with Jeanne as mentor/regent. She is respected by both gods and humans and can facilitate lasting peace. She is now also connected with Azazel. It was Els wish to bring peace to the world, something that Jeanne can get Azazel to get behind. And voila, the characters of Jeanne, Azazel and El are not pointless in the end, there is a relatively logical way to bring about proper peace in the future and Nina and Charioce can have their bittersweet ending living together in Ninas village or something.
Couple this ending with shallow romance, plot holes, misused characters, anticlimactic defeat of Bahamut and all the other issues people have brought up on the forum and this has becomes a bad show despite the very promising start, just like Kado which I also had the misfortune of watching this year
