Re:Zero seems to be starting out as another Future Diary

If you're curious about the title because you thought Future Diary was an epic masterpiece of perfection then this complaint might sail over your head, however, I personally thought that Future Diary was ruined by an unlikable main character that was so supid that he actually refused to accept his situation and act accordingly. But somehow it worked out in his favor because Yuno knew that giving someone a hug wouldn't suddenly stop them from wanting to kill you.

Well, I'm on episode 2 and thus far we know that every time the main character dies he comes back to life, I figured this out after the first time he respawned and the world has reset and nobody knew him. The main character has managed to come back 3 times and actually has knowledge of what went on in the first life and still hasn't figured it out. I thought I know that, on average, an anime's main character rarely tends to be the sharpest knife in the drawer but in less than 40 minutes I'm already losing interest.

I can't help but feel that this is going the same way. Does he ever managed to man up and take control of the situation? From what I've heard even people who have been following the anime are still disappointed in his actions, so I'm tempted to add this to the "dropped and can never be talked into picking it back up" because have fallen for it twice, with Future Diary and Guilty Crown and it ended with me not only hating it more.

tl;dr Anime looks like shit, does it ever get better or does it start as it means to go on?