Saikyou Onmyouji no Isekai Tenseiki

Misfit of the Demo... Magic Academy, aka. Saikyou Onmyouji no Isekai Tenseiki, copies story and character arcs from a dozen different highly rated anime, and surprisingly, manages to sew them all together into a solid, coherent show that stands on its own two feet. Despite bringing next to nothing new or unique to the table, there's a lot to love about an anime that reminds you of the best parts of good shows from the past. Animation / Art / General Visuals - 8/10 ----------------------------------------------- The show looks pretty nice. The animations are nothing to write home about, but the art is nice and clean, setting and backgrounds aresolid, and magical effects can even be called straight up good. Combat coordination in regards to physical combat is lackluster, but magical effects make up for it and in general are enjoyable to watch play out. Sound / Music / Voice Acting - 7/10 ------------------------------------------ Fairly standard anime stuff. I did quite enjoy the emotional ending tracks. Story - 8/10 ------------- If you're looking for a unique story, you've come to the wrong place. However, don't let that get you down. This anime features a story that's surprisingly good as a whole even if not unique, because it manages to grab all the important bits of other successful shows and mixes them together into something that ticks all the right boxes when it comes to Fantasy Isekai enjoyment. The premise of the show might be the slightly more uncommon one among this genre, namely the Isekai aspect. Our protagonist chooses to re-incarnate himself, but ends up landing in a different world. The best parallel would be with the show Misfit of the Demon Academy, except in that show the MC landed in the same world. That tiny curveball aside, the story features our MC growing up in the cliche noble household, learning to embrace his powers once more and adapt them to the new world, we get a low-key romance story with a childhood friend, we get sibling rivalry, we get a School arc, a School Tournament arc, we get an overarching story underneath that promises grand adventures and yeah... it's nothing you haven't seen a hundred times before. But I think it's all pretty well done, they understand the audience and gave us exactly what we wanted. The ending of the show also throws a few interesting curveballs and makes a solid landing. You won't be blue-balled with a cliffhanger, but there's plenty of room for sequels. Characters - 8/10 --------------------- The cast isn't large, but I find them all likeable. The MC is overpowered, confident, competent, intelligent. He knows what he wants and how to get it. Few things surprise him. It's always good to see MC's that aren't fumbling through their entire existence. And despite being overpowered, he isn't omnipotent and has to rely on all his skills to get what he wants. The show features a small harem of secondary characters, but they're decently developed. They all have their background arcs, we learn about their personalities, a bit of their history, we see them act properly in character, and despite the obvious romance undertones, the show never pushes its welcome and keeps it reasonable. No girl is falling straight up heads over heels for the MC, which is nice to see. Despite how competent he is, I'm tired of every woman wetting their panties the moment they see a decent male. The girls are also very competent themselves which I also favour highly. Too many damsels in distress is boring. --- Total - 8/10 --- Saikyou Onmyouji no Isekai Tenseiki may very well be the very definition of cliche when it comes to Fantasy Isekai, but I think there's a lot of enjoyment to be had from it. Not every show needs to try to re-invent the wheel and risk failing miserably. It's okay to copy the good stuff. I'm not going to be angry if after eating a nice cake, someone gives me another nice cake. Like sure, maybe I'd want Ice Cream the second time around, but cake is cake.

The anime version of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.” Winter 2023 marks the truly historical moment when the anime industry has finally figured out how to make generic isekai that isn’t utter trash. The secret ingredient all along was having a protagonist with some actual personality rather than a basement-dwelling incel. In just one season, we have such isekai protagonists as a professional handyman, a legendary king, or, in the case of this show, an onmyouji from a fantasy version of ancient Japan. Now, there is a meme that Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” is the first-ever isekai novel. It’s nothingbut a meme, yet that novel and this anime have fundamentally the same premise. Take a cliched fantasy setting, add a protagonist that normally belongs in a completely different kind of story, watch how he fucks shit up with his out-of-place skillset, toolset, and above all else, mindset. Seeing a 19th-century engineer wrecking medieval knights with dynamite and electricity is the same kind of fun as seeing an oriental occultist wrecking medieval-Europe-inspired-JRPG with curses, ayakashi, paper talismans, and machiavellian scheming. Just this single change of protagonist is enough to shake up the entire dynamic of the genre. Even if all the other elements of the story remain cliched, a unique main character completely recontextualizes them. For example, the protagonist regrets his previous life and wants to have a redo. Except he wasn’t an otaku shut-in that regrets masturbating to anime figurines, he was a mastermind occultist that threw his weight around too much, made too many enemies, and ended up betrayed and murdered in a political conspiracy. His version of “redo” isn’t to have sex, it’s to take the chill pill and follow his occult pursuit without getting involved with the fates of the world. Likewise, the supporting cast is just girls that make up the MC’s harem. Except he doesn’t treat them as a harem, he treats them as acolytes, that is, half retainers, half pupils, half daughters. I’ve seen so many unthinking complaints about the protagonist being dense in regard to one girl’s crush on him. No, he isn’t dense, he is 20-30 years older than her and treats her like an adopted daughter, and, I know this might be shocking for isekai-watching weebs, but when a normal 40-year-old man hears his 15-year-old daughter describe what kind of a man she wants to marry, his first thought isn’t supposed to be, “wow, she wants to marry ME.” Such recontextualizations are more than enough to make the story feel fresh. What really brings it all together, however, is quality writing. Other isekai shows I’ve mentioned earlier still aren’t worth watching despite interesting protagonists because their writing simply isn’t good enough. This show makes its story work by putting intelligent thought into it. The very premise of the protagonist having to TRY to be chill already implies that it’s not an attitude that comes to him naturally, deep down he believes that with great power comes great responsibility, so he can’t walk five steps without trying to bring the dead back to life or thwart demonic conspiracies - attracting unwanted attention (everyone with half a brain suspects him to be some kind of a demon) and having companions calling him out on straying from the original goal. The harem members also have actual lives, goals, and motivations not limited to wanting to be MC’s property (ironic, considering one of them is a literal slave). The slave girl’s storyline is particularly high-brow, the protagonist pretty much spells out, “you’re not obligated to suck my dick just because I treat you with basic human decency, your life could have plenty of possibilities if you were allowed to actually go and live it” (a polar opposite of the usual isekai incel mentality regarding the whole slave girl trope); and furthermore, the arc’s antagonist is a very nuanced take on the douchebag prince archetype (Joffrey Baratheon) in that he isn’t so much evil, as terminally self-entitled to a point where he genuinely believes he’s the good guy for “rescuing” (kidnapping) the slave girl. Interesting antagonists is one of the strongest points of the series in general. The only notable flaw of the story is being backloaded - the introductory episodes are not nearly as interesting as the second half of the show. 9/10 for a formulaic isekai that is actually watchable.

I’ll say it, this was my favourite isekai of the season. Some may call it a generic trashy power fantasy, but I thought it was great and loved the MC’s personality. The fact he’s a grown man reincarnated into a fantasy world while still retaining the full memories, maturity and even abilities from his past life was enough of a unique twist to make it a fun watch. My biggest issue with most isekai is that the MC is reincarnated and is an idiot. Not the case here. Seika is fully aware of all of his previous experiences and is doing his best to avoid thefate he suffered in his past life, being betrayed because of his power. Instead, he opts to seek out other strong people and support them rather than being the focal point of this story. I like sly and conniving MCs who put themselves first rather than some bs morals. Seika will do anything to prevent going down the same path again. Including lying, manipulating and even killing people. That ruthlessness is very much refreshing to me as I hate goody goody two shoes paradigm of morality style MCs. I thought it was really cool how he befriended several characters in the story with the idea of getting them strong enough to deal with the threats in the world, rather than him. Seeing the mind games he played every episode was great. Of course, even though you’ve got a somewhat unique MC, you still do have your usual isekai tropes, childhood friend/servant who’s in love with MC purely because he’s nice to her, magical school setting, jealous brother, rapey characters who are rapey purely to get you to dislike them, etc. At this point it is what it is, you know what you’re gonna get with an isekai setting and although things like this can get repetitive, I liked the world and mechanics enough to still have a lot of fun. I think the last 3 episodes was where stuff really started going down. The princess that was introduced was really the first person in the series who could compete with Seika mentally. Everyone else is pretty dumb in the story, so getting someone who isn’t an idiot was nice. I wish we would have got more of that. But these are overall minor complaints for me. I just like the show. It’s kind of basic, but feels different enough to hit all the right spots. Plus, I just love isekai. Sue me. Animation is pretty mediocre here. Luckily, there’s not a lot of it to speak of. Most of the fights are just seika using his summoning abilities so it didn’t stand out too much. Art style is your usual fantasy style, nothing to write home about, but not bad. Pacing is pretty good, I haven’t had a chance to read the LN yet, but from an anime perspective nothing feels rushed or anything. I think if anything the tournament arc felt a little slow. Saikyou Onmyouji was great for me. It didn’t reinvent the wheel, but as an isekai lover it ticked all the boxes I would look for in the genre and is a good watch. Saikyou Onmyouji gets 9 out of 10.

What is wrong with the anime industry for real? This season honestly sucked. This particular anime has not been as bad as others, but still, the industry is going downhill. I like isekais and generic shows, but when something is overused, it just gets old. The art is mediocre, the setting is generic, and the main character... let's just say I had good hopes for him in the first few episodes, but in the end, they made him act stupid, generic, and boring. The last episode was just okay, with not-so-fancy effects on a very tight budget, everyone lived happily, and no one was killed.I'm tired of animes like this. If it weren't for shows as terrible as this one, they could invest their budget into making good anime or creating sequels to popular and interesting ones like Re:Zero or Konosuba. Instead, they're literally wasting money on below-mediocre shows that no one will watch again or even after a few years. If you want an interesting show to watch, or one that isn't too serious, or at least one you'll enjoy to some degree, then this show isn't for you. So, who is this show for? What are the otaku demographics? I don't know. I would probably drop it if there was an interesting show this season. I can't even imagine Gigguk, a trash isekai anime lover, watching this garbage. Save your time, go re-watch some actually good anime, and skip this one.

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