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(Five episodes watched): Looks like yet another magical academy anime in a season already brimming with them. Seika has no magical power but plenty of spiritual power--aren't they pretty much the same? After his excessive pride got him in trouble centuries ago, he has now adopted a sort of wait-and-see approach to just how much of a name he should try to make for himself. He is searching for allies and checking how much of his skill as an exorcist can still be employed today. This might be interesting, but I don't sense the whole plot revolving around it. Instead, it looks like another situation where everybody looks down on the protagonist as a weakling when in fact he is one of the strongest and will eventually teach them something. All-in-all, this seemed pretty average to me. Nothing rubbed me the wrong way but nothing excited me either. Seika's talents are undeniably awesome (even if he has arranged some of these incidents precisely to show off), and he requests and is granted a chance to enroll at a prestigious magical academy. His dick brother Gly objects but clearly can't hold a candle to him. This was fairly predictable but modestly entertaining nevertheless. The reason I create these reviews which also act as brief summaries of what's going on in various episodes is because it would be easy to forget that in many shows. I'm watching several isekai series concurrently and if they are pretty generic, like this one, it is hard to remember even the basics of what happened last week. 'This is the one about the awesome guy whose brother hates him, right?' I asked myself during episode four. Haru was once the world's greatest exorcist, and has some sort of plan to do something without meeting the same fate he did in his last life. But whatever that plan is isn't crystal clear, and it would even be easy to forget the basic premise since it is seldom mentioned after episode one. Basically, he sometimes runs into bad people and whips them, as in most isekai series. In episode five Haru is drafted to represent the school in some sort of martial arts tournament, one where people frequently get killed, apparently. At least some sort of semi-plausible explanation is offered why the body count isn't much higher. Also chosen is some strange girl who has appeared at the school recently. The problem is, the season was already nearing its end and I needed to dispense with some lesser quality shows to catch up. I decided that I would stop watching but save the remaining episodes just in case other critics felt this series was better than it had seemed to me. Last updated Thursday, May 04 2023. Created Friday, January 13 2023. | ||||||||
