This is my first review so I hope it comes out alright Do you remember when each anime season wasnt dominated by isekai? A switch was turned on at some point and we get 10 or so every 12 weeks. That being the case we get a lot anime that feel pretty similar. Heck sometimes I feel like I can nail the whole plot of the show by the first episode. So when a show does something to flip some of the typical tropes on its head I think its worth at least checking out and I think Saikyou Onmyouji no Isekai Tenseiki does this. Onmyouji doesnt completely reinvent the formula or anything. Its still your typical strong guy gets reincarnated into NotEurope and amazes everyone with his abilities. Personally I think a show like that is usually still fun albeit generic and tired at this point. But I think Onmyouji does two things to freshen things up. One is involved with its namesake. The MC Seika Lamprogue was previously born as a powerful Onmyouji or Exorcist in some sort of fantasy version of Japan. After some conflict he casts a spell that would reincarnate himself into anther world with his memories intact. Upon arriving in fantasy Europe he doesnt possess the normal JRPG abilities that isekai protagonists and regular denizens of this world enjoy but instead he still has this arcane knowledge from his previous life and is apparently just straight up OP but more than that its FRESH. Instead of casting fireball or leveling dex or whatever it is were used to this guy is placing curses making thousands of flying paper dolls of magic has knowledge about the fundamental makeup of organisms/objects keeps a den of summonssome nightmarish from his previous life and reciting poems that Im in no way qualified to say what they are but sounds like ancient Japanese poems? The cadence he says them in has an air of mysticism to it anyway. Point is I thought the show kept things interesting just because I wanted to know more about this supernatural system. Another thing I found pretty refreshing is that of course as an isekai protagonist Seika is going to collect a bunch of ladies to hang out with and theyre all gonna fall for him before too long but this guy being you know 40 or 50 years old mentally just doesnt care for them romantically at all He rebuffs all of their attempts and treats them as almost students or family members since theyre all in the teenage range. Which is great since each of the girls are pretty sweet and Id hate to see them taken advantage of like most anime protags wouldahem jobless cough cough. But without being bogged down by will they or wont theys it lets the characters shine more on their own instead of love interest 1 2 and 3. You can make your own judgements on the story music setting and such I just think a lot of people probably skipped this show being one of the many generic looking isekais out there but I feel it has more going for it than meets the initial judgement.