So. The dude. He was a super powerful exorcist in something like an alternate Japan that controls ayakashi. He's killed, but after some betrayal, etc. but he has something up his sleeve--the ability to reincarnate himself in another world. I did like/find interesting that it's the first time I've seen someone isekai themself.
He is reborn as Seika Lamprogue (which I'm not looking up how to spell, so I've probably mucked it up) in another world that has element based magic. His family has a history of famous mages. He's the youngest son supposedly from a mistress (though he's not really the guy's son--while it never gets explained in the anime and he never seems to find out himself, it's likely he's actually the offspring of the guy's younger brother and a demon).
Anyway, he still has ALL his powers from the other world and can even call forth the ayakashi he had captured over there, though the stuff used to measure magic in this world doesn't register his skill, so at first everyone thinks he has no magical power.
His goal this time around is to NOT be the most powerful and to basically hide behind the skirt of the hero. Anyway, lots of stuff happens and I'm not gonna rehash it all, but suffice it to say that he's as OP as you get and he is, in fact, actually the Demon King reincarnated...as a human...though HE never finds this out and actually spends all his time protecting the hero (the red haired girl).
It's nominally a harem as the blonde girl (who is his servant/slave) loves him, but he never touches her even though it's apparently common in this world for masters to take liberties (he saves her from one of his older brothers and also from a prince that wants to take her) and the hero also likes him (but seems more like a friend) and another strong fighter girl they pick up along the way who totally could have been a male character but they obviously wanted to at least appear like a harem for fan service.
While I mostly enjoyed it, I don't feel like it made much sense that all of his powers were intact and unchanged and he could call all those ayakashi from other worlds. And it's kind of an open ended ending for the anime at least. And why he didn't question what was really going on with the demons. And why the holy priestess girl also was consorting with demons. And how we were supposed to go along with the asshole brothers redemption arc.
So...yeah. I dunno. How did he not know he was the Demon King? And none of the demons he fought realised it either until the one who could see stats figured it out -- but didn't say anything -- but the holy priestess knew and also didn't tell him? I guess I'm annoyed that all these plot bits were just left hanging out in the wind to flap there unresolved. And while being OP is always a thing in these, he was so ridiculously OP that it was a bit ridiculous.
Will I watch it if another season comes out? I'm not sure.
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