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Decent isekai with OP MC and growing harem. MC however is a typical Japanese protagonist with strong Beta male tendencies. He frequently flakes between "I don't want to stand out or get involved" and "I can't ignore someone I know in need".The author is trying to play around with some possibly fresh takes on tired isekai tropes, but nothing really mind-blowing.The connection between the disciple who killed him in the past life and the Hero in the isekai hasn't been touched upon yet. So, maybe that can be interesting.Part of what gives this story its bland vibe is the MC's detachment to his current world. Sure, he cares about his friends, but only to an extent. He doesn't have any strong conflicts of emotion or tribulation. This flaw is baked into his character setting as the OP onmyouji that could not understand humans.The author does seem to be aware of this fatal flaw and made the MC be more active in the later volumes, but still, he feels detached and merely reactive to events unfolding around him.He has no proper goal. Be an adventurer sounds like a goal, but it felt more like a whim.Spoiler
One instance in the later volumes that shows the MC's lack of attachment is when faced with a demon trafficking incident where demon women and children were being sold, his initial reaction was, "Well, what do you want me to do about it? It's legal! If I free them and attack the traffickers, I would be the one breaking the law!"
Very cuck, follow the rules stereotypical behavior. A more normal protagonist would help the demons. But it's only after someone in the MC's harem asks him to that he actually saves them. And he wants to do it in the most legal, roundabout way of earning money to buy them. God. Maybe you can consider his lack of empathy to be a quirky character trait, but it just makes him a boring, passive protagonist in my eyes.
[collapse]Anyway, it's not the worst. Decent enough to kill some time. But nothing that stands out in the genre.