Mayonaka no Occult Koumuin

I'd be interested in reading the source material that this hot garbage came from. This show was the poor man's Natsume Yuujinchou, completely lacking in all emotion and quality all around.
*Sound: terrible. Every time the "Anothers" speak, it's in this weird double voice that makes them exceedingly difficult to listen to. Plus they speak so closely to human nuances that the whole point of the anime is thrown off.
*Art: Although the art style is a bit different from typical stuff, the way flying characters just hover with no movement to hair and no realistic movement bothers me. It also bothers me that when ... a character is looking "thoughtful," they just stare. There is no soul in ANY of the characters' eyes.
*Story: I like the idea. Dude has an ability that allows him to communicate with spirits, but they're not friendly ghosts (except that most love him anyway). He helps people by communicating where they can't, and has a tie to them thanks to an ancestor whom everyone mistakes him for. Sound familiar? It's already been done, and done SO much better!
*Character: So the Ears of Sand main character can hear "Anothers." You have a former host, an androgynous scientist, a tech guy? with no personality, and a whole slew of one dimensional single shot characters. I suppose if the anime stretched multiple seasons they might get development like in Natsume, but as it stands they're awful. Then there's the fact that the "Anothers" are supposed to be so far removed from human understanding that we just can't get along, but by the end of the first few episodes the main character has an Another cat living with him and acting like a cat as well as a supposedly terrifying trickster god from Aztec culture.
*Enjoyment: None. I kept waiting for it to pick a theme that wasn't so heavy handed, but it's really all there is.

I was originally intrigued by the setting. A bunch of mythological creatures, angels, demons, etc. combined into the umbrella term 'Another'? How would the dynamics between these creatures pan out, and in terms of angels, demons, and gods, how would the different and conflicting religious myths surrounding those creatures be explained?

Those were the sort of exciting ideas I got after watching the first episode. A few episodes later, I was very disappointed that none of those ideas ever got explored. None. The whole premise of this anime was humans and Anothers can't understand each other ever. And it's not even about understanding speech (this silly ... premise would instantly crumble the instant someone smart enough to give Anothers a pen and paper appears). It's that mutual understanding is completely impossible, and this is implied every time the characters converse with other characters (I'm starting to get sick of being reminded, tyvm). The length they go to enforce this dubious premise is simply baffling.

For example, the MC seems to intentionally conflate the concepts of mutual understanding with mutual agreement. Just because a few Anothers did not bother to care about plebian humans' concerns, it was concluded that Anothers as a species could never come to an understanding with humans. So what, understanding = obeying whatever the sad humans want? That's called servitude, and it's just a form of narcissism where humans are regarded as the supreme species in terms of morality.

Now in terms of story and characters... Nothing is going on, really. The Anothers were just there to revere the MC as the late Abe no Seimei, the people from the department seem to have problems just so the MC can solve them (with the help of Anothers, ofc). Not much character development to be seen. As for Kohaku and the MC.. There seems to be some sort of romance slowly blooming (and it's even celebrated in the ED). This part is more enjoyable than the sloppy scenarios about the MC solving cases. In fact, if they'd just drop the whole charade about non-understanding and focus only on these two, this would be tremendously more enjoyable.

I'd say this anime is meant to be a time-filling activity when you have nothing else to do. Between bad and good, it's leaning towards bad, but not bad enough to be noteworthy or memorable. You can get some amount of enjoyment when watching it, but after a season or two, you'd forget it ever existed

For me this is a meh, it's not that interesting, I feel like it's a waste of time.
Mostly due to MC attitude, his character background does fit to be a MC but his action doesn't align that much with his moral in this series, at least from what I see.

Basically what I'm saying that it's a waste of potential for MC with great background but doesn't put any effort to achieve it, the story ended up become mundane, the plot tried to pull MC along with it but ended up getting stopped by MC instead, that kind of feeling I had at the moment.

He feel ... sympathy for the Another but his effort to improve isn't there. Every fucking episode his position stays as a newcomer, even though his background is in the opposite. He's in the same bloodline as Abe no Seimei, the most popular/generic character used for high rank onmyoji. Even though he's in that position he doesn't even put effort on improving his knowledge, technique or anything. He just keep going on with that rookie attitude with 0 knowledge into work and get tangled by the surrounding. I'm really tired of it, every fucking episode until the end of the anime. There are couple of Another that mistake him for Abe no Seimei in this anime, he should've asked what did Abe no Seimei did during his lifetime or something to learn on properly how to interact with these Another. I thought that he was gonna eventually learn some onmyoji technique or something but nope, it stays the same, rookie until the end, what a waste of potential.

I'd say it's a 2/10, wasted potential.

This is a bad anime. Don't get me wrong, it can still be enjoyable. But it's just not good. The plot is interesting, a bit if the good and old japanese magic realism - public servants, yokais, a bit of global folklore references, a hint of pretty boys harem... I'm in!
But bit by bit it all begins to crumble. The artwork is really "cheap", so it's a major turn-down on the long run. The characters feel pretty flat, and the story itself doesn't develop well enough to compensate the lack of eye-candy.
I'll probably watch this through the end though, but just because I ... already went too far on the episodes. Feels like I'm chewing on the trashiest cotton candy in town - not proud of it but, but now I want to get this finished.