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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