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TLDR; Quite good animation and music completely overshadowed by the writers adolescent desires and understanding of how relationships with women work as well as cliche/predictable action sequences and plot. If you can overlook the downfalls below you'll probably really enjoy it.

I tried my best to watch this through since the good parts are really good, the animation and the music, but it's completely overshadowed by it's pitfalls. If it weren't for those or if they were at least a lot more subtle this would be close to a 7 which is what it's ranked.

I'll start with the good even though you can't really overlook the ... bad. It has some impressive animation and some good action for the magical spells as well as the metal music is nice. There's also some interesting world building and lore it lays the groundwork for but the thinly veiled desires of the writer completely change the mood of the show. The one exception to what I'm about to describe below is that character Yoko which was partly why I was able to watch for so long besides the nicely done animation.

Onto the bulk of this review and why I can't in good conscious continue with this show (from worst to least worse). If you don't see it when you watch the first several episodes yourself and really like this show then you may want to stop reading. There's a lot of thinly veiled non-consensual sexual activity that happens in this and no "sucking the poison out" isn't what the authors describing when you see the exact frames and poses the characters are put in. It even happens when there's no explanation sometimes of how someone got poisoned (yea I'm looking at you Cockatrice battle). Also all the women in this show don't really serve any purposed other than to be objects to be ogled at as their clothes explode, then fall in love with the main character for no apparent reason other than he's a male, doesn't kill them, is warm to the touch (even after he literally molests them like it's a normal handshake), and they're all virgins. They all pose no threat to any male they face especially the main character who will usually grope them for no apparent reason while he takes his time to defeat them.

There's plenty of other small cliche issues with this show but I could continue if these were all what was wrong with them like major plot armor for anyone with a name (no one really dies outside of the first couple episodes), every stepping stone gets set up as if it's a massive hurdle then topples over in the wind, the OH NO HE'S DEAD... JK gets old and predictable really quick, all the protagonists enemies become his allies for some reason, there's lots of plot holes like an inconsequential side character is killed twice but then is completely fine worshiping his master in the next scene (Jodoh). I could go on but do I really need to?

There's some good things about this anime but there's also some very glaring flaws. If you enjoy fantasy/adventure with a fighting atmospere I say go for it but if you're expecting epic fight scenes and satisfying character growth and depth you're much better off watching something else (I'd suggest Kenichi at least).

It definitely has it's enjoyable parts mostly at building up to fights between a protagonist and antagonist along with some great brief explanations of techniques being used and the feats accomplished by the opponents. The animation creates a tense atmosphere and has some ... fairly interesting damage taken by characters. If you don't know much about martial arts or the limits of the human body then you might not even notice the bad parts I'm about to mention next. In that case I'd say just go watch it and decide for yourself.
On the other hand. I'd say this is more a fantasy rather than a martial arts anime since during each fight a protagonist has some insurmountable magical ability or technique that gives them an inescapable edge and so the result is a fore gone conclusion and there's no way they could have ever lost that fight. At best there's a quick haphazard summary of what's happening. At worst the badass characters that got built up for sometimes several episodes get knocked out in one hit and without landing a single hit or even throwing a single attack. That's just unrealistic and in any real fight it's a close back and forth battle until someone makes a crucial mistake that the other capitalises on.

Interesting symbolism for empathy, although a bit gross at first to be honest but you kinda get used to it. Each episode felt pretty unique/quirky, mysterious, and even suspenseful at times. I found it quite refreshing amongst a backdrop of many other overly clichéd romances out there. Although, it could be better if the characters were a bit older and perhaps more atmospheric music was woven into the background. The tension between the characters doesn't really need to be held up by any more music to be as wonderful as it is though. It definitely earns its R rating though considering some scenes but it ... seems to almost have fun/jokes with itself in the process so it's quite entertaining.

There's plenty of great things in this anime, including one of the best intros imo. The story has a nice progression and pretty good world building. I adore super power anime so that's why it's not lower than 8 considering it seems to have some pretty lazily made characters (mostly antagonists) who just never seems to satisfy more than an "ouuu shiny" response. It also seems to have a hard time building up the main antagonist(s) and just feels very superficial and forced to me. Imo, either make good characters that actually have importance or just leave them out, otherwise it's just noise that detracts ... from what makes this anime so good.