This is the perfect word to describe my main gripe with this show. Non the less, i would definitely still recommend it.
What do i mean? Well, let's get the usual things out of the way first. Sound, animation, drawing, characters... All that stuff is pretty good, not great but still very pleasant to look at and hear. Directing is decent too.
What's NOT as good is the writing and structure. At first it felt like this show was horribly structured and also had an identity crisis. The first episode seems entirely unrelated to anything and entirely out of whack with the rest of the show, being on earth rather than in the isekai where the rest of it takes place... It goes for cool and a bit of cringe. And the character that half of the episode spends its time on building? GONE BABY! Never to be seen again, not in this season, not in the next, unless he finds a way back to earth somehow..? So what was the point? No idea.
Next we're introduced to his new family and sister... Said family we don't see after that either, his sister shows up from time to time to be 'scary' but that's it, no real character behind her either it seems. Then we're introduced to his new 'pets', the girls he's saving from a weird curse and recruiting as secret followers, making up some stupid chuuni crap about an evil organization they're fighting which he calls stupid himself... At some point these girls leave, with him thinking they realized and went on with their life, only for them to return later as a serious organization he re-joins, who indeed DO fight the evil organization he frigging made up!
Did i say identity crisis? Because yeah, up to that point, which is i guess about 6 episodes after his reincarnation, it plays out kind of like overlord, with the leader seeming clueless and highly incompetent, if overpowered. It also delves heavily into chuuni stuff to the point of literal cringe in the first few episodes, which is not as bad due to it being self aware and mc constantly stopping to re-evaluate and asses 'how cool it was', which makes it pretty funny... So it balances between comedy and action, with mc being kind of the 'masked hero' that he tries to make as cool as possible, adding more humor to the situation... While in real life he also plays a role, the role of an incompetent moron loser 'side character', which he also gets some chuuni pleasure from and which also plays out rather humorously...
But then it devolves into him trying to play the villain instead? Which even after finishing i didn't understand at all, though by the end that role makes much more sense, only due to the events that happened then. Where it also devolves is the introduction of all his school love interests and some other side-main characters, along with the very high count of his main crew (there's a side crew too!), who all barely get appropriate screen time... Which brings me back to redundancy. So, while the start is somewhat enjoyable, after the pink haired girl is introduced, it feels ALL over the place and horribly structured, at which point i thought its lost.
YET... The last two arcs (aka the second half) suddenly regain structure, largely focusing on mc and TWO characters only (his last aka blonde clingy 'love interest' he doesn't really care about, and the first one's big sister (readhead)), as well as a bit more proper time to the other members of shadow garden, and the structure suddenly falls into sync, the small fry pretense op chuuni mc comedy formula is back and more stable, and the show suddenly gets a whole lot better and actually enjoyable!
So, final thoughts? I'd cut down the character count by at least 30% to decrease reduncancy, along with trimming a good bit of ep1, and re structure the first half a bit. With better budget and some extra thought on some plot and structure, it could go as high as 9/10. As is? A solid 7.4/10, and still pretty recommended.
