Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse
陰陽廻天 Re:バース (Onmyou Kaiten Re:Birth)
- Action
- Fantasy
- Sci-Fi
- Isekai
- Episodes
- 12
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Teenage delinquent Takeru Narihira is haunted by the same recurring dream: monsters give chase until a mysterious girl appears to pull him to safety. After countless encounters, he confesses his feelings and vows on their 1,999th meeting that next time, he’ll be the one to protect her. A motorcycle accident soon upends his life, transporting him to Denji Heian-kyo—an alternate take on Japan’s ancient capital infused with advanced technology—where he finally finds the girl from his dreams, Tsukimiya, only to learn she has no memory of him.
Denji Heian-kyo is thrown into crisis when a black mist rolls in, turning citizens to stone and releasing oni. The city’s defenders are the onmyouji, sorcerers who channel mystical arts while piloting shikigami suits to battle the threat. As the mist returns, Takeru discovers an uncanny ability to transform and withstand the oni, yet tragedy still strikes—until he awakens again in Denji Heian-kyo, two weeks before the disaster. Determined to keep Tsukimiya alive, he sets his sights on becoming an onmyouji and rewriting what’s to come.
Otaku Consensus
Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse landed as a divisive original anime, with its 6.49 MAL score and 63/100 AniList score reflecting more cult curiosity than broad approval. Its strongest material is the David Production and Hideya Takahashi-led fusion of time-loop urgency, isekai displacement, and tokusatsu-style combat, while the most persistent weakness is that the 12-episode run asks viewers to absorb a dense genre cocktail faster than its character writing can deepen it.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse if you want Re:Zero’s reset-pressure psychology pushed through SSSS.Gridman-adjacent suit-and-monster spectacle, without a long power-system lecture before the action starts. It is built for viewers who like action fantasy with sci-fi hardware, delinquent-protagonist heat, and ritual combat that treats onmyouji less like robed exorcists and more like armored first responders. The appeal is not refinement; it is the collision of incompatible flavors: Heian imagery, kaiju-scale threat language, shikigami suits, shapeshifting, and a romance engine that runs on memory imbalance. At only 12 episodes and fully aired, it also works as a compact curiosity piece from David Production rather than a long franchise commitment.
Key Characters
- TTakeru Narihira
Takeru is the rare isekai lead framed less as a blank-slate visitor than as a delinquent whose impulsive, bruising energy makes the tokusatsu and martial-arts elements feel personal rather than procedural.
- TTsukimiya
Tsukimiya stands out because the story makes her emotional importance asymmetrical, turning her into a test of Takeru’s conviction instead of a conventional shared-destiny heroine.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The series is produced by David Production, a studio best known to many anime fans for highly stylized action staging, and here that sensibility is applied to an original action-fantasy-sci-fi blend rather than a legacy manga adaptation.
- 2
AniList’s strongest tag cluster is Time Loop at 86%, Isekai at 83%, and Tokusatsu at 79%, which accurately marks the show as a reset-driven portal fantasy filtered through suit-hero and monster-battle grammar.
- 3
Its setting mix is unusually specific: the tag profile combines Historical at 60% with Urban Fantasy at 40%, while the visual concept leans on Denji Heian-kyo’s fusion of court-era Japanese imagery and advanced technology.
- 4
The battle identity is not simply magic versus monsters; the onmyouji fight through shikigami suits, giving the exorcism framework a mechanical and superhero-like edge uncommon in standard Heian fantasy anime.
- 5
The show’s secondary tags reveal how broad its genre reach is: Delinquents at 68%, Kaiju at 60%, Shapeshifting at 40%, Martial Arts at 40%, and smaller traces of Gore, CGI, and Exorcism at 20% each.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse credits Fujiko Sakuno as original creator, while Hideya Takahashi is credited both with the original plan and as director, making the project strongly associated with his concept-level and episode-level oversight.
- Fun fact 2
- Series composition is handled by Hayashi Mori, while character design is credited to Kazuaki Morita, separating the writing architecture from the character-visual identity in the production credits.
- Fun fact 3
- The design workload is unusually visible in the staff list, with Naohiro Washio, Masato Hisa, Ryou Hirata, Ren Ishimori, and Yutaka Araki all credited under Design Works.
- Fun fact 4
- The anime completed its run as a 12-episode finished series, placing it in the modern one-cour original-anime format where worldbuilding, character escalation, and finale payoff all have to land quickly.
- Fun fact 5
- Its database footprint is modest but not invisible: MAL lists 10,064 votes, a 6.49 score, rank #7473, and popularity #4683, while AniList records 146 favourites.
Studios
- David Production
