Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse

📖 SYNOPSIS

Meet Takeru Narihira — a teenage delinquent who keeps having the same dream — monsters chase him, a mysterious girl saves him, rinse and repeat for nearly 2,000 times. He falls for her, obviously. Then a motorcycle crash kills him (or something close to it), and he wakes up in Denji Heian-kyo, a parallel world that looks like ancient Kyoto but runs on futuristic tech. The dream girl, Tsukimiya, is real here. She has no idea who he is. And then things go sideways fast — a dark force called Yamikaoru unleashes Oni across the city, and both Takeru and Tsukimiya die. Except Takeru wakes up again. Same place, same timeline, back at the start. Now he's stuck in a loop, trying to figure out how to keep Tsukimiya alive by training under the legendary onmyouji Abe no Seimei. The whole setup has that Re:Zero gut-punch energy where death resets the clock but the trauma stays. There's also a Steins;Gate feel to how Takeru pieces together what went wrong each cycle, and the onmyouji combat gives off Fate/Stay Night vibes with its mix of magic and mythology. David Production handles the animation, and the blend of traditional Japanese aesthetics with sci-fi cityscapes looks genuinely striking. It's 12 episodes, original story, no source material to spoil things. If you're into time-loop narratives where the protagonist earns every inch of progress through repeated failure, this one's worth your time.