Been Watching: Strait Jacket

  Set in a world where Sorcery works as well as Steam engines, the use of magic is still a dangerous business.  Use magic too much and too often and you will become a hideous, misshapen demon bent only on slaughter.  Which is why magic-users armour themselves with the protective suits known as "Molds" or "Strait jackets".
  But sometimes the "Molds" fail.
 And that's when the Tactical Sorcerists are called in.
    Leiot Steinberg is a rogue Tactical Sorcerist - a magic-powered, demon hunter, in other words. His methods are crude, the collateral damage is high and he's a bit of a dick. Nevertheless, with a terrorist cell deliberately causing demon incidents, the Sorcery Management Bureau is forced to enlist his aid.

  I'll be honest. I picked this one up because it was cheap and the premise looked interesting enough.
 And there are some useful ideas: The Tactical Sorcerists essentially use powered suits and magic-powered cannon against the demons and there is a certain novelty in having the hunters be male as opposed to the superpowered girl that seems to be standard these days.
 The animation is also decent but I couldn't help feeling that I'd seen all the character designs somewhere else.
 That, I think, is the problem I have with this anime.Most of the elements are rehashed from elsewhere and while that's not always a bad thing, Strait Jacket doesn't manage to make the resulting combination sufficiently engaging.
 OK but nothing special.