Yea, but that's not necessarily a bad thing Yuki. I mean, I occasionally like to see a ground-breaking anime, but sometimes I just want to relax with the formulaic stuff. I mean, it got to be standard because that's what a lot of people like to watch in an anime.
(Please note, I didn't see anything in your post that said that you didn't want to watch a formulaic anime, I just thought I'd branch the conversation off in that direction).

Oh, and half of the fun of these formulaic animes is figuring out what the special power that the lead character gets is. I mean, we know that it's the guy's "demon" eye, but what does it do? I originally thought it might just penetrate through magic, and give him a clearer picture of the situation (such as seeing through the magic fog in Ep1 and being able to tell where the attacks were coming from), but in this newest episode, the little girl (still blanking on names this early in the series) seems concerned as to what would happen if he looked at a God with that eye.