Immediately from the Chinese names of the characters of hitorinoshita, along with its tags of “Superpowers” and “Action”, it might be natural to assume we're in for a wuxia work. Alas, we've been spoiled by genuine wuxia films from China, and their anime successors like Giant Robo the Animation. It's no real fault or detriment that hitorinoshita is a much more classic Japanese-style superpower show, filled with ki by any other name, the teenage Soran discovering the world of ki users through the mysterious but obsessed Houhou, and the master users lurking in the shadows, fighting for good and evil. What is to the show's detriment is that it handles this story so terribly, without any feeling or worthwhile scenes to grab hold of.
In a slight twist to the normal story of the mantle of deep secrets and supernatural abilities being thrust upon an ordinary teenage boy, or to the equally normal story of that mantle being thrust upon the boy offscreen and waiting three seasons for his tragic backstory to appear, Soran is a) in his twenties, and b) somewhere in between the two extremes. He has had his powers since his grandfather trained him, simple as that, and furthermore despite how overpowering they are (when the plot demands they be) he doesn't seem to use them very well at the start, meaning he fits more into the “newcomer” archetype than the “unsurpassed potential” trope. This is little consolation, as he encounters host after host of bland power-hungry ki users (read: mostly horny women his age) looking to unlock the secrets his grandfather passed down to him. He is commodified in the same way that every other character is commodified, the sole exception being Houhou, who the show portrays as unflatteringly dense and unappealing as possible.
The checklist is there in full: ancient hereditary secrets, an organization obsessed with bringing chaos upon the world, the forces of good disguising themselves as everyday workers while fighting crime at night, a tournament to decide the next head of the society of superpower users, and eventually some old fashioned tragic flashbacks show up for the curtain call. The fight scenes are uninspired, and seem to ignore the actual viability of different powers in favor of a few flashy lights and whatever is necessary to get to the next plot point. Soran and Houhou in particular seem to suffer less from power creep and more from having their powers erratically fluctuate for no discernible reason, and while Houhou's godly might eventually gets a clarification, Soran seems to be both the show's goofy nitwit and the deus-ex-machina—think A Certain Magical Index's Touma but with slightly fewer insufferable speeches. Working down the checklist isn't always bad; some shows exist to remind us of just why the checklist exists. hitorinoshita basically just reminds us that the checklist is there.