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Monday, July 13, 2020

Manga Review: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, Volume 1, by Light Tuchihi, Koyuki, and Saori Toyota


Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Publisher: Yen Press
Release Date: January 2020
Volumes: 2+
Spoilers?: No.
Volume: 2.

Goodreads Synopsis:

Ristarte summons a hero who excels in every area to assist her. He's everything she expected him to be except for one, tiny thing: this anxious hero can't do anything unless he's absolutely sure nothing can go wrong! The manga adaptation of the break-out hit is finally here!

Review:

Ristarte is a goddess, and they have to save worlds in order to grow and rank up. She gets to choose a new hero for a new, harder world that needs saving. Struggling to choose, suddenly she sees Seiya, who looks to be much too overpowered, and thus a perfect choice. Immediately upon summoning him, though, he declares that he needs to power up more, he's not ready yet.
The idea of this is quite interesting to me. Ristarte lives in a between-world place, where the time moves much faster than a normal world. Which means Seiya can spend a long time practicing and working out, when only ten minutes have passed in the other world. But when Seiya finally goes to the world to help, he starts getting thrown much crazier leveled enemies, and thus needs even more powering up. He's very cautious and has a need to be stronger than his enemy before even meeting them, so he does this a lot.
Ristarte is an okay character. She's a bit dramatic, though I think that works since Seiya is very straight-faced, and actually quite uncaring. He claims that he cares for the people he's saving, but he definitely doesn't seem caring for them from how he acts. He's very untrusting, too, though I found some of that quite funny.
The artwork is nice in this, and while there is some fanservice, it's mostly just large boobs and there isn't too much focus on it, or use of it in the plot. That was nice.
This was actually a pretty fun first volume.


A review copy was provided by the publisher, Yen Press, for an honest review. Thank you so, so much!

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