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