This Hero Is Invincible but Too Cautious - Reviews

It's so wholesome and sweet I can practically feel myself getting cavities.

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Regret always came the last...

This story had the potential to be good or even entertaining if executed properly, but it fell far short of that mark. By chapter 19, I was already bored. I read the manga, which is probably why most of us are here. Both the story and the manga start off with promise, but the main character is a dull, uninteresting individual, and we're stuck with yet another overused cliché of a ditzy goddess.

It feels like we've all encountered stories like this before, and they were better in every aspect.

The premise is quite intriguing. It revolves around a borderline paranoid, over-prepared hero who finds himself isekai’d into a world with a nearly unbeatable final boss. What sets this apart is that the entire narrative is seen through the eyes of a ditzy goddess who summons the hero. From the start, the story subverts many common tropes with its competent and ruthless villains and a hero who meticulously plans and strategizes, only taking action when he is certain of victory. However, despite this promising setup, there is a significant issue that drags the story down: it’s supposed to be a comedic series.

This story feels like it was written to deliberately include jarring mood swings, perhaps as part of some bizarre dare. The characters are either annoying, inconsistent, or both, largely due to the author’s tendency to abruptly change their personalities for the sake of "jokes." These jokes often revolve around over-the-top, perverse scenarios that are so outlandish they barely qualify as fanservice, or they delve into low-brow humor involving humiliation, gross-out, and slapstick. One of the most recurring and apparently hilarious jokes for the author involves the goddess’ pubic hair being used to synthesize weapons.

These issues are compounded by poor worldbuilding, frantic pacing, a repetitive plot structure, and abrupt shifts between screeching idiocy and brutal, horror-like scenes. Worst of all, none of the characters are likable. They may be intriguing at first, but the pacing never allows for their development, and the "comedy" undermines any consistency. By the end of the first volume, I found myself completely disinterested in their fates. The author tries to convince the reader that there is camaraderie among the characters, that the hero is just a tsundere and not a sociopath, and that the goddess isn’t just an insufferable fool. However, the followers come across as mere props to react to the hero’s actions and offer praise. In essence, the Eight Deadly Words apply here: "I don’t care; I don’t laugh."

Moreover, neither the setting nor the side characters are engaging. The good guys are portrayed as incompetent caricatures, entrusting a crucial mission in a world where the final boss can kill gods to an untested newbie goddess. Ninety percent of the named gods and goddesses are depicted as incompetent, childish figures. Even their most powerful members can only defeat a minor villain’s summon by using a self-sacrificing super-move, only to survive through a loophole. And this super-move, which is supposed to be devastating, is easily shrugged off by the final boss of the first arc, suggesting that if he ever reached the gods’ realm, they would be doomed. The incompetence of the gods is baffling and undermines their very existence.

On the other hand, the villains are highly competent, attacking the hero upon his arrival, creating minions he shouldn’t logically be able to defeat, and destroying his heroic equipment. While this could have been a strong point, it becomes another flaw due to two reasons. First, the hero’s victories often feel contrived, relying on plot armor and sudden power-ups, which contradicts his character as a well-prepared strategist. Second, these potentially interesting villains lack depth and context. Their goals, motivations, and backstories are never explored, reducing them to generic, disposable antagonists. Ironically, I found the villains more compelling than the irritating and unlikable "good guys."

In conclusion, I gave this story two stars for the initial amusement derived from the premise and the first few chapters, but I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone.

It was decent overall. The concept is strong: a fresh and ironic twist on the isekai genre, almost entirely reversing the typical tropes found in isekai comedies like *KonoSubarashii*. However, the climax at the end of volume 2, which was meant to elevate the story, falls flat. The subsequent volumes feel like a rehash of the first two.

This story needs to be taken out behind the barn, shot, burned, and finally buried. The author clearly doesn’t understand what "overly-cautious" means. It’s not just about being overly-prepared; it also means being extremely careful with one's words and the people one speaks to. Being overly-cautious does not mean being a jerk, either in words or actions. The main reason the anime industry is failing is undoubtedly because poorly written stories like this keep getting chosen over well-crafted ones.

This is precisely the type of rare hero anime needs nowadays: overpowered, overchilled, and over-the-top.

While it’s true that this is essentially a harem anime and may seem to go against certain modern movements, Seiya ultimately comes across as genuinely sweet. There are plenty of quirky and hilarious scenes that keep the anime entertaining from start to finish.

This is the first anime that kept me fully engaged the entire time.

I really wanted to give this a 1/5 due to its sheer stupidity, but I have to admit that I was somewhat amused at the start, and the manga and anime were decent enough to let me laugh a bit. The concept and underlying theme are quite intriguing and could be great, but the way this author wrote the story makes it nothing more than manga material. It has the potential to be quite funny if given to a skilled mangaka who can bring the characters and their silliness to life with wacky and random expressions and a very high-paced storytelling style.

However, as a novel? Sorry, this author has no talent whatsoever. Not even a smidgen. After a few chapters, he clearly ran out of ideas and just kept the story on repeat like a broken record. It’s a pathetic display of not recognizing one’s own flaws and knowing when to stop a dead novel. The repetition becomes so grating that you eventually drop it in disgust.

I liked the main character's "cautiousness," or more accurately, his desire to control the situation with no possibility of failure. The MC is essentially the guy who levels up to 99 before challenging the Demon King with a fully geared and optimized party, the type who farms experience until he can breeze through half the game. He’s also insanely talented, to the point of being ridiculous. The goddess by his side is a silly moron who just gets in his way and serves as the butt of jokes, mostly about her being lovestruck with the MC but treated like a disgusting pig, which she kind of is. Her smell and incompetence are often highlighted for comedic effect, but it gets old fast.

The plot is a never-ending cycle: Train crazily and surprise people —> Absolutely dominate the opponent while pretending to be weak and hiding his true strength and doing excessive preparation —> Go somewhere safe, usually the Heavenly Realm, to train more right after the battle —> Use the power-up to defeat more people —> Train more —> Defeat more people easily. There’s no sense of accomplishment in any of this. We don’t even know the MC's thoughts; he’s not really the main character but more like the heroine in a normal novel. Everything is told from the useless goddess's perspective, which is a huge minus. After all this training, he keeps getting reset and has to start over.

At first, the story being told from the goddess’s perspective was somewhat interesting, but it quickly became another irritation. When the cycle repeats and the goddess becomes nothing more than an annoying disturbance with zero intelligence, you simply don’t care about her or her thoughts. Meanwhile, we’re left completely disconnected from the actual "MC" of the story, the "hero." So nothing matters, and things just keep repeating, making you care less and less each time. It just feels stupid at the end of the day.

Don’t even get me started on the world systems, power levels, and combat. I’ve hardly ever seen anything worse. The gods are just pathetic, none of them seem particularly powerful. The author makes fun of them by portraying some as sex fiends, others as macho crybabies who want to bake cakes after being ruined by the MC, and some as tsunderes. The hero makes sure to be rude to all of them and treat them like trashy experience generators. His abilities keep shocking them, which is supposed to be part of the comedy. But the combat is ten times worse. Nothing makes much sense; the MC just learns new skills out of nowhere and uses them suddenly. We have no grasp on his abilities, and it doesn’t matter because the combat is absurd. All enemies pretend to be "cautious" like the MC, so he can show how he’s "OP cautious" by one-upping them with hidden cards, causing them to gasp in awe. Combat is decided by buffs, with power levels jumping wildly. People get "buffs" like becoming a demon and gaining a 30% power increase or being blessed by an evil god and becoming 1000% stronger. The MC is no exception with his random abilities. In essence, combat is about who can pretend to be the weakest and then release seals or get buffs to show off in these "amazing turns of events" that are supposedly "unexpected" and "plot twists." It’s toddler-level stuff.

The "plot twist" was incredibly bad. It almost made me drop the book because it was so stupid, but in the end, it changed nothing. A few chapters later, the MC is back to normal, and the goddess seems even more useless than before. You can only go so far with comedy consisting of only two elements repeated over and over: the MC’s "cautiousness," which is essentially rudeness and control mania, and the goddess being ridiculed by everyone for being the most worthless person ever (which is somewhat justified), who also smells like rancid garbage 24/7 for some reason (because the author thinks that someone smelling like crap is the most hilarious thing in the world).

This is, without a doubt, a garbage novel. I have no idea how people can even manage to translate it because if this is the experience I get by speed reading it, then it must be a slow hell for translators. I can’t give it a 1/5 because I enjoyed the initial 2-3 rounds of fighting and the manga and anime versions. But I feel quite sad that a novel with such good potential was ruined to this extent. It’s a crying shame.

The issue is that the execution was so poor. Yes, I understand the twist. However, the problem lies in the fact that you almost need to be spoiled about the twist to even attempt to appreciate it. This, I believe, is where it fails. You have to wade through a lot of subpar content just to reach a somewhat decent story.

If you hadn't been spoiled, you probably wouldn't find it worth the effort at all. Even now, I don't think it's worth slogging through all of that.

Consider Chekhov's Gun: if a gun is introduced in one scene, it should be used in the next. This principle implies there should be some foreshadowing or hint. Here? Not at all. You get shot and only then do you see the gun.

The story is becoming increasingly predictable, and it’s no surprise that the male protagonist, Seiya, is the invincible and overly critical hero who consistently outsmarts his opponents with an endless array of plans. While there is some humor in this adventure series, I’m starting to feel that the goddess character, Lista, is becoming redundant. She seems to exist only to display foolishness and cause annoyance to her companions. Perhaps there will be a chapter in the future that highlights Lista’s significance to the overall storyline. For now, it remains a unique tale.