The Hero Returns

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I complet the novel and its one of my favorites novels and i think its Very unique.

The world building its infinity better after some time, the Tower, trials, gods, fairy tails. ALL of that mixed Very well and The novel have one of The fews good ends that i read until today.

The problem is that this isnt a story to make a manga, because the start is Very slow until they explore more the others worlds in the trials and looks too much generic in the beggining, takes time until he show emotions.

So i dont know If i can recomend or not.

6.6/10


Now I won’t go out and say "The Hero Returns" is bad, but I also won’t say it’s one of the best manwhas of its genre. Simply put, I didn’t bookmark it because of how basic the story is, and I had no attachments towards any of the characters.

In the manwha, time skips are used; I personally love time skips but only when they are done right. Sadly, this manwha uses them at the wrong times and mostly for no reason. An author should only use a time skip when a clear setting, purpose, and character has been established but neither of the three happened. ... Instead, time skips were used to aid the mc’s progression, which is a doubled-edged sword: There is an overpowered main character but none of the effort the reader’s see.

Besides for the lack of conscious for power progression, I do find the protagonist quite pleasant/tolerable due to his nature: he doesn’t disregard the old owner’s situation nor is baseless heartless to people and judge them for their past. However, there are times when the mc is straight out incompetent/rash despite formerly being the strongest. Along with this, he doesn’t nurture/scout people who had a great figure in his previous life, but that would technically bring the story into a different direction, so I guess it’s not that big of a deal.

Either way, it’s another solo centered main character that gets overpowered one way or another. Wish they developed more of the side characters, but the author is trying to ride off the coattails of op solo mcs. If you are reading 10 or more manwhas like this, then carry on since you’ll forget about it until there’s a new chapter, but if you enjoy typical manwhas, you might like this.


Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired & A Huang Teizan Original)
10 – God’s penmanship
9 – Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 – Instant bookmark
7 – Entertaining
6 – Good to pass time
5 – Why are you reading this?
4 – Bad.
3 – Typical garbage.
2 – My head hurts.
1 – Retirement is a thought.
0 – “Did they even give you a story?!”

For better or worse, this is an exact page-for-page copy of Solo Leveling. Every panel is identical. Every text bubble is identical. 100% predictable start to finish. If you absolutely loved Solo Leveling then you will probably find this to be a cheap copy since it adds nothing to the formula.

The entire thing comes across as incredibly shallow. MC is as dull as a plank of wood. Every chapter is as fun as watching someones stat numbers increase. They couldn't even be bothered to write other characters for the MC to interact with. The "story" here is absurd and laughable without a single explanation ... given for anything, and it has probably the worst worldbuilding I've ever seen. Comparatively speaking, if something like Sword Art Online (another dungeon leveling up type story) is an average 5/10 then this would be a 0/10. There's just no comparison.