Apr 25, 2023
tl;dr: A gag manga without any substance that also only has semi-decent comedy.
This is a pretty simplistic gag manga in a really generic RPG setting with a hero and his party on a quest to defeat the demon lord. Characters don’t even have names and are defined by their classes, Hero, Warrior, Mage, and Priest. Hero is a guy, while the rest are women. That kind of makes it sound like there’ll be a harem like dynamic, but there isn’t at all. Mage kind of sorta seems to be slightly interested in Hero at times but that ultimately doesn’t go anywhere. Priest is just perpetually
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horny. Warrior has a really strong crush on Hero and that’s the primary focus of the manga. She keeps trying to get him to notice her, but keeps failing as he basically sees her as a fellow guy.
At the beginning of the manga, Warrior starts off being portrayed as a naïve tomboy that doesn’t know her own strength which I found pretty likable. That quickly changes to her being portrayed as an overpowered berserker character that’s intentionally constantly violent which I was far less fond of. The rest of the cast are all pretty flat. Thus, just overall I wasn’t all that invested in the characters, the relationship, or plot. That may well be a good thing, as there was no progression or development of any kind, and though the ending does resolve things decently enough, it’s just kind of abruptly thrown in at the end without any build up.
Thus, all the manga has to rely on is its comedy. There essentially seem to be three kinds of humor in this manga: Warrior trying to act feminine to woo Hero but failing; Warrior being insane beyond the bounds of common sense even for the fantasy world the manga is set in; playing around with classic RPG tropes and mechanics; or some combination of the three. It was decent enough at first but quickly gets really repetitive, even with the manga being pretty short at only three volumes. The jokes in general just were never all that witty or well written. Thus, I don’t think it’s particularly strong in this regard either.
The art in general wasn’t very good. The volume and chapter covers are solid but the manga itself is a mixed bag and often just straight up ugly. Designs were mostly overtly generic even for what the manga was trying to do. Also, the series is listed as ecchi on some sites but it really isn’t at all outside of the mini bonus chapters at the end of the first and second volume.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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