This Hero Is Invincible but Too Cautious Chapter v286 Discussion

I really wanted to give this a 1/5 from the sheer s*upidity of it all, but I have to accept that I was somewhat amused at the start and that the manga and anime was decent enough to let me laugh a bit. The thing is, the idea and underlying theme is quite interesting and could be great, however, in the way this author wrote the story, it really is nothing but manga material. It's something that has the potential to be quite funny if given to a skilled mangaka that has the ability to bring the characters and their silliness to life with wacky and random expressions along with very high pace story telling.

But as a novel? Sorry, this author has no talent whatsoever. Not even a smidgen. He literally ran out of ideas after a few chapters and just kept the story on repeat like a broken record, it was a pathetic display of not realizing your own flaws and understanding when to kill a dead novel. It keeps on going until you feel so fed up with the same thing being told over and over again with different words that you drop it in disgust.

I liked the mc's "cautiousness", or more aptly his desire to control the situation with no possibility of failing. The MC is essentially the dude who gets to level 99 before challenging the demon king with his party of fully geared and specced out team, the dude who farms exp until he reaches max level and can breeze through half the game. He's also insanely talented, to the point of it being ridiculous. The goddess by his side is a silly moron who just gets in his way and is there to be the bu*t of jokes, 99% of the time about her being lovestruck with the MC yet treated like a disgusting pig, which she kind of is. Her smell and disgusting sides along with incompetence are often pointed out as a source of comedy, but it gets old fast.

Everything is a neverending repeat. Train crazily and surprise people ----> Absolutely own the opponent while pretending to be weak and hiding your status and doing excessive preparation ----> Go somewhere safe, usually the heavenly realm, to train some more directly after the battle ----> Use the power up to defeat more people ----> train more ----> defeat more people easily. Also, there's not even any sense of accomplishment in any of this. First of all, we don't even know the mc's thoughts, he's not really the main character, he's somewhat more like in the heroine's role of a normal novel, everything is told from the useless goddess' perpsective, which is a huge minus. Also, after all of this training, he keeps on getting reset all the time, having to train up again.

Honestly, the story being told from the goddess' perspective was kinda interesting at the start but quickly proved to be yet another irritation point. When things keep on repeating and the goddess becomes simply nothing but an annoying disturbance with zero intelligence who exists just to get poked fun at and for her to ruin things, you simply don't care about her and you certainly don't want to read her thoughts 24/7. Meanwhile, we're left completely disconnected from the actual "mc" of the story, the "hero". So nothing matters, yet things just end up repeating all the time nonetheless and each time something repeats, you care less and less. It just feels s*upid at the end of the day.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the world systems, power levels and combat. I've hardly ever seen anything worse than this. First of all, the gods are just pathetic, all of them. None of them seem to be that powerful either. The author just does his best to make fun of them by making some into s*x fiends, some into macho crybabies who wants to bake cakes after being ruined by the MC, some into ONEEs, well, you get the idea, and the hero makes sure to be rude to all of them and treat them like tr*sh experience generators. Somehow his abilities never stops shocking them either. The very idea is convoluted to the extremes. But sure, for comedy, why not. But the combat is ten times worse. Nothing makes much sense, the MC (hero) just learns skill after skill which we are not aware of and uses them all of a sudden, we have no grasp on his abilities and it really doesn't matter because combat is too s*upid for belief anyway. All enemies make a case out of pretending to be "cautious" like the MC, so that the MC can showcase how he's "OP cautious" by one upping them on the cards up his sleeves as they gasp in awe. Even in combat, all of it seems to be decided by buffs and nothing else. Power levels jump around wildly, people get "buffs" like becoming a demon and suddenly gaining 30% increase in power or being blessed by some evil god and becoming 1000% stronger, the MC is no exception with his random abilities. Suffice it to say that combat is generally about who can pretend to be the weakest and then they release seals or get buffs so that the MC can show off in this "amaaashiiing turn of ebents" that was "shooo unexpected" and "shuch a phlot thwist!". Toddler level of amazing here.

Oh, and the "plot twist" was just incredibly bad. Almost made me drop it from how incredibly s*upid it ended up being, but at the end of the day it changed nothing at all, just a few chapters and the MC is back to normal and the goddess' seems to be even more useless than before. You can only go so far with comedy consisting of only 2 elements repeated over and over again: The MC ripping on everyone with his "cautiousness" which is essentially just rudeness and control mania combined and the goddess being ripped on by everyone and their dogs for being the most worthless person ever (which is somewhat justified to be honest), who also has to smell 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, no 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 I did enjoy the manga and anime version. But I feel quite sad that a novel with such good potential was ruined to this extent, it's a crying shame.