Shinen no Majutsushi ~Hangyakusha to shite Yuuheisareta Ore wa Fushi no Karada to Saikyou no Chikara wo Teniire Boukensha to shite Nariagaru~

[MangaDex]

 

[Hicleric]

This story is absolutely fantastic, I appreciate that the author chose to skip the guild testing+guild master duel arcs and went straight to rote harem building
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[XenoAshura]

generic... 5/10
he's immortal but since the author doesn't do anything about it you'd forget he has it.
all i see is just a mage that more powerful then average. sure he save the princess but he didn't display anything worthy of S rank, the king should have given him B rank and make him work his way up.

 

[crystalmoose]

"I'm going to be a magician of justice!!!!!"

Then proceeds to buy a slave. Author has some weird concepts around justice, my dude.

 

[AlvoradaGD]

The premise seemed great but it honestly feels bland, devoid of any soul. I don't know how to better explain this, but from chapter 1 everything felt rushed. He got in the dungeon, almost no expression. Fought a black dragon, almost no expression despite claiming that a hit would leave him in poor condition. He gets the power of IMMORTALITY, true immortality, which COULD have become somewhat of a plot point but he escapes after ONE year. ONE year. Props to him for being a good explorer/adventurer, but that makes no difference whatsoever from being mortal. And as the manga progress it does NOT slow down AT ALL. Nearly everything happens within a single chapter. He claims to be an ally of justice then goes to buy a slave without giving much of a thought, without feeling somewhat conflicted over the decision. Another possibly plot point being that said slave is poisoned - except NOT! Cured within seconds. Then he goes to heal the other slaves - which again, slaves, but leave as is. It keeps going like that, nothing in this manga makes me feel like going forward, including him thinking about his master " great unorthodox sage" and feeling literally NOTHING from getting to know he passed away. If the author don't know how to draw faces, he could at least have made that a characteristic of the protagonist, which other mangas have already done (and better). I don't think anyone can give a serious reason to keep reading it other than for hate reading/ torturing themselves.

 

[fennec]

I just discovered this, and it's the single most generic and cliche example of this fantasy genre to date.

I can't overstate that part. I am actually impressed at how little innovation is present. The most interesting twist is that he gets immortality while stuck in the dungeon at the start with no way out, but it skips an entire year to let him break out. He goes right into saving the first princess of his new country (down to the "she was in a carriage attacked by bandits who her knights couldn't possibly defeat" plot) and gets immediately introduced to the king who promotes him to S-rank Adventurer. Everything goes so smoothly and quickly, I kept waiting for it to be a trap. And that's just the second and third chapter.

His (first) companion is a beastkin slave who's mistrustful of people and has a traumatic past shown in a brief montage, but she warms up to him pretty much instantly after he cures her poisoning. She's also also the princess of a fallen country and a natural swordswoman who can match his magic skill (not that he checked into her ability or anything)—oh, and happens to "resemble" his dead childhood friend (well they ARE both girls...). It actually portrays the new country's slave industry in a positive light, with the guy running the agency asking him to help cure all the others who are sick and injured and basically describing it as a place to help people. Then has the king talk about plans to abolish the ban on slaves being adventurers.

I just... I am in awe that this got the greenlight when it is, genuinely, the most cliche example of this genre I've seen. Seriously, absolutely no gimmick to make it interesting or stand out. The fact it's so bland and cliche DOES make it unique, in the worst way possible. I'm stopping at the latest chapter (at chapter 7.1), but I am just so weirdly amused that this manga exists. I think the translator feels the same way, given some of the notes included.

So if you want to know the foundational "good-aligned OP character exiled and starting a new life" formula, read this manga. If you've read any series following that formula, you'll be able to predict everything here.

 

[sharpknot]

"I'm going to be a magician of justice!!!!!"

Then proceeds to buy a slave. Author has some weird concepts around justice, my dude.

Don't forget, the reason he wants to be a magician of "justice" is because his childhood friend died in the hands of human traffickers. The kind of group that provides the slaves.

The author is a horrible writer.

 

[Semmlon]

MC: "I will become the "Magican of Justice" and change the world"
also MC: buys a slave but is one of the "good slave owners"

I am so sick of the slavery trope in Manga and this one is especially egregious. It would not be difficult to write a storyline with the MC freeing slaves, but no apparently slavery is good actually....

 

[Wyrm]

Magician of the Abyss - I was imprisoned as a traitor but I became a collection of cliches.
Seriously.

• Fired unjustly.
• Became more OP after imprisonment. Apparently, he was already OP and was actually known as such. Now he is also outright immortal.
• Randomly encounters and saves a princess attacked by bandits. (I wish for a manga where the MC jumps in to save the princess only to find that her guards were actually dealing with the ambush just fine. For reference, there is a Dorkly bit on Youtube that gives a similar retelling on Batman's origin: the mugger in a dark alley gets jumped by bodyguards before he kills Bruce's parents.)
• Buys a slave. But he is a "good" slave owner, because of course he is.
• Also said slave is a former princess.
• Instantly solves problems that the country's knights can't even mitigate.

Only good point: it avoids all the tired tropes associated with a OP character starting in a guild at the lowest rank.
But the princess and the slavery cliches are already overused and this manga doesn't even try to give them an interesting twist. Or any twist at all.

Also, after insisting multiple times that this country is a "pure meritocracy", it seems strange that they can't solve any of their problems without the MC. The ambushed princess and the powerful beast make us wonder how this kingdom can even stand and where the merit is in their knight order.

 

[Leviathan1132]

As the translator, this is the most generic manga i have ever seen, i called myself a generic fan before doing this series but i have now gained a standard

 

[Wyrm]

As the translator, this is the most generic manga i have ever seen, i called myself a generic fan before doing this series but i have now gained a standard

Generic is fine. Not everything can be a masterpiece.
But even generic works try to have at least one point or twist that is a little distinctive. This one masterfully evades all originality.
Reading tvtropes.org feels more original because it at least mentions subversions and inversions.

 

[Darkgon]

Garbage series with a subpar translastion.

 

[banneret]

How tf is this on the Popular carousel

 

[qanh]

TLDR: yes, its the usual trash

 

[Izuminn]

The first that made me laugh so far is the Crass instead of Class

 

[DogeMLG420]

Very generic, I've never read something that felt so devoid of soul in my life. Well this is a first.

 

[JChow112]

I already expect it would be really row rating but little didn't expect it would be at 5 star instead of 6. I already expect it would be super generic so thanks to the everyone that have read this manga to confirm my suspicion.

 

[beway]

She's also also the princess of a fallen country and a natural swordswoman who can match his magic skill (not that he checked into her ability or anything)—

I feel like he picked her out because of injury/curse. Protagonist-kun overlooked adventurers and other beast girl slaves first before settling on her - just because she's injured and cheap. Fantasy slave traders are awful businessmen. Wouldn't you pay to have your slaves healed so they'll sell for a high price? I suppose if you have plenty of inventory you wouldn't do this, but even still...

 

[fennec]

I feel like he picked her out because of injury/curse. Protagonist-kun overlooked adventurers and other beast girl slaves first before settling on her - just because she's injured and cheap. Fantasy slave traders are awful businessmen. Wouldn't you pay to have your slaves healed so they'll sell for a high price? I suppose if you have plenty of inventory you wouldn't do this, but even still...

Oh it was definitely because of her curse, though it was more a pity/sympathy thing and not because she was cheap. Just a matter of luck that he coincidentally chose the strongest slave of all (which is funny since he rejected the first round because they didn't seem suited for combat). And while I agree with the whole point about slave traders being bad at business, I think her curse was supposed to be very strong and near-incurable. Protagonist-kun's OP magic just made it look easy.

 

[In_General]

How tf did this hit the "popular new titles" banner on the home page? Its not good, like at all