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Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious

★ 7.3 5K votes 2019–2019 1 season · 12 episodes Ended AT-X
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10ParodyA sustained send-up of other genres or works.This show: 8/10AbsurdistSurreal, logic-bending comedy.This show: 8/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Yûichirô UmeharaAki ToyosakiJamie MarchiAnthony BowlingKengo KawanishiAoi Koga
Starring
Yûichirô UmeharaAki ToyosakiJamie MarchiAnthony BowlingKengo KawanishiAoi Koga
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About

"Overpowered hero, comically obsessed with worst-case scenarios"

A goddess summons an ordinary teenager to save her world from ruin, only to find he's been granted absurdly overpowered abilities. The catch: he refuses to do anything without exhaustive, borderline-paranoid preparation, stress-testing every scenario before acting. The show plays this contrast for deadpan comedy, following the increasingly exasperated goddess as she watches her supposed savior grind stats, hoard items, and overthink trivial threats. It's a lighthearted parody of isekai conventions, breezy and episodic, carried mostly by its comic timing and the odd-couple dynamic rather than deep plotting or stakes.

Watch it for

the running gag of a godlike hero refusing to act without absurd, exhaustive overpreparation.

Maybe skip if

you want serious isekai stakes rather than repetitive comedic setups and fan-service humor.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

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Season 12019
7.52K124h 39m
Goddess Ristarte summons Seiya Ryuuguuin, an OVERLY cautious hero to save the world of Gaeabrande. Seiya is obsessed with muscle training and buying extra armor to deal with low level creatures. It’s simply one cautious mission at-a-time for this hero!
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1This Hero is Too Cautious7.3
20623 min
▶2Too Much For a Novice Goddess to Bear7.2
18823 min
▶3This Hero Is Too Self-Serving7.4
17823 min
▶4I So Don't Need Any Allies7.4
17224 min
▶5This Goddess Is Too Spooky7.3
16824 min
▶6The Great Dragon Mother Is Too Sneaky7.3
16623 min
▶7This Lady Knight Is Too Doglike7.5
16723 min
▶8Neat and Tidy but Overly Nymphomaniacal7.4
16023 min
▶9This Reaper Is Just Too Invincible7.6
15723 min
▶10This Man Is Too Strong for Being So Old7.8
16224 min
▶11The Truth Is Too Much to Bear8.2
21723 min
▶12The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious8.0
20623 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Yûichirô Umehara Seiya Ryuuguuin
Aki Toyosaki Ristarte
Jamie Marchi Ristarte
Anthony Bowling Seiya
Kengo Kawanishi Mash
Aoi Koga Elulu
Sarah Wiedenheft Elulu
Chris Thurman Mash
Hibiku Yamamura Ariadoa
Marissa Lenti Ariadoa, Aria

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