The Hero Returns

7.2/10
Read: 26/49+
Bookmarked? No

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 baselessly 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)
10 – God’s penmanship
9 – Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 – Instant bookmark
7 – Entertaining
6.8 – Basic Leveling Manwha
6 – Good to past time
5 – Nothing good nor bad
4 – Lacks basics
3 – bad. 
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1 – [email protected] of time
0 – “Did they even give you a story?!”