In the divine realm, Gods and Goddesses are assigned worlds in peril to summon heroes to guide on their quest to save those worlds.
The Goddess of Healing, Ristarte, is assigned a difficult S-class world and told to pick a hero to defeat the Demon King. While her choices are underwhelming, one low level hero with super stats catches her eye!
Seiya Ryuuguuin is indeed a powerful hero, but he also has the problematic quirk of being overly cautious. His desire to stay on the safe side, over-preparing and over-training for all encounters, is a source of frustration for all.
With a lot of isekai adding a “unique twist” to separate themselves from the masses, it is a shame that Cautious Hero likely gets drowned in their number. However, this series uses parody to create one of the more unforgettable comedy isekai adventures. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Cautious Hero – The Hero is Overpowered, But Overly Cautious, head on down below.
Anime Like Cautious Hero – The Hero is Overpowered But Overly Cautious
For Fans of Overpowered, But Quirky Protagonists
One Punch Man
In order to pursue his childhood dream, the ordinary and unimpressive Saitama trained so hard that his hair fell out. However, his hard work paid off. Now it only takes one punch to defeat most villains in the city.
Unfortunately, beating opponents in one punch is actually pretty boring, but that all changes when a cyborg named Genos, wanting to be his disciple, suggests that they join the Hero Association together.
Both One Punch Man and Cautious Hero are built on the concept of heroes who over-trained to become powerful, but have flaws that keep them from being traditional heroes.
In One Punch Man, it is Saitama’s apathy and boredom with a lack of strong opponents that keeps him from actually being hero.
While both series enjoy their comedy, One Punch Man goes above and beyond when it comes to big, exciting fights.
Bofuri – I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense
After receiving an invitation from a friend, Kaede Honjou starts playing the VRMMO game New World Online as a character named Maple.
However, in her desire to not get hurt, she puts all her stats in Vitality. This makes her move very slowly, unable to use magic, and get attacked by even the smallest creatures. However, it does allow her impenetrable defense, and the gear she finds while wandering grants her a one-hit counter skill.
And so, her adventures begin.
While Bofuri is about playing a VRMMO, both Bofuri and Cautious Hero are about main characters that are just crazily overpowered. However, Maple in Bofuri isn’t a difficult person like Seiya. Instead, she just plays the game a seemingly non-optimal way and ends up the most wholesome overpowered protagonist in anime.
Bofuri is good comedy, occasionally interesting action, but mostly it is just a really a comforting adventure to enjoy. It might be just the thing to lift your spirits after the ending of Cautious Hero.
Goblin Slayer
A young priestess fresh out of the temple is excited to start her life as an adventurer. On her first day, she joins an adventuring party to go slay some goblins.
However, like so many young adventure parties before them, they underestimate the goblins. It ends with two dead, one viciously raped, and the priestess saved from fate by a man whose only mission in life is to slay all the goblins.
Both Cautious Hero and Goblin Slayer follow main characters who are overpowered but come with one very simple and specific quirk. Cautious Hero has him being overly cautious, Goblin Slayer has an adventurer that only slays goblins.
While Goblin Slayer isn’t a comedy, it puts a similar emphasis on planning and strategy. Sometimes the most effective way to do battle is to think it out and over-prepare for seemingly easy encounters.
No Game No Life
In the real world, siblings Shiro and Sora are NEET shut-ins. However, in the virtual world, they are a legendary gaming duo.
One day, after a strange email, they find their reality taken away as they are transported to the realm of Tet, God of Games.
Here, Shiro and Sora must play games to defeat the sixteen races of this world as well as Tet in order to become the new gods.
Cautious Hero is mostly about over-preparing for any situation, but it is occasionally about overthinking every possible situation too. No Game No Life is also an isekai anime about overthinking whose overly clever main character drives everyone else aside from his step-sister crazy.
Both series have some fun comedy, and while No Game No Life isn’t as emotionally impactful as Cautious Hero, it can have some excellent and inventive action.
For Fans of Silly Deities
Kobosuba
On his way back from buying a new game, Kazuma Satou died a pathetic death.
However, he awakens before the Goddess Aqua who gives him two choices: go to heaven or reincarnate into an actual fantasy world. Naturally, the gamer picks the fantasy world.
Now, Kazuma must deal with defeating an evil demon king, useless party members, and paying living expenses.
Konosuba and Cautious Hero both follow an adventurer who is sent to defeat a Demon Lord in a fantasy world and travels with a comical goddess of varying degrees of usefulness.
While both are comedies, the comedy in Konosuba comes from how much everyone sucks. Rather, many of the main character’s companions are strong, but they have flaws that make them otherwise undesirable for traditional adventuring.
Unlike Cautious Hero with its ending, Konosuba always keeps you laughing and undercuts anything serious or emotional with a joke.
Gabriel Dropout
After graduating high school in Heaven, angels are sent down to Earth to guide humans down a righteous path. Heaven had high hopes for Gabriel, the top of her class.
However, when she descended, she ended up skipping classes and getting addicted to online games.
While Gabriel Dropout is about angels and demons rather than actual deities, this series has some similar sensibilities. The deities are all a little comically flawed and that provides the comedy of the anime.
However, Gabriel Dropout is a slice of life comedy, so it does not share the same adventure-focused plot of Cautious Hero.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
In the fantasy city of Orario, there is a massive labyrinth underneath it. For brave adventurers, glory and fortune can be found within. In order to tackle the challenging monsters inside, adventures join guilds of strong gods and goddesses.
However, for newbie adventurer Bell Cranel, no good guild will have him, except for Hestia, a goddess with no followers. Together they team up to grow strong and find glory.
Cautious Hero and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon are fantasy worlds built around systems where Gods and Goddesses help adventurers. However, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon isn’t an isekai anime, and has those deities acting as guild leaders instead party companions.
Both series lean towards comedy – at first – and then actually start to drop some serious action in. While Cautious Hero saves that for the very end, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon is a much longer adventure so it shifts more between comedy and action.
The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace
800 years ago, as terrifying demons pushed mankind to the brink, they prayed to the gods and called for their aid. Emerging from these prayers, battle deities called Idaten came forth.
With great strength and endurance, they defeated the demons, sealing many of them away. Now, in a long era of peace, the present generation of Idaten have grown soft, save for a spare few that endure the brutal training of Rin, the last Idaten from the demon war.
However, the Zoble Empire seeks to resurrect the demons and it seems these peaceful Idaten must remember their original purpose.
While the comedic array of deities are only a part of Cautious Hero, they are instead the main characters in The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace. In both series, you could say the eccentric personalities comes from a lack of things to do when you are a god.
While the deities in Cautious Hero are all used for comedy, The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace switches between comedy based on their eccentricities and pretty bloody action.
For Fans of Isekai Comedies
The Devil is a Part-Timer
Right on the verge of taking over the world, evil Demon Lord Satan was foiled by the hero Emilia and was forced to retreat through a dimensional portal.
He ends up in this world where he is without powers and without money. In order to pay his way, he gets a part-timer job slinging fast food.
The Devil is a Part-Timer is a reverse isekai following the demon lord, but it has some similar comedy sensibilities to Cautious Hero.
Both series have a main character that is strong, but often silly in what he is deadly serious about such as preparing or working a part-time job. They are then consistently pestered by women who both develop feelings and are endlessly annoyed by them at the same time.
The Devil is a Part-Timer may not seem like it, but it does also make time for some interesting action. It just takes longer to get there.
Hataage! Kemono Michi
Shibata Genzo is both a professional wrestler and an animal lover. One day, he is summoned to another world by a princess. She makes the mistake of asking him to rid her kingdom of these evil beasts.
Instead of doing that, Genzo suplexes her and heads off to start a monster pet shop.
Cautious Hero and Kemono Michi are, honestly, two of the best non-Konosuba isekai parodies that really excel at making you laugh.
Both series follow main characters that are summoned to another world, but promptly don’t follow the traditional path.
However, while Cautious Hero is more about actually doing the adventure, but doing it Seiya’s way, Kemono Michi is about instead adventuring to further his pet shop or just to see new creatures rather than beat them up.
Genzo, while never beaten, isn’t necessarily overpowered. He is just a good wrestler
Life with an Ordinary Guy who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout
On their way home from a mixer, average guy Tachibana and his handsome best friend Jinguuji are attacked by a naked goddess.
When they wake up in another world, she tells them that they are heroes and tasks them with killing a demon lord.
However, much to the chagrin of woman-hating Jinguuji, Tachibana has been transformed into a super cute girl!
Cautious Hero and Total Fantasy Knockout are both isekai parodies that really enjoy poking fun at the long-overused isekai tropes. Cautious Hero makes the hero an over-prepper while Total Fantasy Knockout has a gender-bender spin. Both are new spins, but they use them for parody of old tropes.
Although with some differences, both series have overpowered men who constantly save their female companions that they have a difficult relationship with.
Combatants Will Be Dispatched!
On Earth, the villainous Kisaragi Corporation has finally conquered everything, but they have their eye on the entire universe.
Having finally created a transporter, they send agent Roku-gou to the kingdom of Grace where he is to infiltrate and eventually conquer the kingdom for the corporation. Of course, to ensure the success of one of their more disposable agents, they send with him Alice, an exceptional android, to make sure the mission is carried out.
Finally arriving, Roku-gou and Alice end up infiltrating the inner circle of the kingdom and helping them secure victory against an invading Demon Lord.
Both Cautious Hero and Combatants Will be Dispatched follow protagonists sent another world by others. However, while Seiya is meant to save the world, Combatants Will be Dispatched is about taking over that other world for the evil corporation he works for… By saving it from a Demon Lord first.
While Cautious Hero has the main character be stoic and serious, everyone in Combatants Will Be Dispatched is dysfunctional and silly. However, the main character and his comrades have a similar dynamic – he both simultaneously saves them and drives them nuts.
Full Dive – The Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life!
Rather average high school student Hiro Yuuki obtains a copy of the full dive RPG game called Kiwame Quest. This game is uses the pinnacle of gaming technology to create an experience as close to real life as possible.
Unfortunately, while the sights, smells, and sensations are very realistic, it does make it a difficult game to beat. For players, their real life abilities are reflected in game and being hit also leaves serious wounds on your character that hurt and heal slowly.
It is not a game for casuals, but with a supreme sense of accomplishment on the line for beating it, who could say no?
Although Full Dive is about a VRMMO and isn’t an isekai, you will notice a number similarities between Full Dive and Cautious Hero because their source material shares an author.
Full Dive doesn’t have the main character immediately overpowered. In fact, he struggles quite a bit. However, like Seiya, it is his caution of common tricks and situations that often gives him an advantage.
Furthermore, you will find that every character around the main character is comically difficult to deal with.
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