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Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yuuichirou Umehara
Seiya Ryuuguuin (voice)
12 eps
Hibiku Yamamura
Ariadoa (voice)
12 eps
Kengo Kawanishi
Mash (voice)
12 eps
Aoi Koga
Elulu (voice)
12 eps
Aki Toyosaki
Ristarte (voice)
13 eps
Marika Kouno
Nina (voice)
2 eps
Yuki Ishikari
Touya (voice)
2 eps
Kotaro Shinohara
Jamie (voice)
1 eps
Yu Wakabayashi
Townsperson (voice)
1 eps
Reigo Yamaguchi
Townsperson (voice)
1 eps
Miwa Natsuki
Townsperson (voice)
1 eps
Hitomi Shogawa
Townsperson (voice)
1 eps
Kayuki Matsumoto
Townsperson (voice)
1 eps
Kouichi Souma
Townsperson (voice)
1 eps
Naoya Nosaka
God in the kitchen (voice)
1 eps
Tetsurou Miyata
Items vendor (voice)
1 eps
Taisuke Nakano
Townsperson (voice)
1 eps
Akari Una
Innkeeper woman (voice)
1 eps
Hayato Fujii
Knight Captain (voice)
1 eps
Yuya Murakami
Weapons shop owner (voice)
2 eps
Hayato Kimura
Orc (voice)
1 eps
Eriko Uchino
Mother (voice)
1 eps
Ryo Sugisaki
Bhat (voice)
4 eps
Shinei Ueki
Son (voice)
1 eps
Makoto Sahara
Lagos (voice)
2 eps
Taro Kiuchi
Archer Commander (voice)
1 eps
Keisuke Hamaoka
Knight (voice)
2 eps
Hitoshi Bifu
Kilkapul (voice)
3 eps
Akihiko Ishizumi
Carlo (voice)
2 eps
Kanehira Yamamoto
Beel Bub (voice)
2 eps
Ayaka Nanase
Fraala [Goddess of Wind] (voice)
1 eps
Akira Koga
Orand [God of Lighting] (voice)
1 eps
Yoshiaki Hasegawa
Soldier (voice)
2 eps
Ryunosuke Watanuki
Arx (voice)
1 eps
Tetsuo Kanao
Wohlks Roseguard (voice)
2 eps
Juri Kimura
Wohlks Roseguard [child] (voice)
2 eps
Yuki Ono
Wohlks Roseguard [demonkin] (voice)
1 eps
Kenji Roa
Furashika [Roseguard magician] (voice)
2 eps
Atsushi Taniguchi
Messenger soldier (voice)
1 eps
Ayaka Shimizu
Bunny girl (voice)
1 eps
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TV DNA
How Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and World Building.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
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!
The run
Seasons
1 season · 12 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20191 episode
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201912 episodes
7.9IMDbGoddess 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!
Best episode · S01E12 The Hero Is Overpowered But Overly Cautious
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E12
The Hero Is Overpowered But Overly Cautious
In violation of Divine Realm law, Rista opens a portal directly to the location of the final boss fight, where Seiya and the Demon Lord are locked in mortal combat. Seiya resolves himself to make the ultimate sacrifice to defeat the Demon Lord.
- Directed by Masayuki Sakoi
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S01E11
The Truth Is Too Much to Bear
Rista, Mash and Elulu enjoy their day of shopping and strolling around town, but when Seiya fails to meet up with them later, they begin to worry. When Rista turns to Ishtar for help locating Seiya, she is met with a surprising revelation.
- Directed by Kazuhiro Ozawa
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S01E08
Neat and Tidy but Overly Nymphomaniacal
Mash and Elulu demonstrate some new skills they picked up, and Aria is horrified to learn that Seiya is training with Mitis. Back on Gaeabrande, Rosalie has gone off to challenge the flies alone, and Seiya and company must go to her rescue.
- Directed by Yoshito Mikamo
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S01E09
This Reaper Is Just Too Invincible
Kilkapul summons a nightmarish reaper to eliminate Seiya and the others, and not even retreating to the Divine Realm is enough to stop its advance. After Mash and Elulu improve their skills, Rista resolves to step up her own game, as well.
- Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S01E07
This Lady Knight Is Too Doglike
A delegation of Roseguard Imperial Knights summons Seiya and the others to a nearby fortress, where a wing of demon houseflies is attacking from the air. Seiya offers his help, but when he butts heads with the knights' leader, things turn ugly.
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S01E05
This Goddess Is Too Spooky
Following Mash's recovery, Seiya agrees to allow him and Elulu join them on the adventure, but insists that they receive more training first. The pair offer to lead the party to a cave called the Dragons' Den, said to contain an ultimate weapon.
- Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
- Written by Kenta Ihara
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E12
The Hero Is Overpowered But Overly Cautious
- Directed by Masayuki Sakoi
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S01E11
The Truth Is Too Much to Bear
- Directed by Kazuhiro Ozawa
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S01E10
This Man Is Too Strong for Being So Old
- Directed by Shigeru Ueda
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S00E01
Recap - Episode 9.5
S01E09
This Reaper Is Just Too Invincible
- Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
- Written by Kenta Ihara
S01E08
Neat and Tidy but Overly Nymphomaniacal
- Directed by Yoshito Mikamo
- Written by Kenta Ihara
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Mitsuhiro OgataProducer
- Noboru YamadaProducer
- Minoru AkitaProducer
- Kazufumi KikushimaProducer
- Daiji HoriuchiProducer
- Gaku IwasaExecutive Producer
Writing
- Kenta IharaWriter
Direction
- Shigeru UedaDirector
- Kazuhiro OzawaDirector
- Hiroyuki TsuchiyaDirector
- Tomoko HiramukiDirector
- Masayuki SakoiDirector
- Yoshito MikamoDirector
Cinematography
- Hiroshi OizumiDirector of Photography
Music
- Yoshiaki FujisawaOriginal Music Composer
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