“Reincarnated as a powerful but doomed game character, salaryman seeks the real hero to avoid saving the world.”
I'm Not the Hero!
主人公じゃない!
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Synopsis
Reincarnated as a powerful but doomed game character, salaryman seeks the real hero to avoid saving the world.
Once upon a time, there was a middle-aged Japanese salaryman, a schoolgirl, and a speed demon of a truck driver. The man tried to rescue the girl from the truck, and... Well, I bet you can guess what happened next. That man was me, by the way—"was" being the operative word, because the next thing I knew, I came to inside the world of my favorite game, Braves and Blades, as Rex Tauren. Rex is the most powerful character in the early stages of BB, a level 50 jack-of-all-trades who's got tons of class skills and one huge drawback—Rex is only a minor character, so past the tutorial stage, his growth rate tanks and he's all but useless. In other words, my quest is now to find BB's true protagonist and dump all of this saving-the-world stuff on them. I just wanna kick back and... Hold up! Why does everyone keep calling me the hero?! (Source: J-Novel Club)
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Running avg · Jan 2024 → Feb 2024
- 8 “The peeps who are giving this manga this low a rating must be the people who were disappointed that their MC was not another "Harem king who one shots every enemy around him but still acts like a...”
- 6 “6.8/10 As someone who used to love and follow this manga avidly the past 3-4 years, I can’t help but be disappointed at how far this manga has either fallen or how my manga taste has changed —...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 31 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 4h 08m approx
- Published Dec 2020 – Sep 2023
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M56797 catalog