I think we all know that frozen pizza can be quite nice: quickly in the oven, eaten just as quickly, and forgotten just as quickly. That’s my general opinion on manga/manhwas like The Veteran Healer Is Overpowered. If you try to describe it in a few sentences, it’s hard to differentiate it from most other books of this series: a guy vanishes into another portal, gets reincarnated, and finds out that the world has changed and forgotten his name. That’s basically the summary of this manhwa. If you know even one other manga/manhwa of this genre, you won’t need anything else to know what this is about.For everyone else:
The protagonist of this story gets sucked into a portal after being one of the most powerful hunters, defeating the invading demon king. Hunters are a group of people who gained special, video-game-like abilities after a bunch of gates—basically doorways into dungeons—appeared and monsters from them attacked Earth. Our protagonist fights for 100 years, contracting a weird creature that allows him to consume others’ skills and use them. When he finally returns to his dimension, only 10 years have passed, but some of his beloved disciples seem to have vanished or died, murdered by a mysterious organization. Even stronger than before, he goes ahead and searches for the culprit, destroying anyone who stands in his way. On this journey, he learns how the world has changed and, most importantly, that the demons are now allies of humanity, forming their own country in Antarctica. Will they have something to do with the crisis the protagonist is investigating, or is that just bias from his years of war against them?

This book is, quite frankly, mediocre and bland. It’s still a fun read, but you won’t be surprised by any kind of quality you wouldn’t expect from this type of story. Characters are quite one-dimensional, the story is similar to everything we know—and honestly love—from this genre, and there isn’t much to say apart from that, because I’ve read it so often that it feels like common knowledge to anyone familiar with this genre.

If I had to point out one thing I liked about it, it would be that the protagonist is straightforward. A lot of the time, these types of protagonists don’t charge in headfirst for whatever reason, even if they clearly have the power to do so. This protagonist, however, basically ignores the law, authority, and sometimes even his peers to do what he thinks is best. This mostly results in him smashing standard bad-guy villains into the ground while some kind of government official gets a heart attack, which isn’t that special, but it was still refreshing to see a protagonist just do it. Obviously, this always results in good outcomes, which might be unrealistic, but it’s exactly the kind of power trip this genre is built upon—so it’s still fun.

All in all: Rly generic but fun as long as you like these types of storys. 5/10 potato points.