- Updated on: July 21, 2022
- by Ernie
Welcome back to the home of quality manga reviews! We can assure you that this well known aspect of Japanese culture will be covered with maximum efficiency!
Here, you’ll find a lot of heavy hitters in the manga and anime world that we hope we do justice in reviewing! We’re talking colossal range from forty-nine feet titans to a guy who can take them down in one punch. Can you smell the overpowered-ness?
Table of Contents
We’re discussing Japanese comics and manga where the overpowered mc hides their powers from simpletons like us. Keep reading ‘cause I’m sure you’ve heard about one of these.
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Japanese Comics with a hideous overpowered MC
21. Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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7/20 |
3/10 |
3/10 |
4/10 |
17/50 |
Our overpowered MC is known for being able to solve the problems of others with little to no effort. As a result of such women and children praising him, delinquents think he’s a nuisance, teachers can’t quite shake him, and he’s got a thing for saving animals.
This first year student is a real hit with…well, everyone really. It’s as if he hides his powers in plain sight for everyone to fawn and swoon over in his average, everyday life. Read on as Sakamoto wows you with his coolness in this laid back manga.
20. The New Gate
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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3/20 |
5/10 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
19/50 |
One minute, Shin is a legendary swordsman defeating the final boss on his video game and he’s saved everyone! He sees a flashing white light (and you’ve read enough manga you know that means) and suddenly he’s being teleported some 500 years into the future of the video game.
Shin finds out it isn’t just a game anymore, but an actual world. Having played the game and done fairly well at it, it is now up to him to harness those OP skills he accumulated and turn what was once virtual into a reality if he wishes to save everyone.
19. I Am a Villager. What About It?
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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7/20 |
4/10 |
4/10 |
5/10 |
20/50 |
It’s bad enough that this MC has befriended a female cheat and a wiseman (such a strange combination of friends, don’t you think? I wonder how that friendship works out for everyone), but this same wiseman comes along and kills him (the irony).
Ryuto, our MC, is reincarnated as a villager rather than being placed in the countryside where he’s from. And although his status is that of a low class citizen, he’s got a couple cheats up his sleeve that makes him capable of saving a hero.
Now, we’re going to follow Ryuto on his journey to become the best villager anyone’s ever seen regardless of what it takes to become one! It’s time for everyone’s doubt and disrespect to turn into awe as they witness his hidden powers come into bloom
18. The Classroom of the Elite
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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3/20 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
21/50 |
In this Japanese comic, we have a school that aims to produce the country’s future leaders! Except here, students are given extreme freedom and must juggle a point system that places you somewhere in the school’s hierarchy.
Ayanokoji, our MC, is a Class D student. He meets Horikita, a girl who’s determined to become Class A again, and Kushida whose only interest is making new friends. It’s uphill from here as Ayanokoji and his friends seek to make the grades where it’s all cutthroat competition
17. Suppose A Kid From The Last Dungeon Boonies Moved To A Starter Town
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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7/20 |
4/10 |
5/10 |
6/10 |
22/50 |
Everyone has been kicked around and down every now and again, and sure you’ve had people say you’ve never amounted to anything, but then that’s when we go and prove them wrong.
Lloyd was a fellow villager whose dream was to become a soldier in the kingdom’s capital! No one has faith in him and expects him to fall fast first because he’s a weakling. Little do they know the dungeon they’ve been living in is one of the most dangerous dungeons around.
Any other town would be a goner if it were left up to them to live near, let alone survive! Well, these mean village people are in for a treat when our MC starts his journey in the next town over and they discover just how overpowered their weak village boy really is.
16. Beyond the Boundary
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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11/20 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
24/50 |
This manga is one of a kind where you have dark spirits known as Youmu that are hunted by Spirit World Warriors. Our MC is a half breed; Akihito’s mother is a human, his father was an immortal Youmu.
You’d think being immortal would amount to a great overpowered tendency when really it’s a belittled factor. Seeing as his classmate, Mirai, uses him as a stabbing bag just for fun (quite literally).
While Mirai has a unique ability to control her blood and manifest it into a sword, she struggles with low self esteem. Now, in order to find some peace, Akihito decides it’s best he helps her find some confidence in the hopes that she’ll stop using him for target practice.
15. Chrome Shelled Regios
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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9/20 |
5/10 |
4/10 |
7/10 |
24/50 |
In this Japanese manga, the world is overrun by mutated nano machine beasts caused by contaminated pollution. Humanity is forced to live in mobile cities called Regios, where they must learn to use weapons called DITE, and master Kei if they wish to protect themselves.
We follow our MC, Layfon Alseif, who’s enrolled in a school where he’s hoping to start a life outside of Martial Arts to be lost in the past. That doesn’t last long as he’s recruited by Kalian Loss for his OP abilities that he was hoping to keep under wraps. So much for blending in.
14. Psycho Busters
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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11/20 |
7/10 |
6/10 |
7/10 |
25/50 |
School is out and vacation is on and underway. This MC is living his best life at home when he starts to crave a little more excitement than eating whatever he feels like and raiding his dad’s collection of old tapes, and he gets it.
Kakeru meets Aya, a psychic who recruits him into her world for help on a quest to fight against people wanting to conquer them. While Kakeru finds himself going on dangerous missions with Aya and her team, it’s only a matter of time before he unlocks his overpowered psychic abilities.
13. Kaze no Stigma: Kouen no Miko
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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10/20 |
4/10 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
26/50 |
Kazuma was exiled from the Kannagi household for not being able to harness and control the Enjutsu (power of fire). Nonetheless, his father believed he could be the one to master Enraiha (a powerful heirloom sword), only to be defeated by his cousin and banished.
Four years later, Kazuma makes his return as the master of Fujustsu (the power to control wind) and is framed for the murder of several memebers of the Kannagi family as an act of revenge for having been banished.
He’s confronted by several members of his former family, but Kazuma only has business with his father, the strongest known Enjutsu user. Kazuma’s overpowered Fujustsu gains the approval of his father; he must then find the imposter and clear his name for good.
12. Demon King Daimao
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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8/20 |
7/10 |
6/10 |
7/10 |
28/50 |
Akuto Sai’s goal was to become a part of his country’s exclusive magicians in order to contribute to society as one of their most devoted clergy. Hoping to obtain this goal, he gets accepted into the Constant Magic Academy where he takes his aptitude test.
Sadly for our young MC, Akuto’s results for his test prove that he’s in line to be the next overpowered, feared Demon Lord (so much for becoming a mage). Now, he must decide if he’ll succumb to his demonic fate or if he’ll find a way to turn the tide.
11. Cerberus
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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10/20 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
7/10 |
30/50 |
When you were young, it’s safe to say that you’ve gotten into a fight or two, right? The MC is known for getting into fights and losing at them because he’s so weak. Yeah, sad isn’t it? Don’t worry it gets better.
One day, Kei and his friend are taking old textbooks to another part of their school when they’re attacked by a monster. Kei, while he’s never backed down from a fight, he’s always been one to get his butt kicked.
Now, in order to protect his friend, Tomoe, he decides to embody the power of Hades’ hound, Cerberus. Only now will it be up to Kei to use this new found power to protect others or will he be bested by Cerberus and become his puppet? (Read it to find out).
10. Code Breaker
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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12/20 |
5/10 |
7/10 |
7/10 |
31/50 |
On the outside, this MC is a frail and reserved girl who’s easy going. When in reality Sakura Sakurakouji is a totally overpowered character who can kick butt! She’s a martial artist with an unrivaled sense of justice like it’s nobody’s business.
Sakura is on her way home from school when she witnesses a boy murdering several people with blue fire! Ironically enough, the boy shows up as an exchange student named Rei Ogami the next day in her class.
Turns out, Rei is an assassin for hire known as Code Breaker who targets and discards criminals who escaped the law. No one at school knows this because he hides his powers behind a gentleman front, except Sakura who’s sworn into secrecy by the death of his blue flames.
09. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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13/20 |
6/10 |
7/10 |
7/10 |
33/50 |
Yup, our MC’s name is in the title for this manga. Saiki is a psychic and he’s determined to live his life as a normal high school student. But as we know in the world of Japanese comics and manga, that’s always easier said than done.
Saiki’s psychic powers bring unwanted hassle and attention as he goes on trying to live an ordinary life making it difficult for him to keep a low profile. But he somehow still manages to hide his powers in his everyday scenarios. Impressive, right?
08. The Villager Level 999
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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14/20 |
6/10 |
7/10 |
7/10 |
34/50 |
In this world, your RPG game is turned into that of a lifestyle for the MC, Kagami. Your average peeps are usually set at a base level of 1 through 5, nothing special there until you learn about the monsters.
Kagami wanted to live a simple life after his father was murdered by monsters and his mom was murded by humans. While he chose to take on the role of a simple villager, fate contradicted him as it made him an overpowered villager giving him supernatural abilities.
07. The Eminence in Shadow
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
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9/20 |
8/10 |
9/10 |
9/10 |
35/50 |
What better way to exhibit control from behind the scenes than to pose as earth’s most remarkable people? That’s the way of Shadowbrokers for you and Cid wants to be one of them!
Cid is fed up with being an ordinary human so he trains every night hoping to become one of them until he winds up croaking over after a traffic accident. He wakes up as the head of a secret organization that battles evil in the shadows. Will his training have paid off or will he flop?
06. Kaiju No. 8
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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13/20 |
7/10 |
8/10 |
8/10 |
36/50 |
A simple kaiju corpse cleaner named Kafka Hibino, had always dreamed of joining the military grade organization, cleaning the streets alongside them…not as their janitor. Well, incidentally, he gets his shot…only not exactly as he expects.
Kafka is turned into one of the kaiju and now he struggles with using this overpowered transformation to clean up the streets as he intended and avoid the Defense Force’s radar. Maybe being a corpse cleaner wasn’t such a bad gig after all….
05. Mob Psycho 100
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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18/20 |
8/10 |
8/10 |
7/10 |
41/50 |
Need an exorcist to get the ghost in your closet out? Look no further as this con man will gladly do it for cheap! Shigeo is a psychic who’s being used by a guy named Reigen for less than minimum wage to use his psychic abilities and perform half baked exorcism.
You see Reigen is also Shigeo’s mentor and counselor, while Shiego’s a kind, slightly awkward kid who wants to help people, he keeps his emotions in check. Reigen is aware that if Shigeo’s powers reach level 100, then his psychic energy will be too overpowering even for him.
So, let the struggle of a hormonal teen with awesome psychic powers begin!
04. Spy x Family
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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17/20 |
10/10 |
9/10 |
8/10 |
44/50 |
Twilight is a master spy and it’s fair to say that he’s one of the best at what he does. He’s known for going undercover to complete dangerous missions to protect the great world from even greater evils.
Twilight receives his most challenging mission, to get married and have a child. Keeping his disguise as a father to a wife and child while trying to infiltrate an elite private school is one thing, but what’s he to do when he finds out his wife is an assassin and his child is a telepath?
03. One Punch Man
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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20/20 |
8/10 |
9/10 |
8/10 |
45/50 |
Imagine being so powerful you can take down anything or anyone with just one punch? Except…no one takes you seriously because while you have the physical results to prove it, your IQ isn’t that great and you’re a Class C hero.
This is the life of Saitama. Another overpowered MC who finds time to live his day to day life in a world where monsters run rampant and heroes take them down according to their class and the monster’s rank.
While the world is constantly going up in flames thanks to no good monsters and heroes fending them off, it’s a shame to say that Saitama has been written off as an average hero when he’s capable of so much more.
02. Seven Deadly Sins
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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20/20 |
10/10 |
8/10 |
8/10 |
46/50 |
Meliodas is a happy go lucky MC who travels with a broken sword and a talking pig who has to get his old band of knights back together. This is in order to clear their names from an old tale in which they wronged the Kingdom of Liones.
While Meliodas is always calm, cool, and full of fun and laughter throughout the manga, we see him harness and use an unbelievable amount of overpowered force that can only be related to his true origins that is revealed as the story goes on.
01. Attack on Titan
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Overpowered MC |
Character Writing |
Plot | Art | Total |
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19/20 |
9/10 |
10/10 |
9/10 |
47/50 |
You’re living in a world where the remainder of civilization is stuck behind a wall to protect you from the beasts known as Titans that crave human flesh.
That’s fine and all, but what happens when they break down the walls of your faction, crush your home, and well…you see some scary stuff happen to your mom. Welcome to the beginning of Eren Yeager.
Eren joins the Scouts Regiment in hopes of being an elite soldier to be a part of the solution to take down the beasts that wish to claim humanity. But what happens when in the heat of battle, he becomes one of those things he’s sworn to protect the people from? Read on to find out more.
So which manga is your pick?
One thing they do right is presenting us with overpowered characters in a typical Shounen story arc. Regardless, these Japanese Manga will forever and always bring something to the table that everyone who’s anyone can love to read.
We can only hope that one of your favorites made the list and if it didn’t, we hope you found something you might enjoy. Let us know who you think should be the number one overpowered mc who hides his powers in the comment section!
