I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I'm the Strongest? I'm Not Even an Adventurer Yet!, Volume 1

By: Nabeshiki, Jason Li - translator

Narrated by: BJ Harrison

The Kingdom of Clays faces a dire crisis: an assassination attempt has just been made on its own Princess Lynneburg, and its neighboring countries eye the aftermath like starving vultures, plotting the Kingdom's downfall. The ensuing conflict will shape the face of the continent for centuries to come...but Noor doesn't have a clue about any of that! Having freshly arrived at the royal capital after over a decade of rigorous, isolated training at his mountain home, he's dead set on achieving his childhood dream of becoming an adventurer, even if the only skills he possesses are useless ones. Sure, he can [Parry] thousands of swords in the span of a single breath, but everybody knows you need more than that if you want to be an adventurer!

Our hero's road to making his dream come true will be long(?) and arduous(?)—but if there's one thing Noor's not afraid of, it's some good ol' fashioned hard work!

©2020 Nabeshiki; English translation copyright 2023 by J-Novel Club LLC; Original Japanese edition published in 2020 by Earth Star Entertainment; Cover illustration by Kawaguchi (P)2025 Tantor Media

Love this!

This was a fun light novel to listen to. I liked how we got the story from different perspectives.

This is a pretty chill story about an over powered main character that doesn't understand how strong he really is. Most of the humor comes from him misunderstanding things.

I'd recommend it to anyone that enjoys isekai light novels.

It's OK

If you've seen the anime, there really is no reason to listen to this. There isn't anything new, different, or insightful here. While I enjoyed it in general, the amount of stupidity the main character is forced to show because of the "I'm super strong but I don't realize that I am" trope is too much. The writers did not make a convincing argument for him to not quickly reassess his strength, especially when several guards died before he fought the so-called cow. I get the joke, but it wasn't well handled.

his ignorance

I like that he was overpowered but I hate he doesn't know how powerful he is, is annoying.

The ignorance has to stop

I enjoyed the story. The only thing holding it back is the main character’s ignorance of his strength. The author is leaning into that too much for too long. Once the story gets past that particular hump the I think it would truly flourish.

Great!

Just like the anime! Hope there will be many more parts of the series! Very fun book.