Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship, Vol. 1

By: Ryuto

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Blast off to adventure!

When Satou Takahiro is swept away from his ordinary life into the world of his favorite video game, a universe of space battles, interstellar colonies, and danger in the vastness of outer space awaits.

Soon, he's living as "Hiro" the mercenary, with a tricked-out spaceship and a babe on each arm! There are space pirates to fight, girls to rescue, and trouble to get into (and hopefully out of). Hiro is going to live his new life to the fullest!

©2019 Ryuto, Tetsuhiro Nabeshima (P)2019 Ryuto, Tetsuhiro Nabeshima

Great story but subpar narration

This is a great story. An isekai in space!

The only problem is that the narration is kinda bad. The narrator doesn't seem to have much range and resorts to talk through clenched teeth for too many characters, making them sound like they are snarling with anger.

That being said, I"ll take what I can get. I love the fact that more light novels are getting audio versions now. I absolutely love light novels, and this gives me the option to listen to some of my favorites while driving or in the background while doing other things.

great listening

the story is what I was looking for and I want more
please do more like this

Another fun Isekai

I enjoyed this one, my only minor, and I do stress MINOR complaints are the man reading it doesn't have a terribly good range of vocal tones for doing different characters, and his way of reading one character makes her more stand-offish than the character should sound. but again, minor complaints, I only knocked off 1 star for it.

For fans of this genre, this is another great little escape series.

Pleasant Gem

Fred Berman is easily one of my top ten narrators, so I knew the performance would be 👍🏾. the story caught me off guard and was very pleasant and good! Now I have to buy credits to continue this journey!

Pretty Solid

This was actually pretty fun to listen to. The way he handled the misunderstanding with each of the girls was a bit cringey, but at least we didn't have to listen to any sexual details, since those always end up sounding like the fevered imaginings of a sixteen year old virgin. I mean, this is still teenage wish fulfillment fantasy, but sometimes it's good just to indulge in some junk food now and then.

overall great story

great story, im loving the expanded descriptions but i just cant get used to it veing ener instead of enel and galactic police instead of galactic navy

Solid!

A Solid good isekai with some great parts. pros are some great situation humor and enjoyable characters. Cons could have benefit from and female voice actor and not being able to hand wave all problems.

Good bad

Not the greatest voice for females but wonderful bad guy voices the story itself is pretty low stakes for a mercenary story the starting gear is just too high tier for this beginner zone

A great adventure marred by a gross jerk

I loved the manga despite him feeling a bit womanizing. But in the light novels, he comes across as even worse. Book one isn't horrible, but in book two, you just hate him for being so gross. I think I won't read any more of these after the first 2 books, but I'll still try to check out the manga.

The narrator is very decent, just not my personal favorite style. He does the main voices really well, just not the most of the side characters. Most importantly, I think he captures the personality of Hiro really well.

This is what I was looking for!

Read the books and love them, like the inflections for the voices. Keep up the good work and look forward to more from this series and others! One criticism tho if it's possible, have a woman play the play the girls voices. The actor dose a good job but it would sound better, but I'll keep listening regardless and understand if it's not possible.