Garbage Hero: A Revenge Story Of A Hero Who Got Summoned To Another World (Garbage Brave: Isekai ni Shoukan sare Suterareta Yuusha no Fukushuu Monogatari, ガベージブレイブ【異世界に召喚され捨てられた勇者の復讐物語】) is a Japanese light novel series written by Nanja Monja with illustrations by Shuriyasuyuki. The Light Novel was adapted into a Manga series with illustrations by Kinashi Haruka and serialized by MAGCOMI on Nov 10, 2019.
It was an ordinary day for Tsukuru Sumeragi. While in his cooking class, he and his class were isekai'd to another world by a Hero Summoning ritual.
But instead of a warm welcome, they find themselves in a great hall surrounded by knights, where they are informed that they'll be auctioned off to the highest bidding nation in their defense against the Demon King and his army.
There they find they now possess unique abilities, and Tsukuru discovers he has the Class of "Chef, Rank G."
While his classmates sold extraordinarily high bids, Tsukuru received none. He was then shoved through a Transfer Gate by the Summoning Priest to be disposed of.
On the other side of the gate was a magic forest in the middle of nowhere that was dominated by powerful monsters. After narrowly avoiding death, he is thrust onto the path of the strongest.
Compares to series like Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest, Failure Frame, I'm The Only One With Unfavorable Skills, Isekai Summoning Rebellion, Nito's Lazy Foreign World Syndrome, and Suterareta Yuusha No Eiyuutan where a group of students are isekai'd to another world and the main character is ostracized for his weak skills before being betrayed.
Associated tropes:
- Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The mangaka apparently doesn't think the very fast paced web-novel was going fast enough, as a great deal of the background information and exposition is removed. For example, only reading the manga would leave a reader ignorant of the facts that [Dismantle] requires touch, and the first monster Tsukuru goes up against is level 230.
- Adaptation Expansion: Contrary to the manga, the published light novel has many, many things added to the story, like the POV of several side-characters, such as Sidele, the owner of the general store, and Canaan.
- All Crimes Are Equal: The punishment for any and all criminal activity is slavery, provided the crime isn't so heinous that it demands execution. Criminal slaves have no rights, and it's not a crime to kill them. The only way a criminal slave is able to be set free is either by being given an official pardon, or by being found innocent of the original offense.
- Hammerspace: Invoked and lampshaded. Tsukuru, and presumably all summoned individuals, get a [Material Storage] skill as part of the transmigration process. To date, the storage limits, in terms of mass or volume, have yet to be quantified.
- Happiness in Slavery: People who are enslaved for things other than criminal activity do have certain inalienable rights, are entitled to payment for their labors, and it's a crime to abuse, mistreat, or kill them. They may not have a choice in who they work for, but they're otherwise treated as valuable employees.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Tsukuru gains these after winding in a forest, for months, without shelter, change of clothes, and near constant battles with the local fauna. His Cooking skill levels up as well.
- Kangaroo Court: The concept of "Law and Order" in this new world is all but non-existent. Tsukuru's first companion, Canaan, was made a criminal slave for the murder of Dolce, the boy she was tutoring in magic, without evidence or even the ability to testify on her behalf. In less than a week, Tsukuru is able to have the verdict overturned, despite having absolutely no skill as a detective or private investigator.
- Lethal Harmless Powers: Tsukuru's transmigrated skill [Cooking] has sub-skills [Ignition] and [Dismantling]. Nobody stops to ponder the part of the description where it states that they can be used on anything. First time Tsukuru finds himself in life-or-death combat, he does indeed use them offensively, [Ignition] to set his enemy's face on fire and [Dismantling] to reduce the beast to Ludicrous Gibs.
- Made a Slave: Tsukuru's entire class, including himself, were summoned as slaves and auctioned off to countries, supposedly to fight against a Devil King invasion.
- Reconstruction: The story embraces all the pitfalls of the "summoned to another world" cliche and justifies them.
- Spoiler Cover: Many of the characters on the cover haven't even shown up yet in the translated part of the story.
- Superhuman Trafficking: The story starts with Tsukuru's class being magically kidnapped, and then, once their transmigration abilities are known, auctioned off to various world powers.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: If any of the countries that were attending the auction at the start of the story had simply rubbed two brain-cells together and asked about Tsukuru's sub-skills, their representatives could have bought a nigh-unstoppable killing machine at the low, low price of a 100,000 coins, when the flashy "heroes" were going for tens or hundreds of millions. Instead, he was thrown away into forest dungeon to be Left for Dead, and given an unstoppable desire for revenge.
- Trapped in Another World: Providing the priest who summoned the class is telling the truth, there is no way back to Earth.
