Shin is absurdly overpowered in a world that has no idea how to handle it, and the show treats that mismatch as pure comedy gold instead of pretending it's a problem to solve. His complete lack of social awareness becomes the actual story, watching an apex predator try to navigate a high school love triangle while casually breaking the laws of magic. It knows exactly what it is: a show that wants you to laugh at a kid who can level cities but doesn't understand why people get annoyed when he shows up late to class.

Shin, once an ordinary salaryman in modern Japan, dies in a car accident and wakes in a magical world with his old memories intact. Merlin Wolford, a celebrated hero of the kingdom of Earlshide who now lives quietly deep in the woods, takes in the orphaned baby and raises him. By fifteen, Shin has mastered devastating magic and combat techniques. There's just one problem: he has no common sense and is socially awkward. To grow up among people his own age, Shin enrolls in the kingdom's Magic Academy, where he becomes a local celebrity almost immediately. In the capital he makes friends, learns how the world works, and battles the forces of evil threatening his city, in a fantasy that mixes action, comedy and romance.