Rapid Rabbit is the super-hero line of defense between humanity and demise at the hands of the Antinoid army. In battle with the baddies and their fearsome mid-level boss Honey Trap, the two women are revealed to one another…and Honey falls hard for Rabbit’s true identity, Hayate.

Honey gets canned for her failure and ends up at Hayate’s door, where she learns that Hayate is…a really nice person. Honey’s a goner and she and Hayate team up.  Amusingly, Hayate’s dayjob is as a costumed superhero show performer, and while Honey loves to watch her, when they are genuinely attacked she’s gone so far over to the side of good that she transforms and fights against her former co-worker, Kyouka Suigetsu (which appears to be a martial technique in Bleach and Naruto and Nurarihyon no Mago, … and which explains her costume and suits the shounen manga sentai-type series background noise tone of the story.)

Hero-san to Moto Onna Kanbu-san, Volume 1 (ヒーローさんと元女幹部さん) is a light-hearted romp in the tropes of Japanese costumed superhero television shows. It requires little knowledge or commitment but is a lot of fun.  Somechime’s art is totally up to the task, and the collected volume has a number of costume and Antinoid design charts. The whole thing was a terrific antidote to yesterday’s high drama and just the kind of thing I think Pixiv is especially good for – a testing ground for off-brand stories. 

Ratings:

Art – 8
Story – 8 I mean, 5 but…it’s cute
Characters – 8
Service – 4 A bit in the costume designs and a regrettable “joke” about Hayate’s underwear. Ha. (-_-)
Yuri – 3 Nothing much actually happens outside Honey’s head

Overall – 8

Sometimes, like Honey,  we all just need a attractive, athletic, female hero to sweep our evil plans away. ^_^