The Eminence in Shadow or otherwise known as Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute is an Isekai Shounen manga written by Daisuke Aizawa.Normally, I don't usually read Isekai but after a post by @adamada, my curiosity for the genre got piqued and I picked this up and to be honest, this manga has to be the funniest I've ever read😂.

Plot

Just like everyone adored heroes in their childhood, a certain young man adored those powers hidden in the shadows. After hiding his strength and living the mediocre life of an average individual by day and undergoing harsh training by night. He finally reincarnates into a different world and gains unfathomable power.

Cid Kagenoh is the main protagonist of this show. He was reincarnated into this world after his comic death in his search of magic. At this world, he realizes that his dream of being The Eminence in Shadow is a reality and at such he begins training again. At 10 years he is strong enough to overpower multiple opponents on his own but yet still feigns to be a harmless mob character to those around him.

Later on he begins gathering elves and beastskins with strong out of control magical power (possessed) and helps them to bring their power back under control. At first he did this unknowingly, wanting to experiment with the first possessed he came across during a raid on raiders.

As she gathered consciousness she decided to devote her life serving him. Cid saw this as an opportunity to gather followers, so he named her Alpha and came up with an on the spot improvised act about how he is the head of Shadow Garden; a cult working on preventing the resurrection of the demon Diabolos and the destruction of the Diabolos cult that wants to bring the demon back. He than claims that he is gathering possessed because they are the descendants of the heroes who killed Diabolos. Of course this is all a load of bull as he just made up that story from a bed time story he heard. Alpha bought the story though and she swore fealty to shadow garden. Although it did turn out that every lie that Cid spouted that day unbeknownst to him was real.

The main comedic streak of this manga is the ignorance of Cid in this new world and the way everything always seem to work out in the end. Normally you'll think such a brash comedic streak would someday get old yet the scenarios become more bizarre as the story unfolds. The manga is getting an anime in October and to be honest I'm very pumped to see Cid animated even though I don't think the manga has gotten enough material to get animated.

From the scenes in the trailer above I'm really pleased with the graphics for even though it's more of comedy the flight scenes in the manga are well drawn and illustrated so I would be bummed if they turned out to be trash. If you don't want to wait till October you can read up on the manga though just 43 chapters of comedy and action gold.

Source||: myanimelist.com

Note

Pictures are screenshots of Chapter 1 of the manga itself other pictures should have their source links.