Gokudo Yuccot Kikansky is your classic anti-hero adventurer. Rude, greedy, womanizing, and perfectly willing to step on others to enrich himself. Too bad for him then that he's also the main character in a sword and sorcery adventure comedy.

Note: While this series it has its flaws, I'd like to draw attention to the female lead, Rubette La Lette, and how much work the author put into making her, in effect, a different type of Tendo Akane. From beginning to end, she and Gokudo stay on roughly even footing:

• When we're first introduced to her, the only reason Gokudo could break out of the dungeon while she hadn't already done so is that her weapons had been confiscated but Gokudo, through sheer dumb luck, had found his way to owning a sword that he could summon back to him. She ends up getting a magic bow after the big, heavy sword she's swinging with equal skill gets cleaved in two.
• Generally speaking, when a rescue is needed, it's just as likely that she'll be rescueing Gokudo from the results of one of his half-baked plans to get rich.
• Near the end of the series, they both gain ancient magical powers and they both keep them.
• While they do grow interested in each other (though they're both too immature to admit it), she sees Gokudo as a rival first and that never really leaves their relationship.