Taijiro notes in the afterword section that this is their first printed work. You can certainly feel that the more you manage to read Who Says Warriors Can’t be Babes?! At its best, it’s an amusing manga combining Dragon Quest/RPG conventions and mixing it with a powerful woman devoted to romancing the obtuse male lead. But at its worst, it recycles the woman focusing on said lead to its detriment, to a point that it comes across as demeaning.
Ok, to be more specific about this manga, think Tomo-chan is a Girl!, but make it a fantasy. So you won’t get any real names but instead get class names, such as Warrior Woman, who desires to get the Hero’s attention. The Hero ended up leaving to go off on his adventures, and told Warrior Woman as a kid that if she gets to be a big and strong warrior, they’ll travel together. So she does indeed get strong…too strong actually. In fact, she’s at the point where she’s completely overpowered.
I have no idea if RPGs allow you to go over LV. 100 nowadays (none of the ones I’ve played growing up let you), but she’s well over that and well over max stats. This means everyone on the team — the Mage, the Priest, and her beloved Hero — value her strength. That’s a problem for Warrior Woman, since she wants to charm the Hero instead.
That’s all this manga’s about. No seriously, if there is an overarching plot in this one, it’s not here. It’s just these four people venturing around the world and completing quests. Well, venturing on quests, sure, but every chapter involves Warrior Woman trying to get the Hero’s attention. This could be attempting to use a slime (to her eventual detriment), or her facing a ton of bugs, to her swapping classes to become a weakling (naturally, that fails). In some ways it works; using her overpowering strength to accidentally injure or kill the Hero is funny at times, and since it’s parodying Dragon Quest, it adds some extra touches to enhance it being funny.
But in other ways, the jokes don’t always work because its central joke is Warrior Woman, the strongest member in the party, does everything to lower her standards to her dense members. No one on the team — well, Priest may know but she has her one personality — realizes she loves the Hero, and her attempts to show this are not funny. Maybe amusing once in a while, but you go the well enough, you eventually run out of water and need to find another source to sustain your energy. And, since it doesn’t try to involve the rest of its cast in any meaningful fashion, by the time you get to Chapter 7, it’s not easy finding it!
I will credit Who Says Warriors Can’t be Babes? for its art style and its fervent desire to maintain its Dragon Quest parodying — like, it even has the BGM music notes as asides, which did earn some chuckles — but this idea could’ve been executed better. Your mileage will certain vary on this one.