Audience reviews
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hunterz263
When I first started The Rising of the Shield Hero, I was looking at the reviews of every season. I saw season one was considered the best, and that season two was considered the worst, even being called a disaster by multiple reviews. It didn't give me hope it would be good, but I like to see complete stories, so I decided to watch it.
I'm sure it'll surprise many of you, but I actually seriously enjoyed this season. I definitely noticed a few animation errors, and the plot was a little rushed, but overall I really don't consider this a disaster. It was a good season, with a nice storyline, and features one of the best characters with the introduction of Kizuna.
I'm certain fans of the light novel series were disappointed in this season since it was only 12 episodes (episode 13 being mo…
Read at the sourceFlameRxz
Bro dont watch this bosta, muito ruim pprt. Dont compensa!
(copairriti só pra enviar o meu) Spoiler Free*
There were some boring parts to it and I feel like some of it was rushed and underdeveloped, however, it's an overall enjoyable sequel if you're not the overly critical stuck up watcher. I wasn't a fan of Part 1 but it needed to be there, Part 2 was fairly entertaining even though the main antagonists were subpar, and Part 3 just felt like a little extra bit of fan service, could or could not be your cup of tea. It's not perfect in the slightest, but, it's nice to know what happened next after season 1 and the main cast developed pretty ...
Read at the sourceDrakestalker
As I'm fairly sure I mentioned in my previous piece, Shield Hero has an identity problem. The show doesn't seem to know what to do with itself in the absence of Naofumi being unfairly slighted and oppressed by those around him.
Matter of fact, the show starts by posing a problem the Cardinal Heroes need to solve and the 3 others straight up refuse to help for no good reason and walk away, almost as if it were written in their DNA that they just necessarily have to be assholes to make the story work. The saving grace is that other than a couple of throw-away lines a pop, they never show up as actual characters again for the rest of the season and don't have any speaking lines. I guess Bow Bro shows up in some flashbacks, but the point is Spear Bro is irrelevant as he should be.
Also, I ju…
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The first season was a diamond of isekai anime, it is brilliant and it is a masterpiece. Sadly, this new sequel has gone downhill and It is quite dissapointing.
I'll cut it short why this sequel is dissapointing:
1. Unlike the first season, now the studio decide to made Filo a loli pedo bait character, it is embarrasing, disgusting and for sure targeted for a certain audience as a "fanservice".
2. There's lot more fanservices.
When people click and decide to watch "Tate no Yuusha" season 2, first thing that came to mind are what make the anime great in the first place and that gems brought us here to continue our heroes journey, the fact that the "Tate no Yuusha" that we knew barely have any fanservices in the first place, I'm sure people don't come here and expect more "fanservices", i…
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Rising of the Shield Hero season 2 is a major disappointment.
When I originally watched this show I had watched only the anime, but season 2 was so basic and unpolished that I started reading the Light Novels which by the way are in no way perfect but are well above average and a very enjoyable read.
If you are an anime only viewer and have come here after season 1, I highly advise you read the manga instead. Start at around chapter 33 to get a better grip of the pacing, this is well before season 1 ends, because some major changes were made to the ending. Shield Hero tells a very good story which is heavily character focused and if you ain't interested in reading Light Novels the manga is stellar and much better use of your time. I recommend it and this review has nothing to do with the…
Read at the sourceAlanna_Knight
Spoiler Free*
There were some boring parts to it and I feel like some of it was rushed and underdeveloped, however, it's an overall enjoyable sequel if you're not the overly critical stuck up watcher. I wasn't a fan of Part 1 but it needed to be there, Part 2 was fairly entertaining even though the main antagonists were subpar, and Part 3 just felt like a little extra bit of fan service, could or could not be your cup of tea. It's not perfect in the slightest, but, it's nice to know what happened next after season 1 and the main cast developed pretty well. If you liked S1 Shield Hero, you'll enjoy it if you just back and relax.
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This is my first review,please forgive any mistakes.The story was great.It has a better plot twist than before.Maybe the cgi was little bit bad,but the storyline was very great!
This anime genre is not my type but this anime make me interest into this genre.I
recommend it to who loves Isekai genre.
Second season is more better than the first season.The new heroine gonna make your heart flow and the animation was great!The fight scene are good.If you like fighting genre,yes this anime will be.The way chararacter react to situation and event is very great.I'm sure you guys will like it.
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The first season of the Shield Hero had a big impact in the community. Half of it was praising it for its bold take on an isekai protagonist who is wrongfully accused, and the other half was shiting on it for being full of cheap tactics for engaging the viewer through rage instead of quality writing. As the season kept going, more and more people were joining the dislike side as one by one everything that made the initial episodes good was being replaced with the same generic crap that plague all isekai and turned a once (supposed) subversion of the formula into yet another power fantasy. By the time the second season began most didn’t care about it, but were still hopeful it would return to form. The source readers kept telling them all sorts of crazy shit are going to happen next which w…
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Do you know that feeling when you are disappointed so much that you don't even have anything strong to say on the subject? This is exactly how I feel after watching S2.
It's so average and boring with glimpse of hope that dies right there that I don't even have the passion to say anything snarky about it.
The plot itself is a weak point. We have a big turtle to defeat, a bunch of background characters nobody cares about since they have nothing going on for them and "Yor" who is evil because he is evil, as in poor writing.
I wasn't much of a fan of this whole "timer" thing going on, but now they are pulling it out their ass to explain why it stops\pauses\accelerates and doing other shenanigans.
We have a level reset (but not really, but it is, but no they still have skills, but they can't…
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The first half of this season is objectively bad. The pacing was completely demolished by skipping the training arc, and a lot of characterization for Rishia and the Bow Hero were lost. The missing backstory really affects the viewers' relationship with Rishia, because without it, why would we care about her like we do Raphtalia and Filo?
That said, the plot and pacing in the second half were pretty good... But the fights are starting to get repetitive in the way they're resolved. I want to make a joke about it but then this review wouldn't be spoiler free.
Despite all that, the season is still enjoyable and if you like the overarching story what are you gonna do? Skip this season? Lmao
Read at the sourceBabyGirl06301
I just don’t know what to say about this season other than I’m disappointed in it. I don’t have that many strong feelings associated with it, so it isn’t like I can pick it apart super easily to explain myself, but coming off of last season (which admittedly wasn’t perfect) into this season was a huge letdown after waiting so long for the second season. For me, most of that came down to the plot, but there are certainly other elements of Shield Hero season 2 that made it a less than ideal experience. One of those is the animation, and I can’t really say whether it’s gotten worse from the first season because I can’t remember, but looking at this season on its own, the animation definitely wasn’t up to the standard I would expect it to be at.
The characters themselves also played a large f…
Read at the sourceValik93v2
This anime is bad. Really bad. At this point this seems like a fundamental universal truth like math axioms. Almost every review is critical of it and an average score of 6.6 on MAL is pretty much a certified garbage label.
But here's a thing. Season 1 was just as bad, however the reception was way more positive. The writing is consistently dreadful throughout both seasons and the characters have the IQ of 6 year old kids. There is absolutely nothing interesting happening and the revenge subplot from season 1 was handled so poorly, that I have issues expressing how bad it was. So why did this happen?
The answer is that the second season committed the CARDINAL (pun appreciation moment) sin of being boring.
As a fellow anime connoisseur, I noticed that my tolerance for bs is way lower than…
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Shield Hero Season 2 is an anime that is a shell of its previous self. With all of the hype surrounding the release of Season 2, everyone expected something at least on level with, if not better than, what Season 1 had delivered, yet all we got as fans was disappointment. According to LN readers, both of the arcs in this season were probably the worst, and if that was the case, they could have fast-forward through both and moved on to the next arc instead of constructing something that is this bad. Even the artwork is a step down from what was shown in Season 1. To be honest, the only redeeming aspect of the story is the introduction of Kizuna, and her presence on the show at least made it bearable.
Overall, I would not recommend Season 2 to anyone, and I believe the fanbase for Season 3…
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The Rising of Shield Hero Season 2 is one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had to sit through, and this is coming from a Yankees fan. How do you even manage to fuck up a sequel to one of the most popular LN adaptations of all time this badly?
Say what you want about the first season of Shield Hero, but it was hard to deny it was all the rage back in 2019. As early as the first episode’s airing people were either ranking it among their Top 10 or throwing shitfits over it. There’s not much to say about Season 1 that hasn’t already been said by thousands of others. Shield Hero is the definition of low-hanging fruit at this point. It’s juvenile shlock with terrible characters and endless plot contrivances that has no idea what it wants to be. I hated it, but at the same time I kept coming b…
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The only reason I gave this season a 5 was because of the average animation. Otherwise, it would be a 3.
This season was seriously just a DISASTER. Absolutely NOTHING was done right. All the things done perfectly in season 1 were just scraped and totally removed from this season. Way too bad a successor. I seriously can't understand how could they do this to such a great story...
"New characters were, useless plot points, overly confusing and boring storyline with the worst possible main villain"
This line sums up the entire season.
Conclusion: Watch this only if you want to simp on a character. Useless for any other reason.
Read at the sourceN1ghtWalker
With time, a caterpillar develops into a beautiful butterfly, An uninteresting flower bud blossoms into a lovely flower. Then there's the Rising Shield Hero, From being a "mid-show," it turned into a "typical Isekai trash"! After an overrated first season, to which I even contributed by giving it an 8/10 (regretting my life choices) came a much anticipated 2nd season. I, too, was excited.
The first season ended in mid-2019. It took almost three years to bring the second season, and fans created far too much hype around it, which quickly backfired. Anime fans who are defending S2 by calling the Spirit Turtle Arc overall a bad arc, need to know that Anime adaptation of the Rising shield hero was never true to its source material. In S2 They tried to fit four volumes 6,7,8&9( the Spirit Turt…
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After watching this season, I can safely say, Malty is the reason why I even finished Season 1. The biggest problem with Shield Hero is that it just isn’t as satisfying to watch anymore, because the revenge plot is done, and now it’s just a generic isekai. I’m sure the studio and animators realized that, so what did they do? They proceeded to milk the living heck out of Raphtalia and create some fan service, because they know there are many people watching this show just for her. I had low expectations coming into this season, because I didn’t think Season 1 was that good to begin with, especially in the second half. Somehow this season still ended up being disappointing. This season of Shield Hero was paced poorly, was uninteresting, the characters got even worse, but it did have one savi…
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Back in 2019, there was a show that generated a bit of controversy among fans. Content creators, bloggers, and the media all ran with stories about an anime titled 'The Rising of the Shield Hero'. That's because from the franchise's first animated episode, there was a scene about a woman betraying a male protagonist and turning him into a criminal, at least in the public's eyes at the time. From that point on, this anime was labeled with controversy. Welcome to 2022 where yet again, we see Naofumi on an adventure but this time without being ostrachized by the public and living his title as a shield hero.
To be fair, The Rising of the Shield Hero's popularity goes beyond its anime medium as its novel series has been fairly popular worldwide. The anime received a second and even a third sea…
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This show is a piece of trash, and I’m shocked I or anyone else ever gave it the time of day. The first four episodes of season one are decent, and while the production issues which would later come to plague the series were already rearing their ugly heads even back then—bad CG, bits of clunky animation, and so on—the actual story they told, at least as far as isekai is concerned, was fairly compelling, and the firestorm of internet controversy they ignited was thoroughly hilarious. However, immediately after this, the series devolved into the most generic isekai harem you’ve ever seen, and nothing about it is worth anyone’s time for a list of reasons both obvious and egregious.
Reason 1: How the fuck are we not bored of this yet?
Gosh, where do I even begin? I’m so glad Mushoku Tensei…
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Few things in life have disappointed me as much as Shield Hero season 2. I don’t like looking like a fool at all. I hate it. Yet, because of the God awful adaptation that was Shield Hero season 2, I look like an idiot to everyone I tried to put on this series.
Disclaimer. I am one of the biggest fans of this series. I am over 22 novels deep into this and have been reading it since the WN days, so my review and disappointment are from a place of love, not hate.
Shield Hero season 1 was not a perfect adaptation. At best it was mediocre, but the changes they made there were tolerable. Moved an arc around at the end and slightly changed raphtalia and naofumi’s personalities to make them more palatable for anime onlies, stupid, but tolerable. Season 1 had a kick ass soundtrack, some great fig…
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