"The Rising of the Shield Hero" Season 4 New Key Visual

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Premieres July 2025. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis for the source novels from AniList:

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Naofumi is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed. With no one to turn to, and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield. Now, Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world!

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HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Is this the show where the girls want to be enslaved?

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- falidorn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yup. S1 was good until the last couple episodes. That is to say, it was good enough to overshadow its negatives. Haven’t touched it since.
  
  The isekai genre as a whole has grown since then and it just doesn’t fair well compared to the competition.
  
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  - HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ever since I started reading books I’ve felt like isekais really only have a starting concept and nothing more. Is there a single one that’s actually managed to make a full arc with an ending?
    
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CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They’re still making this shit, huh?

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- pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I tried watching S2 but there was nothing interesting about the show once the entire premise of a revenge plot wad concluded.
  
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  - CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    With weird pro-slavery undertones!
    
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  - shani66@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah, there are a lot of fundamental issues that i was willing to overlook when there was a cool anti-power fantasy story going on, now it’s just not interesting enough for me to care. The characters are better than the average isekai but not particularly profound otherwise, the animation is fine but not amazing, the issues generally aren’t as big as other isekai (even the game mechanics were explicitly a function of the relics iirc), but without the twist there is nothing interesting there to make the show stand out from anything that isn’t a shitty isekai.
    
    I suppose if you are completely addicted to the concept of isrkai it’s one of the better ones to watch, but otherwise meh.
    
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Hope its better than the Turtle Arc. That really hurt the show.

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- trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It only gets worse.
  
  The series keeps finding bigger sharks to jump over.
  
  Some people might like it, I think it’s pretty awful.
  
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- Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Was that season 2 or 3? It’s been so long I can’t remember.
  
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  - RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It was the first part of Season 2, and the second part of Season 2 was when Raphtalia was separated from Naofumi. The second part was way better than the first part.
    
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peregrin5@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I stopped last season after it became clear their enemy was a giant turtle. Did it get any better?

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- burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  No
  
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- vole@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The Spirit Tortoise arc, part of season 2, was particularly painful to watch. So it does get better after the tortoise, but it does not get good.
  
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