The Rising of The Shield Hero Chapter 2

[brerrabbit]

While the King can't get rid of the Shield Hero he does let his kingdom be aware of his "crime" on his daughter. After a short timeskip the Shield Hero is going through a hard time due to no one believeing him but his luck soon changes when he meets a certain man.

Comments

[silverhammerman]

I'm leery of isekai series in general, but boy is Rising of the Shield Hero just like, stridently unpleasant and problematic.

False rape accusations, creepy framing of slavery and women, this series has it all.

[doodleboy]

Still kind of annoyed this one got popular. Even without the slavery and misogyny it just seems kind of generic at best... With it, it feels like an fascist mediocre male nerd's power fantasy, which is... unpleasant.

[beoweasel]

I think what kind of horrifies me, is that it's kind of opened the floodgate for 'Revenge' Isekai to become a thing in anime now.

As an example, Kaifuku Jutsuhi no Yarinaoshi, which is getting it's own animated adaptation. Just reading the synopsis turns my stomach. Shit, it makes Shield Hero seem pleasant by comparison.

[jaxjyls]

I tried to keep with the series with how inexplicably popular it was, but my breaking point was when he kept the slave crests and continued to acquire new slaves.

[doodleboy]

Crunchyroll did a big marketing push and there's a big enough audience of shitty people with alt-right worldviews in anime who like this stuff unfortunately.

Although modern isekai was always an transparent nerd power-fantasy so it's... interesting... to see more and more extreme versions popping up as time goes on.