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“Shield Hero Naofumi alone volunteers to stop the awakened Spirit Tortoise halting the Wave countdown.”
The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2
盾の勇者の成り上がり Season2
6.53
7,553 rank · 860,811 viewers · 12,340 favorites
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Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Isekai
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Synopsis
Shield Hero Naofumi alone volunteers to stop the awakened Spirit Tortoise halting the Wave countdown.
With another Wave happening in a week, Naofumi Iwatani and his party have no time to waste. However, when bat familiars raid Lurolona Village and the Wave countdown comes to a halt, the Four Cardinal Heroes reconvene with the queen, Mirelia Q Melromarc, for a quick briefing. The queen presumes that the odd occurrences are linked to the Spirit Tortoise—a threatening creature that has awakened from its slumber, back to cause havoc once again. A plan to put the Spirit Tortoise to rest is devised—but out of the four men, only the cursed Shield Hero agrees to help.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 178 sampled reviews
4.8
/10
What 178 viewers settled on.
28%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 5
σ 2.11
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.11 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↑ 0.75
Running avg · Apr 2022 → Jan 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I don't understand the hate for this season. Sure, the "Final Episode" should have been an OVA instead of a final episode but aside from that I loved this season. I think it's a nice change from...”
- 10 “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...”
- 8 “Haters gonna hate, but I guess it's all about subjective opinions and "my anime is better than yours" on MAL~ It's shame how people wrote a review after watching 2-3 episodes, but oh well. Khm. So...”
Verbosity
Short · 45%
Medium · 33%
Long · 22%
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- Format 13 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 59m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2022 – Jun 2022 Spring 2022
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-15656 catalog
Produced by
- Frontier Works Producer
- AT-X Producer
- Nippon Columbia Producer
- Glovision Producer
- Good Smile Company Producer
- Sammy Producer
- Crunchyroll Producer
- Kadokawa Media House Producer
- NTT Plala Producer
- Kadokawa Producer