Review of The Rising of the Shield Hero

Is there anything wrong with indulging in simplicity? One of the many questions I found myself asking, during each week of "overpowered-yet-screwed-over shield man", was that is this series going to do something to stand out from any of the other isekai anime that we have been flooded with in the past few years. As it stands having watched the full series, this doesn't seem to be the case, but that doesn't mean that The Rising of the Shield Hero (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) deserves the same hate or distasteful comments that other "Isekai-trash" such as In another world with my smartphone receives. Without wasting toomuch of your valuable weeaboo time there is a mindset that you should enter Shield Hero with when choosing to watch or judge it...

It never promised anything that we haven't seen before.

1) Man transported to another world
2) Instantly gains an overpowered item/ability that puts him above the rest in said another world
3) Something major happens that forces a long training montage blah blah blah

You get the point.

However, going back to my original point of enjoying simplicity, The Rising of The Shield Hero ever since the first episode has promised to give us a heavily character focused story that does exactly as it says on the box. This isn't the case of most other anime that throw fanservice or flashy animations to distract you from a lack of plot progression or worth but it is rather an anime that shows you the struggles and growth of Naofumi (The Shield Hero) as well as his adorable cast of sidekicks who only compliment this story. This anime was definitely not a waste of my time and filled my Wednesday's with some sense of laid-back enjoyment.

So I'm looking forward to a potential selection of OVA's or even a second season but as it stands i feel like making a second season probably wouldn't be a great idea because it would lose the appeal that it had in the introductory season- being that Naofumi is a hated/misunderstood MC who has to go from the bottom to the top

(Don't forget that this anime gave us as the anime community another girl to hate on that that wasn't Emilia, Ichigo, Saionji or Sakura to name a few- if you haven't seen this series then at least watch the first few episodes to understand the pain)