Review of The Rising of the Shield Hero

This was a hyped anime and in that view it did not live up to it. Too many problems in the pacing and storytelling added with some major animation quality fluctuation. From really nice and fluid animation with interesting shoots to complete still frames and really bad CGI. Especially the middle arcs from the birds part until the end of the pope where really bad. The villains are your normal villains without background until in the last arc. In the fights there are really long talking session completely broke the flow. You can do that in manga but as soon as it is animated you have tokeep the sense of time. It just felt boring and I was skipping until something interesting happened which is a really bad sign that I did not even felt that I missed something from it.

The beginning and ending where really good and showed the potential of the story and together with a fantastic soundtrack pushed this anime to an enjoyable experience.

You can watch the show its not completely wasted time and there are some really good pieces in it. Hopefully the second season will make it worthwhile.