Review of The Rising of the Shield Hero
Thank god it's over, everything past episode 12 is BS generic plot and bad CGI (computer-generated imagery )... Like, really, it's an impressive downgrade from an interesting beginning with good animation to an empty, predictable and boring childish plot. The anime eventually reaches and develops to a point where you hope so the main characters are not faced against big monsters, as you already know they will very likely be animated through low quality computer-generated imagery, which not only doesn't fit, mix or blend with the 2D artwork, but also looks bad as a whole, such as the lack of detail and blurry textures, followed byartificial-looking movement with no flow.
However, those visual elements could be forgiven for the sake of the plot, as anime isn't all about visuals; Except that the plot also has a similar downgrade to the visuals. The anime starts as a promising, well-animated anime, with a serious plot, good character development and uniqueness in general, while it gradually becomes a predictable anime, full of fillers and slice of life nonsense, becomes a generic harem with weak fights that do not engage you into watching them and rather feel like a pain, and it also becomes childish as mentioned, as everyone seems to have Alzheimer's and randomly becomes friends with other low IQ characters that are still effectively trying to kill them. The anime will disappoint you a lot if you're actually expecting people to pay for their crimes, as nothing actually happens, and just more and more nonsensical drama arises, the anime gives more and more focus on the things that aren't important, and, in the end, almost nobody gets punished for anything, the season randomly ends (thank god, as I won't be watching the second one), and the main character is still flooded with stupid problems I won't watch him face next season. I wanted to make this a short review as it's more of a rant than a review, but I felt the need of adding extra context to my reasoning. To sum up, I was expecting a more mature and developed anime, but Shield Hero brutally disappointed me and many fans with the plot downgrade that happens around the half, as if the writer suddenly changed his mind of what the anime was about, and also ran out of ideas. The whole anime is a big clickbait. I do not recomment.