Review of The Rising of the Shield Hero

Terrible show about terrible people. Less than typical isekai trash. Story sets itself out to be epic, exciting adventure but stumbles to a crawl by the end of the fourth episode. It's about as dull and meaningless as one can expect. At least other isekai trash put SOME effort into their world-building and plot. Almost everyone in the show is either an idiot or an asshole, with one of the only "good guys" being a slave trader. So that should give you a good idea about what you can expect from the characters. If anyone but Spear Hero brought up the Raphtalia/slavery thing, they wouldhave been right. But because the biggest idiot in the show said it, suddenly everyone else is wrong and slavery is okay. Even worse is how the show goes out of its way to jump through so many hoops in order to defend slavery. Naofumi is a dense idiot (and a bit of an asshole) but at least there's some empathy to give him considering his situation. How ironic that a "blank slate" main character is the best written character in the series.

Reminder that Raphtalia is still 10 years old. "bUt ShE mEnTaLLy AgEs aS sHe LeVeLs uP". Yeah and his entire harem is lolis. Doesn't exactly help your point.

Only redeeming factor is the fantastic OST, but it doesn't do enough to save this travesty.