Review of The Rising of the Shield Hero

Light novel has always been a form of media that panders to the youth. Their stories are weirdly fun and full of imaginative creativity. No wonder, Isekai became such a big hit and got exploited to the very last drop. As a result, tons of them got adapted and hype into the moon every seasons. Sadly to a point that the anime community considers such mediocrity like "The Rising of Shield Hero", a Winter 2019 anime of studio Kinema Citrus as something excellent. What annoys me the most about Isekai nowadays is that they don't even try. Their premiere's writing is extremely lazy. Specifically ShieldHero, he doesn't even know why he got transfer to the new world, how do the viewer get a clue? And while the idea of a shield used as a weapon is indeed creative and raises curiosity, it never reaches its full potential because it was bound by the gaming fighting system in the anime which allows only powers not creativity.

How about the story progression, you might ask? You actually don't need to, you probably have seen it a dozen times, nothing original here. Plus with the one-dimensional and unchanging characters, not even smart, most of the time, they are dumb fucker and absolutely believe things coming from everyone's mouth. That's the combo that destroyed Shield Hero, make it bland and boring to watch.

Everything about this show screams out average. Save your time by not watching it or you wanna waste a day watching 3 seasons of it coming out in 2020