The Rising of the Shield Hero is an isekai anime series that mainly focuses on protagonist Naofumi Iwatani the Shield Hero, but he is not alone in his adventures. Naofumi was actually one of four young men in Japan who are summoned to the Kingdom of Melromarc to become the next Cardinal Heroes who will save the world from the Waves. They are initially meant to fight as a team, but their paths soon diverge thanks to Princess Malty’s schemes. What drives them even further apart is Naofumi’s smart, practical mindset, which directly contrasts with Ren, Motoyasu, and Itsuki’s tendency to be total fools.By the events of The Rising of the Shield Hero’s third season, Ren, Motoyasu, and Itsuki are meant to contrast sharply with Naofumi and make him look good by comparison. However, their deeply flawed characters also serve as a smart deconstruction of idealistic, lovable isekai heroes. That said, Motoyasu, Ren, and Itsuki’s actions go much further than commentary on the iseaki genre, and at this point, they’re a real problem in the series’ narrative.In a better-written isekai story, the Cardinal Heroes would actually make great protagonists, proving that isekai leads have a lot of growing up to do on the inside and allow their personalities to catch up to their newfound powers. The problem is that The Rising of the Shield Hero simply goes too far with this idea. The Cardinal Heroes are indeed flawed young men who don’t really know what they are doing, but the anime pushes it to the point of making anime fans hate them — and that’s not even counting their role in Princess Malty’s controversial schemes. The three Cardinal Heroes accidentally took their deconstruction of isekai too far and became detestable heroes who only exist to make Naofumi look good. The Rising of the Shield Hero fumbled this concept, but the anime can right the ship with serious redemption arcs or by simply wiping the slate clean.
The Rising of the Shield Hero is an isekai anime series that mainly focuses on protagonist Naofumi Iwatani the Shield Hero, but he is not alone in his adventures. Naofumi was actually one of four young men in Japan who are summoned to the Kingdom of Melromarc to become the next Cardinal Heroes who will save the world from the Waves. They are initially meant to fight as a team, but their paths soon diverge thanks to Princess Malty’s schemes. What drives them even further apart is Naofumi’s smart, practical mindset, which directly contrasts with Ren, Motoyasu, and Itsuki’s tendency to be total fools.
By the events of The Rising of the Shield Hero‘s third season, Ren, Motoyasu, and Itsuki are meant to contrast sharply with Naofumi and make him look good by comparison. However, their deeply flawed characters also serve as a smart deconstruction of idealistic, lovable isekai heroes. That said, Motoyasu, Ren, and Itsuki’s actions go much further than commentary on the iseaki genre, and at this point, they’re a real problem in the series’ narrative.
In a better-written isekai story, the Cardinal Heroes would actually make great protagonists, proving that isekai leads have a lot of growing up to do on the inside and allow their personalities to catch up to their newfound powers. The problem is that The Rising of the Shield Hero simply goes too far with this idea. The Cardinal Heroes are indeed flawed young men who don’t really know what they are doing, but the anime pushes it to the point of making anime fans hate them — and that’s not even counting their role in Princess Malty’s controversial schemes. The three Cardinal Heroes accidentally took their deconstruction of isekai too far and became detestable heroes who only exist to make Naofumi look good. The Rising of the Shield Hero fumbled this concept, but the anime can right the ship with serious redemption arcs or by simply wiping the slate clean.
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