I started writing this post just a few days after watching the last episode of The Rising of the Shield Hero but never finished it until now. Sorry about that 😀 It wasn’t a perfect anime by all means. As always, there were aspects of it that were open to criticism, however, overall I still enjoyed watching it.
Isekai isn’t really one of my favorite genres. It’s an interesting and pretty common literary genre, to be sure, but not really one I feel strongly about either way. Still, I was drawn to Shield Hero‘s premise after learning about it through Anime Feminist’s January 2019 review of episode 1, and probably wouldn’t ever have watched it had it not been for that.
Still (with apologies to Girlfriend Reviews) this isn’t a review of The Rising of the Shield Hero or Anime Feminist’s review— although I might touch on some of the points they raise or allude to. This is a post about the social and personal lessons I found from watching Shield Hero.
Aletheia Observatory 