I miss the storywriting of the first season. Where the world feels alive and moving behind the scene
| The plot of season 1 could've been a whole multi-season series all on its own, ever since they ended that it indeed seems like this series been struggling to get proper foothold. |
| I think the problem with shield hero ATM is lack of story focus. What is the overall goal? |
Just here to say I was pretty confused until I actually looked at the title. MAL app doing it's thing again |
| I'm happy we got more shield hero but it should have just ended with season 1 |
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| If 2nd and 3rd seasons had 25 episodes instead of 13 I think they'd be better off. It's clear they wanted to tell to much with as little time as possible, which screwed up the pacing tremendously. The characters feel less alive when they're speed-running the story. |
| I liked season 2, it isn't as good as season 1, but whatever. The thing is, season 3 is atrocious, I mean Sadeena is a cool character and all, but all the rest is so over the place, Atla has been growing on me too, but I read on the wiki that the story only goes downhill, I didn't expect it would have been so soon. |
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Flanery said:
In the first season the world feels alive everything is moving outside of the screen and Naofumi party struggling to keep up with everything that happening at once. There's scheming, betrayal and intrigue happening behind the scene. When shits happen and can't get anymore worse, it did.
For example, in the first season an arc went like this (feel free to skip ahead) :
- Naofumi party wasn't allowed to Class up at the church.
- They decide to go to other country.
- Not even far from the capital they met Melty who then almost got assassinate by her own body guard.
- Naofumi save her only to fall into their plot.
- Naofumi now accused of kidnaping her. They become outlaw.
- They can't pass the border, so they decide to take her to her mother.
- Malty found them and chase the party alongside the other heros and an army. Malty burn the forest. But the party manage to escape.
- Suprise suprise Naofumi was blamed for the forest burning.
- They hide in a friendly noble mansion, other noble interfere and take melty away.
- The bad noble turn out to be the one who enslave and torture Raphtalia.
- the bad noble release an OP ancient dragon.
- they met Fitoria an ancient Filorial queen, she defeat the dragon
- Naofumi party decide to cross the border anyway after running out of options
- Spear hero then attack the party. Saying that Naofumi murder the other heros. confused Naofumi fight the spear hero party anyway.
- A long fight happens. But it went quite all of the sudden. The army that surround the hero fight mysteriously gone.
- Filo panicked, everyone confused. Naofumi then start to enclosed everyone including Malty and spear hero inside his defense magic. Something incoming.
- God beam from heaven strike the whole place down to smithereens
- The pope reveal himself and all the plot that cause this whole mess and the fight begin
- Running out of option Naofumi used the cursed skill. Which surprisingly slash Naofumi whole body and drain his blood. Pope laugh at the irony, but not long after the real stage of that ultimate attack crushed him to pieces
- The queen arrive and then bring everyone to the capital
- The most satisfying scene in history of anime is happening
I'm not good at writing sypnosis but the point is there's a lot of conflicts and resolution happend at the same time. The world is moving and alive. It's like everyone has their own goal not just the protagonist and antagonists but the NPC as well. It makes the whole season feels intense and worth looking forward to.
Meanwhile in current season when they fight that dragon. The world is static while the fight is going on nothing is happening behind the scene. The plot is just went from point A to point B in a straight line. If you know what I mean.
In season 2 aswell. I really wish there's more involvement from that Chinese like nation while fighting the giant turtle. The glass's world as well. I wish there are internal conflicts, betrayal, intrigue, and mystery that happen in the story.
In the first season the world feels alive everything is moving outside of the screen and Naofumi party struggling to keep up with everything that happening at once. There's scheming, betrayal and intrigue happening behind the scene. When shits happen and can't get anymore worse, it did.
For example, in the first season an arc went like this (feel free to skip ahead) :
- Naofumi party wasn't allowed to Class up at the church.
- They decide to go to other country.
- Not even far from the capital they met Melty who then almost got assassinate by her own body guard.
- Naofumi save her only to fall into their plot.
- Naofumi now accused of kidnaping her. They become outlaw.
- They can't pass the border, so they decide to take her to her mother.
- Malty found them and chase the party alongside the other heros and an army. Malty burn the forest. But the party manage to escape.
- Suprise suprise Naofumi was blamed for the forest burning.
- They hide in a friendly noble mansion, other noble interfere and take melty away.
- The bad noble turn out to be the one who enslave and torture Raphtalia.
- the bad noble release an OP ancient dragon.
- they met Fitoria an ancient Filorial queen, she defeat the dragon
- Naofumi party decide to cross the border anyway after running out of options
- Spear hero then attack the party. Saying that Naofumi murder the other heros. confused Naofumi fight the spear hero party anyway.
- A long fight happens. But it went quite all of the sudden. The army that surround the hero fight mysteriously gone.
- Filo panicked, everyone confused. Naofumi then start to enclosed everyone including Malty and spear hero inside his defense magic. Something incoming.
- God beam from heaven strike the whole place down to smithereens
- The pope reveal himself and all the plot that cause this whole mess and the fight begin
- Running out of option Naofumi used the cursed skill. Which surprisingly slash Naofumi whole body and drain his blood. Pope laugh at the irony, but not long after the real stage of that ultimate attack crushed him to pieces
- The queen arrive and then bring everyone to the capital
- The most satisfying scene in history of anime is happening
I'm not good at writing sypnosis but the point is there's a lot of conflicts and resolution happend at the same time. The world is moving and alive. It's like everyone has their own goal not just the protagonist and antagonists but the NPC as well. It makes the whole season feels intense and worth looking forward to.
Meanwhile in current season when they fight that dragon. The world is static while the fight is going on nothing is happening behind the scene. The plot is just went from point A to point B in a straight line. If you know what I mean.
In season 2 aswell. I really wish there's more involvement from that Chinese like nation while fighting the giant turtle. The glass's world as well. I wish there are internal conflicts, betrayal, intrigue, and mystery that happen in the story.
Not gonna lie, the 3rd season seems interesting as episodes go by, don't know about you guys but I'm enjoying it way more then season 2
| @Pendragon572 I am not a big fan of what is happening after Sadeena's arc, an anime that wasn't yet another isekai cliché is using a lot of isekai tropes and, hence, becoming an isekai cliché. Season 2 had good ideas, but they were poorly executed thanks to its bad writing, I would take season 2 over watching the same thing every isekai does again. |
| Both season 2 and season 3 are extremely rushed to the point of being utterly bad, the animation has improved tremendously in season 3 but reading that this is an issue with the original work, not the anime just being a bad adaptation, kind of sucks. Season 2 should been double the runtime lengths with season 3 be three if not four times the length. Shield Hero has tremendous potential as a concept and season 1 was brimming with it, but the author just ended up using all his ideas at the same time and then literally ended up with nothing. He has no sense of pacing or skill of world building whatsoever, its typical of stories that are written and not planned in any way shape or form. Most LN writers in Japan are not trained or educated to write stories so its not all that surprising. Its clear to me the author of Shield Hero did not know how to end it, he also had no idea how the main characters get from A to B, he just wants to introduce a story arc and then just show the cool stuff, then just proceed to the next idea. Honestly I am dumbfounded that this anime, manga and the LN even has rating above 5. |
| "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato |
| This recent ep is where I drew the line and it appears others did too. Naofumi's squad is so oversaturated and there are far more important events that we'd rather see. Hate to say this, but this direction is barely any different from trashy stereotypical isekai, no wonder the production-quality is so poor when the writing isn't any better. I was so invested in S1 that I continued with the LN, up until those stupid toddlers & dragons were introduced. It's painful how badly the writer and studio are actively killing this anime given how incredibly fun S1 was :( |
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