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| Lmao the home-slice committed suicide in the stupidest possible way. On character though. Every new male in this show: incredibly evil and/or stupid. Every other new character? Another waifu for the collection, babe! Like the good ole childhood friend who showed up this episode and decided to attack 6 people with cardinal weapons. Good one. The jank animation really didn't help. It's kinda wild how release dates a S2 are so far past when S1 ended but the production is still a clown fiesta. |
| As an anime-only watcher, I’m liking it and appreciating the small moments we’re getting to see between characters in this “isekai within an isekai” arc… Kizuna is so great as a new character! The L’Arc/Naofumi banter was perfect this episode! But most of this is overshadowed by just how ridiculously rushed this season feels. I’m sure LN readers have mentioned already how much material they’re speeding through in this adaption, because I haven’t read them and it’s still giving me whiplash. Idk, I just can’t help but think how much more I would have enjoyed this season as a 25-epi one, like season 1. I know what’s done is done, and we got what we got, but it hurts to see season 2 in this state, with 2 episodes left. (And episode 13 being a recap, I believe?) I just really wanted more time. |
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| Oh, the waves are back. At least Naofumi will be fighting alongside the others this time. |
| Boy, that was a bad one. The animation has reached new lows and characters were off-model more than I cared to count. The plot was atrocious too. Kizuna takes a liking to Kyo’s child friend because reasons? Then she shares almost no useful information and completely changes her perspective just because Naofumi was angry at him. Her conviction must not have been very strong despite being his lackey for who knows how many years. There’s more I could rip on, but idc. |
| Aside from being straight up stupid m, the animation quality this episode was abysmal. The hell was up with their mouths? |
D2theA2theVD said: After the last few Episodes I really had hopes up for the Show to get back to at least somewhat as good as S1 .... but now I'm even scared to rewatch S1 because i'm starting to feel like I might wrongfully remember it as amazing.... L'Arcs Group has had potential, Kizuna hasn't been uninteresting at first too.... (not as some other costume wearing girl.....)... there were just soo many things i was curious about in S1 but instead of going any of the interesting ways i could've imagined or surprising me with something... it's just a bunch of nothing.... its not bad, its not mid. it's just.... nothing. almost everything that happens seems... random in a predicatble way?! if that makes any sense... like a story an elementary school kid would write... the characters i came to love in S1 get no development (or real Action for that matter) what so ever... its just plain... stupid... i wanna cry. that was my favourite isekai? Am i stupid? Granted: the cutting in half part came unexpected (only somewhat interesting what? 2 seconds? of the episode).... but it couldn't get me much interested because it was clear from how casual they did that that it wouldn't have any longlasting impact and guess what -.- Kizuna.... wow... the girl who can't fight is looking for a way to not fight.... what a character... and now they even gave Filo a bs costume. it wasn't enough that they had to taint the show with one side character having that stupid gimmick. no. now the main cast gets dragged into the dirt too... for Real... i know that i won't be able to drop it because - as i said - S1 was my favourite Isekai (i know that there are objectively better ones but it played a huge role in me getting into anime so...) but it simply hurts. it's painful. i somewhat wish, there wasn't those few better episodes after Spirit Turtle Arc, so i would not have gotten my hopes up... i can't even really find words to accurately describe my disappointment... so sorry for the long Text... it's so sad. I rewatched s1 recently and I found it to be considerably worse than I remembered it being. The first few episodes are genuinely great, but it decends into mediocrity pretty quickly afterwards. That said, at least the direction was somewhat inspired and it had good-to-solid animation most of the time. |
| Kyo is actually a good villain. He’s such an asshole, and keeps screwing with the heroes so much. Out of anything in the 2nd Season I’ve enjoyed it’s gotta be him. Whenever he’s talking shit to someone its pretty funny. |
Byniavo said: Bro touch some grassdam I want Kizuna to scold me as well UwU |
 My biggest regret: Reading all 200+ chapters of Kanojo, Okarishimasu |
| Ok so why tf does Kyo want to destroy his world as well as the other world? What is his endgame? |
My biggest regret: Reading all 200+ chapters of Kanojo, Okarishimasu |
Remocracy said: Ok so why tf does Kyo want to destroy his world as well as the other world? What is his endgame? Originally Kyo summoned a wave to teleport half of Naofumi's group away in the middle of the fight because he couldn't beat them. The anime is rushing things so much that they're cutting out half of the Kyo battle by summoning the waves before the fight starts. Also by doing this the studio has to animate fewer people, so it's a budget decision. Kyo's endgame is season 4 content. |
| If Raphtalia has the Vassal Katana, then why she didn't got teleported at the end with Kizuna & co.? I don't get it. PD: Kizuna is by far, without a doubt, the best character on this.  |
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| Kizuna is what was missing in this anime! She's so good, her personality and overall she's a meme but when it comes to fighting she doesn't lose. Damn, so the 2 next episodes will be epic, it will be MEGA wave + Kyo's fight! Can't wait! And now they got split...and that worries me. |
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| Is it too early to consider Yomogi as the most stupid character in the whole Shield Hero universe? Like... girl, you can't seriously be this naive. Also imagine having someone like Kyo as your childhood friend 💀 Laughable episode once again. OST when Kyo triggered the Wave was fucking sexy tho. |
| I never thought I'd say this, but I feel the animation this week just barely beats out The Last Summoner, another show airing this season. And that's saying something because that show is sloppy as hell, and it feels like watching a PowerPoint presentation. I really hope we can get through this season, and that next season will do this series some well deserved justice. |
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| the plot gets even worse because now it doesn't even involve naofumi nor his world, it's just something that we were made to care about because these characters happen to be introduced to us, that's terrible writing. |
AnimeNerd99 said: I feeli like Naofumi has taken a backseat in this season. Maybe that's how it went in the LN, idkSort of interesting how Kizuna is basically acting like your typical protagonist, talking about how "there must be another way", while Naofumi is the cynical realist who has to be proven wrong. |
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| Another rushed and butchered shield hero episode. Animation was ass and also looks like they’re skipping the assault on L’arc’s castle so they can end with Kyo fight. Kinema really fell off. |
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Typecero said: Marinate1016 said: Another rushed and butchered shield hero episode. Animation was ass and also looks like they’re skipping the assault on L’arc’s castle so they can end with Kyo fight. Kinema really fell off. And we all thought "Seven Deadly Sins" got the worst of the "terrible animation". Shield Hero has the budget, but not the heart. At least you could write off SDS as not trying... I still have flashbacks to the "sperm blood". Shield Hero S2 never gave a damn right from episode 1. "Gets better after the Turtle Arc!" They all said... BETTER WHEN? THE EPISODE 13 RECAP?? The story does get extremely peak but the anime has done an awful job of adapting it |
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But what if I get scolded whilst touching grass 😳😳😳 |
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| Only two episodes left so I'll watch them to mark it as complete. But this is just ass lmao, keeps trying to juggle too many characters with zero personality, animation is awful so it just feels like noone who worked on this even cared. |
| was amazing despite the animation bullshit imo |
ForeverTraitor said: Shield Hero S2 was such a letdown compared to S1Only two episodes left so I'll watch them to mark it as complete. But this is just ass lmao, keeps trying to juggle too many characters with zero personality, animation is awful so it just feels like noone who worked on this even cared. |
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StallionXD said: If Raphtalia has the Vassal Katana, then why she didn't got teleported at the end with Kizuna & co.? I don't get it. PD: Kizuna is by far, without a doubt, the best character on this. Naofumi and Raphtalia isn't registered to the local Dragon Hourglass, that's why their team didn't get teleported when the wave started. |
Marinate1016 said: Typecero said: And we all thought "Seven Deadly Sins" got the worst of the "terrible animation". Shield Hero has the budget, but not the heart. At least you could write off SDS as not trying... I still have flashbacks to the "sperm blood". Shield Hero S2 never gave a damn right from episode 1. "Gets better after the Turtle Arc!" They all said... BETTER WHEN? THE EPISODE 13 RECAP?? The story does get extremely peak but the anime has done an awful job of adapting it The Animation quality really took a down turn cause this whole episode was mostly outsourced with DR Movie rather than Kimetra Circus. IT is extremely apparent everytime that studio takes over the production the quality drastically drops. I swear they should of never let them get their hands on it as it is clear their wasnt any real communication between the two. I guess with both Covid and Made in Abyss s2 they had to get someone but they are just bad man. I really hope they dont get involved with s3 production. I pretty much made my peace with this adaptation as it will never live up to s1. If that was a 9.5 this is a 6.5/7. Not too bad but certainly not great. Well at least most of the scenes i wanted from the book made it in so i can always read those again with the scenes animated. |
| The animation quality dropped, the dialogues were so weird and unnatural, the writing felt contrived, Kyo is the worst designed villian of this series, Glass's power scale has been nerfed without a reason. And having the waves feel so underwhelming, generic, and boring. 0/10 |
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-ShadowClaw- said: Marinate1016 said: The story does get extremely peak but the anime has done an awful job of adapting it The Animation quality really took a down turn cause this whole episode was mostly outsourced with DR Movie rather than Kimetra Circus. IT is extremely apparent everytime that studio takes over the production the quality drastically drops. I swear they should of never let them get their hands on it as it is clear their wasnt any real communication between the two. I guess with both Covid and Made in Abyss s2 they had to get someone but they are just bad man. I really hope they dont get involved with s3 production. I pretty much made my peace with this adaptation as it will never live up to s1. If that was a 9.5 this is a 6.5/7. Not too bad but certainly not great. Well at least most of the scenes i wanted from the book made it in so i can always read those again with the scenes animated. 6.5 is way too kind. This is a 4-5/10 on a good day considering all the cuts to rishia and eclair characters, the butchered spirit tortoise the pacing and animation quality etc |
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| Not gonna lie, that death was by far the dumbest I've seen in awhile, Kyo literally told him NOT to move so what does the genius do? He moves... Kinda shocked though at the revelation Kyo wasn't trying to stop waves but create them, maybe I missed the foreshadowing? I probably did I am not great at seeing that so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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Yaggamy said: I get that, but still, Raphtalia is the user of the Vassal Katana, and it has been overexplained time and time again how the heroes/vassal heroes have to participate in waves like it or not because that's their mission, that's the only real use for their weapons, which are supposed to be "registered" by default, so I still think it was kinda weird for her not to be teleported with the others, ofc Naofumi shouldn't have because he is a hero from another world, but Raphtalia is a hero in THIS world and not the other, so, yeah, that could have been cool, since it would have made Naofumi even more desperate to find their location asap to help her... just saying.StallionXD said: If Raphtalia has the Vassal Katana, then why she didn't got teleported at the end with Kizuna & co.? I don't get it. PD: Kizuna is by far, without a doubt, the best character on this. Naofumi and Raphtalia isn't registered to the local Dragon Hourglass, that's why their team didn't get teleported when the wave started. |
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StallionXD said: Yaggamy said: I get that, but still, Raphtalia is the user of the Vassal Katana, and it has been overexplained time and time again how the heroes/vassal heroes have to participate in waves like it or not because that's their mission, that's the only real use for their weapons, which are supposed to be "registered" by default, so I still think it was kinda weird for her not to be teleported with the others, ofc Naofumi shouldn't have because he is a hero from another world, but Raphtalia is a hero in THIS world and not the other, so, yeah, that could have been cool, since it would have made Naofumi even more desperate to find their location asap to help her... just saying.Naofumi and Raphtalia isn't registered to the local Dragon Hourglass, that's why their team didn't get teleported when the wave started. Waves are local events and heroes are supposed to travel the world to fight them. When waves were happening in Melromarc the 7 vassal heroes of that world weren't teleported there because they weren't registered to that local Dragon Hourglass. Naofumi didn't have a wave countdown timer until he visited the Dragon Hourglass in season 1. When the Cal Mira wave happened Naofumi was registered to that Dragon Hourglass and the Queen's fleet was in his party so they all could teleport there from Melromarc. Raphtalia didn't visit any Dragon Hourglasses since becoming a hero. |
| Why is every man in this series has a female servant? Even villains have female entourage. The sexist nature of this show is boggling. Shounen or not, harem or not, it's lame. No wonder guys like it so much. |
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| oh my! Glass is totally different when it comes to Kizuna! the rest of the ep seems MEH! 3/5. |
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| The bad has reached the unintentionally funny levels. When the guy was sliced in half I couldn't help but burst out laughing. |
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Just as everybody thought that Raphtalia couldn't possibly get any cuter, she shows up in a miko outfit 😻👌 |
| Just curious anyone know what the JP reception has been? Wonder if we'll ever get a rundown on why this season has been a complete disaster. |
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