 The official website of the Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 4 (The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 4) revealed the production staff, first promotional video, and theme songs on Monday. The fourth season adapting Yusagi Aneko's adventure fantasy light novel will air beginning in July 2025.Staff Director: Hitoshi Haga (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 3) Assistant Director: Takanori Yamamoto (Prima Doll episode director) NEW Series Composition: Keigo Koyanagi (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) Character Design: Franziska van Wulfen (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 3), Sana Komatsu (Yarinaoshi Reijou wa Ryuutei Heika wo Kouryakuchuu), Masahiro Suwa (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2) Color Design: Azusa Sasaki (Lycoris Recoil) Art Director: Junichi Higashi (Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season) NEW 3DCG Director: Yuuji Koshida (Studio Pomelo) (Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon) Screen Design: Shinichirou Miyazaki (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 3) 2D Artist: hydekick (Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon 2nd Season) Director of Photography: Miho Ikeda (T2 Studio) (Made in Abyss: Retsujitsu no Ougonkyou photography) NEW Director of Photography Supervision: Tsunetaka Ema (T2 Studio) (Grimm Kumikyoku) NEW Editing: Hitomi Sudou (Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu), Honami Yamagishi (Real-T) (SK∞) NEW Sound Director: Fumiyuki Gou (Kaijuu 8-gou) Sound Effects: Shouta Yaso (Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria) Sound Production: Glovision Music Composer: Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss), Alfredo Sirica NEW, Natalie Jeffreys NEW Music Production: Nippon Columbia Studio: Kinema Citrus Note: The staff denoted with the legend NEW are new in their respective roles. Vocal and dance group MADKID is returning to perform the opening theme "Resolution," previewed in the promotional video below. J-pop singer Chiai Fujikawa is also returning from the previous seasons to perform the ending theme "Eien ni Ikkai no." Aneko originally began the novel on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in October 2012. Kadokawa began printing the novel under its MF Books label with illustrations by Seira Minami in August 2013 and released the 22nd volume in June 2019. Kyu Aiya began serializing a manga adaptation in Monthly Comic Flapper in February 2014. Kadokawa published the 27th volume on February 21. One Peace Book licensed both the light novel and manga in English in March 2015. The 22nd light novel volume was released in December 2021, and the 23rd manga volume was released on January 7. The 24th manga volume is planned for a July 22 release. PV 1 Source: Moca News |
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| No comments? The adaptation will probably be ass, but I'm still excited. |
| So soon? Noice!!! |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| for once YT beat you guys to it... at least on my end. i subscribe to Kadokawa's YT Channel and YT's app sent me a smartphone notice yesterday about the new trailer. i like the trailer, nearly the whole 2nd half of it is new footage and it looks good! but of course they're gonna pick the best of the best shots for Trailers. |
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So soon? Noice!!!
| @CrazyButNot4U considering S3Ep 12 aired on Dec 22, 2023 meh... fast/soon? ehhh... a month/year announcement 1y 4-ish months afterwards??? with a premier in July... if they wait till the 'end' of the 1st month of Summer '25 i'll be crazy surprised... they'll probably want it as early in July as possible... that'll make it 1y 7m... so not exactly a FAST turnaround... 6-9 MONTHS is a fast turnaround, especially for a 'late in the series' entry like a S4. that fast a turnaround means, nobody ever really STOPPED work on the project after the 1st piece was 'in the can'... they just kept going with the 'sequel'. if you look at Kinema Citrus' filmography since ShieldHero S3 till S4? THREE Cardfight Vangard projects (each one 13 eps) partnered with GIFTanimation and Studio Jemi, the My Happy Marriage S2 (13 eps also and KC was the solo studio) and one episode special disk-only OVA attached to the eighth volume of the MHM LN. basically 40 episodes? if my math's right... with the announced piece that Kinema Citrus is going to present in StarWarsVisions V3 October 29th 2025 ??? that piece probably won't be all that long and won't be incredibly hard... working with two other studios on the Cardfight Vangard projects isn't easy, but dividing the work up 3 ways has to alter the workload a great deal towards 'lighter' instead of 'heavier'... so i'd guess, KC wasn't... crazy overworked for the past year... but they definitely have been buzzy lil bees. :D |
| just an ol school American otaku enjoyin the life. don't sass me kiddies, i've been otaku probably since before you were born. leave me in peace and i won't bother you either. |
KiliianSleipnir said: @CrazyButNot4U considering S3Ep 12 aired on Dec 22, 2023 meh... fast/soon? ehhh... a month/year announcement 1y 4-ish months afterwards??? with a premier in July... if they wait till the 'end' of the 1st month of Summer '25 i'll be crazy surprised... they'll probably want it as early in July as possible... that'll make it 1y 7m... so not exactly a FAST turnaround... 6-9 MONTHS is a fast turnaround, especially for a 'late in the series' entry like a S4. that fast a turnaround means, nobody ever really STOPPED work on the project after the 1st piece was 'in the can'... they just kept going with the 'sequel'. if you look at Kinema Citrus' filmography since ShieldHero S3 till S4? THREE Cardfight Vangard projects (each one 13 eps) partnered with GIFTanimation and Studio Jemi, the My Happy Marriage S2 (13 eps also and KC was the solo studio) and one episode special disk-only OVA attached to the eighth volume of the MHM LN. basically 40 episodes? if my math's right... with the announced piece that Kinema Citrus is going to present in StarWarsVisions V3 October 29th 2025 ??? that piece probably won't be all that long and won't be incredibly hard... working with two other studios on the Cardfight Vangard projects isn't easy, but dividing the work up 3 ways has to alter the workload a great deal towards 'lighter' instead of 'heavier'... so i'd guess, KC wasn't... crazy overworked for the past year... but they definitely have been buzzy lil bees. :D So, based on your statements, the quality might drop... 😢 But more than that, overworking is bad.. 😢 |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| How far are they from the end of the original LN? I heard that they originally wanted to adapt the whole story like in Mushoku Tensai. |
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KiliianSleipnir said:
@CrazyButNot4U
considering S3Ep 12 aired on Dec 22, 2023 meh... fast/soon? ehhh... a month/year announcement 1y 4-ish months afterwards??? with a premier in July... if they wait till the 'end' of the 1st month of Summer '25 i'll be crazy surprised... they'll probably want it as early in July as possible... that'll make it 1y 7m... so not exactly a FAST turnaround... 6-9 MONTHS is a fast turnaround, especially for a 'late in the series' entry like a S4. that fast a turnaround means, nobody ever really STOPPED work on the project after the 1st piece was 'in the can'... they just kept going with the 'sequel'.
if you look at Kinema Citrus' filmography since ShieldHero S3 till S4? THREE Cardfight Vangard projects (each one 13 eps) partnered with GIFTanimation and Studio Jemi, the My Happy Marriage S2 (13 eps also and KC was the solo studio) and one episode special disk-only OVA attached to the eighth volume of the MHM LN. basically 40 episodes? if my math's right...
with the announced piece that Kinema Citrus is going to present in StarWarsVisions V3 October 29th 2025 ??? that piece probably won't be all that long and won't be incredibly hard... working with two other studios on the Cardfight Vangard projects isn't easy, but dividing the work up 3 ways has to alter the workload a great deal towards 'lighter' instead of 'heavier'...
so i'd guess, KC wasn't... crazy overworked for the past year... but they definitely have been buzzy lil bees. :D
@CrazyButNot4U
considering S3Ep 12 aired on Dec 22, 2023 meh... fast/soon? ehhh... a month/year announcement 1y 4-ish months afterwards??? with a premier in July... if they wait till the 'end' of the 1st month of Summer '25 i'll be crazy surprised... they'll probably want it as early in July as possible... that'll make it 1y 7m... so not exactly a FAST turnaround... 6-9 MONTHS is a fast turnaround, especially for a 'late in the series' entry like a S4. that fast a turnaround means, nobody ever really STOPPED work on the project after the 1st piece was 'in the can'... they just kept going with the 'sequel'.
if you look at Kinema Citrus' filmography since ShieldHero S3 till S4? THREE Cardfight Vangard projects (each one 13 eps) partnered with GIFTanimation and Studio Jemi, the My Happy Marriage S2 (13 eps also and KC was the solo studio) and one episode special disk-only OVA attached to the eighth volume of the MHM LN. basically 40 episodes? if my math's right...
with the announced piece that Kinema Citrus is going to present in StarWarsVisions V3 October 29th 2025 ??? that piece probably won't be all that long and won't be incredibly hard... working with two other studios on the Cardfight Vangard projects isn't easy, but dividing the work up 3 ways has to alter the workload a great deal towards 'lighter' instead of 'heavier'...
so i'd guess, KC wasn't... crazy overworked for the past year... but they definitely have been buzzy lil bees. :D
So, based on your statements, the quality might drop... 😢
But more than that, overworking is bad.. 😢
| @CrazyButNot4U i'm not saying a 'drop' in quality... i'm just saying 40 eps in 1-2 years... is a busy schedule for an anime studio. but that all depends on when the 'work' on each of those 40 episodes got started... plus when the work got started on ShieldHero S4... and was finished everywhere... how many staff worked each project, or multiple projects at the same time sharing staff, or perhaps entirely separate teams did the work on Cardfight Vangard and My Happy Marriage and SH4... there are a lot of different workflow structures and production requirements and such... plus i haven't watched a second of CV or MHM so i've no clue how deeply Kinema Citrus was invested in making each of those look gorgeous... \shrug/ for a big example? pretty much everybody said J.C. Staff made in and around the same time period: 'Murai no Koi' look baad... and i watched like the first few MINUTES of the 1st episode and agree with them... whereas 'Delico's Nursery' looked great (not that i watched that one, just what i read) and '2.5-jigen no Ririsa' just looked ok to good and pretty sometimes (which i did watch and agree with those opinions)... then going backwards in time 'Lv2 kara Cheat datta Motoyuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life' looked meh to good (i agree, it was high average at best)... 'Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid 3rd Season' looked awesome as the first 2 seasons and yep, i loved that unique art-style and overall design... and JC taking over from studio C2C for 'Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- Season 2' wasn't a vast improvement. but there were improvements! which i enjoyed! adding in 'Selector Loth WIXOSS' and 'Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest'... i skipped both of those and know NOTHING about them... that was a SERIOUSLY heavy schedule for J.C. Staff! just the number of projects from 'Murai' in Sep-Nov 2024 backwards to 'Tsukimichi S2' in Winter 2024? not counting # of episodes, or length of eps. or any other factor... that is 8 EIGHT projects out for release in the span of a year? maybe even MORE projects if i went further backwards or forwards a smidge in 2024? compare that to Kinema Citrus' schedule as i mentioned. 40 eps with 3 Cardfight Vangard seasons and My Happy Marriage's 2nd season and SH S4 upcoming ??ep count?? and that is 1-2 years' worth of work??? ehhh? if JC can pull off THAT big of a year? \shrug/ is KC gonna make this next SH 'icky'??? i'd hope not. we'll definitely have to wait n see... |
KiliianSleipnirApr 22, 3:12 PM
| just an ol school American otaku enjoyin the life. don't sass me kiddies, i've been otaku probably since before you were born. leave me in peace and i won't bother you either. |
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No comments? The adaptation will probably be ass, but I'm still excited.
| @DGottem DGottem said: Have you seen S3? That was far from ass, outside how much they rushed, and they rushed cuz it would otherwise be too dragged out and new double the episodes.No comments? The adaptation will probably be ass, but I'm still excited. What they are going to adapt here will have more impact and might surprise people. RobertBobert said: How far are they from the end of the original LN? I heard that they originally wanted to adapt the whole story like in Mushoku Tensai. They should adapt volumes 14-17 I think, and the LN is on hiatus since vol.22: https://shield-hero.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Novel_Volume_22 It has been on hiatus for a while, the writer finished the WN a long time ago, but he is taking his sweet time adapting the next bits, I think he has another series that is keeping him busy (and it is lewd one lol), and the man/woman, never cared to come back to Tate... hopefully S4 will change his mind. |
PlaycoolMay 1, 5:07 PM
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@DGottem
What they are going to adapt here will have more impact and might surprise people.
They should adapt volumes 14-17 I think, and the LN is on hiatus since vol.22:
https://shield-hero.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Novel_Volume_22
It has been on hiatus for a while, the writer finished the WN a long time ago, but he is taking his sweet time adapting the next bits, I think he has another series that is keeping him busy (and it is lewd one lol), and the man/woman, never cared to come back to Tate... hopefully S4 will change his mind.
DGottem said:
No comments? The adaptation will probably be ass, but I'm still excited.
Have you seen S3? That was far from ass, outside how much they rushed, and they rushed cuz it would otherwise be too dragged out and new double the episodes.No comments? The adaptation will probably be ass, but I'm still excited.
What they are going to adapt here will have more impact and might surprise people.
RobertBobert said:
How far are they from the end of the original LN? I heard that they originally wanted to adapt the whole story like in Mushoku Tensai.
How far are they from the end of the original LN? I heard that they originally wanted to adapt the whole story like in Mushoku Tensai.
They should adapt volumes 14-17 I think, and the LN is on hiatus since vol.22:
https://shield-hero.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Novel_Volume_22
It has been on hiatus for a while, the writer finished the WN a long time ago, but he is taking his sweet time adapting the next bits, I think he has another series that is keeping him busy (and it is lewd one lol), and the man/woman, never cared to come back to Tate... hopefully S4 will change his mind.
| @Playcool So we'll get at least another 1-2 seasons after this? |
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