Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari
The Rising of the Shield Hero

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What would you do if you were transported to a different world to fight the monster? Would you die for people in a world you never know?

This is a story about a fantasy world which you need to fight the monster since you are summoned as a hero. This story starts as a simple fantasy game-like manga but it gets intense when we realize that the worst/ugliest creature in this world is not the monster but human themselves.

Betrayed by everyone in the world he has never been, the MC starts his journey with Demi-human and monsters. At least, they won't cheat him as certain ... someone.

Never has the term "Never Judge A Book By It's Cover" been more literal than this story has any right to be.
What could have been a generic and unoriginal fantasy RPG story has crafted its self into an amazing concept which deals with an interesting topic not commonly brought up in Fantasy RPG: DISCRIMINATION

(risk of spoilers ahead)
Story:10
The plot starts with a otaku college student being brushed into a fantasy world with 3 other people to save this kingdom and be heralded as heroes.The main lead has given the weakest power(Shield) and has to proven himself from the bottom to the top.

While the beginning starts of ... kind of blah, it takes an interesting turn when the act of betrayal and discrimination plays into affect.The story doesn't focus on how great the hero is, but how he survives his everyday lives when labelled as a criminal.Each chapter has its own unique flavour and yet still has that captivating drive and alpha-dog nature which is makes it all the more enjoyable


Art:9
The art is great for what it is.It is drawn by the same person who did the Persona 4 manga, so its stands as feat with splash pages and unique monster characters images.However it isn't unique enough from any other similar manga to stand out much.But the arts has done its job pretty well

Characters:9
The main lead instantly became my favourite character in the story (first for me in any manga) as it proves something not many manga can do: show a balance of jerk and nice .This has more development and reasons to be a douche, and at same time comes of very likable in many places

The two other female leads also has been done nicely in setting their personalities as likable, cute and at the same time close to the lead.

The villains are delightfully hateable, the side characters have more characterization than they need to.My only issue is aging of the female lead, which came of as unnecessary and more perverted than it had any right to.But it can be easily ignored by her bubbly charm

Overall I feel this manga got me hooked on arrival.Its an seinen manga which delves into ostracization of the lead, in a way that the whole story depends on it rather than it being a plot-point.My little issues havent discouraged me in the least and I look forward to see where this series takes me

In the begining of the manga, i started to think it was a standart "reborn in another world" manga, but you discover that this manga is not so simple.It basically gives a slap on the face of the standart another world mangas, avoinding every cliche and making something diferent.The protagonist is also diferent and funny and not overpowered (well, not enough to be boring).I enjoyed the reading mostly because i like that travelling to another world thing, but usually the kind of manga that approuches this kind of theme is too cliche and has way too much fan-service.I like the way the protgonist is cold ... and carismatic at the same time,and i felt such joy when he got anger in a way that everyone could fell his fury (not in a cliche way, like he get a lot of power;no it is not like that)

Shield Hero is one of those going in I wasn’t really sure what to expect since it was based off a Isekai Light Novel series. And at the time I had also just got done reading about 16 chapters Arifureta which was basically every Isekai trope ever. So I wasn’t too keen on reading yet another Isekai, but at the same time I was open minded enough to give it a shot, and also because Condifiction is pretty darn good at recommending me only the best Anime and Manga. But I do want to say right now that this is an incomplete review, the manga ... is nowhere near being finished and these are my thoughts after reading just 36 chapters of the manga. So because of this I will not be giving this manga a score, I will be instead giving this manga a recommendation of a “Go Out Of Your Way To Read It”, “Read” or a “Skip”. Enjoy the video everyone!

Background

The Rising of the Shield Hero’s story is by Yusagi Aneko, who is known for the Light Novel Ore dake Kasereru Class Teni. Originally this manga is actually based off the original Light Novel The Rising of the Shield Hero. And since we’re here already, this manga has a ridiculously long title of “The Rising of the Shield Hero: The Manga Companion”. As you can guess, this is simply another option to consume this series if you want to. I personally have not read the Light Novel as of this time, but I may plan to if there is interest in doing so. But anyways, the art is also done by Kyu Aiya, She is known for; Mofu Men, Code Age Archives and Persona 4 Ultimate manga. Shield Hero’s Light Novel was originally published in 2013, while the alternate Manga version has been published since 2014 in Comic Flapper. Currently at the time of this writing there are 17 volumes of The Rising of The Shield Hero. There is also an anime adaptation announced and is will be handled by the same studio who did Made in Abyss, Kinema Citrus.

Story

Shield Hero is a tale you wouldn’t expect would be so good with the other “Other World” trope that has been driven into the ground in the last couple of years. But Shield Hero, while being an “Other World” manga and having many RPG inspired elements like the mentions of XP and frequent mention of quests. Shield Hero really isn’t taking those aspects and making it the whole manga. Instead, Shield Hero is more about a tale of Revenge and Redemption after a brutal betrayal from an allie. But not only that, it’s about Naofumi finding himself in this new world and raising Raphtalia and Firo correctly as before they were both slaves. I won’t say this story is one of the best manga ever, but I will say it’s one of the best “Other World” manga out there right now. And with its eventual anime adaption it may take the top spot that Re:Zero currently occupies.

Let’s now talk about the most controversial topic when people bring up this series, and that’s Raphtalia’s age versus her actual appearance. So let’s do a little set up here before get into the details. Raphtalia is in reality a 10 year old girl, and because of the way the world works, when leveling up Raphtalia grows in physical age. To put it simply, the higher level she is, the more matured her body becomes. This to me is actually pretty great, it’s a unique character that has the body of an adult, but is a kid in mind and age. But here is where the problem starts to arise and something I hope they don’t do. It’s obvious through the writing on the series that Raphtalia is “the one” for Naofumi. Naofumi doesn’t reciprocate yet in the series, but it’s made apparent that Raphtalia likes Naofumi. Naofumi is 20 years old, double the age of Raphtalia. Now you see the problem and why I hope they don’t go down this route where Naofumi starts banging a 10 year old. This has already made me a little uncomfortable, but depending on how it’s handled it can make or break the story between the two. Because right now in the series their partnership is quite enjoyable, I enjoy their interactions as characters. And thankfully right now these little glimpses of this are very small and hard to gauge exactly where it’s headed. But if Naofumi and Raphtalia start bangin’ when she’s just 10, I may have to lower my final rating once this series is finished.
But there is one thing that I think at the beginning may turn people away. And that’s the fact that there is no real explanation as to why Naofumi is summoned. It seems like the author really just wanted to rush the very beginning because the beginning of Isekai are usually such a drag and cliched. But this one I have a feeling the author felt by doing this he would please the readers of this manga and opted to just go ahead and skip the beginning. To me this is a HUGE problem in the beginning. Now I know what you’re saying “Re:Zero never introduced Subaru and opted to rush past the beginning”. To which I have to say it makes sense with that series, as Subaru’s backstory being a mystery is one of the reasons for Subaru being so compelling. With Naofumi I wanted that little bit of extra characterization for him in the sense of a backstory. I just can’t get fully invested in him, and he’s not a Subaru type. Like I said, it’s a huge problem and it feels amateur and rushed.

But, if you’re into the Isekai genre of manga or Light Novel, then you’ll enjoy your time with Shield Hero. It’s a well paced story with great characters and it knows when and when not to introduce elements or plot point to not rush and overwhelm the reader. But the one thing I do dislike is sometimes the scale of the things that happen do feel a little unimportant when they should be huge altering things. For example, they summon a huge dangerous ass T-Rex that before in the past was extremely destructive. But it doesn’t feel that way, sure they explain what this creature did, but it doesn’t come off as world altering as it should be. But other than that it’s a very well rounded fun manga that has a pretty complex story that in the future will seem to delve into different countries and their own politics. For example, they teased one country that is ran by Demi-humans and uses Humans as slaves. I hope they go to those places too, as I want to see how they’d handle not only from a writing perspective, but from a character perspective as Naofumi has a squad of only Demi-Humans.

Characterizations

Shield Hero though is a surprisingly nuanced series in my opinion, let’s take for example our main character Naofumi. He’s a man that was betrayed at his most vulnerable point, not even 24 hours spent in the new world he was just learning. He was taken advantage of, and because of this the story really revolves around that one pivotal moment. Everything from then on (so far) has the Shield Hero and his companions doing anything they can to get Redemption. Because of this we get to experience some really great moments in the story, for example, I love the first chapters that focus on Raphtalia. She is a young demi-human who has obviously experienced some terrible things in her young life, being tortured, her parents being killed. The things Naofumi takes for granted, Raphtalia cherishes. The first time she eats a full meal, she doesn’t know what to think, she’s confused. She thinks, “Why would Naofumi do this for me?” many times during these initial chapters she’s introduced. Because of this we can really appreciate and get behind this character, Raphtalia. She’s had a tragic history, she’s cursed, it’s not a story most would want to experience for themselves, but a nice underdog story.



Another Underdog story is Naofumi though, continuing on with him like I said before he was betrayed and now spends his time going back and forth on whether to be what the people now expect of the Shield Hero, or be a better man, taking the high road. Morally speaking, Naofumi does some really awful stuff to people, demanding a reward from a poor town that could barely afford it and had to collect money from everyone to reach his demands. But you learn that throughout Naofumi is man that truly has a heart of gold that he grows into throughout the series. Chapter 1-5 Naofumi is completely different from Chapter 20-30 Naofumi so to speak. Naofumi in a way is a character that doesn’t understand his own rage either, this is presented throughout the manga multiple times. Moments where Naofumi is consumed by rage are great because we get to what Naofumi truly feels. This is because throughout the manga the reader gets the sense that Naofumi isn’t kinda an asshole, but at the same time you don’t get the feeling he’s expressing even half of what he truly feels. He’s in many ways mysterious because of this, but mysterious in this way only though. When it comes to revenge and rage, he is 100% transparent.

Continuing with Naofumi, I think his arc is one that so far is extremely compelling. Outcasted as the Shield Hero, Naofumi is forced to grit his teeth and deal with the lies told about him. Even when he seemingly has friends, that may I add visibly show they deeply care about him. He still feels so betrayed by watch happened in the first chapter that he never really opens up at all. Even when he is raising Raphtalia in the beginning he still treats her harshly, and she may be the closest person to Naofumi. He even seemingly takes on the “burden” (saying that in air quotes) of raising Raphtalia as his own daughter. It goes to show that Naofumi is a person that will take on the burdens of others, or just soldier on and try to bury whatever he felt and continue with what he needs to do. It’s a pretty great character in that way, because that’s kinda what being a human is about. You have to just deal with life and move on as best as you can.

Another character we can talk about before moving on is Firo. Now surprisingly this character paper should be one of the worst characters of this series. “A Bird that eventually turns into a young lady and looks like an angel”. Well that doesn’t seem compelling at all, how does that even work? Well her character thought great explanation and writing turns out to be the most fun of the characters. She was an egg purchased from the same slave trader Naofumi bought Raphtalia from who hatched and turns into a legendary breed of Philo Rial that can turn into a human whenever she wants. She has no real tragic back story, and she is the most pure of the characters, which also fits into her design of an angel (which by the way is a great character design). In a way she serves to be the comedic relief of the series as sometimes this manga can get a little dark at times. Later on though in the series her character really does shine in some great moments. No spoilers of course, but Firo has an appetite and Pilo Rial are known to be able to eat almost anything. That is all.

Art

Kyu Aiya does an amazing job with the art direction here. This may be the most crisp manga I’ve read in a good while. Everything is clear, and even in action scenes where it’s ramped up to 11, you can still easily make things out, even distant actions. Backgrounds are even better too, for example there is a pub they regularly go too and every time they go there it’s incredibly detailed. Even simple things like a camp fire shared by a weak Raphtalia and Naofumi is great to look at. You can see how the light of the first fills the panel, but at the same not too much. Giving this scene more depth to it overall.

Character designs are a real treat though, in my opinion, the best design overall is Firo. Firo in her Philo Rial form looks like a fat Chocobo, which if you don’t know, Fat Chocobo’s are the cutest things on to ever be thought up. So Firo kinda follows that example, she’s a giant bird who absolutely loves to pull carts and eats anything organic. In this form, the art design for her is really well done. We can see feathers, her claws which are detailed and her stupid bird face which is totally not a Chocobo you guys.

Raphtalia’s design is great too, she is a Demi-human from the raccoon race, and as far as I’m aware there aren’t too many raccoon anime boys/girls. So Raphtalia having Raccoon ears is a nice little change that’s refreshing. I also feel she’s heavily inspired by Holo, The Wise Wolf from the series Spice & Wolf. She has long flowing hair, a tail and protruding ears, but this is only in design only. In terms of personality, she’s a pretty innocent girl. Also, I like how she looks like she’s in her 20’s, but in reality because of how many times she’s leveled up, she just looks that and is actually just a 10 year old girl. I think this adds to not only her character because it’s interesting but it’s also a nice little tidbit of world building in the art. Sure you can be a 5 year old with a fully grown body if you level up enough. It makes sense logically and also within the world too, which is important.

Naofumi is pretty great too though, he’s a little generic starting out, but later on in the series he does seem to have more of a seasoned warrior look to him. I’m not saying I’m comparing Guts to Naofumi, but I am, and only in the sense that it follows the same progression visually, but much less extreme than Guts. But chapter 30 you can tell Naofumi is seasoned and he’s been through a bit. He doesn’t show scares or anything, but instead through his changing outfit and his Shield. Since his shield has different types depending on what the shield consumes and replicates, it changes the way it looks. So a good example, and a simple one is the Rope Shield. It’s basically as it sounds, it’s a rope shield that’s used to rappel, climb, or possibly tie up enemies. This is great visually though because with the way the art is so detailed with can see the finer intricacies going on here with each type of shield. Thinks like the jewel in the middle of the shield always being a main stay, or each version of the shield having certain visual accents that visually designate what kind of shield it is.


Final Rating

Shield Hero is for me one of my favorite experiences reading a manga. The story was incredibly easy to follow and while being layered presenting you the layers of it slowly enough for you to not be overwhelmed. The characters are great too, I especially love the demi-human characters a lot because they’re treated differently within the world, so they interact to it differently than say, Naofumi. Which is a testament to it’s overall quality in world building. Shield Hero isn’t going to be a revolutionary manga though, it doesn’t need to be it’s an Isekai for christ sake. But in my opinion, currently right now, Shield Hero is easily in the top 3 Isekai series I’ve ever read or watched, easily in some areas better than Re:Zero, which may be the best one. If you enjoy Isekai, then this manga will 100% be for you, and if you don’t enjoy them you may skip it. But I urge you all to find a copy of it or however you consume manga and read it.

The Rising of the Shield Hero gets a seal of approval by me, so read it!

Tate no yuusha no nariagari is an exciting read and deserving of recognition as one of the most interesting and captivating stories currently ongoing. It does many things well and is capable of getting you hooked in it's story after only reading the first chapter.

The story is about a man that gets summoned into a medieval era as one of four heroes which destiny is to save the world and that way the protagonist named Naofumi becomes a hero which weapon would be the shield that way becoming the shield hero. The shield hero isn't as revered in the kingdom as the rest of ... the heroes and the person that leads the kingdom tries to make living a suffering for our hero eventhough he hasn't really done anything deserving of condemnation, Naofumi devastated goes through a journey that will take him to meet the adventure he had never meet before. Along the way he meets people such as Raphtalia and Filo that would be an essential help for him in order to meet his goals and expectations in his adventure.

The art is good and fits well with the story, it isn't the best art but it couldn't have been more fitting for the kind of story this series offers, the characters have a noteworthy design especially Raphtalia eventhough it is indeed simple.

The characters are well developed as every character seems to have a motivation and purpose in the story and aren't in the series for the sake of being in it but for the plan of attaining a goal and making their objectives a reality. Naofumi is a very cool protagonist and the people that accompany him help him to be better in order to be able to be at the level of the expectations put in him, Raphtalia is an awesome girl in the story because she is one of the biggest factors involved in the success and improvement of the protagonist, Filo is a lovely girl that always bring joy ad the rest if the cast is incredible in it's own way.

This series is really enjoyable and captivating making it able to get more and more people involved in it and followers of it's interesting story.

Overall is an 8/10. I can sympathize with the main character and was impressed once the reveals started coming in. When I say the story begins opening up after 20 or so chapters, I do mean that. In fact, I suggest skipping to chapter 14 if you find his initial state displeasing. You might question a few things at first, but you will have skipped most of the unpleasantness without missing the key points.

I give the story an 8/10:

This is a story in which the hated shield hero must develop and grow to save a country. He asks for no pity as he quickly ... becomes jaded and begins fending for himself. He has no other choice but to save the country as he will die as well if it falls. Watching his development and his oh so classy remarks toward those that ostracized and hazed him for wielding a shield are the main points of the first 15 chapters. After getting passed all this the story starts to widen up and explore more ideas. I must say that the premise initially seems quite weak, but the author introduces reasons for everything. It is not that everyone blindly hates shield users, it's just spoilers I can't say.

The art is a 7/10

It does well in that I never felt it took away from the experience. I can't say much else as I don't critique art much.

The characters are 7/10

The other three heroes are narcissists that project the games they used to play onto their new reality. Because they're so full of themselves, they blindly join in on the hazing of the shield hero. People the shield hero directly helps do not ignore his contributions and instead opt to stop believing the lies spread of him. If you consider how effective propaganda can be, the reactions of almost everyone in the story begin to make sense. No one ignores what''s right before their eyes, but until then they can only believe what they've heard. As for the hero himself, he is extremely jaded, but also kind. He still helps innocents, but has no intention of being pushed around. It is a reaction I can wholeheartedly see myself taking and why I read 42 chapters in one go. As for the others, once questions started getting answered, I started thinking they weren't badly written reactions.



Below is a description of the characters.

Royalty: the presiding king seems to exist for no other purpose than showing disdain for the shield hero.

Three offensive heroes: These three are all narcissists who believe no one but themselves can be right. They are obsessed with their game logic and often don't consider consequences for their actions. They show disdain for the shield as being a weak gamer class and join in the hazing of the him whole hardheartedly once the shield is framed for the first time. They essentially expect everything to be black and white with themselves permanently in the white.

The masses are then split in two. Those that see the shield hero enact good praise him and are kind. The rest haze him to the maximum extent they are able.

The shield hero's eventual party is filled with good people. They are close knit and bare scorn for those who seek to frame and ostracize the shield hero at every turn.

The Shield hero himself is rather human in my opinion. He was hazed to no end and bore a grudge that became a hatred he had trouble controlling. He helped the innocent while making sure he got paid and developed his powers while cleaning up the mistakes of the other three heroes. While he was backed into a corner and adapted to make sure he could survive, he also never stopped wanting to save the lives of the innocent.

At first glance this looks like your typical cliched isekai manga, I read the synopsis all like 'hero seeking revenge...?' 'he saves a slave girl...?' 'loli type characters everywhere?? no way this will be good' but thank the lord it was actually good, great even.

The main thing to take away from this manga is that yes, it does have cliched parts everywhere- However the execution of these cliches is done very well through realistic characters. Even the bad guys don't come off as that unrealistic since they aren't bad for the sake of it but are instead victims of deliberate misinformation, believing that they are ... actually in the right all along. The main characters' goals are continually being reached and are justified in the scope of the story. No character is there for the sake of it, nor any plot thread left behind. The hero's revenge is actually completely justified, the slave girl actually becomes a hero and not mere romantic sideplot, the loli type girls-- okay I can't really justify that but there's no fanservice and it's always cool to see a bunch of kids beat up monsters.

Another thing I need to point out is the main character's power: the shield. He also has some regenerative abilities but that is his main power and it does not change. Which is so so so nice to see because I'm just sick and tired of overpowered main characters with stats of 999 after like 2 chapters. The MC's powers can be unique at times but works with his weapon- for once it looks like the author actually planned the story with the heroes weapon in mind. Seeing him fight with a shield is not boring or frustrating but actually exciting to see as how he turns the battle in his favour.

If there's one word that would describe this manga it would be: satisfying. Wholly and completely satisfying. The villains get such a good end, each character's goals are reached (or close to it), and as a whole it's just an enjoyable read if you like isekai manga but are tired of all the fanservice or overpowered main characters. Give it a shot.

The world in this series contains dragons, fires coming out from rocks. Anything goes. There are half something half something. Heroes, and demons. That kind and it is great. It usually is. Those kind of world. Anyway, The heroes are here, the MCs, but it's not what you might think. First, I'll have to tell that they came from the modern era, our world, with high schools, universities, and the bunch.

So here they are, summoned. To save and do hero stuff. Hehe. This series entertained the possibility, that a selected hero might be not possess a hero quality. They are just a bunch of ... ordinary kids, some diluted with their own sense of justice, a kids justice if you know what I mean. They are four of them and one of them, not so different from them, the focused character, after trials and challenges, was shaped to become a better person, a better closer picture of his purpose there.

it is the story of being different, of prejudice. Basically if you look stupid, you are treated stupid. That is this story here. But not all are that in this manga. Unfortunately, this fault comes from the majority of them, and sadly, this character is most prominent in those with power, but not all. And there is no subtlety in them.

It is not the usual manga 'cause it involves the adventure of finding money, finding shelter, food, and thus let us, readers, discover the world, as the mc stumble around. He is a university dude, so he is a bit mature from the rest of the batch. He is fragile, so he does have a not so built character. If someone hurts his feelings, he'd mope, have hissy fits. Basically, easy to turn bitter, and at some part, vengeful. And I like this kind. This manga is great. I like this kind of story. It shows us the weakness of a normal human character. It is very relatable. Unlike those close to perfect saints that got the mc role of a manga. See, I believe that if he was not given in to a circumstance that'd make him different, but better person, it is highly likely that'd he'd end up as an ignorant character that'd take things likely just like the rest.

It is a variety of things. and it involves the development of a person, and be better. Though the banters, scripts, and power ups are the usual thing, and I am a fun, what makes this a good read is due to its story. So no matter how overused this kind of setting is, if the story is good/development is great, then no matter how stale the setting, readers will always find like this series fresh and new, like a springing lively fish caught a few seconds ago.

And just now, during the writing of this review, a new arc is being introduced, and I'm all hyped about it. the story and the development is great.

The bad point. Let see.... Well, the part where soldiers, subjects, and even nuns and the pope in their country is fully infected with the prejudice that we are talking about, in this world, we are shown that people that serves, protect and care are almost all so cruel, and vengeful, bitter, harsh. Though on the countryside, and a .0002 % people in the kingdom are "nice", it still implausible. I just think the writer should have been more subtle about it. But since it's shounen genre, where subtlety would just be a waste, them it is justifiable...

anyway this is 8 / 10.

You should read from the first 5 chapters to get the story of it. the first or so is comedic and kind of the usual manga thing...

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari is a great manga based on a web novel and it was truly one, if not the most favourite manga for some time because of the story and the main character.
Story may seem cliché as the setting which is used here is very common but it has some terrific moments.
What I liked in the main character is that he was presented as a normal boy. Well, of course he is MC so there has to be something special to him but what I meant by saying "normal" is the way in which he is presented. Normal boy in different world ... who is struggling to survive.
If I it was my favourite manga then why is the overall score so low ? Story. Story was killed by the manga adaptation. I read web novel after 20 chapters of manga or so, and I found out how much they've skipped. Whole story arc (200+ pages in A4 more or less), almost at the very beggining was reduced to not even a single page in manga adaptation. I had a feeling that they've cut it a bit but what they did with it is way beyond that.
If you can, read web novel, from what I see it is fully translated into english now, don't even bother with manga and the remnants of the plot. It is really not worth it as the plot is really one of the strongest pros here.

I think the best way I can describe reading this after watching the anime is... Disappointing?

The art isn't particularly bad or anything, it's just way too soft for the tone of the series. Even comparing it to the Light Novel cover materials you see how much softer the art style is. It more closely resembles an fanservice based idol series than a darker, plot-heavy series. The illustration feels kind of lacklustre and arguably lazy at times. A lot of the fight scenes lacked the impact the anime adaption was able to imbue into them. Great manga can manage to outperform or at least match animation, ... but this felt vastly inferior to me.

It's kind of hard to really pin down everything that felt bad about this adaption and I think a lot of it is arguably just preference than things one could argue as demonstrably bad. Either way, a very disappointing read for me.

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari, or "Rising of the Shield Hero" is great when it needs to be, and sticks to the predictable formula the rest of the time. A main character who is easily sympathized with and an adorable supporting cast carry this manga to success.

Story: Iwatani Naofumi is one amongst a billion otaku protagonists, whose main purpose - with a bland appearance and personality - is to allow the reader to insert themselves into the story. That is until the generic hero story goes majorly awry. Rise of the Shield Hero doesn't delve too deeply into the realm of anti-heroism, but there is ... a pervading vindictiveness that shrouds each arc.

Art: Looks nice, at times determining exactly what was going on in a panel was confusing (probably just me).

Character: Despite his lack of flavor, I enjoyed Naofumi. He treads the line between righteous anger and petty revenge - perhaps a bit too much - but he has redeeming moments. The real stars of the show are Raphtalia and Firo, fulfilling the roles of waifu and comic relief at different times. Raphtailia is heartwarming and determined, but there really isn't much to her beyond the surface, similar to characters like Mikasa Ackerman. Firo is even more lacking in depth, but she's damned cute and provides much needed lightheartedness to the dour story. The antagonists are worthy of whatever comes to them because they are shown to be thoroughly despicable people. However, their exact motivations for being so evil are not adequately explained or justified.

Enjoyment: Considering how popular Rising of the Shield Hero is becoming, it is a breath of fresh air. The protagonist isn't a boring one dimensional do-gooder, and the supporting cast is entertaining. I would have continued reading to where it's currently at, but it's the middle of an arc and I'm too keen on this series to torture myself with waiting.

To be Straight and Honest at first I thought it would have cliche story-line "MC gets teleported to another world with super duper cheat skill and becomes an OP Bakemono"
Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari has been gaining a lot of popularity since the first chapter was released, So I thought to give it a try...

and man I could never have been anymore wrong about it..

Story: 7.5

This is story follows our MC Naofumi Iwatani who was summoned as the Shield Hero who is considered the weakest of all other heroes,whom society considered underrated and unwanted.After getting Betrayed by his first companion, he was loathed by ... the society because of a wrong accusation, walking on the path of Vengeance full of hatred, now unable to trust anyone our MC becomes an Anti-Hero.Then he meets Raphtalia whom he buys as a slave, initially she was afraid to attack on the beasts even a slime,but slowly she learned and started trusting Naofumi. She becomes salvation for him helping him control his hatred become calm and revert a little to his previous normal self, and slowly people start accepting him as a real Hero.

Art: 8

The Artwork in this manga is nicely detailed, the background and the fight scenes are great especially how the feelings of Naofumi and various characters are shown.

Character: 9

The Story sure is different but I would say the main and interesting thing are the characters. The character development is great, how the events change the mc and other characters :-
Naofumi who was a normal university student, otaku and typically unsocialable, friendly to those who are close to him, he is shown to be a little selfish but he is a kind person.
Then there is our female protagonist Raphtalia, she was scared of naofumi at first because of the mistreatment she got from her previous master which a little trauma...but seeing the kindness of Naofumi decides to fight for him and do anything to help him and there is Firo hatched from a demon egg she is a precious partner always ready to fight and protect her friends.

Overall : 8.5

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari is a really captivating manga. Story wise it is great and the flow of the story and character development is not rushed...which is a plus point.
I'm really enjoying this manga how the events are unfolding, It has got a little romantic touch too. The RPG setting and the art is really pleasing.
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Hope you found it helpful. :)

Idk if there's any part considered spoiler in my text but if so, sorry.

This manga is great....then you finish the first arc. The story start with the revenge plot, where the MC is wrongfully accused and then we follow him on his tragic situation. The thing is, when you're done reading this arc, the rest of story becomes incredibly bland. Except naofumi and his gang, every other character have just no effort put into them whatsoever, more specifically the three other isekai guys. You would think that after the first act, they would have grown or changed or something would have made them more interesting, ... but no. The story is still enjoyable but its not able to grab your attention as much as the revenge arc. Its still a decent manga but it really let me down.

Damn, I finally gave a try on this manga and, this is not easy to put a note. To make it simple, it has a good start, it is very good to see someone have to do some unmorally things to keep going, but the more the plot advances, the more it seems all "fake". Litle by litle, MC just become a generic powerful shonen hero and you realise how others characters are underexploited. And the more the party grows, the less these characters are developped. Just an exemple with his first mate, there relation is really interesting, seeing them trying to evercome one's fears ... and traumatism is really really good. But once they started to and this big chicken, these scenes stoped. Big chicken-chan may be cute but there is 0 developpement, she is the same 50 chapters later and so go on for all char joining. So to conclude, I would say this started well but ended like generic snowflake soup.