'Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 4' Reveals Production Staff, First Promo

@Playcool So we'll get at least another 1-2 seasons after this?

@DGottem 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.

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.

@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...

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.

So, based on your statements, the quality might drop... 😢
But more than that, overworking is bad.. 😢

@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

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.

So soon? Noice!!!

No comments? The adaptation will probably be ass, but I'm still excited.