It starts decent, the premise isn't too bad, there's this Hero that may not the be classic generic good guy, since some girl accuse him of being a rapist and makes the whole society excommunicated him and hates him... the shield hero, being incapable of using any weapon besides his shield, is for this reason also incapable to find party members to fight for him...so he buys a slave, and you may expect that the anime will turn even darker now, with slavery involved, moral dilemmas etc? nope, wrong, the anime turns super bland / generic in a couple episodes after that.
The Hero, after the betrayal, is all edgy and and resent towards the society, and at first he acts towards the slave girl like she is, you known, a slave... literally one episode after though, he will treat her like a human instead of a slave, 4-5 more episodes and they're basically best friends, forget about the whole slavery thing, yey.
I don't wanna waste more time, I'll just say that the whole anime is pretty ridiculous and full of inconsistencies and plot holes, I'll give you one, one big enough to give you the idea of just how low quality the writing is:
At the beginning, the princess accuse the hero of assault so she could steal his money and equipment, how much was his money / equipment? 800 silver, gave to him from her father the king.
So are you telling me
The PRINCESS bothered hanging around with a dude for an entire day, making a rape case accusation up, for LESS than a gold when she is the FRIGGING PRINCESS of a kingdom? right, MAKES SENSE.
Oh yeah, this princess character, will be shown to be a mentally pathological liar, even when she will have a spell applied to prevent her to lie, she will still try to lie over and over and OVER again, like, you must have some special case of mental retardation to try to lie so often when you know you have a magic spell that activates every time you do... she never change in all the anime, she never grows, like most characters, she is a one-dimensional tunnel-vision nonsense no-nuances character, just as stupid as the whole anime is generic and bland.
