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Premieres July 2025. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis for the source novels from AniList:

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Naofumi is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed. With no one to turn to, and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield. Now, Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're still making this shit, huh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I tried watching S2 but there was nothing interesting about the show once the revenge plot (the story's entire premise) was concluded. Just another average OP isekai fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

With weird pro-slavery undertones!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

And the weird "she's mentally five years old but it's fine she's mature for her level"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, the anti-power fantasy thing was the entire selling point, now it's just not interesting enough for me to care. The characters are better than the average isekai i suppose but not particularly profound otherwise, the animation is fine but not amazing, the issues generally aren't as big as other isekai (even the game mechanics were explicitly a function of the relics iirc), but without the twist there is nothing interesting there to make the show stand out from anything that isn't a shitty isekai.

If you are completely addicted to the concept of isrkai it's one of the better ones to watch, but otherwise meh.