#shieldbro

[catacini]

get bent

[bottlepiecemuses]

how the weapons choose the heroes ( they pick based on certain traits

https://www . reddit . com/r/shieldbro/comments/xniewm/how_do_the_cardinal_weapons_choose_their_wielders/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Basically, Shield is Protective, Sword is Power-Seeking, Spear is Loyalty, and Bow is Justice

Interesting

[moneypenny-coins]

[iamjmisaki]

Anime: BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.

What if Maple was the true villain of this show all along?

This episode was seriously pack a crazy amount of actions. I totally loved the bgm playing during the fight between Maple and Mii. Maple legit looks like a terminator that about to end a guild's whole career. Maple made Mii cry again. #JusticeForMii

Meanwhile, Payne vs Maple was my favorite scene especially when Frederica used a skill that transfers buff from Drag and Dread to Payne. The animation was amazing.

Tomorrow will be the last episode of Bofuri.

PS. Kuromu saved our twin lolis from loli killer.

PPS. I edit the subs. Haha

[sierra117-renner]

Tate no Yuusha - Naofumi-sama <3

[lunaticmoonarts]

I'm late but thank you for being patient with me once again! A commission of ren for @jstrussvo I binged shield hero so quickly holy crap it's good #shieldbro #shieldhero #tatenoyuusha #tatenoyuushafanart #swordsman #sword #anime #animefanart #ren #renamaki #blackarmor #scarf #bluescarf #bleeding #animeartwork #risingoftheshieldhero #risingoftheshieldherofanart (at Sydney, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXMbtMjne7/?igshid=4ztywvlamv76

[decalfdraws]

By the age of five, children usually manifest what is called a Spirit Weapon. There are the Vassal Weapons and there are Legendary Weapons. Vassal Weapons are more common than the rarer Legendary Weapons. These seemingly magic weapons are then carried with them everywhere and serve as their primary weapon. Most receive training in their respective weapon class, and most go on to become adventurers. Iwarida Izufumi never manifested a Spirit Weapon. In fact, after his Cane wielding mother brought him to a magic affinity specialist, they found he had no magic tuning abilities at all. Crushed, Izufumi learned that not all people are created equal. Blah blah, wants to go to adventure school but doesn't have a weapon. His old best friend manifested one of the Legendary Weapons and all the praise went to his head and he's a major dink now. Then one day their village gets attacked by a Wave and Izufumi's old friend gets incapacitated by a monster. Even without a weapon, Izufumi charged forwards and managed to free him. They then get saved by one of the current Cardinal Heroes, the Shield. Despite the country's hatred towards the Shield (Church of the Three Heroes), Izufumi seeks out the Cardinal Hero and ends up inheriting the Legendary Weapon. After getting indited as a next generation Cardinal Hero, accusations about the current Shield hero arose. With the already frail respect for the Shield being shattered over night, Izufumi is forced to go into hiding as his idol is forced into prison to avoid being caught as well. Izufumi swears that he will prove the current Shield hero's innocence and will return to exact his revenge on the one who made matters worse. Things became hard for Izufumi, as he is unable to attend his dream school, the school that would teach him everything he needed to know about being a hero. Having to learn about the Shield's system from scratch from trial and error was hard enough, let alone having to be chastised each time he entered the capital. Izufumi hadn't lived in this overcast since he first found out he didn't have any magic affinity. That is, until he meets a certain slave demi-human who ends up filling the emptiness he didn’t realize he had in his heart.

[polarityplus]

Kinda got carried away with some sketching. Enjoy some Naofumi and co:)

[bigowlenergy]

Can u fix shield hero? no, but lets enjoy ourselves anyway

ok, now that the Bad Time is out of the way, how do we have fun with this dumpster fire narrative?

first order of business, make naofumi an actual victim. if ur going to explore male victimization and trauma, then u need a victim. this should be obvious, but alas, none exist in the entire series.

the most thematic options are to actually make the racism/sexual assault aspects matter. taking the initial situation at the tavern on Night One and turning it into an actual assault against naofumi at the hands of a woman who is socially, politically, and culturally in power over him offers a great opportunity to give his misogyny and trauma responses some actual ground to exist. having major trust issues and wanting to control members of the sex that raped u is a totally valid response to that sort of trauma. it makes a measure of actual sense rather than just being the best excuse a guy has found for being shitty to women and thinking himself the victim.

it would also be a heavy culture shock that actually makes melromarc look remotely close to the monarchy it nominally is supposedly. cis men in reality have a hard enough time understanding their own victimization to abusive women; it would be a huge blow to ye olde excited isekai protag expecting a Good Time and getting a heavy dose of a swapped power imbalance instead. having to deal with being the least favored hero & social ostracized due to it & a sexual assault reputation & while being an actual victim? damn son, that sounds like a narrative that has Value. sounds like a terrible time! noice.

and ive mentioned it in an earlier post, but demi-human naofumi? bro? that’s a solid hell yeah from me. like, just malty KNOWING she can absolutely do whatever she wants to him, including sell him into slavery with ease and holding that over him? maybe even not publicly accusing him, but keeping him on her side as basically her own slave and forcing his compliance through the same threat he canonically wields over raphtalia - that it would only be worse if it were someone else who owned him. that she’s a merciful master, compared to others, and all he has to do is obey her and help her rise through the ranks to reclaim the throne from melty.

all the political drama and treacherous royalty comes to head so quickly, in a situation like that - being the shield hero, who can only protect, having to further protect the one privileged person who needs absolutely no more protection? while being a member of a race considered subhuman and oppressed and seeing first hand how other demihumans are treated by the king? and being kept in such a way to prevent him from ever helping them or being helped by others? poetic cinema.

but which way to go, then? a prey animal usually perceived as weak or a predator/ closer to beastmen type who are racially stereotyped as inherently dangerous and needing to be controlled for the other heroes safety? or maybe even a human passing one, with only small hints - just enough to make him a social target but enough that he can still be perceived as human except until confirmed otherwise? and using that to his advantage in getting the other heroes to see it as human slavery/ using his human appearance to better help other demihumans from the other side.

there’s other ways to mess with the victim/minority angle to -

trans male naofumi dealing with the double whammy of being in a horrible situation that maybe - very possibly - could be solved by a self outing to a bunch of total strangers who already aggressively hate and discriminate against him + having the thought of ‘well, i wanted to be socially treated like a man’. and then having to make that choice of accepting it and remaining safe and presumed cis or leaning into the matriarchy society and the fact of a whole new world to hope things are different here. a horrible choice that leads to living feral in the woods like usual, but damn if it aint validating his gender.

OR “I cant possibly have r^ped this woman with my dick cause i dont got one!!! case closed bitches” of course there is no transphobia bc we love ourselves here

OR trans woman nao coming into the narrative with loads of internalized misogyny and denial and slowly having all those breakdowns due to being treated like a cis male rapist. maybe socially transitioning after the queen takes back over and the other heroes having to deal with absolutely nothing they knew about the shield hero being remotely correct.

OR hell, malty is also a trans woman, and naofumi comes out to her as her first party member that night and everybody has a good time! malty learning to sympathize with the hated shield hero through shared experiences as the least favorite child in the family and trans feels and ending up getting good character development and siding with the shield hero.

bruh i wanna enjoy this narrative so bad but the amount of heavy lifting required is obscene. instead of defending anything, i will just queer the narrative until it feels good. take that.

[fascher]

shieldbrooo

[dungeons-demons-n-debauchery]

Ughhhh I just finished ep1 of Shieldbro and it was as great as I could have hoped! It’s the first time that I got into a WN/LN series at the ground level before it really took off, so I was a bit worried but the adaptation hasn’t disapointed. I’m so hype to once again follow the journey of my poor edgy bb shieldbro!

[lostedge0]

【盾の勇者の成り上がり】PV　(日本語字幕付き）　☆アニメ化企画進行中！

[jarmes]

The problem with Shield Hero is the same, albeit on a lesser extent. It’s a show made for incels about a nerdy OP protagonist getting revenge on those stupid bitches that were mean to him because that’s what it’s shitty fan base wants. It’s a show that creates cartoon character villains who are needlessly, randomly cruel, in ways that misogynists rant about women being cruel, so it’s protagonist is justified in the things he does to her. It’s a series where there is a woman who everyone calls bitch falsely accuses the main character of rape, so as punishment she is raped and tortured to death by a pig man. It’s the same shit, just slightly better written.

And also the slavery shit is really bad.

You know how Shield Hero is a garbage incel anime with a jackass main character? Apparently someone saw that and thought it’d be better if Naofumi was actually a rapist. God I hate anime

[superheroblues]

Series // The Rising of the Shield Hero Naofumi // @skydropphotography . 📷 // @superheroblues . #risingoftheshieldhero #shieldherocosplay #shieldhero #anime #shieldbro #naofumi #naofumiiwatani #naofumixraphtalia #naofumicosplay #cosplay #animecosplay #cosplaygirl #cosplayer #crunchyroll #funimation #animecosplayer #cosplayphotography #colossalconeastcosplay #colossalconeast #colossalconeast2019 (at Colossalcon East) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5OkDYUDGdk/?igshid=17oflwa6vi0oo

[iamjmisaki]

Anime: BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.

I love this episode. It really showcased how genius Sally is. How she outsmarted Frederica during their duel using a skill of her own and not an in-game skill. A nice touch they did is that Sally's voice didn't have any fancy reverb/echo when she said "Attack Incitement" and "Stream". A nice attention to detail.

She bluffed about her skills and made guilds fight each other. She's definitely the brain of Maple Tree. A "monster" indeed like what Kuromu said.

Besides Mii-chan's gap MOEment. I really love the scene between Dread and Sally. You can tell that the animators were saving for this one. Meanwhile our OP Shield Heroine is just enjoying the event in a cave while protecting everyone and the orb.

I'm really sad that there are only 3 episodes left. Hoping for another season.

Ps. I love NWO chat logs "How do you beat Maple?" "You don't. But luckily she can't catch you."

[sierra117-renner]

I don't know if it's legal or not, because he deserves love... But may I request an A1 or A2 Naofumi-sama?

Well… OF COURSE IS LEGAL!!!

there is never enough Naofumi-sama in this blog!! What i don’t know if is legal is combine both emojis but oh well!! … Here is honey ¬w¬ precious wonderful sexy Naofumi-sama for you! (Hope you liked it ;D)

Now the request are officially closed!!

PS: Naofumi babe, i love you so much