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All right, we have season 1, episode 1 of Rising of the Shield Hero.
Um, we have one main character, our protagonist, named Naofumi Iwatani.
Oh, that's a mouthful.
Surprisingly, I can pronounce that one.
That was impressive.
Yeah, I was like, oh boy, I will not be calling him anything.
For the English voice actor is Billy Kamitz.
Apparently, unfortunately, he passed away in 2022, born in 1987.
He did the voice of Nicolo from Attack on Titan.
He's not that old.
He wasn't that old.
No, 87 to 2022.
That's not that old.
He did Nicolo from Attack on Titan.
He did random voices for Elder Scrolls Online.
And he also did, let's see, Ari from Vinland Saga.
That newer anime.
On the Japanese voice actor side, we have Kaito Ishikawa.
He also does the voice of Hecarin Termite from Overlord.
He's a character in Overlord that's an adventurer that dies when they go into the Tomb of Nazarick.
Well, there you go.
He lasts for two episodes.
That's not bad.
I had to throw that in there, because I thought that was funny.
He also did the voice of Nero from Devil May Cry, the Japanese version.
And Tobio from Haikyuu, which is the anime about volleyball.
Oh yeah, random sports they pick out.
Try to make them epic as fuck.
The protagonist for Haikyuu is a short little kid, where he acts like he's tall.
And the opening theme to this is Rise by Mad Kid as a group.
Alright, the first scene we have, we're over the side of an ocean, basically like a seashore
style thing, but it's kind of gloomy, so it's not like the bright sunny vacation spot type
places.
You have hippogriffs flying over this somber shoreline by the ocean, then going to show
our main character sitting on a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean.
We then have a shot of this yellow ball rolling down this hill towards him.
It's like a craggly rocky hill, basically.
And then it hits his foot and stops.
The shot then, you get the main character picking it up and he hands it to this little
girl with animal ears, and like a god's ray coming down on top of them, and then the scene
panning up towards the sky, basically.
And then the scene ends.
And we're in Naofumi Iwatani's room, and he's just woken up basically thinking, you're
like, what the fuck, what kind of weird dream was that?
Like it was just basically a dream, the opening credits, or the opening scene anyway.
Naofumi Iwatani then explains a narration, kind of like in his own head thinking style
narration.
He explains who he is.
He's a college sophomore with a slight otaku, and an otaku is a young person, basically
who's obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment
of their social skills.
So he's got a slight otaku tendency, but he's not full-grown.
Right.
And he says that whenever his younger brother started to get into trouble and started to
act out a line and all that kind of stuff, apparently he put him back straight at that
point.
And in doing so, he earned the right to live at home, which included an allowance.
He earned the right to live at home.
Because apparently his brother was getting into some really stupid shit.
But what do you mean, allowed to live at home?
Like he doesn't have to get a part-time job.
And just leave?
Like he basically, watching after his brother was...
Earned him a...
A red, I guess?
Yeah, pretty much.
Jeez, that's a strict family household.
And basically, since he gets an allowance, it led him to indulge in his otaku side more
since he didn't need to go get a part-time job.
So he can go to school and he can do what he wants after that.
Go to school, get some money, play some games?
Pretty much.
That's basically what it is.
While heading to the library, he also...
Because he's like walking towards the library at this point.
He also states that while he may indulge in being partially a little bit otaku, he has
certainly no shut-in.
So he's not one of those kind that's always inside doing nothing.
Like he actually goes outside.
Okay.
Kind of like, you get that stereotype of those gamer kids and stuff that just sit inside
and do nothing.
In their basements, as they say?
I'm afraid.
Yeah.
He's not one of those.
How many goddamn basements do people have?
I know, really.
I don't know anybody that has a basement.
You know, for where we live, in such a dangerous area of the country, we sure don't have any
basements.
But there's a reason.
Because the soil is fucking horrendous.
Exactly.
The worst place in Sardinia City.
And you're not kidding.
But like he says, he's not a shut-in.
He would go to the library when his money would run out and read all the light novels
and stuff.
He wasn't the kind where he was getting himself into debt, trying to get into games and stuff
like that.
He's like, I'll go to the library, read a book.
How about that?
Not that big a deal.
It is basically, he says, in his own mind, he says until he picked up this book.
It called The Records of the Four Cardinal Weapons.
Okay.
That's a pretty bangers-hido.
It basically had fallen along with a bunch of other books onto the floor whenever he
went to go grab for something.
And in the book, it shows four heroes of legend, so you get the sword hero, the bow hero, the
spear hero, and the shield hero.
Three of the entries in the book, they all have information about it and stuff.
But whenever Nalfumi turns to the shield hero, it's blank.
There's nothing written in that section whatsoever about it.
The book starts glowing, and it teleports him into a room where there's mages standing
around basically, because they've summoned him basically.
That fucked up his life quick.
That claimed that the summoning was a success, and that they're, uh, that the, can you please
help save our country?
Am I like, no, send me home.
I'm 17 years old.
I can barely wipe my ass.
Nalfumi looks down at his wrist because he's got this little shield now attached to him.
So did he pick the shield one, or was it just what they picked for him?
Apparently it was, since that was the thing that was left in the book, the only thing
that had nothing written.
So he gets the shield.
I was with someone else, there's other people that have the, okay.
Sounds like Yamunji.
Kind of, kind of, yeah.
But he looked down at his wrist, he literally was like, what the hell is this?
What the fuck?
He, uh, then you get the title card for the, the anime.
So like there's no music or anything.
It's just literally the title card.
I have a long ass intro.
Yeah.
Had I two?
Yeah.
Jesus.
Yeah, you get two intros basically for it.
This is also one of the few that I've actually seen where the episode one is a 40 minute
episode.
Damn.
Instead of just the 22 minute, like most of them are.
So you, as soon as the title card goes away, which it lasts for like maybe two or three
seconds, it's not a very long title card on there, just the name of the show basically.
Yeah.
Then you're back to the current scene that you just left where it's got the summoners
and stuff and they're asking for help.
And you have the bow hero asking what he means by what, what, like, what the fuck do you
mean your country needs saving?
Cause you get the other four heroes that were summoned at the same time.
Oh, they're all out together.
They're all standing there together.
Basically.
It's like, they're all looking like, and the mages explain that they are the four Cardinal
heroes summoning them with this ancient magic or whatever, this ancient ritual to get them
to come there.
Um, and now for me says, uh, he'll at least hear him out.
Like, okay, we're here.
Like the explain what's going on.
Like he's enough of a, like he's an otaku where he wants to enjoy basically this kind
of a world, but this is the shit he's been dreaming of sort of.
Yeah.
Uh, but the other three refuse and normal people, they start becoming, um, not just
like, let me go home, but they start becoming like demanding where it's like, let me go
home.
Yeah.
Well, they say, uh, the other refuse, uh, unless their demands are met.
Oh, yeah.
My, my, my, let me go home.
Right.
Well, uh, now for me contemplates, why would you act this way?
Like why would you start making demands?
Assuming like not demands to go home, just demands of, well, what do we get for it?
Oh, that kind of guy.
Like, you know, the cocky, arrogant, like the fuck is your, he's looking at it.
Like, the fuck are you talking about?
Like literally you're here for one second and you're already making fucking demand.
It was like, man, what the fuck is wrong with you people?
Uh, the majors convince him to go meet the king.
Uh, but, uh, now for me remarks to himself, how smug the other three are basically being
like, how the fuck are you three so fucking smug?
Like you can actually kind of like, um, you can kind of resonate with the way now for
me is acting.
It's kind of the way a normal person would act where it's like, you know what?
I'll put it this way.
A normal person that's an otaku or a person that likes video games and stuff.
It's like, oh, okay.
Well, I'm here.
Let's see what's going on.
You know, like the world, right?
So they climbed the staircase basically that's leading out of this, uh, I guess like lower
part of the castle that they were in where they were summoned in.
And now for me, he looks out one of the windows on this tower and he, he remarks, I was like,
dude, we're really in another world.
Like, like he's like just shocked by the base and his breakdown.
Yeah.
And he's like talking to himself, like even like the air and the breeze feels different
because it's a different kind of world basically.
And then you got the, uh, the sword hero is like, no, it just feels Mediterranean, like
super like smug kind of about it.
You know, like he knows Mediterranean atmosphere.
Then you get an alpha me was like, yeah, yeah, just, I didn't know the word.
Like, like he tries to play it off a little bit, but he's like, he's looking at it like,
dude, really?
Like I was just commenting that it's a little different.
I guess if I lived in like a desert, right?
Yeah.
That one day I go to like the rain forest and I'm like, God dang.
Yeah.
Sure.
She goes, give me a sign.
I think the biggest thing too is like a sister all four from Japan.
Like some of them wouldn't be, well, I don't know.
What's too, I don't know.
Japan's like topography.
I mean, it's, it's like a city mostly.
I mean, you get the mountains.
Okay.
Tokyo is like half of the island.
At least that one specific island.
Yeah.
So, uh, basically then they get to the, uh, the main, uh, throne room where the king is,
the king introduces himself and he welcomes them to the land of Melvarmor.
That's the name of the mark.
That's the name of the country that they're in.
Uh, asking them to introduce themselves since he's already introduced himself.
I didn't write down his name, but he introduced him, himself as who he is and stuff like that.
Um, you get the sword hero, uh, the one that's kind of the, one of the assholes, uh, named
Rin Amaki.
He's a 16 year old high schooler.
Uh, then the bow hero introduces himself and his name is, is, uh, Itsuki Kawasumi.
He's 17 high school.
Uh, the spear hero named, uh, Matayasu Kitamura and he's 21, college student.
And then you have Nalfumi, which would be the next one.
And he's 20.
Man, they love them young, don't they in Japan?
What do they do when they hit 30?
They just like, they, they just stop living?
Well, in the anime they're all called, called old men.
Jesus.
But, uh, you get to, um, Motayasu, the spear hero, and as soon as Nalfumi goes to, it says
like, I guess I'm next to, you know, to introduce himself, but he's interrupted by the king and
he continues talking only to the other three, basically ignoring Nalfumi completely.
Well damn.
Uh, after Nalfumi he's like, yo king, aren't you forgetting somebody?
Like you literally said yo king.
And the king's like, go ahead.
And he's allowed to say who he is, which he takes pride.
And he's like, they got to say who the fuck they were, not even say who I am.
Hmm.
After again, the king, he starts ignoring him again.
As soon as like, like he's finishing talking, he just cuts him off and just starts talking
again.
Um, they are then told about the prophecy, basically.
There's this thing called waves.
It's basically a dimensional rift where monsters come through this dimensional rift from another
world and start attacking people.
Um, and they attack the land and it's predicted by this thing called a dragon hourglass.
It's this gigantic hourglass that just counts down the time between the next wave, basically.
And it gets faster and faster and faster each time.
So the first, uh, basically, uh, the kingdom was able to withstand the first wave and the
first wave came before these heroes were summoned to where it basically took this huge toll
on them.
Like days before that recent.
Yeah.
And so that's like, dude, we fucking lost all these people.
We have to summon these heroes.
We can't do it ourselves.
We're gonna fortify the walls or something.
It's like just raising shit to the ground at this point, whenever they come through
those monsters.
That's wild.
Uh, so basically, uh, they learn they can also pull up this thing called status magic.
So it's like a little status menu, basically like in a video game.
So you get the little status menu and you can see your level and your abilities, what
level you are and stuff and all like, uh, like anything you would basically in a video
game.
Uh, and they see that they're all still level one.
Oh yeah.
That'd be perfect.
Like a mall of death.
Uh, now for me excitedly says that they can form a party and level up together, you know,
like he's trying to be the optimist basically.
Yeah.
At which point the chancellor to the king, basically, uh, the kind of corrupt person in
the kingdom, he's like, Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that, uh, you have to develop separately
and recruit your own teams.
Otherwise your weapons won't develop on their own is what we're told in the legends.
So they can't be around.
And then now for me, he's looking at the like thing on his little screen thing, like a pull
up piece.
He's like, well, he's not lying.
It does say that if they're around, they're less effective.
You said them separately that right.
You would think that would make more sense.
So then the king tells him, it's like, you know what?
It's late, just stay overnight and we'll gather the most skilled warriors for the heroes.
So in the, in the prepared quarters that they already have the floor talking and now from
the remarks that he feels like a video game, you know, like are we in a video game or something?
It just feels weird.
And the spear hero he's like, yeah, because it's exactly like Emerald online.
Like they already have a video game like that where he was talking about that.
And it's basically like one of those kinds of dive games like sword are online or something
like that.
Yeah.
So that's what he's talking about.
And the bow hero he's like, no, it's kind of like that new console game that I got dimension
web dimension web.
Right.
And then the sword hero he's like, you're both wrong.
It's like the VM, a VR MMO called a brave star online.
So now they all had different games that they think it's like, right.
Same story, same kind of like land and stuff like that.
I got a book, right?
It's a light novel with kind of like, okay, this doesn't make no sense.
So they eventually figured out that they're all from different realities of Japan.
They're not from the same exact Japan.
That's wild.
So they all have slightly different histories and stuff like that.
And now for me is wondering why he's the only one that has never heard of a place like this
before with the other three saying, well, it's probably because you're the shield hero,
which kind of confuses him.
He's like, the fuck do you mean?
Because I'm shield hero.
And they say, oh, the shield hero is a loser class.
Nobody ever played as in the games.
So it's like, oh, you're going to get no information.
Like just being pure, like smug for the most part, but not like evil towards him.
Just like no at all.
For the most part.
Yeah.
At first, that's disappointed by this realization.
He's then optimistic about finding people to fight with, maybe even find a girlfriend.
You never know.
Like he's being kind of like that nerdy kid or it's like, maybe I'll find a girl.
You have to play some titties yourself.
It's like, you never know.
Maybe the next morning, the four heroes, they joined all the gathered warriors and adventurers
and stuff like that in the throne room.
And the they then line up behind the hero that they want to go with.
So they all the warriors and stuff get to choose whoever they want to go with.
Oh boy.
Here we go.
And now for me having no one.
Yeah.
Figure something.
Yeah.
And he finds it extremely unfair.
Since he has no weapon and only a shield.
So what the fuck am I supposed to do?
Hey man, you got to make that a shield.
He does okay.
Yeah, but he can't throw his.
Well, he better start hitting them with you and them.
Just bat like shield bashing.
Yeah.
What else are you gonna do?
Play moral wind or something.
Just start shield bashing as much as you can.
Start using them hands.
So he's throwing kind of like this ruckus basically.
It's like, like really give me one of yours.
Like you can share too, can't you?
Like you got like 15 people behind you.
Damn.
They're all fucking sick.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
From behind the spear hero, this red haired girl raises her hand and she volunteers.
And now he's like, Oh, she's pretty.
And as she volunteers to change parties, if it's okay with the spear hero and spear hero,
he's like, okay, if you truly want to go, you can.
And then the king, he states that the shield hero, basically he's gonna have to recruit
any additional people by himself.
We're not going to switch people.
Some random townspeople.
Right.
He gives now for me 800 silver and he gives the other two or excuse me, the other three,
600 silver each.
So he gets basically an increase of 200 silver.
Hey, you got some extra money.
So that way he can recruit if he wants to.
The heroes then leave the throne room and stuff like that.
And they start splitting up and the red haired girl gives her name as mine.
M Y N E.
And she says it's an honor to fight with him.
Like she's being super friendly, super nice and stuff like that.
He comments to himself how friendly she is obviously.
And says he like, you know what?
I've actually got somebody in my party.
I've got to do everything I can to make sure she does not get hurt since he's only got
one person with him.
Basically it's like, oh shit, I have my controller.
I'm in my mic trying to fix my glasses.
So she offers to take him to like showing the shops and stuff in the city and show him
around the city at this point.
And they that way they can procure everything they're going to use and stuff like that.
If they start traveling.
In the weapon shop that she shows him, the owner says she kind of looks familiar and
she comp any comments.
How he must be the shield hero.
Like he's smart enough to figure it out on his own without being told.
I'm saying, you know, it's good to meet you and stuff like that.
And now for me tries to pick up a sword and he's shocked automatically.
So we can't hold any other weapons.
I told you these hands exactly.
I give up these hands.
And he gets this warning pop up like on his like Intel screen basically saying he can't
use any other weapons but the shield.
And the dude that is in this like armory, he like, well, I can at least sell you armor.
I can't sell you a weapon, but I can at least sell you armor.
Let's hope so.
That's something.
How does this fucking little baby shield on?
Fucking armor flies off of him too or something.
So then the two of them, mine and now for me, they basically head off to this like meadow
field to train.
And there's these orange shaped creatures that are called orange balloons.
Is the name of a random.
Okay.
They kind of look like little pumpkins.
Yeah.
They're little oranges.
Oh, like fucking tangerines or oranges rip his titties off.
Yeah.
That's a badass shield.
It's like Green Lantern.
Yeah.
Where it glows.
Yeah.
But he starts fighting basically a bunch of those in a field because they're like the
lowest of lowest level creatures that would probably hurt a normal person.
But since he's got resistances and stuff like that, being the shield hero, it's not going
to hurt him any.
And he basically, whenever they die, they leave like an orange peel almost.
And he's able to feed them to the shield and the shield starts absorbing them into it.
They then head back to the weapon store again to buy some more items.
But this time for mine, with now for me bargaining with the owner, as she starts looking around
like he's already doing that kind of like joking bargaining type thing.
So you know what?
I know it's going to be expensive.
So I'm going to start bargaining with you now.
He's like, okay, I want 60% off.
God, the owner 60% off.
It's another 20% now.
He just starts adding every time now for me, wanting something taken off.
So the price just keeps fluctuating back and forth the entire time she's looking around.
And after seeing how much she she actually has got, he's like counted up and she's like,
you know, he's thinking to himself, so we're going to leave us like 200 left if we finish
getting all this.
And he asks her, you know, can you downgrade a little like you bought a lot of expensive
shit here?
And basically, she flirts with him enough to buy everything that she wanted.
Just a little bit of flirting.
God dang, Simp.
He's like, well, okay, I'll buy it.
I'm not made of money.
They're basically then at this like pub in like the the, you know, the stereotypical in
with the pub at the bottom of it.
Yeah, fantasy.
Good old taverns.
Yeah.
And they're eating dinner and talking about the about the next day and where they'll be
going looking at a map like, okay, we were here today, we're going to be going to this
town that's a little bit farther off of the map tomorrow or whatever.
And she tries to talk him into drinking some wine with her and stuff.
And he's like, no, I don't really like stuff.
He don't want any of it.
Which surprises her.
And she's like, you know, that's actually quite surprising.
Because in Mel remark, it's a matriarchy.
It's not normal for a dude to refuse a drink.
Like whenever it's being offered by a woman.
You normally like in the US, it's the opposite way around.
Usually a woman's accepted.
At this point in time, I doubt they will.
Lace with whatever some guy decided to put in there.
And he's like, I didn't mean to offend you or anything.
I just don't like wine.
I don't like alcohol.
And he's like, she's kind of shocked.
It's like, OK, whatever.
It's like, I'm going to hate drinking alone.
But you'll get used to it.
Right.
So after thinking about how good of a day it went and stuff like that, while he's sitting
up in his room and he's stashing a little bit of money on the inside of a shield, he's
even remarking to himself, you know, I feel like a damn Japanese tourist.
I had money away and stuff at this point.
I didn't know Japanese tourists did.
I didn't either.
But apparently it's a it's a trope in Japan.
But as you can see on his arm, he's like stuffing it behind there on the inside of the shield.
So I put some silver back there and he basically heads off to bed like he's lays down, gets
ready to go to sleep.
And he wakes up next morning to find all the silver, all the armor, all his clothes.
Here we go.
Everything jacked.
So the shield because you can't nobody can take it.
He still has clothes he's wearing, but that would be funny.
His butt ass naked.
I took everything to my cock ring too.
It's like fluid.
It's OK.
But not like the silver, the new armor that they bought and then the clothes they had
from Earth.
Basically his clothes that he was summoned in are all gone.
He then runs to mind's room and she's banging on the door.
He's like, mine will been robbed like fuck.
You don't know what to do.
And then you get this group of guards comes up the staircase and they come into the hallway
with him.
And the leader is like, the king has issued a summons for you and you must go with them
at once, which is confusing as fuck.
And he's like, it's been fucking robbed.
The fucking moon.
Now, the king wants me.
So they bring him to the throne room and then circle him with Trident wielding guards, spears,
little forks.
Yeah.
So they did just a random choice of what I said.
I tried to fuck.
I was going to say spear.
They are there.
I was going to say spear.
But they have three points.
So I'm fucking random.
I don't know.
So random weapon for land.
And at this point, mine is hiding behind the spear hero.
So he tells the king that, like, dude, all my stuff has been stolen.
Mine.
Are you OK?
Like trying to figure out.
And then the king tells him it's like, silence, you filth.
You fucking whore.
Shut your mouth.
I'm like, oh shit, what did I do?
And see, OK, this is where it turns to a little bit darker side.
Oh no.
It's turning lighthearted in the first.
This ain't Goblin Slayer, is it?
Not graphically that bad.
Jesus.
So basically, mine accuses Nalfumi of coming into her room, stinking drunk, and tearing
all her clothes off, and saying to her, the night is still young.
Jesus Christ.
What the fuck?
And raping her.
I want a toxicology test.
I didn't drink my damn thing.
And then she says that she ran to the spear hero's room for help.
And Nalfumi, he looks at the spear hero and realizes at this point, the dude's got the
armor that was stolen.
Oh, it was all his plan?
No.
Apparently, later on in the series, you learn it.
No, it wasn't.
She gave it to him.
And he was dumb, basically, like he didn't understand.
Dumb son of a bitch.
Because he says it's like it was given to him by mind the night before.
Like before everything had happened.
So the king says, if he wasn't a cardinal hero, he'd basically be executed.
Well, at this point.
So you have Nalfumi, which he's like, he demands him to prove.
Like, would you fucking have proof?
Like what the fuck is wrong with you people?
I got receipts.
Where's my receipts at?
He was just now the optimist, and now he's fucking pissed.
And just like this dark realization, basically.
And there's a guard that walks up carrying a nightgown.
He's like, we found this in his bed.
Damn.
Yeah.
So the other three heroes basically are saying, you're so fucking awful.
Like dude, really?
You can't just do whatever the fuck you want just because you're here now.
They should have turned their fucking tone.
Which they'd already been.
They've been assholes this whole time.
Right.
And now they're looking at him like, you disgusting brats.
Well, then again, being an asshole, being a rapist are two highly separate things.
Right.
And they say they shouldn't have even wasted their time worried about if Nalfumi was going
to be okay the day before.
Right.
So Nalfumi, he notices a slight smirk on Mind's face at this point.
Dirty bitch.
And he basically has reality crashing down on him.
It like, dude, I trusted you.
Like he was just the day before, he was happy.
He was optimistic.
And now it's like, this is fucking evil.
And it's like that he just, he basically was just like a mark.
And it was a plan basically thing from the beginning.
From the beginning, yeah.
And the other is saying no mercy should be given to him.
The other heroes.
It's like you shouldn't have no fucking mercy for him.
Nalfumi also realizes that nobody likes the shield hero since they think he's weak.
Basically like he's worthless.
Can't fight nobody.
Like, what the fuck are you going to do with your shield?
He then says, just send me back home.
Like fuck it.
I don't need to be here.
Like he's basically the one that's like, let's hear him out to begin with.
And now like, you know what?
Just fuck it.
Man, might as well.
Jesus Christ.
I mean, if you're going to accuse me of fucking rape at this point, just send me back home.
Or to jail, I guess.
Right.
And he tells him, summon a new hero.
And then they say, yeah, but we can't.
Well, fuck.
Apparently they can't summon any new heroes unless all of them die.
They all have to literally die before that can happen.
All four?
Geez, what if one of them is just so OP?
Yeah.
Like that one guy from Elden Ring, let me solo her.
Who's like beaten.
It's a long story.
I'll get into it later.
So the king says that he will not lock him away.
Because now for me, he's like, what are you going to fucking do?
Let me rot in a jail cell or something now?
Like he's like, no, no, we're not going to do that.
But you will never live a good life in this kingdom with everybody looking down on you
thinking you're basically a rapist at this point.
And the king says, knowing the deeds you've done, basically.
Well, I mean, if it was true, it'd be justifiable.
Right.
And now for me, he takes the last silver out of his shield.
He's like, he throws it at me.
He's like, yeah, she has the world left.
Yeah.
Because again, being the Japanese tourist, I thought she took it all.
Not out of the shield.
Damn.
She took the bag of everything else that was in the entire room, but she didn't know he
had it hidden in the shield.
And he's like, he says, shove it up their asses.
He's tired of it.
He's like, fuck you.
You took everything else from me.
There's your fucking little pit and some few silver pieces left.
So he then leaves the castle.
He leaves with no money, no respect and no trust that he had left for anybody.
He's got some clothes.
Basically the things that he fell asleep in.
Yeah.
Like hardly nothing raising that shield.
The merchant from the weapons store that they were at yesterday, he basically drags him
down an alley.
He's like, I should fucking kill you right now.
Cause he'd already heard about what had happened.
Jesus.
And you had an alpha me.
He's like, do it.
I ain't got nothing else to lose.
Do it.
So he don't.
He doesn't do anything to him.
He's like, cause he kind of looks at him like, I don't really think he did anything.
Just by the attitude that now for me had, it's like, bro, I ain't got nothing else
to lose.
Like everybody's already fucking lied about me.
Go ahead and do it.
So he lets him go and he gives him a cloak.
He's like, yeah, they're going to know who you are.
So here, take this cloak.
He now for me, then goes back to the place where all those orange monsters basically
were in the meadow.
And he just starts fighting them fucking all night long.
Just for that grind.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
And he finally reaches level two at the end of the night.
Okay.
After grinding all night long, like what, 12 hours in the night.
Jesus Christ.
He then goes back to the town to sell the monsters remains, the like pills or whatever,
because he's not giving them to the shield anymore because it's not doing anything at
this point.
Like it's not having any more effect.
Yeah, that happens.
I guess sometimes the games.
Like I think he's probably collected enough points for that one specific item that it
can't do anything else for it at this point.
He overhears the merchant offering this other guy one copper for every two.
So when now for me gets up there, he's like, I got 20 here.
He's like, okay, I can give you one copper for all of them.
We did one copper for everybody.
Oh, it's like, bro, I just heard you tell him you're going to give him one copper for
every two.
So like that's at least 10, 10 copper pieces.
So he opens up his cloak and it looks exactly like that picture right there where he's got
all those like orange monsters attached to him because they're just biting the shit out
of him because it doesn't cause him any pain.
So he's like, oh really?
Really?
So he grabs the dude's head and shoves it inside the cloak, the merchants where they
just start snipping at that merchant, basically leaving bite marks all over him and stuff
like that.
And he's like, you're going to reconsider?
Like, yeah, reconsider the coppers.
Maybe next time I'll give you a deal.
He's like, he tells him to spread the word between all the other merchants.
It's like, unless they want bite marks all over.
And of course, the people that live in this town are kind of like super weak, I guess.
So like they're not used to it.
Yeah.
He, Nalfumi then goes back out to the forest area and he finds that he can unlock new shields,
basically.
Okay.
So like the one after feeding all that stuff to the shield with the orange balloon monsters,
it says orange shield.
And then he can get this other one after giving it a bunch of these like herbs and stuff.
He gets the leaf shield.
So it becomes like where it's a leaf shape.
If he turns it, he can turn it into this leaf shape at any time he wants to.
And it allows the each shield has their own strengths and weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses,
properties and stuff like that.
So like whenever he says like leaf shield and he gets his leaf shield, it makes it so
that way any herbs that he picks, he's picking the best quality.
So like he gets a benefit.
Yeah.
He goes and he goes to this alchemist and he starts selling all that stuff to him and
stuff like that.
So he gets high dollar basically for, he's like, where did you find all this?
And he's like, oh, just in the forest.
Because it's odd to find that high quality stuff within that forest, apparently.
He then goes to the bar after dealing with the alchemist and he has a little bit of copper
at this point to spend.
He goes back to this bar and there's these guys, it's like, we'll join you, we'll join
you, you know, like trying to basically, you know, that they're going to try to rob him
later on.
Damn already?
Pretty much.
But he's like, no, okay.
Yeah.
You can join me by your own equipment.
Shit.
I'm not.
He's like, you get paid on a basis of how good you get, how good you'll do.
Right.
Cause he's like already disillusioned with everything at this point.
Like the, like the ultimate reverse 180 of being the optimist to like fuck everyone.
Geez.
It went from that fucking hero to the villain arc.
Kind of.
Yeah.
It was like automatic too.
So basically once he gets outside, he's like, you know, if you buy your own shit, come
up to me after that.
It's like, let's just give us your money.
We just want your money.
Okay.
That's just cause of the chase at least.
Yeah.
And he fucks all three of them up like without even trying like level one or level two at
this point, like it shows you how weak these people really are compared to the actual heroes
and he fucks them completely up after that.
They all run crying basically because he threw those orange monsters at their faces and shit.
It's just like kind of a comedic type of thing.
Like in the fucking pocket.
They saw they're biting on him.
Oh, what did they bite on him at all?
But it doesn't have no damage.
So they care.
No, he's just like a ticks and shit.
All over.
He's like, whatever, whatever.
What's funny is that whenever they fall out, they come right back up to bite him again.
They love to bite him.
Apparently.
Um, you get this guy with a top hat that he comes out of the shadows of that same alley
and he's like, you know, I can offer you exactly what you need now for me because he knows
he's a shield hero.
So now for me, he's like, whatever.
He follows the dude.
It's like he's not worried at this point.
It turns out the dude is a slave trader with a bunch of monsters and humanoids to sell.
Now for me asks why the man would think that it was like, why the fuck do you think I want
to slave?
Yeah, like of all things, like really do.
When the dude, uh, selling the slaves, he answers, well, cause I can't lie or betray
you.
Interesting thing.
That's a, it like, you gotta think about it.
It's like, yeah, that is kind of true.
Cause they have slave crest on them.
So they can't disobey you.
That's still not good though.
It's not good.
No, but like his thought process, I kind of get it.
So while looking around, the man explains that male remark is a human supremacy country
and everything else is nothing but beast.
So because now from these trying to figure out like why the fuck he was so slave to your
life, it don't make no sense.
And that's the reason.
Uh, he then walks up to this one cage with a malnourished beast girl that's coughing
uncontrollably.
It's the same girl that's at the beginning of the episode.
Oh, the one that he hands the ball back to.
Yep.
And that's where the episode ends.
Oh, clearly a little plot twist.
Yeah.
He found her.
Uh, spoilers on all of it.
But eventually, uh, you, the, the episodes continue.
He's still with this girl later on, but her name is Ravtalia.
She's a beast character, like humanoid beast or whatever.
Yeah.
But whenever she reaches a higher level, she grows an age.
So she's not a little girl at this point.
She's basically a full grown adult.
Sounds gross.
I can already tell.
Yeah.
So you ain't no little girl anymore.
Well, no, like, uh, there's that like kind of love interest type thing in the series,
but it's not, it's not like a harem type show.
Like you can tell that they tried to give a little bit of that and then you kind of
backed off of it on the actual later episodes and stuff like that.
But you get that dark twist just in the first episode of super protagonists, what you would
expect of a typical like Isekai like trapped in another world type anime.
And that is an anti-hero.
He really is.
He took the world.
Yeah.
And the entire time, uh, he's basically, you know what?
I'll fucking defeat these monsters, but fuck all y'all.
Like he doesn't care for any of the other heroes or anything.
And the thing, the funny part is, is he gets stronger than all of them, obviously.
Yeah.
But, and it turns out his, uh, shield can do a lot more than what you would expect.
Well, yeah, that's the way I always do.
Well, like he can do this thing called, uh, air shield where it creates a platform or
like a floating shield in the middle of nowhere.
But whenever he has the people that eventually become part of his group where they can like
jump off of him and shit to get higher into the air and stuff.
And you get, uh, like different kind of like, uh, like full like globe shields around them
and stuff like that.
Or it's not just the itty bitty little shield anymore.
But you get, uh, compared to a lot of other anime, it's a lot darker.
Yeah.
Well, he got dark scored in the middle of it.
So you bring in the accusation of rape and she does get what's coming to her later on.
Rape?
No, no, no.
Well, yeah, he accused him of rape.
So it also turns out that, uh, that girl, the red haired girl mine, she's the king's
daughter.
That dirty bitch.
Yeah.
But he has another daughter as well.
So the other daughter becomes actual friends with Nalphami.
That wouldn't trust her either.
Cause she's like the polar opposite of mine.
That's what you think until you met mine.
Mine is a fire based spell caster and, uh, Malty is the other daughter and, uh, she's
a water based spell caster, complete opposites and they hate each other.
The best part though is that, uh, towards the end of season one, it all comes to light
how it was a lie because the queen comes back from another country, like she was visiting
another country at the time, but she eventually comes back to the country.
And since she's the true, the true ruler of the country, she puts the king in his place
and she banishes him from the country.
She allows Nalphami to choose whatever punishment for mine that he wanted.
And he, uh, her name is bitch from that point on.
What's it?
Damn.
How'd they uncover the lie?
It was a lot harder to do like he said, she said, you know, they put a slave crest on
mine and, uh, since you can't, and it was under the queen.
So she put the slave crest on her to where everything that she asked her had to be answered
truthfully.
The whole truth, nothing but the truth.
So hope you got.
And every time she lied, she got electrocuted.
Oh, okay.
So, so that was an actual, there was punishment, no, like a legit, uh, lie detector.
Yes.
They could be unrefutable.
I should say.
Yes.
Okay.
So he does get his, uh, like his, uh, just desserts at the very end of season one and
the basically the kingdom relies on him to, and he gets his own land too, at the end of
season one.
I don't know.
It's just so those, those are so weird to me.
Cause they, the character just immediately starts living this world.
Right.
I'd be worried about my family and coming home.
Yeah.
But they never ever talk about this stuff in these games or movie or shows.
The one way that a lot of them get around it though, is either that they're single and
they have no family fucking dead or something or they die.
Yes.
Jesus.
Yep.
But that was season one, episode one of, uh, rising to the shield hero.
And like I said, it's a 40 minute episode rather than the normal 22 or 20 minute episode
that most of them are.
So you do get a lot of information and the, uh, and it fucking turns real quick.
Yeah.
Yeah, it does.
Jesus.
Uh, there's, uh, a couple of other anime that went with that same kind of a trope because
it's because they're super sunny.
Right.
And there's another one, uh, Arifureta, which is, uh, from world's weakest to world's strongest
or something like that is the name of it.
And he becomes kind of like the same kind of character, but they did better.
I think with the now for me character where he actually had a personality to it and stuff
beforehand.
You know, what's a show that's good that I haven't watched yet?
Like I have two favorite anime of all time.
It's one piece and case closed or I guess they call it the Detective Conan Japan.
Yeah.
It's a case closed and I've started recently collecting those manga to, you know, just
to see the differences between one piece and the anime and the manga.
Yeah.
Uh, but, uh, one punch man has a little, a little bit of interest for me.
I want to check it out.
Uh, we got three seasons.
I think it's three.
Yeah.
Three seasons.
This is the one guy with that.
We just got that one fucking hand.
He doesn't even try.
That's all he fucking needs.
It's something about that premise is so nice to me.
Yeah.
I think most people now after these episodes have figured out which one that I like overlord.
Yeah.
Blue exorcist.
And then I, I'm just an enigma.
You don't know what I like.
Dirty stuff.
I guess you know that much.
Just anything dirty.
Yeah.
And then of course, bleach, one of the original big three.
Oh yeah.
Bleach.
So I think all of them have new episodes recently.
Yeah, they do.
Yeah.
Congratulations.
Even Naruto is going to have new episodes.
Yeah.
And they're trying to make demon slayer.
One of the big three demon slayer.
Well, a demon stutter, my hero academia, burrito probably.
That is one of the worst shows I have ever seen in my life.
And the thing is, most people don't even look at it as canon.
It's like, yeah, like it is obviously.
Most people was like, we don't want to deal with this bullshit.
Well, that's life.
Sometimes you don't get the good shows anymore.
That's why you should always stop something at the right moment.
Yeah.
Don't just keep going.
I agree.
Or it'll turn into absolute trash.
Yes.
Yes, it really will.
There's been a few anime where it's like, you know, you could have had a season two.
Like Dragon Ball GT.
They quit that and thank God they quit it.
I'm not even uncannonized.
I know.
Thank God.
I'm just saying they didn't give it another season.
They could have.
Man.
It's like, we'll cut that off.
That's an alternate universe.
So it's an alternate reality.
I could have sworn the freezes.
I was going to be the last saga.
No, no, not the free that the boo was going to be his last one.
But then for some reason, he went on to the cell saga.
I want the cell.
So it was before boo cells before boo.
They were going to end a damn thing.
Well, after the cell saga, they were going to end Goku and have it be go on.
Yeah.
For the super saiyan to punch his cell so hard in the stomach.
He fucking vomits out an Android.
And then you got a dad that's such an asshole.
It's like, here's cell.
Here's the thin suit bean.
Did he?
Yeah.
Something he could recover.
Fuck.
He's like, my son is going to fuck you up now.
Let me put you at full strength.
You take that full ass whooping.
Yeah.
No excuse, yo.
Yeah.
That's exactly what it was.
God dang.
You got him already fucked up.
Go hug him.
Yeah.
That's another universe about Dragon Ball.
I understand people love it, right?
Yeah.
But watch it.
You have a whole fucking group watching you get your ass beat by one guy.
Yeah.
Why don't you all just fucking jump in and help me out?
I bet you if all the Z fighters had jumped cell, they would have had a chance.
Well, Krillin would still have gotten his ass beat.
Amen.
They would have had a chance.
They should do a Krillin spinoff where it's not like that level of villain, right?
But at his level.
He was a cop in one of the recent movies.
Yeah, he was, wasn't he?
Yeah, so just like have him fall and have some have him fight some like equal level.
Yeah.
That would be cool.
Like getting like some Captain America level powers.
Something not crazy crazy.
Right, but like something believable to his level.
Yeah.
And that he does within like his police job.
You can tell because I'm sure that I like Krillin.
So yeah, there you go.
If you're killing it, you're Krillin it, right?
Amen.
Android 18, that's all he needs.
All right, I guess that's that.
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