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NEWS: The Rising of The Shield Hero Anime Gets 2 More Seasons

Reinheit Hezen wrote:

Let's hope it's not like this, but tbh Tate no Yuusha is not enough popular in Japan to have 2 sequels announced at the same time, a second season would be possible, but without Crunchyroll's money it wouldn't be possible, this anime became an occidental-aiming fans proyect.

I remember seeing Tate no Yuusha at the top of some popularity polls and Raftalia being very popular when the show was airing here.

AA751 wrote:

Hatsu95 wrote: Siegfriedl88 wrote: what makes this better than other isekai titles?(considering all the universal hate that genre seems too get) absolutely nothing ! it is as generic as you can get and the writing is so bad it's almost comical. Its the Streisand effect. If people hadn't have vocally hated the series so much it would have sunk into mediocrity like most isekai. Instead we get incels, or people who like to be contrary determined to love the show no matter what and score it high, to shove it to those ebil killjoy feminists. It's funny and pretty predictable.

Or you know people legit love the series, no it couldn't possibly be that! Shield Hero was already a very popular web novel/light novel series long before the anime came out and it already had an existing fanbase and I can assure you we're not god damn Incels or contrarians. I really don't understand why people like you have to pop up and shit on people for liking something.

AA751 wrote:

Hatsu95 wrote: Siegfriedl88 wrote: what makes this better than other isekai titles?(considering all the universal hate that genre seems too get) absolutely nothing ! it is as generic as you can get and the writing is so bad it's almost comical. Its the Streisand effect. If people hadn't have vocally hated the series so much it would have sunk into mediocrity like most isekai. Instead we get incels, or people who like to be contrary determined to love the show no matter what and score it high, to shove it to those ebil killjoy feminists. It's funny and pretty predictable.

Or you know people legit love the series, no it couldn't possibly be that! Shield Hero was already a very popular web novel/light novel series long before the anime came out and it already had an existing fanbase and I can assure you we're not god damn Incels or contrarians. I really don't understand why people like you have to pop up and shit on people for liking something.

Catsplay wrote:

AA751 wrote: Hatsu95 wrote: Siegfriedl88 wrote: what makes this better than other isekai titles?(considering all the universal hate that genre seems too get) absolutely nothing ! it is as generic as you can get and the writing is so bad it's almost comical. Its the Streisand effect. If people hadn't have vocally hated the series so much it would have sunk into mediocrity like most isekai. Instead we get incels, or people who like to be contrary determined to love the show no matter what and score it high, to shove it to those ebil killjoy feminists. It's funny and pretty predictable. Or you know people legit love the series, no it couldn't possibly be that! Shield Hero was already a very popular web novel/light novel series long before the anime came out and it already had an existing fanbase and I can assure you we're not god damn Incels or contrarians. I really don't understand why people like you have to pop up and shit on people for liking something.

I'm one example of a person who wouldn't have known or cared about the series before the controversy.

Ironically to me, it was the fans reaction against the critics which I noticed the most, it seemed much more vocal.

Because of that I watched the series just to see the big deal and I found it boring. I'm sure I'm not the only one who did the same.

AA751 wrote:

Or you know people legit love the series, no it couldn't possibly be that! Shield Hero was already a very popular web novel/light novel series long before the anime came out and it already had an existing fanbase and I can assure you we're not god damn Incels or contrarians. I really don't understand why people like you have to pop up and shit on people for liking something.

I'm one example of a person who wouldn't have known or cared about the series before the controversy.

Ironically to me, it was the fans reaction against the critics which I noticed the most, it seemed much more vocal.

Because of that I watched the series just to see the big deal and I found it boring. I'm sure I'm not the only one who did the same.

Here’s the thing. If people were criticizing storytelling, animation, characters, acting, etc, that would be one thing. But they attacked the show’s morality, that it was “problematic”, and the people who liked it were bad people. That doesn’t work. Ever.

I was referring to Twitter. The same people defending Spice were attacking Shield Hero.

Here’s the thing. If people were criticizing storytelling, animation, characters, acting, etc, that would be one thing. But they attacked the show’s morality, that it was “problematic”, and the people who liked it were bad people. That doesn’t work. Ever. And the controversy for better or for worse widened the audience a lot.

I didn't see any characters ranked on Newtype or Animage. The show sold on average of 2.2k and wasn't much of a topic of discussion in Japan hence why it was mostly forgotten. sales didn't even move much considering it didn't pop up on either Oricon hald year list for LNs and Manga (coincidentally Slime did) This is all being backed up by CrunchyRoll and they already hinted at producing more months ago.

I don't think watching this show makes you a bad person. (Some, but not all, of its critics have said that, but you can find people saying that about literally anything if you look hard enough.) I do, however, wish more of the fans were willing to understand why it offends a lot of people.

Beatdigga wrote:

Here’s the thing. If people were criticizing storytelling, animation, characters, acting, etc, that would be one thing. But they attacked the show’s morality, that it was “problematic”, and the people who liked it were bad people. That doesn’t work. Ever.

I dunno. It certainly convinced me not to watch it, and I'm surely not the only one. It's true that controversies like this ultimately tend to follow the "no such thing as bad publicity" rule, but both sides contribute to that.

I don't think watching this show makes you a bad person. (Some, but not all, of its critics have said that, but you can find people saying that about literally anything if you look hard enough.) I do, however, wish more of the fans were willing to understand why it offends a lot of people.

Though, if they were so willing, most of them would probably quit watching it. There's always a weird sort of cognitive dissonance with "problematic" shows where people want to watch it without thinking about any social/moral problems and still claim to be on the right side of those political issues. They claim not to care, but their reactions to the criticisms show they do care, enough to spend ages arguing on the internet... just not enough to admit that their favorite show might be a bit, uh, antiquated, because then they wouldn't be able to enjoy it. Go back a few decades, and critics of a show like this would just be mocked briefly and forgotten. So I guess there's a bit of a silver lining.

Anyway, Symphogear is the other one that got two seasons announced at the same time. Maybe Overlord too, I don't follow that one.

Beatdigga wrote:

Crunchyroll’s investment in this show seems to have paid off in spades, despite any negative press they may have received.

Negative outrage by feminists and blue checkmarks are inconsequential to a show's profitability anyway. It's the same deal with Goblin Slayer, feminists and blue checkmarks got triggered after the first episode yet it was unilaterally Crunchyroll's most watched show in the entire US during the Fall 2018 season (in which CR still has the majority of the airing anime).

I dunno. It certainly convinced me not to watch it, and I'm surely not the only one. It's true that controversies like this ultimately tend to follow the "no such thing as bad publicity" rule, but both sides contribute to that.

I don't think watching this show makes you a bad person. (Some, but not all, of its critics have said that, but you can find people saying that about literally anything if you look hard enough.) I do, however, wish more of the fans were willing to understand why it offends a lot of people.

Though, if they were so willing, most of them would probably quit watching it. There's always a weird sort of cognitive dissonance with "problematic" shows where people want to watch it without thinking about any social/moral problems and still claim to be on the right side of those political issues. They claim not to care, but their reactions to the criticisms show they do care, enough to spend ages arguing on the internet... just not enough to admit that their favorite show might be a bit, uh, antiquated, because then they wouldn't be able to enjoy it. Go back a few decades, and critics of a show like this would just be mocked briefly and forgotten. So I guess there's a bit of a silver lining.

Anyway, Symphogear is the other one that got two seasons announced at the same time. Maybe Overlord too, I don't follow that one.

Catsplay wrote:

Or you know people legit love the series, no it couldn't possibly be that! Shield Hero was already a very popular web novel/light novel series long before the anime came out and it already had an existing fanbase and I can assure you we're not god damn Incels or contrarians. I really don't understand why people like you have to pop up and shit on people for liking something.

I'm one example of a person who wouldn't have known or cared about the series before the controversy.

Ironically to me, it was the fans reaction against the critics which I noticed the most, it seemed much more vocal.

Because of that I watched the series just to see the big deal and I found it boring. I'm sure I'm not the only one who did the same.