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The List - 5 Worst Anime Relationships

Replica_Rabbit wrote:

The difference is Saito is given a crest that gives him unbelievable power, while Raphtalia's slave crest only benefits the owner. I don't like Saito and Louise's relationship either and I found Raphtalia and Naofumi to be above there (Inuyasha and Kagome is also bad) It doesn't look bright since the discussion was manly a few people on the site didn't like the show and the discussion become ANN attacks Shield Hero. People should step back and realize sometimes people will have a bad reaction to a show you like. If people learned that, I think the anime community would be a lot better

Bzzt. The slave crest does benefit Raphtalia. Aside from the political and social protections it provides her, there is the fact that any slave of the Shield Hero gains a substantial boost to the rate at which they level up/gain power.

She may not have been thinking of that when she returned to being his slave. But it is still there.

The slave crest does benefit Raphtalia. Aside from the political and social protections it provides her, there is the fact that any slave of the Shield Hero gains a substantial boost to the rate at which they level up/gain power.

She may not have been thinking of that when she returned to being his slave. But it is still there.

Yeah...it doesn't really make the situlation any better. She is still a slave, it doesn't matter how much freedom she has, the fact that the Hero at any point could take away her freedom won't sit well with many people. The leash is just longer.

Now why is SH so bad relationship wise, because it feels like taking the worst aspects of Naruto and Hinata along with Sakura and Sasuke and turning it up a knot.

You have the one sided love of Sakura, submissiveness of Hinata, combined with the romantic denseness of Naruto and the uncaringness of Sasuke. Not to mention the Father-Daughter complex that is constantly hanging over the pairing. But lets say we over look that growling puma in the room. It still would be awful because the crest thing means she could never really have a real disagreement.

It doesn't make for a good relationship at all and I think if someone submitted a story like Rising of a Shield Hero to Romance publisher the manuscript would be thrown into the trash can and rejected. Rising of the Shield hero works as an action driven story but fails as a romantic one and that's why I think it should be first on the list.

But there is also a ton of really positive and beneficial aspects to their personality so you are going to have a major uphill battle convincing people that it's a premier example of a bad anime relationship without your reasoning sounding shallow, especially if you only have one paragraph to do it it.

Anyone that actually watches/read Shield Hero would know Naofumi literally turns off all the negative aspects of the slave crest and it just becomes a glorified symbol that gives her stat boosts and insane strength growth (That makes her stronger then the other heroes).

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

But there is also a ton of really positive and beneficial aspects to their personality so you are going to have a major uphill battle convincing people that it's a premier example of a bad anime relationship without your reasoning sounding shallow, especially if you only have one paragraph to do it it.

One paragraph? All it takes is one sentence.
You cannot have a meaningful relationship with someone you treat as property.

Catsplay wrote:

Anyone that actually watches/read Shield Hero would know Naofumi literally turns off all the negative aspects of the slave crest and it just becomes a glorified symbol that gives her stat boosts and insane strength growth (That makes her stronger then the other heroes).

Er, where in the anime version is he shown or described doing this? It's still very much active in the mid-series scene where he uses it to find Filo when she's hiding.

I'll grant you that he doesn't abuse what the crest can do, but that's kinda beside the point here. It's what being a slave (even if in name only) symbolizes, and the reality that Naofumi could use it to forcefully control them, that bothers people about this series and always will. That's not going to change no matter how arguments defending the series are couched.

Now, the whole Shield Hero thing is getting done to death (again!), so let's move on to something else, shall we?

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

But there is also a ton of really positive and beneficial aspects to their personality so you are going to have a major uphill battle convincing people that it's a premier example of a bad anime relationship without your reasoning sounding shallow, especially if you only have one paragraph to do it it.

One paragraph? All it takes is one sentence.
You cannot have a meaningful relationship with someone you treat as property.

Also Filo doesn't have a slave crest in the same way Raphtalia does, her's is one that is meant to control Filoials and Naofumi never turned off the disobedience aspect of her crest because she outright just did her own things and was out of control multiple times. Raphtalia doesn't have that though, he turned off her slave crest and made it so even if she disobeyed him it wouldn't shock or hurt her anymore. It doesn't outright show that in the anime but it's clear with how their relationship is presented but it's explicitly stated to be something Naofumi does once she willingly becomes his slave again in the light novels. She can literally speak out and not listen to anything he tells her and the crest will not affect her.

Catsplay wrote:

Also Filo doesn't have a slave crest in the same way Raphtalia does, her's is one that is meant to control Filoials and Naofumi never turned off the disobedience aspect of her crest because she outright just did her own things and was out of control multiple times. Raphtalia doesn't have that though, he turned off her slave crest and made it so even if she disobeyed him it wouldn't shock or hurt her anymore. It doesn't outright show that in the anime but it's clear with how their relationship is presented but it's explicitly stated to be something Naofumi does once she willingly becomes his slave again in the light novels. She can literally speak out and not listen to anything he tells her and the crest will not affect her.

Really? None of that came across in the show at all to me, and rather sounds like a complete rewrite.

No, that does sound like a rewrite, like the anime adaptation took away its leading girl's entire autonomy for god knows why.