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| Filo has some massive kicking potential. SUPA KICKA! Tarotist: Isn't the voice amp shield from the bats in the cave? I remember, that he had something pop up after they clashed againts them. |
SSL443 said: Walker-Vargas said: Word choice aside, yeah he should have said "no" when Raphtalia went get get her seal restored. Or at least feel uneasy about it. And then they put a different seal on Filo. Like lets make it a bit more extreme, imagine he had a kill switch. At first he could rationalize that someone's going to have it, might as well be him. But Raphtalia, who's like 10, getting the bomb reactivated, should definitely have gotten a stronger reaction. And yes I know he only has a pain switch, but the point is still the same. The show takes some willing suspense of moral disbelief. I'm with you there. The scene where Raphtalia gets her slave seal again is the most questionable in the entire show so far. I'm well aware of why it is in the story... and I think that justification is one of the dumber things I've seen recently in an anime. What I found most baffling about it is that she would happily go back to the guy that kept her chained up in a cage, wearing rags, and with no treatment for her illness. And that's ignoring the small detail that he trafficks in people. Even if this show doesn't "condone slavery" it sure hasn't done much to condemn it either. I hope this suffices in your want for condemnation of slavery. |
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| I'm surprised there are so many dumb people who call this/the previous episode a filler Seriously guys, not all episode can consist of drama and fight all the time These episodes are also very important... |
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Rosiero said: Boring filler episode. Filo is annoying. reported for being too edgy! |
Red_Ranger_Wien said: Filo is just blond Illya. I can't unsee it now. I thought that immediately in episode 5 when she said "i'm hungry". I checked to see if she had the same voice actor too lol |
| Another perfect episode!!! Filo is so damn OP strong! and she's just only level 19! LOLZ! both Raphtalia & Filo shows jealousy at this early point! WOW! Raphtalia has mirage cloaking skills! And of course Filo has wind affinity skills! that hallucination is just nasty! Naofumi's shield is very handy! can't count how many skill tree topology mesh there is! Filo is now angelic! 5/5. |
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| Boring filler. Also, Filo is annoying af. She reminds me of Index. |
| This was a really nice episode showing how Naofumi, Raphtalia and Filo are bonding as a group on their travels. If the effort to acquire clothing that'll suit Filo when she transforms so often, Naofumi's small group traveled a lot, getting info, sorting out bandits and, amusingly, looting them and he also got info about what the other heroes are doing. Ren's rumours has him going after dragons and such, which would suit him. Itsuki's rumours were all over the place, so who knows which one is legit or not. Either way, the two of them are doing fine. As for Moyotasu, he gave out a "legendary" crop to some villagers. I think that'll come with a price for those poor villagers, since this is Moyotasu after all, being helped out by that bitch Malty. =/ The fight against the Nue was short, but very good. Nice touch from the finishing blow by Filo as her kick into the Nue's skull gave off a nice reference to the Mortal Kombat series. Another thing I liked about this episode was the few times where Raphtalia and Filo were acting jealous against each as they tried to get more of Naofumi's attention to them than each other. Naofumi only see's Raphtalia as a daughter, which made her a little annoyed. She sees him as a member of the opposite sex, I'm sure of it, so I do see her trying many times in future episodes to make him see her as a women. =3 |
| Not fantastic or anything, but it's a nice change of pace to have a proper slow-down episode without any real drama that allows for a little bit of character exploration, while still steadily building the world. I bet that empty chest in the mine had something to do with that "special crop" Motoyasu gave the starving village, and by the sounds of it that's going to backfire big-time soon. |
| what a good episode, Naofumi raiding the thieves, The fatality kick and Raphilia with her pouting is just adorable. |
Walker-Vargas said: Demyx_IX said: It really isn't though? Literally nothing in the series romanticizes slavery. bUt DeMyX, bEcAuSe He HaS sLaVeS aNd ReFuSeS tO hAvE a NoRmAl ReLaTiOnShIp WiTh ThE tWo MeMbErS oF hIs PaRtY tHaT mEaNs iT iS rOmAntIcIzInG sLaVeRy. Word choice aside, yeah he should have said "no" when Raphtalia went get get her seal restored. Or at least feel uneasy about it. And then they put a different seal on Filo. Like lets make it a bit more extreme, imagine he had a kill switch. At first he could rationalize that someone's going to have it, might as well be him. But Raphtalia, who's like 10, getting the bomb reactivated, should definitely have gotten a stronger reaction. And yes I know he only has a pain switch, but the point is still the same. The show takes some willing suspense of moral disbelief. Filo despite having a loli form is still a high-level beast, unlike Raccon waifu, she can't be reasoned with once she goes berserk and the seal is in there to keep her in check. I don't see anything wrong with that. The seal on Raphtalia now is different, he can't fucking shock her every time she says no to him. |
| Good episode, Filo gets a new magic dress. Shield hero daughter-zone Rapthalia xD. Some little fight the Nue. Overall its SOL episode. |
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Ryuutobi said: ttcchen said: Or she could be an elderly grand master martial artist.Also did anyone notice? The sick mother's level is ??? I wonder if shes secretly some lv 100 final boss lol Something smells spoiled here... |
It's not so much that I want the show to condemn slavery from a moral standpoint, it's that the characters needs to from a believability standpoint. |
| Who knew a quest to get a small girl a dress could take that long, and be that much trouble. Fight against the Nue was rad, especially with the Mortal Kombat X-Ray kick, and I like seeing their new powers in use. |
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SSL443 said: It's not so much that I want the show to condemn slavery from a moral standpoint, it's that the characters needs to from a believability standpoint. Well, the other heroes already have, and it's hard to expect Naofumi himself to explicitly condemn it while he's still distrustful of almost everyone else in this world after what he went through with Myne and the bad reputation he got as a result of this. Still, he did at least make it clear already that Raphtalia did not need to take on the mark again, it was her own free choice as a sign of how much she trusts him (don't mind the obvious mistranslation saying the opposite in the subs). |
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| Naofumi , Raph and now Filo too. All the main cast are just awesome. |
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| What a nice episode, I wonder if filo have same lvl with rapthalia she's become adult too? |
| I quite enjoyed this episode, really enjoying the main trio's dynamic. I also really liked the chekov's gun they set up, really excited to see where that plot point goes |
Ryuutobi said: okay i guess in this instance that might've been the case ,doesn't change the fact he continues to get shields that usually solves whatever situation hes in like there doesn't seem to be any rules to it it can just be "whatever" for the plot ttcchen said: Or she could be an elderly grand master martial artist.Also did anyone notice? The sick mother's level is ??? I wonder if shes secretly some lv 100 final boss lol katsu044 said: also they seem to not give a fuck about Naofumi's shield growth each week he has a dozen new ones hes gotten off screen like it's pretty convenient he had a sound amplifier one for a monster sensitive to sound but whatever kinda just rolling with it Tarotist said: It's not offscreen. That shield was obtained by absorbing the bat monsters at the cave entrance. If only you properly paid attention, then you'd noticed that Naofumi unlocked something after defeating the bats. And, the megaphone shield's even shaped like a bat.Since when did Captain Japan get a shield that amplifies sound? That's something new... |
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| Man, the exploration scene was really unsatisfactory .-. |
Hegar said: By the way, "demi humans are bullied because they grow fast" was ridiculous. Talk about contrived to make her a poor slave girl in need of protection. It would have made far more sense that.... 1) she was captured from an enemy country, the way slaves were usually captured throughout history, or 2) demis are looked down on for being feral and animal-like. Now THAT would have been realism. Make them half animal not just by way of cute ears, but also mentally. If you want to avoid that for Raccoontalia's personality, then say that SOME demi-humans are animalistic mentally, but not all. It's not ridiculous if you think about it. They can mature extremely fast. What would take many years to create an army, demi-humans can do it much quicker. I don't see why your alternatives are any better. Also Raphtalia is more than a capable fighter now, so she doesn't really need protecting. |
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Hegar said: Killuan said: It's not ridiculous if you think about it. They can mature extremely fast. What would take many years to create an army, demi-humans can do it much quicker. I don't see why your alternatives are any better. Also Raphtalia is more than a capable fighter now, so she doesn't really need protecting. "It's not ridiculous if you think about it. They can mature extremely fast. What would take many years to create an army, demi-humans can do it much quicker. " Asperger answer: Reply with the in-universe explanation because that's what's on paper, rather than understanding the writers' purpose. The point of that in-universe explanation was to make her a poor girl in society so that she needs to be taken care of by the main character, the viewer's stand-in. An explanation that conveniently doesn't actually mean any negative characteristics, like an animal-like nature would be. "I don't see why your alternatives are any better." I ... just explained it. It was right there. I said that my alternatives would be more realistic, which is true. If you don't think so, then reply with a reason, instead of just saying you didn't see it. "so she doesn't need protecting" - Yes, that's called an evolving story. Which doesn't mean she wasn't a poor little scared girl to hug and care for in the beginning. Stop protecting your Beloved Show by ignoring obvious tropes just because you don't want to see that they exist. Oh, I'm not saying that "poor girl in need of protection" is a bad trope. It's pretty normal. I'm just saying the reason for her being an outcast was ridiculously contrived. "We don't like 'em because they grow fast!" Uh-huh. She's a child slave at first, she would need protecting regardless. The original point of purchasing her was because no one else would party with Naofumi. It's realistic to want to enslave that which you fear so that they cannot take power from you. Realism in fiction is also not a factor on what makes a series entertaining in the first place. The anime does explain why demi-humans are persecuted in that country... soon enough. Needless to say, a lot of the story would need to be changed just to correct some minor point that really works perfectly fine as it is. Particularly because demi-humans become a large part of the LN over time. I'm sorry but you're bringing up extremely low hanging fruit, if that's your attempt at criticism. It does nothing to damper the story. |
| What was with the random Petra cameo xd |
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| Weird but I felt kinda sorry for this lion-snake monster, he just set there... I almost expected Naofumi to train it into becoming one of his weapons, why would they make monsters look so cute (well, in a sense that they don't seem disgusting or particularly harmful). |
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OG_Gattsu said: Well you cared enough to post a reply directed at me so lol on your tsundere approach 🤣🤣🤣Janethan23 said: I was about to tell you the significance of the seals the girls have but since it will fall on deaf ears with your asinine PC bullshit I'd rather tell you should quit watching everything on any screen (TV, movies, video games etc.) because it romanticizes everything that triggers you. You say this as if I asked nor care for your opinion 😂 |
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Gireix said: Mortal combat vibes from that kick Tentaman said: That was best scene this week.Firo with that Mortal Kombat X-Ray kick though |
| So I coming to Rise of Shield Hero after doing binging all 6 episodes, I decide to what for dub version and guys it's fantastic!! So glad I waited!! That being said I very grateful to see this type of anime get made, the issues surrounding it our current in this climate, false accusations etc, it's anime that deals with consequences of lying and how it can damage people lives and destroy there mindset of the world. Namafumi is fantastic character he really hits you with all kinds of emotions, what it means to have your reputation be rip apart and try to pick it up in new world. Episode 4 really brought all the intense emotions of how it affects your mind and how you don't trust anyone, it's dark dark world without people believing in you. Then comes Raphtalia she hands down the best, I really was kinda of upset how Namafumi view her in beginning but you get he is in dark place, also I feel that maybe he met not think these people our same intense they live in game world. But that of course changes in time with her healing his heart and believing in him. I love the character growth of Raphtalia but I kinda wish she still younger, lol a lot of cute moments. I also love filo to since she was introduce she does add layer of comic relief in this dark anime. Overall I think this anime we can enjoy but also take to heart, and realize that lying has much consequences in people lives, I think if you just watch this anime and not take personal you miss the whole point. |
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Walker-Vargas said: So the light novel is a little better. It does have it's perks and advantages, at least! As the ln is entirely out of Naofumi's pov, we get to know much, much more of how he feels and thinks about things. He obviously is far from being an outspoken person and doesn't voice what he thinks or feels most of the time. So in the ln it is much clearer, that he wouldn't have resorted to the usage of slaves, if he would've had another chance. Walker-Vargas said: Yeah she isn't old enough to consent to any of this. You don't need to argue that some slavery is okay. Dragons also aren't real, but you can just use willing suspense of disbelief. In this case if someone can't, I can see why. Really people trying to rationalize it is what is creeping more people out than the show itself. Raphtalia actually matures rather quickly in both physical appearance and her mental state. I am sometimes wondering if that was a wanted development from the author, or if he/she simply forgot that Raphtalia is still only ~10 years old. While she certainly still has some childish moments you wouldn't really believe that she should still be a child. But in the time she lives, you just have to grow up fast, so I personally don't really care about that matter that much. |
Walker-Vargas said: Really people trying to rationalize it is what is creeping more people out than the show itself. There is some irony there that seems to be lost on a lot of people... Hegar said: Oh, I'm not saying that "poor girl in need of protection" is a bad trope. It's pretty normal. I'm just saying the reason for her being an outcast was ridiculously contrived. "We don't like 'em because they grow fast!" Uh-huh. Eh... I think it's a non-issue. I don't think it takes much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that demi-humans would be persecuted, whatever the reason. |
Tokoya said: about Nue, i also thought it looked somewhat similar to that monster in Boruto, surprisingly had similar traits lol rip off or a magical being? tell me!Firo is such a wholesome little girl :'') That dressmaker was literally me xDD Really enjoyed seeing Naofumi make nice connections with people and really get his trade merchant job off of the ground, he really deserved to have this form of happiness and chemistry with his team That battle against the Nue (That gave me mad Boruto vibes lol) was pretty cool too....Also, imma need Naofumi to start looking at best girl Raph-chan as a grown woman |
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w_i_t_d said: I planned to drop this show after a loli showed up at the end of episode 5, but Digi & Best Guy said give it a chance. I did, and then I dropped it for good 48 seconds into episode 6, with the cringe-inducing scene of a guy offering the loli a bite of his sandwich, saying, "How big of a bite could she possibly take?" only to have her predictably take her giant bird form and the whole giant sandwich on a single bite. Wut? That suppose to be a funny scene, I think you are taking the things way too serious... |
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w_i_t_d said: Every plot development is telegraphed so hard, I don't understand how anyone can be surprised by anything, with the exception of the moments that fall into the wtf category, like Raphtalia getting her slave mark back for absolutely no conceivable reason. People aren't watching this show for the suspence or insight, they're watching to be tickled in the feels. |
| And some people actually tried to argue that this anime isn't harem. |
w_i_t_d said: kofmaster said: Wut? That suppose to be a funny scene, I think you are taking the things way too serious... I get that it was *supposed* to be a funny scene. Was it funny? Did you laugh? I don't laugh at a lot of intended to be funny scenes, it doesn't make me want to drop a series for it. But seriously, i'm supporting you. Please do drop it. If it's become a chore to watch, dropping it makes the most sense. |
| Better than last week. Still missing the darker tone of the first four episodes, though. I'm in the minority I'm sure, but I actually don't like Filo. |
w_i_t_d said: Please tell me what "tickled in the feels" means. Ask the people who are squealing over how great this show is and rating it 10/10. |
SSL443 said: Hegar said: Oh, I'm not saying that "poor girl in need of protection" is a bad trope. It's pretty normal. I'm just saying the reason for her being an outcast was ridiculously contrived. "We don't like 'em because they grow fast!" Uh-huh. Eh... I think it's a non-issue. I don't think it takes much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that demi-humans would be persecuted, whatever the reason. Really, we live in a world where people have been persecuted for every for everything possible. It's not hard to imagine demihumans being persecuted for not only their appearance, but their physique increasing with their levels. |
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