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Could contain some minor spoilers.

The Rising of the Shield Hero started off on a somehow good premise, with some novelties compared to the classical tropes of the genre, and a protagonist with an interesting personality.
The first couple of episodes were undoubtedly interesting, so much that at first I rated the show with an eight, but that only increased my frustration as it went on: instead of an interesting story of a man that has to deal with a world that does not want him but nevertheless wants to survive and to do so is ready to compromise on his morals we get a half cooked ... furry harem anime with no worldbuilding, ridicule attempts at adding some intrigue, characters that are just outright stupid, a boring and repetitive plot and episodes whose main point seems to be showing a racoon and a bird fight over who gets the attentions of their owner.
The magic system is also not well developed, there is no comedy nor any serious talk about any topic, the action scenes are nothing spectacular, the sound is not bad and the art I would say it's average, the color palette is a bit dim as far as I'm concerned, and here and there there's a bit of cg that feels out of place.