©AnekoYusagi_Seira Minami/KADOKAWA/Shield Hero S5 ProjectThe Shield Hero’s journey keeps progressing — The Rising of the Shield Hero TV anime, which had its fourth season during the Summer 2025 anime season, is preparing to continue with a fifth season.
There’s currently no news on when the new season will be available. The initial three seasons were released in 2019, 2022, and 2023.
For now, fans can enjoy a striking ultra teaser visual and a teaser video. Anticipate scenes of sand, intense music, a shadowy figure on a throne, and Naofumi’s troubled expression in the latter.
©AnekoYusagi_Seira Minami/KADOKAWA/Shield Hero S5 ProjectIn addition to Season 5, Shield Hero enthusiasts can also anticipate a game — launching on PC and mobile worldwide. Specific information about this is also limited, but a teaser visual featuring Raphtalia has been released.
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The Rising of the Shield Hero is adapted from the MF Books light novel series by Yusagi Aneko, illustrated by Seira Minami. The isekai fantasy follows Naofumi (voiced by Kaito Ishikawa), who is drawn into another world to take on the role of the Shield Hero, a position that isn’t as noble as it seems.
©AnekoYusagi_Seira Minami/KADOKAWA/Shield Hero Game ProjectCrunchyroll and Bilibili are currently streaming Season 4 of the anime. The credits for that season’s staff include:
• Director: Hitoshi Haga (since Season 3)
• Series composer: Keigo Koyanagi (since Season 1, co-credited with Kinema Citrus in Season 3)
• Character designer: Franziska van Wulfen (since Season 3)
• Character designer: Sana Komatsu (since Season 3)
• Character designer: Masahiro Suwa
• Assistant director: Takanori Yamamoto (previously involved as episode director and animation director on Season 1 and 3)
• Music composer: Kevin Penkin
• Music composer: Alfredo Sirica (Season 3 sub-composer)
• Music composer: Natalie Jeffreys (Season 3 sub-composer)
• Animation production: Kinema Citrus (since Season 1, shared credit with DR MOVIE for Season 2)
The Rising of the Shield Hero light novel series started in August 2013 and has 22 volumes as of June 2019. It also includes a manga adaptation and additional spin-offs. The narrative was initially published as a web novel on Shosetsuka ni Naro in 2012.
Here’s the synopsis of the light novels from One Peace Books:
Naofumi Iwatani, a socially awkward otaku who enjoys games and manga, is suddenly transported to a parallel universe! He learns he is one of four heroes, each possessing legendary weapons and entrusted with saving the world from an impending apocalypse. As the Shield Hero, the most ineffectual of the heroes, things are far from what they seem. Naofumi finds himself isolated, broke, and betrayed. Without allies and nowhere to retreat, all he has is his shield. Now, Naofumi must ascend to become the fabled Shield Hero and save the planet!
Cast (currently)
• Kaito Ishikawa as Naofumi Iwatani
• Asami Seto as Raphtalia
• Rina Hidaka as Filo
• Ami Koshimizu as Sadeena
• Kouhei Amasaki as Fohl
• Konomi Kohara as Atla
• Takeo Otsuka as Werner
• Jiro Saito as Jaralis
Source: @shieldheroanime
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- George Trombley (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 376 Pages - 08/22/2014 (Publication Date) - Learn From Zero (Publisher)
- Ken Fukuyama, Yuki Fukuyama (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 246 Pages - 10/11/2022 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Sumiko Uo (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 6 Pages - 01/01/2005 (Publication Date) - BarCharts Publishing Inc. (Publisher)
