The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2 Confirms 2021 Release

The staff of The Rising of The Shield Hero anime announced at a panel at the Virtual Crunchyroll Expo event on Friday that the show’s second season will premiere in 2021.

The anime is being produced by Studio DR MOVIE and Kinema Citrus, which is also producing Made in Abyss the Movie: Dawn of the Deep Soul.

The panel also revealed a key visual.

The board had planned to announce a new promotional video, but the video was not shown at the panel.

Instead, the official English Twitter account for the anime revealed the video after the panel ended, which was later posted by Crunchyroll.

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe.

He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction.

As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Naofumi is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed.

With no one to turn to and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield. Now, Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world.

From the trailer, it can be sensed that the new series’ battles will be much fiercer this time with several new characters coming to the series.

We can expect the season to be as good as the previous one.

This will include new additions to Naofumi’s party and every character reaching new heights of power and abilities to counter the more significant threats coming from the next waves and then some.

The Rising of The Shield Hero anime series premiered with a two-hour special in January 2019 and ran for 25 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan.

Crunchyroll premiered the first dubbed episode at Crunchyroll Expo in September 2018 with guests from the anime.

Masato Jinbo is directing season two at Kinema Citrus and DR MOVIE, replacing Takao Abo. Keigo Koyanagi is again in charge of series composition.

Masahiro Suwa is also adapting Seira Minami’s original character designs for animation.

The franchise also inspired a stage play that was supposed to run in March and April but was postponed in April due to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Crunchyroll had announced at last year’s Crunchyroll Expo that the anime would have two more seasons.

More details will be revealed soon.

About The Rising of the Shield Hero

Tate no Yusha no Nariagari or The Rising of the Shield Hero is an isekai light novel series written by Aneko Yusagi. It was initially published as a web novel on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website from 2012 to 2015.

In August 2013, Media Factory started publishing the light novel series with an expanded storyline featuring illustrations by Seira Minami.

Later on, Kinema Citrus adapted the light novel into an anime television series. The first episode aired on 9 January 2019.

Source: Virtual Crunchyroll Expo

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