The anime series is licensed in North America by the Crunchyroll-Funimation partnership.Įnjoy reading Tate no yuusha no nariagari manga / Rising of the shield hero manga. A second and third season have been announced. The 25-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Kinema Citrus aired from January to June 2019. Both the novel and manga series were licensed by One Peace Books and were published in North America starting in September 2015. The novel series was adapted into a manga series by Aiya Kyū and published by Media Factory, with thirteen volumes released as of April 23, 2019. Now, Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world! With no one to turn to, and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield.
Naofumi is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Tate no yuusha manga Start’s with 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 of June 25, 2019, twenty-two volumes have been published. Originally published as a web novel in the user-generated novel site Shōsetsuka ni Narō, the series has since been published by Media Factory with an expanded story-line featuring illustrations by Seira Minami. The Rising of the Shield Hero (Japanese: 盾の勇者の成り上がり Hepburn: Tate no yuusha no nariagari manga) is a Japanese light novel series written by Aneko Yusagi.