IT'S THAT TIME OF THE MONTHS GUYS!
with this, the adaptation of volume 5 to manga form has started.
Hopefully this means we'll see more art of L'Arc and other characters.
time for dubs is here again
>>157544620
Just look at this handsome fucker. Also, spoilers i guess
>>157544620
why is non of you niggas reading the wn instead?you would see the prego raph ending faster
>>157544750
Time to levelgrind i guess.
>>157544842
Gee, it's not like he has spent all his time trying to survive and not get murdered by a corrupt government and religion recently.
>>157544913
they are hiding something
>>157544705
The WNs got translated live on /a/ when ShieldHero was really popular. I'm pretty sure most of the people here who read the manga know of the WNs.
>>157544659
>Nothing personal
Did he fucking teleport behind him too?
>>157544959
Ren pls.
>>157544965
And the LNs greatly change the story even though the overall plot is the same
>>157545007He calls him the shield kiddo too! But he isn't edgy, you'll see
>>157545008
you can see how angry they are when they are told they're shit.
>>157544965
I'm pretty sure most of them don't know that since it's past their "general" state where even mods would fight it out with tatefags, if barely a small fraction of them know the wns. sadly
>>157545058
Shield true mvp 1/0 KD
>>157545076
>where even mods would fight it out with tatefags
wait what?
>>157544705
I dropped it when I was spoiled about the end, I hate with a passion this kind of "clone" story
>>157545116
namefags wanted to clean the generals, cause it became generals, it survived though
>>157545145
Well i came waaay after all of that shit so i didn't know other than the >1000 replies ommited thread
>>157545155
>>157545216
God is the least thing you want to meet right now.
>>157545252
This part of the story is better explored in the LN.
>>157545252
Just when I started to think these three fu kers would get better. Here we go again. This is the one I Sekai where the MC didn't get a cheat ability right off the bat.
>>157545305
This whole thing boiled down to everyone not reading the manual
>>157545305
This guy must be armor, which means the girl there must be...
>>157545357
Aaaand here's rishia! she looks sooo bullyable.
>>157545356
Also, belief=power.
>>157545406
>what does this filthy demihuman want.
>>157545455
man, what an asshole.
>>157545493
Just so you know i've been editing stuff with the official names in the LNs. And "Lyshia" just triggers my autism.
>>157545539
Uh oh.
>>157545568
that aint going to end well.
So does the LN give actual story to the other 7 star heroes?
>>157545596
Why's itsuki gotta be such a smug shit.
>>157545656
Becauseeverything is manipulated by the goddess and there is no actual character agency, and no character receives real development outside of the overpowered MC
>>157545609
Only about those from glass's world apparently
>>157545656
>>157545770
Something something about believing
>>157545770
not that they will believe him anyway
>>157545849
some of these panels are really good for reaction images
>>157545929
can they inflate their egos any harder?
>>157546014
You can pinpoint the moment she snaps.
>>157546014
How does bitch still manage to retain her ego at this stage.
>>157546049
Just so you know, Bitch's slave curse activated and put her in her place.
>>157546067
She's fundamentally fucked up, there is no fixing her innate bitchiness.
This is the last page, and d'aww is it cute.
thanks for joining up guys, and see you next month for more chapters!
Thanks for dumping. Was it ever explained if the heroes were really lying to Naofumi, or that they were just mistaken? I'd just assumed each weapon had a different growth system.
>almost everyone in this series is irrational, judgmental, or straight up an asshole
Kinda wish it was toned down a bit, i'm getting tired of hating everyone.
Damnit. I want more Raphtalia.
>>157546305
They werent, everything is real.Naofumi enters a staring contest with his shield, with the queen watching akwardly in the LN. He tries all of the common things the heroes said such as weapon copy and drop stuff, and then all of the growth systems each weapon had.
>>157546527
Okay, so they were all idiots only raising a single aspect.
>>157546401
Can't wait for the merchant's daughter/swordsman/mage from spear's party to join Naofumi. It'll be a slight change of pace.
>that moment in the WN when thy tell shieldbro that balloon encounters are supposed to be rare
>>157546443
Raph a cute.
>>157546609
Really? It's been years since I read this, and I stopped around the part they developed a monster lab or something.
>>157546600
I'm guessing its too much to ask that spear becomes reasonable/ an ally and those people join MC's party because of that rather than him just NTRing his rivals peeps.
>>157546600
They all just kept using what they knew. Since they thought the world operated on the same rules their games did they closed off all other posibilties. Naofumi included, but that was because he was still salty about everything.
>>157546609
>>157546676
>tfw hero class raises enemy encounter rate
>>157546690
Ally he becomes. Reasonable... That's debatable.
>>157546049
Nooo they cut the part with Raftalia in rage? I wanted to see her angry.
>>157546600
>merchants daughter
What does she look like?
>>157546920this is the birth of punished motoyasu
>>157547026
Why does she leave him for shieldbro?
Is there anywhere that has the entire WN translation in a pdf or epub or something? The one I found jumps from Ch 135 -> 300.
>Still no ShieldHero doujins
>>157547050
If she's the daughter of a merchant, she may be interested in goying. And Naofumi is the master of goying.
>>157547050Well, after ditching motoyasu @ the spirit turtle thing. She went into hiding with her parents, and signed a deal to help naofumi capture motoyasu. Then she sets up shop in naofumi's slave village. Out of motoyasu's harem of bitches, she's the most prudent. And played fool to not get crushed or sold into slavery by malty. She jsut wanted to live an easy life, and she would had if she joined naofumi since he ended up being the strongest and msot decorated
>>157547091
Nevermind, I found it.
>>157547050On the upcoming training arc, everyone's forced to swap companions to see how others train. Out of all the spear hero's group, she's the only one that puts in effort. If I remember correctly, and I may be wrong, sword hero's too overleveled, so he solos while his team has trouble fighting weak mobs (since they'd weigh him down). Spear hero does all the work to protect his harem from having to lift a finger. Bow hero just steal kills everything.
>>157546690
They're not allowed to. Theyhad their personalities and feelings corrupted by the goddess.Basically they had no real choices or chances, and anytime in the story when Naofumi's dickriders chastise them for their previous words/actions it's actually pretty fucked up, since there was nothing they could have possibly done otherwise.
>>157547429
So naofumi wasn't corrupted? What's his deal?
>>157547506
It was just done on a whim.The goddess didn't feel like fucking with him beyond that tiny little setup in the beginning, so she didn't
>>157547555
I don't get it, everything seems awfully random and done without purpose.
>>157547607
That's about what you'd expect from a web novel. Write something you think is cool, then write more things you think would be cool, and then later on when you realize you need to reconcile your ideas/cool things/twists conflicting you just give some flimsy rationale.
>>157547429
>>157547429
Not really, the goddess had nothing to do with the people they were ebfore being summoned. Some of it is actually to some existing flaws in thier personalities prior to being summoned. Out of all the hero candidates, naofumi was the best, but the shield always snatches the best ones. Motoyasu, Ren and Itsuki were hero material but they werent as good as naofumi.
Motoyasu was a womanizer and got emotional scars after getting stabbed by his childhood friend and a cute ojou he was seeing.
Itsuki had a hero/inferiority complex due to his abilities being always inferior to those of his peers back in his worldwhich is not-academy city btw, he used videogames as an escape from that reality and longed to be a hero of justice do to those influences.
I don't know what's with ren though. We do know that he is young and inexperienced, but really laments the deaths of his companions, even though he was a little shit that wanted to play solo. I guess they will clear that up in the LN.
>>157547378
That's the WN plot. They don't swap in the LN, which the manga is adapting.
>>157547607
The author kinda used the series to vent his irl false rape charges. It gets worse the closer you get to the endings. Especially the original one.
>>157547764
That's a little lame, but if I'm going in blind, at least it's like a fresh start.
>>157544659
Who is this dude?
I read the whole novel and there's nothing about him.
Is he manga exclusive or what?
>>157547765
The original ending made more sense in my opinion. But I guess people really wanted a happy ending.
>>157547815
They don't swap becauseL'Arc and therese are a thing, glass reappears in vol 5 during a wave in calmira, which doesnt happen at that point in the WN.
>>157547844L'Arc Berg, the vassal of the scythe. He appears in vol 5.
The problem with Shieldbro was resolved, so why the fuck are the other useless heroes so hostile and distrustful of the only one who was even trying? Do they ever stop being pointlessly cruel? It almost looked like they stopped being fucking retards when Bitch got removed from royalty, and they've clearly seen that Shieldbro isn't a villain like they make him out to be.
Is it just intense roleplaying or some shit? Ore are the other heroes just that stupid?
>>157547858
Nips were furious about the original ending.
Sure, it could work with a bad ending, if not for all the fill it had between the beginning and the end.
>>157547844
Light novel version had tons of stuff different from the web novel. This is likely one of them.
>>157547979
>Is it just intense roleplaying or some shit? Ore are the other heroes just that stupid?
It's both, more of the former than the latter.
>>157548022
Man, roleplayfags are the worst in games. No wonder the three other heroes are so shit.
>>157548019
Thesuper powerful god-killing world-destroying megabitchwinning and causing a melancholy end (not even really a bad ending) makes more sense thanoh yeah we met this god-slayer dude randomly whose kind was never even alluded to before in this vast ineffable space and he taught us god-slaying things and helped us solve all our problems and we were able to it together because the power of love and friendship and shit
I understand wanting a happy end and all, but the original ending was really better.
>>157546401
Same. It's one of those stories where everyone that doesn't support the MC is either a villain, massively retarded or both. More often than not both.
>>157547979
Because Bitch actually spent time with all the other heroes and completely fucked with their minds, causing them to greatly exaggerate their flaws and sense of self-worth. She also deliberately increased their hostility to the shield hero to the point where even if they know he's not a villain they still dislike him. You'll see how she pulls this stuff off laterit's fucking stupid
>>157548071
They still think it's a game, but they all get a major wake up call when they face the spirit turtle.In the WN, motoyasus' bitches ditch him, ren's comrades die, and itsuki's trope abandons him.in the LN they get to the inner depths of the spirit turtle and the book vassal wrecks their shit. Motuyasu's bitches leave him, and he gets captured by the book vassal. Ren's comrades are slaughtered by the book vassal, and ren goes apeshit on him. Itsuki's comrades tie him up and give him to the book vassal and the vassal allows them to leave.
>>157546799
>Shield heroes are slow to recognize lewdness
>>157546799
Are the raws this far ahead or is this an illustration
>>157548368
This is from volume 15, also the volume whereatlas dies
>>157548450
Ah, I thought this was the first appearance of it, alsoshe was too pure for that world
Who hyped for her return?
>>157550414
>Superstrong
>Can't beat a guy with only a shield
Glass Cannon, more like it.
>>157547765
Is there any isekai that isn't some neckbeard playing out a revenge fantasy against people who wronged him in high school by sexually and emotionally breaking 1-dimensional stand-ins for them? Its hardly shocking that the genre sucks so much.
Soon Rishia will unleash her Penguin powers upon this world!
Muhahahahahaaaaaaaa!
>>157547103
>ShieldHero doujins
>>157551110
NOOT NOOT
>>157550908
Yeah, those written by people that have tax evasion charges
>>157550908
I want to say Mondaijitachi.
>>157551483
>the guys and girls are capable of having conversations with each other without being stuttering spaghetti doormats or insufferable cunts
>it isn't MC and his harem surrounded by a bunch of incompetent idiots and cartoonish villains
Truly a rarity
>>157551164
For one part i dont want my daugtheru to be defiled by doujins. On the other hand, i want to see rishia lewds.
>>157547103
Are you mad? Almost every first doujin is either NTR or Gay shit. I would rather have none at all...
>>157551671
I guess you got a point there, since NTR and Fujo shit has been really popular of late.
>>157551671
Just so you know, i wouldnt mind gay shit as long it was tasteful.
Am i the only that finds Atla annoying
>>157551823
Probably.
> Find out there's a katana hero
> just another nippon wankering
Are you fucking kidding me? Why does it always have to be the GLORIOUS NIPPON STEEL within isekai?
>>157546676
>I stopped around the part they developed a monster lab
Should have stuck with it a little longer. It was nice to see Naofumi ignoring the world and creating monsters (And torturing a certain sea faring creature). You think he's emotionally numb now, in professor mode he's not only productive, but as dangerous as any mad scientist could ever hope to be.
Dr. Wily ain't got nothing on Dr. Naofumi
>>157553628
Villain Naofumi best Naofumi.
>>157553775
He ignored all of the girls 'assets' and just got to work making this world a better one. If you were on his good side, he delivered the world to you (Ask on happy puppy). But if you were on his bad side...
>>157553188
Eclaire gets the katana late in the wn, but raphtalia gets it in volume 8 of the LN.
>>157547765
What's this about? I was considering picking this up. But hearing that the author vents his frustrations through his novel is off-putting. Can anyone confirm?
>>157551551
>season 2 never
>>157554942
>What's this about?
Vengeance. That and Cute tanuki/whale/dog/bird/tigers
>>157555368
Seems people were happy... Still undecided if I should give the LN a read. Been attempting to read NGNL.
>>157553188
Doesn't have to be isekai even, you've got things like Lightning Empress where the setting is post-apocalypse Earth and Nippon Stronk still gets inserted because fuck you I want to. Muh sakura trees, muh black hair somehow only Japs have, muh hanzo steel.
>>157554942
Not so sure about it myself. You could see some themse about it throughout the novels but it's not so blatant as people might think it is. At least IMO. It did end up affecting the ending, where he was going through some bad shit and then he rewrote it to the one that we got.
But then he started to write the spear hero spinoff, which is sort of his revenge on the readers. Adding much needed lore, exploring some what ifs and tanuki suffering.
>>157555600
I guess I'll check it out for the ride.
>>157555646
>tanuki suffering
Some of that, too
>>157555646
What are you going to read though WN and LN follow the same overall plot but they're completely different in a lot of things.
>>157555646
How's the manga adaption of this? Is it Spice and Wolf manga good?
>>157548124
>that ending
If there's one thing I regret, is not being here for when that ending was finally translated and missing all the threads
>>157555816
Well, instead of telling you. Try go read chapter 1 through 8 and see if you like it
>>157555816
At least you'll always have a daughteru who thinks the world of you...
>The other 3 heroesbesides Ren end up being 1-dimensional wacky joke characterswho hurt the author man
>>157555732
What's the difference between the two?and is the EN LN good enough to read?
>>157556194
Major changes in the story, extra events, new arcs and extra stories.melty is found earlier in the story, we met raphtalia's previous slaver earlier, the calmira island arc, and the spirit turtle arc go through major changes and we get a new arc in another world before naofumi starts his slave village
Damn it, I didn't want to catch up on this because all the anger and disgust I feel for the shield hero's foes always irritates me to no end. Fuuuuck why does this series exist? It shouldn't be possible to make the majority of characters unlikeable dipshits.
>>157556390
Definitely going to buy it then.
>>157556194
There's a lot of neat stuff that happens in the LN that probably won't make it into manga. Downside is that you almost can't help reading further into the LN and spoiling the manga that has yet to be published.
Even though I've read the LN, I can't wait to see how it 'looks' as manga.
>>157556156
Motuyasu gets a lot of development in his spinoff. And itsuki redeems himself in volume 17 by helping kick the instrument vassal's ass.
>>157556635
What happens with the spear hero, and to my knowledgeDoesn't the bow hero end up being unable to say no to anyone and stay that way?
>>157556868
In the WN, his curse consumed him to such degree he lost all willpower and became a yesman, it also inhibited sp regeneration too. He's able to be cured, but only with rishia's help and various soakings in anti-curse water. Just like naofumi.
>>157556986
And by various, i mean a lot.
>>157555482
>>157554584
You don't need to suck nip dick for fuck sake. Look what happened in OR and how NIPPON STEEL lost. Fuck wankering.
>>157557602
I was wondering when (You)would show up. How are you doing? Is there a new update yet?
Does anyone know where I can read that rage mode thread where /a/ went nuts?
>>157557602
Sauce? saucenao gives me nothing.
>>157558097
Lost to oblivion. Along with moe. Don't think it's on Desu.
I want to bully rishia!
>>157559614
Nice edit.
>>157559614
Raphtalia could definitely become a yandere, by how she acts some time.
>>157559676
She's naofumi's moral restraint and compass though. So she calls him out on his bulllshit often.
I think that makes her one step avobe all those girls from other stories that lust for the MC dick and let bullshit happen.
>>157559847
I have to agree, she keeps Naofumi from going off the deep end.
Look what happened when Naofumi thought Raph died.
>>157559923or when he thought she betrayed him in one of the spear hero timeloops.
>>157560116
Oh?
This sounds interesting, yet depressing.
>>157559672
>>157559676
>>157559847
>>157559923
Sorry, had to correct a few things. That and GO RAFTALIA!
>>157560171
Long sotry short, misunderstandings happened and melromarc became a crater.
>>157560258
Jesus.
Misunderstandings at its worst.
What do I do with the anger I get from reading this?
>>157560499
Blow it all over my face.
Or play dota 2.
Next chapter next month?
>>157550908
Muv Luv Alternative
>>157560629
Yeah, the comic it's serialized in is out every 5th of every month. And we get gook scans shortly after that.
>>157560499
>Angry!
But she's so nice!
>>157560759
>>157560798
Quiet slave!
Don't make me use the seal on you.
I miss Bakahou
>>157560913
Who is that, and why?
So I read the first 4 chapters of the Light Novel. (I've never read a LN before) and I don't quite like the format. How it switches from first person to third person. It's weird. But the premise is interesting. How faithful is the manga to the light novel?
>>157561049
TL.
>>157561055
Some events change a bit and some are condensed, but it's pretty good IMO.
But you'd better read chapter 1 through 8 and form your own opinions
>>157561049
several years ago, when the manga itself was on like chapter 4, we had very early translations of the web novel.
That was by Bakahou, and we would talk with him in the threads about Shieldbro and then he got helped out by a person who used Elizabeth from gintama as an icon for his site. Around 115 of the Web novel translations, Bakahou completely stopped posting
the last thing we knew was that he was reading Kingdom and got into some Gundam mobage
>>157561163
so he'd dead?
>>157546305They were all telling the truth, each weapon has it's own method of strengthening based on what the wielder is expecting, hence why it works 'just like the games they used to play'. Naofumi discovers that these weapon strengthening methods can be stacked, effectively meaning that the heroes can quadruple the power of their weapons, however they have to be able to "believe" that these other strengthening methods are real to unlock them
>>157561248
I have no idea. I don't get to go /a/ as much as I used to so he may have came back for an epilogue post like how Ludo did but that's just a speculation.
>>157554942
Even if the stuff about the charges is fake you can totally tell that the author is struggling with his own trust issues and hatred of women because there are a bunch of clumsy and gratuitous venting scenes.
>>157561446
I guess he must be doing very well after the flase rape charges since he has two series of LNs being published, one of them with a manga adaptation and a drama CD.
>>157544620
dear shieldbro. you seem pretty invested into this series. what is the appeal?
>>157561446
Is that why there's so much rape, abuse, torture towards women in the series? Because he hates them?
>>157561734
A weeb friend of mine showed me "edgy" manga some of them being this and Instant Bullet. I got to read the shieldbro manga and i got hooked so i wanted more. Then it turned out at that tiem the translations for the Web Novel were already finished so i got to read that. Then i really liked the series so i bought the LNs.
I came for the edgy and styed for the comfy and the adventures. I really liked how the LN fixes a lot of the problems from the web novel version on top of adding more content. Yet i feel some things could have been better handled or at least didnt need much change. I always get surprised how stuff changes from one version of the story to another, also it was the first LN/WN i read so i might be biased about it but i can recognize it's faults and mistakes.
>>157561981
isnt this supposed to be an isekai'd captain america?
>>157562108
Not really, there's not an ounce of YAMATO DAMASHI ever in the story.
It's just the story of a dude who rolled the best class with the shittiest starting conditions.
I swear, if therese gets introduced to the SU fandom i might scream.
>>157551551
>>Truly a rarity
And there is no greater sin in Moonland than being different from everyone else.
>>157549489
>implying there's not multiple kinds of screamsIf we're both screaming in pleasure I guess she's correct
>>157560499
Enjoy the catharsis. Let the rage flow through you.
>>157551823
No, Atla a shit
>>157557892
There was a new chapter about a week ago. Opus-03 was introduced.
>>157563433
9? Read it. Waiting for 10
Question, how exactly would drugs function within a fantasy setting? Illegal or sniffing notCocaine?
>>157562158
>the best class with the shittiest starting conditions
Agrueable.
Other classes, especially the bow, are pretty broken too
>fully upgraded guns/cannons on level over hundred
>>157563531
Not sure exactly hows it handled in shieldbro. But a miracle medicine is said to be both addictive and have a love potion-like effect. I would assume they would be handled with a mix of laws from the past and present since the heroes summoned have an understanding of the effects of drugs and psychoactive substances. Rarely you'd see a doctor specialized in those themes summoned but it could happen.
>>157563629
Ok, one of the best 4 classes.
>>157563651
Also the world's alchemists, witches and other proffesionals in those areas wprked sith them at some point so i do not think they are unonown to the public.
Goddammit... Caught myself re-reading the first 16 chapters.
>>157564447
Gotcha bitch! But why?
>>157564488
Just nice to relive reading the chapters the first time.
>>157564954
ilu too anon
>>157566671
>>157567445
Having started with the LN/Manga reading the WN feels weird, like the story is really disjointed and sorta unfocused is probably the best way I can put it.