Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari (Novel)

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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.

Type

Novel

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Associated Names

Tate no Yusha no Nariagari (Novel)

The Rising of the Shield Hero (Novel)

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盾の勇者の成り上がり (小説)

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Latest Release(s)

c.385 by Ohanashimi 10 years ago

c.375-378 by Yoraikun Translation 10 years ago

c.374 by Yoraikun Translation 10 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

22 Volumes (Hiatus)
409 Web Chapters (Complete)
426 Web Chapters Gaiden (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1 (S1) / Vol 6 (S2) / Vol 10 (S3) / Vol 13 (S4)

Ends at Vol 5 (S1) / Vol 9 (S2) / Vol 12 (S3) S2 is Abridged and Changed

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User Rating

Average: 8.1 / 10.0 (470 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.99 / 10.0

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Last Updated

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Genre

Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Harem Romance Seinen
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Author(s)

YUSAGI Aneko

Artist(s)

MINAMI Seira

Year

2012

Original Publisher

Media Factory (Light novel)

Syosetu (Web novel)

Serialized In (magazine)

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Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

One Peace (22 Volumes - Ongoing)

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Year Pos #5332

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Self indulgent garbage

by SagaciousNJ
10 years ago

Rating: N/A

Light Novels are well known for being light on writing quality but this really takes the cake.

Our protagonist is moody and unselfconscious; he only manages to seem likable by comparison to the setting which never makes even a desultory pass at believability.

It's never explained why anyone would want to summon random strangers to save the world or how this circumstance of cyclical crises was set up in the first place. Just once I'd like to see one of these cookie cutter kingdoms summon an actual modern day, professionally trained mercenary or soldier to save their kingdom. In fact I would settle for a fantasy setting that was something other than "vaguely european".

You can see the psychological deficiencies of the author play out nakedly in the work, our protagonist is an otaku of no particular will, personality or intellect. He never speaks of having friends and he casts off the bonds of family without a backward glance so that he can serve his true role as the reader's wish fulfillment fantasy stand-in. He arrives and immediately the whole world is set against him, which is not coincidentally the feeling that most self-involved immature fools have, its an emotional attitude best suited for a child.

After his "betrayal" an event that the author clearly lacks enough experience of the world to sell to any discerning reader; Our man the shield hero becomes embittered and jaded. Few things are more disgusting than a privileged 21 year old who thinks they've become worldly.

Its almost like the author was trying to be Freudian by making it clear that the only type of woman our protagonist can relate to is one who has literally been turned into an object for sale or purchase. Few guesses as to whether our protagonist has ever has a girlfriend.

More than a few light novels have protagonists who seem to jump into slavery with no sense of moral compunction, I don't know if this is just an attribute of this poorly composed genre of fiction written by and for crappy people or if Japanese culture in general just has weak moral fiber; I dearly hope its the former. Hopefully light novels are as representative of Japanese culture as Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey are of American culture.

I would recommend this book for otaku who don't read books.

Is anyone translating real japanese novels? The kind that amount to more than wish fulfillment for moody teenagers? Where can I find those?

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History Progression Stuck

by h4cko
10 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

In the beginning the history is quite nice, MC is falsely accused has to overcome a lot of difficulties, recruit some members/slaves travel and develop their level BUT most of skills/shields he acquire are useless since never MC never uses them, so it was a waste of text displaying them all, also the history progression SUCK ! At a certain point I was just speed reading since the chapters were not relevant at all. I recommend reading Mushoku Tensei instead of this one. Just dropped at volume 6.

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Dissapointing

by PZcolo
8 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Had almost an essay written about all the things that enervated me about this novel, ended up loosing it and was too long all the same. To put it shortly, I was disgusted at the main character, a pathetic whiner that's all the time complaining or going on how unfair the world is and on the other hand going as far as

stopping the princess to commit suicide to have her sent to the be rapped, tortured and killed because poor little me (him) had suffered After that I read a little more but that was the turning point, I can accept many things of a mc, but that disgusted me profoundly and as @Kuranz says it's hard to sympathize with such an MC. I was also annoyed with the use of cliches that start to abound midway in the story and the harem crap.
It had had it's high and lows till that point, so I was disappointed how the story was turning out, and it became more crap than good, when the manga finishes I might read that but this one is dropped.

... Last updated 6 years ago

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Retarded betrayal and poor execution

by Kuranz
10 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

When I heard this was about betrayal, I thought it'd be interesting to see how the story develops with a betrayal right at the beginning. But it turned out you can only sympathize with the betrayal if you are suffering from chuunibyou. The guy wants to deliver absolute revenge for some stolen clothes and money and rape accusations that he wasn't exactly punished for....just wtf? It doesn't help that the MC is a whiny, insecure prick the rest of the time.

Read a few chapters. If you don't get interested, just drop it. It doesn't get any better.

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Okay.... I guess?

by gimeyop
10 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Im going to compare this to LMS is its VERY similar
Faults in both novels:

Overpowered exploits are handed to him on a silver platter
Everything bad that happens to him are so over exaggerated making him look like he`s not the luckiest piece of shit on earth
NO character development personality wise. (at least til chapter 122)
Everybody except for protagonist and co. are basically retards
A lot of inconsistencies (for example: the protagonist is a tank that literally cannot do damage except one of his skills (and its upgrades) can 1 shot bosses)
Author's misuse of the class system. (there is no point in introducing your protagonist as a sculptor or tank if they excel others in dps and combat anyways.)

Anyways... as you can probably tell, I dislike this genre of novels. Why read a novel that tells you: the protagonist's damage increased by 5!
skill level increased by 2!
1h sword mastry level is now 127/200!
when you can just play a single player game and turn on cheats. It's litera-... figuratively the same thing.

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Come on

by bnad
11 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

So, to save the world, you (either its the Gods, or the summoner fault, mostly the author) decide to summon, exclusively 4 Japanese student.

Japanese student...

Even pure Japanese, instead of other cross country candidates, it was already enough to brake the suspension of disbelief, but then, they decided to go for students? Really? Yeah, they do play VR-RPG. But so does Zelda William and Kim Ung-Yong if they live in a parallel world where Virtual Reality actually exist.

So instead of going for someone like them. You know, college educated VR player, with a good track record of not being a jerk, they went for immaturity. That would help win the war.

Come on...

... Last updated 11 years ago

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Cliched as Shoujo

by reanseih
10 years ago

Rating: N/A

Well, I dropped the novel at 2 chapters, the manga at 7. That should say enough about my impression.

It might not be as cliched if you only look in translated novels, but if you count all the novels on the site, well yea. Summoned! Betrayed! Slaves and harem! Road to the strongest! That alone I can name a dozen. To top it off RPG settings! Argh... The only unique part is that he cannot use weapons. Sticking a peacock feather on a goose? Oh sure, that makes it different. You know how you feel when you start reading those very cliched shoujo mangas? For some reason, they have one single unique part that really has nothing to do with the story.

Then again, this is only impression from someone who obviously hasn't read far. If it gets better, I wouldn't know. The concept itself is not as close to interesting as I would have liked. I kinda just gave up when I saw it was at over 600 chapters... There's no way I'll be patient enough to finish this one.

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Hate the MC

by Rhados
10 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

First of all, that betrayal is by far too exaggerated.

So the MC gets Money from the King ...for free
Kings daughter steals it and claims the MC raped her.
To punish him King spreads some bad rumors about him.
If that's realy that bad, than Las Vegas should be a war-zone.
To sum it up: Other heroes get stuff for free and I don't. -BETRAYAL

So our, oh so poor and betrayed MC, goes to buy a slave. As the other heroes (who look down on him) see that, are trying to release her with an unfair duel in which the MC gets his ass whooped. (That whole thing could be avoided if he just said "she's not a slave but my partner")
And after that "duel" our "Hero" breaks down wheeping to be consoled by his slave, who by the way had her parents killed and ripped apart, than was enslaved and tortured again and again before she was bought by MC, and never even complained once.

After that MC buys some monster to raise, Turns out that monster is intelligent and can trasform into a 10 years old (mentaly and physicaly) loli. So to controll its tranformation that scumbag of a MC, uses some magic seal to inflict pain on it (she didn't realy do anything bad).
His reasoning:"Selfishness has parts where it can be forgiven and parts where it can't." ...-yes, you are right, thats how you raise children, you beat them...

After that I droped that novel.
Its just pissing me of every time the MC does something (anything).

... Last updated 10 years ago

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by ayami123
10 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

it's Such a Waste I kinda Like
Gaiden Yari no Yuusha no Yarinaoshi
it's funny to see Motoyasu's Perspective in his insanity
I just want to add a hate comment 😀
oh well
dude buy the novel don't read the Web Novel Translation ==
you keep saying novel yah it's a novel without an editor.
most light novels have an editor you knows to fix the wrong part.
it's a web novel so it's like whatever comes to his mind he puts in it.
the company will take care of the errors or so.
so just buy the light novel. really ==

anyway this Webnovel is really good 😀 though it got boring later for me. it's not the worst but not the best. for me it's only decent around let say 7/10 😀

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"you can only sympathize with the betrayal if you are suffering from chuunibyou"

by alphaGulp
10 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

LOL. That quote from Kurantz's review is so spot on!

As the other reviewers have pointed out, the MC is never wrong and NEVER seriously questions his way of doing things, never seeks to change or improve his huge character flaws. He even revels in it, he celebrates and flaunts his flaws! - 'cos what can anyone do to an OP character whom the whole world depends on? I guess everyone else is going to have to just learn to adapt to him!

The MC is such an @sshat that the only kind of relationship he can think to build with people is SLAVERY! So long as everyone else is willing to be his magical slave (magic that tortures), then he can 'help' them.

Seriously, how sad and messed up is that? The MC is completely incapable of building healthy relationships, and so rather than change himself so that he can become a decent human being, he prefers a fantasy world where people can be turned into magic slaves and where there is no competition or pressure (because everyone else is so retarded that the MC seems brilliantly functional in comparison).

Particularly disturbing was seeing how the MC treats the child-like demi-humans and monsters. It is truly sick and deeply manipulative. The MC is also a crook who enjoys swindling people. The story tries to portray businessmen defrauding clients as the smartest thing since sliced bread! It's stuff you should be used to, and even, that you should emulate, it seems.

So if you want to fantasize about how you can 'win' at being a totally self-centered douche-bag, then this is the story for you!

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