10 Anime Shows like The Rising Of The Shield Hero you must watch

By Jessica Fontaine
Published: May 30, 2023 (Last updated: September 14, 2024)
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10 Anime Shows like The Rising Of The Shield Hero you must watch

We discuss 10 Anime shows like The Rising Of The Shield Hero you must watch. Add these well-recommended Anime series to your watch list. 

The Rising of the Shield Hero is an anime series on Hulu and Crunchyroll. Released in 2019, it follows Iwatani Naofumi, who finds a book in the library that summons him to another world. Consequently, he must become one of the Four Cardinal Heroes and defend the world as the Shield Hero.

After setting off with his party, Naofumi faces a betrayal that tarnishes his reputation. He then loses all of his money and dignity. With his trust destroyed, he must train as a hero alone.

That is until he meets a slave trader named Raphtalia, who helps him take on the Waves of Catastrophe and fight evil.

If you like anime about heroes who must overcome all odds to save themselves and the world, here are 10 similar anime series to The Rising of the Shield Hero. 

10 Anime Shows like Rising Of The Shield Hero

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest (2019)

Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest follows a bullied student named Hajime, who is transported to a magical world with his classmates. They must fight in a war against the demon race. After a classmate betrays Hajime and leaves him to die, Hajime must survive and find a way back home.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World (2016)

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World sees an ordinary high school student be transported to another world. Both this series and The Rising of the Shield Hero involve heroes who are thought of as incapable. A new magical world summons them, with obstacles they must overcome and allies they meet to help them survive.

Redo of Healer (2021)

Redo of Healer follows Keyaru, a healing magician who has faced exploitation and abuse. When he realizes his potential as being the strongest in the world, he uses his healing magic to travel to the past and get revenge on those who undermined him.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (2018)

This series follows a corporate worker who dies after a random killer stabs him. He is reborn in an alternate world as a slime. There, he begins a journey to create a world that welcomes all races.

Both series follow new worlds that shape the protagonists who exist in them. They must start from scratch to go from weak to powerful heroes.

Sword Art Online (2012)

Sword Art Online follows a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG). Players control their avatars with their bodies. However, they discover they can’t log out of the game as the creator is holding them captive.

The only way to survive is by reaching the 100th floor of the tower and defeating the final boss. When players die in the game, they die in real life.

Overlord (2015)

Overlord follows a player in a popular role-playing game. When the game is on the verge of shutting down, Momonga refuses to log out. He uses his skills to overpower the game’s NPCs and become its overlord.

This series is similar to Rising of the Shield Hero because its protagonist exists in a fantasy world and must use the resources available to overcome challenges and save his world from evil.

Spice & Wolf (2008)

In Spice & Wolf, a traveling merchant named Lawrence discovers a girl with the ears and tail of a wolf. With the help of Lawrence’s street smarts and Holo’s animal instincts, the two travel through the countryside as merchants trying to get by.

Rokka – Braves of the Six Flowers (2015)

This series follows the legend where the Evil God awakens from darkness, and the god of fate summons Six Braves who will have the power to save the world. Adlet becomes one of the Brave Six Flowers and begins his battle to prevent the Evil God’s resurrection.

Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (2021)

This series follows a boy with memories of two lives. Rio lives in the slums and wants revenge for his mother, who was killed in front of him.

Suddenly, Rio awakens to the memories of Haruto, a young man who should have died in an accident but is instead resurrected in Rio’s body. Then, Rio finds that he has been reincarnated in a fantasy world.

Log Horizon (2013)

Log Horizon starts with the online game Elder Tales. It follows a gamer named Shiroe, who is one of 30,000 players to be trapped in another world.

All the trapped players survive. However, they are now in combat with the monsters. In this new world of chaos and confusion, Shiroe forms a guild called Log Horizon with his friends.

Do you have any other recommendations for Anime Shows like The Rising Of The Shield Hero? Let us know in the comments!

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