The anime completely removes this aspect of her, making her a complete Nice Girl who thinks If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! about her former tormenter, and when she thinks she accidentally killed him, she goes into a state of These Hands Have Killed about it until Naofumi reassures her that she's still a good person despite what she did. While in all mediums she's a Nice Girl who acts as the Morality Chain for Naofumi, in the web novel, light novel, and manga, Raphtalia is fully up to doing a lot of morally questionable actions, including trying to kill other people if they are her enemies, without a second thought if it means keeping Naofumi and herself safe.The manga regularly waits to reveal a new skill or other system exploit until Naofumi actively uses it and an explanation is required, if any explanation is provided at all. Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The Light Novel generally establishes new abilities and elements of how the world works as Naofumi acquires or learns about them.
As this is usually reserved for the future King, Trash immediately seizes the opportunity to push them together. Accidental Proposal: After becoming Queen Melty, annoyed with Naofumi's teasing, gives him the title of Archduke just to get him stuck with as much pen-pushing work as herself.His name dragged through the mud and treated like a criminal by the people he was summoned to save, Naofumi becomes unable to trust anyone. Melromarc, took mercy on Naofumi and agreed to fight by his side, but within one day she had betrayed him, robbing him of his stuff and falsely accusing him of one of the vilest of offenses. One person, the beautiful Princess Malty S.
However, the Shield was looked down upon as useless, so Naofumi was left without companions, while the other Heroes gained several. Each of the four Heroes receive a legendary weapon unique to them, with Naofumi becoming the Hero of the Shield. Naofumi Iwatani, an Otaku from present day Japan, was summoned into a parallel world along with three others to become Heroes and protect it from calamity.
The series currently has twenty-two volumes and a drama CD out. The series was later picked up by Media Factory Books with the first volume published on 22 August 2013. The Rising of the Shield Hero (盾の勇者の成り上がり Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) began as an ongoing Web Novel on "Let's Become a Novelist" written by Yusagi Aneko and illustrated by Seira Minami, with over 900 chapters released as of 2019.