#The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 4 Unveils Latest Teaser Visual & Reveal Video

A new teaser visual and accompanying reveal video have been released for the upcoming fourth season of The Rising of the Shield Hero. It has not yet been announced when season four will premiere. 

The visual and video highlights the series’ main characters overlooking a grand city from a distance, with the tagline “The return of the exiled.” It includes Naofumi, Raphtalia, Filo, as well as new characters Atla and Fohl that were introduced in the third season. 

A fourth season of The Rising of the Shield Hero was first confirmed in January 2024. The third season was streamed by Crunchyroll outside of Japan. The first two seasons of the anime premiered in 2019 and 2022, respectively. 

The third season was directed by Hitoshi Haga (Made in Abyss assistant director) instead of Season 1’s Takao Abo or Season 2’s Masato Jinbo. Other new staff that worked on the season include Franziska van Wulfen (Bocchi the Rock! animation director) and Sana Komatsu (The Rising of the Shield Hero animation director), who worked on the character designs with the previous seasons’ Masahiro Suwa. 

The returning staff for season three include Keigo Koyanagi as series screenwriter and Kevin Penkin as music composer. Animation production company Kinema Citrus is sharing series screenwriter and scriptwriting credits with Koyanagi. Season 2’s co-production company DR MOVIE was no longer listed in the main animation production credits.

Previous voice cast members from past seasons all reprised their respective roles. New cast members for the third season consisted of Ami Koshimizu as Nadia, Kohei Amasaki as Fohl, Konomi Kohara as Atla, and Maria Naganawa as S’yne. 

The Rising of the Shield Hero began as a web novel written by Aneko Yusagi on Shosetsuka ni Naro in 2012. It was then published into a light novel series under Kadokawa’s MF Books label with new illustrations by Seira Minami, which began on August 22, 2013 and has released 22 volumes as of June 2019.

A manga adaptation of the light novels by A. Kyu began in 2014. The series has also inspired spin-offs, a stage play, video games, and more.

One Peace Books releases the light novels and manga adaptation in English, and describes the synopsis as:

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!

Source: The Rising of the Shield Hero Official Japanese Twitter

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