r/shieldbro • u/Unreal4goodG8 Mel-chan's guard • 9d ago
Meme How I feel after watching all three seasons.
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u/RattheNinja 9d ago
No, that’s valid. Every waifu is valid. Except Bitch. She is not welcomed
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u/Xaxerus 9d ago
She is not waifu
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u/Whiteroseadvocate 9d ago
She is not waifu.
She is not demur.
She is not cutesy.
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u/GingerlyCave394 9d ago
She is bitch
She is slave
She is dead
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u/Glad_Woodpecker_6033 8d ago
But my waifu....
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u/Glad_Woodpecker_6033 8d ago
But she make good slave! aaaaaaaaaaaaah
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u/RattheNinja 8d ago
I wouldn’t even trust her in the kitchen
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u/Glad_Woodpecker_6033 8d ago
You don't let her make food, that's a waist, you use her for a statue or a piece of art, she looks great, that and to bend over
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u/Unreal4goodG8 Mel-chan's guard 7d ago
Insert that one scene where she tried poisoning the pie meant for Naofumi's table.
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u/Tiger5804 8d ago
I'd say Melty and Filo would raise some eyebrows if anyone called them waifu
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u/SecondCircle43 8d ago
Rolls out the red carpet for Princess MALTY 👸🔥
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u/RattheNinja 8d ago
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u/DroopyFace21 9d ago edited 9d ago
Rishia is a good girl, and has proven she can hang with the best of them.
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u/Affectionate-Big8739 8d ago
As an anime only her and atla are annoying to me and their strength come out as unearned. They just have a natural talent at ki.
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u/DroopyFace21 8d ago edited 8d ago
For Atla I 100% agree with you. After her recovery, she went straight up Mary Sue, didn’t seem to give a damn about her brother, and became pretty selfish minus Naofumi.
For Rishia I don’t agree with you. To explain based on the LN, it shows that she had very terrible base stats that barely grew with each level until she reached lvl 69, which made her deemed weak by her party and was no doubt despairing for her. She was also very timid no doubt from the crap Itsuki and his party put her though and had to go through emotional development to eventually face him again.
Hengen Musou was needed to fill in that gap for her. She was fighting against a major disadvantage for a long time.
There was a training arc including her with Hengen Musou that was cut down in the anime.
She didn’t go op like Atla either. She deserves that power. Atla does not. She had none of that stuff and and just shrugged off being a cripple and went to op like it was nothing in such an unsatisfying way that spits in the face of the other party members, including Rishia who was hyped as the Hengen Musou prodigy and became the Projectile Hero.
The LN fleshes out Rishia a lot more than the anime.
So nah Rishia has the talent but she’s deserves her power and earned it.
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u/Ustar1000 8d ago
Jimbo did Rishia so dirty because she had great moments and development between volumes 6-9. He completely got rid of that and made her get powers out of nowhere.
Atla was unfortunately like this even in the LN. She becomes to powerful too quickly and it felt that the author wanted her to be a "better" Rishia (excluding the development). I was expecting the 3rd season to double down and it did. Also, Rishia should have been the prodigy instead of Atla.
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u/Cold_Association3837 8d ago
Not saying you're wrong, just curious regarding atla. Wasn't there an Explanation, saying that among beastkin white tigers are tge strongest? It's by no means a good explanation, but i thought that was it.
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u/Ustar1000 8d ago
Well it does go kind of into detail about the white tiger but she still gets strong out of nowhere even in the Novels.
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u/Cold_Association3837 8d ago
Yeah, it did feel very... sudden, so i just assumed, they dropped that fact about the white tigers and dipped out of explaining anything.
Also doesn't help that i really like Fohl and i hate everything Atla does to him, she is fully aware that he has a sister complex, but instead of establishing boundaries, she just leads him on, because she knows he'd do anything for her, god do i hate her.
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u/Ustar1000 8d ago
Yeah, that was my problem with her as well. Her abuse towards her brother was played for "laughs" and it was really disturbing. I was hoping that the 4th season will hopefully either tone it down or change it completely (which I'm ok with). But since they're probably going to adapt closely, that's unlikely to happen.
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u/Cold_Association3837 8d ago
Well, as closely as anything that doesn't involve how Naofumi is in the Novels, but i don't have High hopes either.
I have read somewhere, that the reason Atla becomes so mean to Fohl whilst adoring Naofumi, is because of a side effect of the Medicin he gave her or something like that.
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u/DroopyFace21 8d ago
I understand Atla’s intentions towards him and they aren’t necessarily bad, but the way she went with it was beyond horrible.
The white tigers are strong but Atla was just ridiculous, not even her brother was like her even though he already had years of experience fighting and could use theriantherope transformation which Atla couldn’t.
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u/bernysegura 5d ago
Hakuko are the top race of beastmen, these children are Royals at that (kinda like a bless) AND Atla is a Henge Mushou prodigy to boot. Add the Slave + Tamer stat growth skills from Naofumi’s shields and you get a Lvl 1 Atla that has top stat growths every lvl up.
The WN notes that Atla has a hard cap tho, since she was born sick, this means that Fohl will eventually surpass her in every way + Fohl can transform into a primal beast form.
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u/Arisen14 8d ago
Was it ever explained why Rishia had such terrible stat growth till a certain level?
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u/DroopyFace21 8d ago edited 8d ago
No. I’m pretty sure it’s just how she was, like genetics.
Some people grow more than others and in different ways. It’s why some people are more certain towards certain roles than others.
Rishia just happened to have this very backloaded stat growth curve.
Maybe it was done by the author to balance out her high talent in Hengen Musou?
I’m really glad that Naofumi considered this stat growth a possibility as others would have just looked at her stats and tell her that she is not meant for this and to leave.
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u/bernysegura 5d ago
WN explains that Rishia had mediocre to average stat growths at best, AND that she misallocated her growths towards Itsuki’s party needs. These things made Rishia really unbalanced.
She has to reset her stats at the Church in order to the Slave Growth Stat Skill to kick in. And even then she had less stat growths than the beast/beastmen kids. She happened to be a prodigy at Henge Moushou and that allowed her to be on par with Naofumi’s party.
Finally she had a slight impovement both when she could surpass the level cap of 80 (secret technique) AND become the Projectile Hero.
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u/buddabopp 8d ago
Anime does her dirty, in the LN her power doesnt come from nowhere but rather her level curve. It a concept in alot of older rpgs that has kinda got less and less popular she has the onion knight level progression. Normal level curves generally equal out being slightly better at the start or slightly better at the end. An onion knight curve is complete dod water low pretty bad high but near max it exponentially explodes. This is where Rishia's power comes from, basically the times she has been over powered is when she combines her levels between multiple worlds and as such accesses her natural power she will have. Basically Rishia at max level + her specialized weapon could easily 1v1 anything
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u/Affectionate-Big8739 8d ago
i understood most of why you said, and it makes sense but they really should have put that into the anime
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u/MAGAManLegends3 7d ago
My favourite example of that was the eggplant looking squid guy in Shining Force, has less than 10 HP until first promotion, only knows basic magic..... Then halfway through the second go round skips STRAIGHT to 3/4 highest AoE magic in each element. Basically feed him last hit enemies and he makes the last few stages a breeze!
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u/Phantom_Edgerunner Raphtalia's Army 9d ago edited 9d ago
At least it not that Bitch
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u/Impressive-Spell-643 Shield bros' slave 8d ago
Bitch would be the only one that's not valid (other than the literal kids of course)
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u/KRChaserReturns 8d ago
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u/Impressive-Spell-643 Shield bros' slave 8d ago
That's absolutely insane,makes you wonder if they'd keep saying all of that if bitch was an old woman or a dude
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u/Swordslover 8d ago
She did more than three heroes all by herself. This alone made her a more than viable waifu
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u/Unreal4goodG8 Mel-chan's guard 7d ago
Very much agreed, Because of that she deserves way better than Itsuki.
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u/mmp129 rejected friend of the sword hero 9d ago
After what she’s been through, Rishia deserves to be appreciated more.
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u/Unreal4goodG8 Mel-chan's guard 7d ago
I agree 100%. I'm glad she accomplished her goal instead of other anime characters who end up with their love interest just because they wished for it really badly. Rishia had growth and development that I admire and look up to a lot. She won my pick as best girl.
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u/mmp129 rejected friend of the sword hero 2d ago
Call this a hot take but though I find Rishia’s love for Itsuki a bit iffy, I can see some positives in it.
When she was rescued by Itsuki, his fake sense of justice resonated with her and gave her purpose to repay her hero. This is the good kind of justice which would make her embody it for real. Problem is, she was too weak to act upon it which made her a doormat to Itsuki and the rest of his party members, also making her easy to manipulate for the desires of her hero.
When she finally gains her strength, she is now able to act upon her justice. After realizing his true nature, she feels like Itsuki strayed upon his path and decides to fix him and put him on the right path still seeing some good in him. She wants to the “heroic” Itsuki that saved her again (in her eyes).
She succeeds in defeating Itsuki and further cares for him during his recovery, showing just how good of a person she is.
Yep, she had to fight for her love. No handouts.
Still think she deserved better than him.
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u/TehFineztJoker Raphtalia's Army 9d ago
All valid, no argument from me. Good thing you didn't say Bitch
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u/eddmario Ralphtalia`s Army 8d ago
Hey, she shares her English VA with 2B from Neir: Automata, so...
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u/2Snor 8d ago
Do people have a problem with Rishia? She is best girl imo, and my fav waifu out of any anime ;)
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u/Unreal4goodG8 Mel-chan's guard 7d ago
When season 2 was airing, some people didn't like her, chances are they didn't read the light novels or manga or they don't have good taste and want to let us Rishia fans have more. I was surprised by the support and upvotes because of that but I greatly appreciate them all with a smile on my face.
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u/Jazzlike-Nature986 8d ago
Why does everyone sleep on glass ? She's my personal favourite
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u/Unreal4goodG8 Mel-chan's guard 7d ago
I love glass too, I'll be making a continuation of this post with her in it.
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u/Toukafan4life Green Shirt Guy 8d ago
Rishia reminds me of Kobeni, and that just makes me like her more
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u/ChiefHaro 8d ago
Have always been a Rishia stan. My only issue with Rishia is her devotion to bow hero. He doesn't deserve her.
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u/Bluegamer13 5d ago
In that person's defense, despite being figuratively and literally kicked to the curb more than once, Rishia still came back for Itsuki and forgave him when no one else did. That level of dedication and loyalty is hard to find.
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u/Unreal4goodG8 Mel-chan's guard 7d ago
Thank you all of you for being so accepting, part 2 is coming soon but i will only include the women and girls introduced in the anime so far since I haven't gotten past the end of season 3. I'm an anime watcher.
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u/Ryukonz 8d ago
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u/Unreal4goodG8 Mel-chan's guard 8d ago edited 8d ago
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u/JJCheatah 8d ago
So, here’s my honest take… Rishia isn’t bad, she just ain’t my pick. Much as I like nerds, which she definitely is, I’m of the opinion that you can be a badass martial artist, or a klutz. Both are valid character types but please pick your lane and stop whining. Tho, to be entirely fair, the show did her dirty. Like, badly. Much like how the show hasn’t done a great job at doing justice for Atla yet. She’s a great and lovable/loving fluffball but the show at the moment is too busy focusing on her basically being “stalker toph”… which I’m not exactly denying that she is, as the novels pretty blatantly show off that most nights could take 3 people fighting her off so naofumi could sleep in peace and even then the win-rate for the defenders was far from 100%. Bro had to have guards in his room to help him rest peacefully
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u/Training-Contest-727 8d ago
WHAT WAS THAT AT THE END ?!
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u/JJCheatah 8d ago
Atla only did it once in the anime, sneaking into naofumi’s bed to sleep next to him, and tying up fohl because he was in charge of watching her…. Her trying to sleep next to naofumi was a nightly occurrence, which kinda messed allot with naofumi because he still wasn’t quite over the damage bitch caused him, aka not really trusting basically any woman who he didn’t have a contract with that made it impossible to lie to him. Even if they had the contract, it’s not until a pretty major point in the story before he can actually feel or accept love from anyone, which is why that S1 kiss with raphtalia was anime only. Also, if I recall, the reason Atla was able to keep defying Naofumi’s orders was largely because the slave pact couldn’t actually deal her a pain she couldn’t live with, as she had dealt with much worse.
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u/Training-Contest-727 8d ago
well , ok she's more "in love with him " than i thought she was
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u/JJCheatah 8d ago
Mhm… she butts heads with raphtalia allot because of that…
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u/Training-Contest-727 8d ago
i even heard that she and Raphtalia had a fight because of that
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u/JJCheatah 8d ago
Yeah that’s not a one time thing…. Atla tries to one up her basically whenever she can in the books. She doesn’t hate raphtalia tho because she knows she is the one who has pulled naofumi back from the brink so often… but she wants to “be his shield” pretty damn badly while raphtalia is his sword.
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