Joseph Luster
September 6, 2020 
This weekend’s Virtual Crunchyroll Expo featured a panel for the Shield Hero anime, and some info on The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2 came along with it. The series returns in 2021 and is also coming to Crunchyroll, as previously announced, so check out the latest footage in the new trailer below.
New key visual:
The Rising of the Shield Hero season 2 continues the adaptation of the light novel series by Aneko Yusagi. Here’s how Crunchyroll described the first:
Iwatani Naofumi, a run-of-the-mill otaku, finds a book in the library that summons him to another world. He is tasked with joining the sword, spear, and bow as one of the Four Cardinal Heroes and fighting the Waves of Catastrophe as the Shield Hero. Excited by the prospect of a grand adventure, Naofumi sets off with his party. However, merely a few days later, he is betrayed and loses all his money, dignity, and respect. Unable to trust anyone anymore, he employs a slave named Raphtalia and takes on the Waves and the world. But will he really find a way to overturn this desperate situation?
