
A new arc is about to begin in The Rising of the Shield Hero season 4! Starting with episode 7 of the current season, viewers can expect to enter the Q’ten Lo arc, and a new trailer is here to preview the next leg of the adventure.
The Rising of the Shield Hero Q’ten Lo Arc Trailer
Hitoshi Haga is back in the director’s chair for The Rising of the Shield Hero season 4, with Keigo Koyanagi back to oversee scripts at Kinema Citrus. Franziska van Wulfen, Sana Komatsu and Masahiro Suwa return from season 3 as character designers, and Kevin Penkin is once again composing music. Former episode director Takanori Yamamoto is now assistant director.
One Peace books publishes the original light novels, as well as The Reprise of the Spear Hero light novels and manga adaptations of both series. And there are audiobooks. It gave this description for the first Rising of the Shield Hero light novel:
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: KADOKAWAanime on YouTube

