The Rising of the Shield Hero - Vol. 26 Ch. 107 - A New Awakening

[Mathias]

Bird Status: MOLESTED

 

[Lanfear]

He became a full blown lolicon.

 

[Sar_Ptolemy]

 

[Kampfarsch]

Going from a man thats depressed cause he let his friends die to XD random potato funny is quite the rollercoaster

 

[Qwest]

I can only disagree. Even when he's being unlikeable, it's at least sometimes portrayed in a "cartoonish comic relief" kind of way, so there are plenty of times where you can just call him a bumbling buffoon and move on. Plus, he's currently not nearly as bad as he was at the beginning of the story, I think.

No such luck with Malty Bitch, whose schemes and manipulative tendencies constantly bring out the worst in her victims—Motoyasu being one of them, even—by preying and capitalizing on their insecurities. There is truly not a single redeemable bone in that body of hers, and it is never, ever played for laughs; she is just a vile human being, through and through.

I dont have a genuine dislike for Bitch not cause I like her but cause shes comically evil and was designed to be hated same way Shou Tucker or Griffith were written to be hated. You're meant to hate them. I have more dislike for characters that werent meant to be hated the entire time cause thats just a sign of bad writing

Motoyasu is just narcissistic, annoying, and does not do the comic relief role well. I do think hes just as bad as the beginning of the story just in a different way. His single mindedness on Filo as his oshi to escape reality and refusing to talk or listen to anyone is just as shitty cause it follows the trend of being willfully ignorant. I havent read the novel but based on other comments and how he is in the spinoff he definitely wont be getting any better. I love himbos but he is the worst himbo of all. Dumber than a bag of hammers, ignorant, sexist, and an actual pedophile

 

[monchi]

god do i wish the incompetent heroes would die already

 

[jrocker]

Filo is amazing but my god I know in spin off spear hero becomes better but he needs to stay completely away from this Filo

 

[popo53414]

I do not ship PedoPhilo

 

[Valahuir]

Well that explains the spin off....

 

[Seinvolf]

Thank u always for ur great work...
^^...

They awaken the beast...
XD...

 

[Diversion1nc]

I can only disagree. Even when he's being unlikeable, it's at least sometimes portrayed in a "cartoonish comic relief" kind of way, so there are plenty of times where you can just call him a bumbling buffoon and move on. Plus, he's currently not nearly as bad as he was at the beginning of the story, I think.

No such luck with Malty Bitch, whose schemes and manipulative tendencies constantly bring out the worst in her victims—Motoyasu being one of them, even—by preying and capitalizing on their insecurities. There is truly not a single redeemable bone in that body of hers, and it is never, ever played for laughs; she is just a vile human being, through and through.

Yeah but malty is the villain. She’s supposed to do despicable things like that. It drives the plot forward. Hell the series wouldn’t be a third as good without her.

Meanwhile Motoyasu is supposed to be a hero, someone who helps people like naofumi and the general populace and opposes people like malty and the three heroes church. Yet because of a combination of dilution and arrogance he does the exact opposite and continues to do so regardless of the consequences and results until the villains throw him under the bus.

He truly is not worthy of being the spear hero.

 

[onipuck]

Well, that spin-off isekai following the Spear hero as he travels back in time makes more sense now.

 

[captain_crunch]

 

[HDMI1]

I didn't expect him to have his behavior from the spinoff series tbh.

It's the other way around, the spin-off starts from a later chapter in the main story. They just decided to release the spin-off before the main manga got there.

 

[dsfargeg]

Yeah but malty is the villain. She’s supposed to do despicable things like that. It drives the plot forward. Hell the series wouldn’t be a third as good without her.

Meanwhile Motoyasu is supposed to be a hero, someone who helps people like naofumi and the general populace and opposes people like malty and the three heroes church. Yet because of a combination of dilution and arrogance he does the exact opposite and continues to do so regardless of the consequences and results until the villains throw him under the bus.

He truly is not worthy of being the spear hero.

A map that has a mountain doesn't have soil in it. You understand this, yes? A representation of something, such as the word "hero", is not that something.
In-universe, Motoyasu is a hero, as a person with high combat ability. He is the person of high combat ability of the spear.
Narratively, he is not a hero, because he is not the principal character of the story. He is a foil. He exists to show the heighten the contrast between Naofumi's character traits and the rest of the characters. This is why he was also betrayed by Malty and acted differently from Naofumi, this is a method of characterization called characterization through contrast.
Motoyasu is not supposed to be someone who helps people. Narratively speaking, he is supposed to fuck things up. Effective character writing is not making every character a flawless paragon of righteousness. Doing that creates a phenomenally boring and predictable story. He screws things up as a method of enhancing the storytelling.

 

[Lightbrand]

Filo is a cutie even as a giant bird.

 

[velatic]

birbfucker

 

[Hardik_7547]

Are we one season behind in manga?

Thanks for the translations.

 

[Elhao]

At least in this version they don't just continue to drink and party in a half-destroyed building that could collapse at any moment. (wtf anime?)

 

[TwisterJR]

Huuuh...? Why?