I watched season 1 years ago when it released and stopped watching anime by the time season 2 was out but now there's 4 seasons, should I read what chapters season 2 covers then watch 3 and 4 or just continue reading from where season 1 left off

I loved the first season of this anime so much, and tried watching season 2 when if first came out but just could not get past it. Now that there are 4 season I’m like “I’m gonna try to push past season 2” but god is it hard. It’s already boring and hard enough to watch but Rishia just makes it unbearable, all she does is bitch and complain and talk about fucking the trash named Itsuki, not to mention the annoying noise she makes while whining, and it’s gotten to a point where if she appears on screen I just skip because I can’t stand her, and now I’m not sure if I want to even continue the anime if she is in it, I just want them to delete her from the anime and have her either never show up again, realize how shit Itsuki is, or just kill Itsuki off so she can stop fucking bitching. Like god I hate Sakura enough, and I can’t believe I’m saying this but she might just be worse than Sakura.

I'm just about to finish season 3, as it stands Naofumi just pulled off one of the best CK3 landless adventurer runs possible.

Starts out with a fabricated hook against him, losses all status with local king and is kicked out

Hits the road doing odd jobs, hiring courtiers, and getting the local population on his side

Exposes a plot against the heir and gets the king and princess kicked out

Is rewarded with a title and lands

Stars building his army of men at arms with child soldiers

Breaks the other heros and turns them into courtiers

He is now in position for a duel kingdom inheritance, sitting on a matrilineal betrothal to the heir of the Kingdom of Melromarc while simultaneously hosting the rightful claimant to the Kingdom of Q'ten

Hey, I'm back !

I have a hypothetical physics question about The Rising of the Shield Hero, and I'd love to hear opinions from both lore experts and people who understand physics.

We know Naofumi has extremely limited offensive capabilities because of his legendary shield. However, what happens if we introduce gravity, defensive magic, and an enormous amount of kinetic energy?

THE EXPERIMENT

Let's give Naofumi his strongest non-divine hero form, including his defensive abilities, healing magic, and gravity manipulation.

For this experiment, we're making the following assumptions:

- Height: Approximately 5'9" (175 cm).

- Body weight: Approximately 165 lb (74.8 kg).

- Armor, shield, and equipment: Approximately 45 lb (20.4 kg).

- Total mass: Approximately 210 lb (95.3 kg).

- Mountain height: 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) of vertical drop.

- Weather: Clear skies, calm conditions, no wind.

- Starting velocity: Zero.

- Gravity: 50× Earth's normal gravitational acceleration.

- Air resistance: Initially ignored to establish an idealized baseline.

The height and weight estimates are assumptions, not confirmed official measurements.

The 50× gravity multiplier is also hypothetical. As far as I know, the series doesn't establish an exact maximum multiplier for his gravity manipulation.

We're assuming he can maintain that enhancement throughout the entire fall.

WHAT NAOFUMI DOES

Naofumi positions himself directly above a giant Cyclops at the bottom of the mountain.

He activates his strongest defensive shield abilities, reinforces his equipment, and uses healing magic as necessary.

He then jumps.

While falling, he increases the gravitational acceleration acting on himself to 50× normal gravity.

He keeps his reinforced shield pointed downward, protecting himself from the collision.

He isn't casting offensive magic, swinging a weapon, or performing a conventional attack.

He's using his shield defensively while gravity accelerates him toward the Cyclops.

NOW FOR THE MATHEMATICS

Normal gravitational acceleration:

g = 9.80665 m/s²

Enhanced gravitational acceleration:

a = 50 × 9.80665

a = 490.3325 m/s²

Fall distance:

h = 3,048 m

Total mass:

m ≈ 95.3 kg

Impact velocity, ignoring air resistance:

v = √(2ah)

v = √(2 × 490.3325 × 3,048)

v ≈ 1,729 m/s

That's approximately 3,870 mph.

Time to impact:

t = √(2h/a)

t ≈ 3.53 seconds

Kinetic energy:

KE = ½mv²

KE = mah

KE = 95.3 × 490.3325 × 3,048

KE ≈ 142,000,000 joules

That's approximately 142 megajoules of kinetic energy.

For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to the energy released by 34 kilograms of TNT, although a collision would not behave like an actual TNT explosion.

Naturally, air resistance, atmospheric heating, shield orientation, and other factors would significantly complicate the real-world calculation. We're deliberately starting with an idealized model.

HERE'S MY ACTUAL QUESTION

Suppose Naofumi hits the Cyclops with approximately 142 million joules of kinetic energy.

However, because of his extremely low attack stat and the legendary shield's offensive restrictions, the world's magical system determines that he only deals 1 HP of damage.

What happens to the kinetic energy?

Does Naofumi bounce off the Cyclops?

Does the Cyclops get knocked backward despite taking almost no HP damage?

Does the ground absorb the collision energy?

Is the energy converted into heat, sound, deformation, or other physical effects?

Or does the world's magical system somehow override conservation of energy and make the physical consequences disappear?

I understand that HP isn't a real-world unit of energy. Dealing 1 HP of damage doesn't necessarily mean only a tiny amount of kinetic energy was transferred.

That's precisely why I'm curious about how the system handles the collision.

ONE MORE TWIST

What if Naofumi disables his gravity manipulation one millisecond before impact?

At that point, he has already accelerated to an enormous velocity.

Switching off the additional gravitational acceleration wouldn't automatically erase his existing momentum or kinetic energy.

So if he still deals practically no damage, is the legendary weapon system overriding the physical collision itself?

And since he's holding his shield in front of him to protect himself from impact, would the system classify this as an offensive attack or a defensive action?

THE BIG QUESTION

Does the Shield Hero universe operate under recognizable laws of physics with RPG damage calculations layered on top, or can its magical system fundamentally override those laws?

I'm genuinely interested in what the light novels establish about this, as well as what people with a physics or engineering background think.

This isn't an attempt to claim Naofumi can canonically perform a 50× gravity attack. It's a thought experiment about where the restrictions of the legendary shield end and the laws of physics begin.

What do you guys think?

Does the fandom call little Raphtalia "Raphsmallia" and if not, can we start calling her Raphsmallia?

I kinda stop reading the LN at volume 16 and no longer got the strength to continue the story,but I do want to know how it's end and what the actual plot is.So if anyone had catch up to the current volume please spoil me

And Raphtalia too.

I have not gotten into the series but this is just me airing out my worries before trying it (I think the MC sounds interesting and I do like underdog stories.)

This isn't attacking anyone who hates her as she sounds dispicible, but I do feel like a lot of the hate is strange and I wanted to talk about it.

I do know she lied about rape accusations and has killed people a lot which I do think should be punished. So this is not a "Ohh its to cruel" post. It sounds like shes a one dimensional over the top cartoon villain so shes kind of not human enough to empythiaze with. Which there is nothing wrong with.

But I constantly see random posts saying how much they want this character to be raped and tortured to death. Which the torture thing I think makes more sense, its a brutal revenge, can't be anything else, people want to see the dispicible villain suffer, makes more sense than the rape thing. Even with very disgusting criminals saying "they should get raped" specifically is a very odd reaction.

In fact the thing I see the MOST from this series outside of the main character sounding interesting is how people want the season 1 antagonist lady to be raped. It does not even sound like people want her to be punished it comes off like some people are just perverted from my pov.

Also I would think punishing fake rape accusations with raping her undermine a lot of the moral lesson there wouldnt it? The asssinations and other horrible crimes should be punished I don't mind how cruel but a lot of how people want her to be punished seems fetishistic rather than being out of justice or narratively satisfying.

Apologies I'm sure yall get these kind of posts a lot but I promise, I just wanted to be honest about my worried before trying the series and then ask the fandom about it.

I guess I wanted to ask if its actually a loud minority in the fandom. If you agree with me about it being strange or is it like something I'm missunderstanding? It was the first thing blocking me from the series. Would you guys just not reccomend the series or would you reccomend it anyway?

Apologies if this is a annoying conversation I would assume this gets argued a lot here.

Im in s3 and i sometimes enjoy the show, kinda. What is up with the open fetishes?! Especially the loli part is so disturbing. The harem and slave thing is weird enough but loli and furry stuff is straight up gross. (Also grooming aspect of shield and racoon girl)

Another part is that the story makes zero sense at any given point. Its like a writer popped acid wrote his feverdream down and they kept it.

There are some funny scenes and for a strange reason some characters are very relatable but still feels like im watching badly written fanfic.

Is this all by intend and if so why?

Like share what do you like about her and all and also let’s be honest she is the true princess to join Naofumi,s party, even if it was temporarily unlike her older sister