The Rising of the Shield Hero.

            The Rising of the Shield Hero is a popular light novel written by Akeno Yusagi. The main character is Naofumi Iwatani, a twenty years old guy, who is invoked to another world in order to save it from something called "The Waves." He became one of the four heroes. The story is composed of 19 volumes in which Naofumi meet people and have to fight against a lot of enemies.

        The story began with Naofumi in his world where he did not know what to do with his life, but one day he went to a library and took a book. Suddenly, he was in front of a king with three other guys. Each one had a weapon. Naofumi had a shield, and the others had a spear, an arch, and a sword. They were summoned in order to save that world, but something was wrong with all these people which looked like if they hated The Shield Hero. Just one girl, who became the antagonist later, joins Naofumi's party. However, she betrayed him. She pretend to be a good girl, but she was not as lovely and honest as she looked.

 

       

        After all the things that happened, The Shield Hero was angry and he wanted revenge against all those who betrayed him. He did not trust in anyone, but he had to live in that world until it were safe. He got a partner, a demi-human slave who he bought to a slave seller. At the beginning, he did not trust her because she was a girl, and he remembered the one who betrayed him. However, later on she became someone on whom he could trust, and she became the female protagonist whose love for The Shield Hero was real. So, the story continued, he made friends and changed little by little in order to save the world, obtain revenge against his enemies, and to achieve his goal of returning to his world.

        To conclude, The Rising of the Shield Hero is my favorite light novel. A good story which have a lot of characters. However, the most important thing is that the story attract the atention of the reader because on the way in which is developed. Maybe because it is a Japanese gender is not as famous as other books around the world, but I can say that reading this novel was worthied.