Naofumi Iwatani

In The Rising of the Shield Hero universe, the war is over and Naofumi and Raphtalia must finally confront the feelings they've been avoiding.

When a heavy metal singer is accidentally summoned as a fifth hero into the Shield Hero's world, he discovers his music is devastating combat magic—and uses it to shatter a kingdom built on slavery and injustice.

Naofumi the Shield Hero and his partner Raphtalia harbor secret feelings for each other, both too afraid to confess while the weight of their master-slave past and the world's dangers threaten to keep them apart forever.

Summoned to a hostile world and cast out as filth alongside the Shield Hero, a devastatingly powerful and beautiful warrior bides her time in the shadows, waiting for the first wave to reveal the true, terrifying strength of her unusual weapon.

A skilled herbalist must choose between the wrongly accused Shield Hero she just saved and her family's safety in The Rising of the Shield Hero.