Keel's BIG SURPRISE - Shield Hero Spoilers
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In Shield Hero, Keel is a character who hasn't appeared much in season 2 of the anime, but who will have some very interesting plot developments later in the series. This video contains full spoilers about all aspects of Keel in the Rising of the Shield Hero, including a major reveal that will come as a surprise to many anime only viewers, as well as how Keel develops in terms of abilities, strength and character. It also includes some spoilers for other characters including Sadeena, Raphtalia, Ratotille, Holn, Mamoru, and of course Naofumi the shield hero himself. You have been warned! This video also discusses different interpretations of the character of Keel and what I think the author's intentions were when putting in the twist about this character. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
The scene when Keel's gender was revealed was really funny. Especially when Filo wound up explaining the significance of the sexes, demonstrating that, somehow, she just instinctively has a very thorough understanding of sex, how it works, and the depth of meaning to it. And the first thing Keel has to say to that is there's no way she could do that with "Bubba". Naturally, Naofumi's not exactly happy that she immediately decided he would be the hypothetical partner.
Thank God someone else remembers that
being a filolial and a candidate , filo matures faster than normal , she is fully grow already where the anime is, you can see there is little difference between filo and fitoria in most behavior stuff .
About doing with naofumi, was just she jumping the gun , because he si the village leader, so he would do stuff to everyone, specially after he prohibits romance .
A very “up to personal interpretation” for the character. I think she’s just an innocent child ignorant to the bodily functions. Of course I won’t say any more, but thanks for the shield videos. Definitely plan to read the series in the future.
You are exactly right. Her father was a fisherman, he didn't want the fact that she was a girl/woman be a hindrance for her becoming a strong fisherman when she grew up. Her father was just a bit awkward in his ways, and she's a young girl, so she misunderstood the things she said. That's how it's portrayed in the novel. She lost her parents in the first wave, gets captured and sold to slavery, tortured relentlessly. When she's finally freed, she finds Naofumi and Raphtalia and they become her role models, and while Raphtalia wants to be seen as all woman by Naofumi, combat training and war isn't exactly the most feminine things in the world. So even looking at the events from a real life perspective, it wouldn't be that far fetched to imagine her not knowing she's a boy. Her father wanted her to be strong so she could do well when she grew up, not out of malice or cause he wanted a boy, simply just to prepare her later. If she was never taught about the different sexes and such, and all the events of the attack on the village takes place before her hitting puberty, it's within the realm of possibility something like this could happen.
Anyway, always nice to hear someone planning on wanting to read the series. It's an amazing series, and anyone of loves the anime I'm pretty sure will love the novels. :-)
There is no "Up to personal interpretation" It was a gag and she's a girl. Not trans. Get over yourself.
The only part up to "personal interpretation" is how well/badly the author handled the retcon. Keel was introduced as a male character, but there was too much overlap with another character they were planning to introduce later, so Keel's a girl now.
Small correction: due to the conditions of the slave curse, naofimi NEED to restrict something, so none of his slaves can lie to him.
Keel being a girl was shocked me lmao and even now it suprises me
I think I guessed right before when Naofumi starts talking about how Keel (who he still thinks is a boy) is attractive, like a tomboyish girl lol
re: the slave contract buffs - anybody that's forgotten about those wasn't paying attention in S1, it blatantly shows up on screen and you can even pause it and make out some of the stuff on the slave master shield's window.
Sadly not many people bother to do this. Plus some will still just complain saying Slavery is wrong, no duh. People just have issues understanding Fantasy is not Reality.
It could also be used to order folks to get the hell out of dodge. Naofumi could order someone to run when they might do the dumb thing and try to tank things like naofumi. Plus free passive buffs to your party, and there stats and abilities are displayed at all times so team coordination would be improved, also slave tracking incase of kidnapping or something. Like theres honestly a ton of benefits when you think of it as the game mechanic that it is
The amount of time you have to read if you don't pause is maybe .75 seconds, and most English TL overlays absolutely suck when it comes to that sorta of thing, often mistiming the overlays of overlapping the wrong part of the screen and ruining clarity and readability.
@@nick1wasd that's fair
Even if the truth was slammed right into their faces, people still believe what they wanted to believe is true.
One thing about Keel's injury in the Spirit Tortoise arc being skipped is that it kind of fits into a broader trend of smoothing over the more "edge lord" aspects of the Shield Hero series.
For those who don't know from the LN, or manga, the Spirit Tortoise familiars can plant eggs which will hatch from the corpses of their victims, and sometimes the familiars manage to implant eggs in living victims, who, even if they survive the initial battle, will die if the eggs are given enough time to hatch, and this second scenario is what happened to Keel in the content cut from the anime. By cutting this story beat, the anime removed these "zombie apocalypse", and "Alien Chest-buster" elements of the LN from the anime.
I don't think Keel is trans, I think Keel's behavior makes sense if she was tomboyish.
Correct. To be more precise because she wasn't even aware of the matter. One can't apply our context to that of her world. It is like applying laws.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo That won't stop Twitter from trying
Yeah, I mean, I really just wanted to discuss the different ways it could be interpreted because, well, you know the internet, but I think Keel is more just, a kid that didn't know what was what. Her world also isn't one where she'd have different expectations on what kind of job or life she could have based on being a boy or a girl (her biggest role models are Raphtalia and Sadeena, who are both women and among the strongest fighters Keel has met, and they live in a country with a matrilineal monarchy, so it's not like the difference between being a girl and a boy in a proper medieval setting).
@@chazzburke9073 naturally. Having an immune system doesn't prevent the pathogens from trying.
@ARM did you watch the video? Because it came with a spoiler warning for a reason.
I love how you spent like 5 minutes explaining demi human transformations in a video titled Keel's surprise then absolutely blindsided us with a gender reveal 🤣
Well, it was a surprise when she turned into a puppy in a loincloth too to be fair!
@@NatalieXHunter I'll be done with this show is Raphtalia turns into a Furry.
lol nah Raphtalia doesn't want to have a furry form - though it seems like Naofumi wouldn't mind if she did...
To me, her dialogue in the JP version made it clearer that she's a tomboy. As you often hear some feminine and masculine speech that ENGLISH doesn't convey very well or at all.
Just a quick addition to Naofumi’s slave pacts,
It was also mentioned at one point that if an average person had gained as many levels as fast as Naofumi and the group do, they would have died from it. That an average person literally cannot level as quickly as the heroes, due to the impact it has on them.
That is the bigger reason why Naofumi keeps the slave pacts going. It’s a far bigger risk to the group to stop and they suddenly hit that level death, than simply keeping the system as it is. Like Raphtalia explains early to the spear hero, Naofumi never abuses the pact anyways.
At worst, he used it to shock sense into his party members when shock takes their senses away momentarily. Even then, he released the order when trying so with Raphtalia and the mini Cerberus, changing it instead for her to get to her own safety.
It’s not out of cruelty, and since he has been trusting the group far more, I’ve yet to seen him use it since. He might start doing so a bit more now that Rishia and Keel are joining up, since they aren’t used to their combat flow, but otherwise, it’s a legitimate hack to avoid otherwise deadly consequences.
YES, FINALLY! Thank you very much!
I remember reading an interview of the author, and a question regarding the reveal of Keel's surprise, he mentioned he had originally planned for a female character to be introduced to take on that roll Keel has later on. He also didn't know exactly what to do with Keel, so he decided to merge the two characters into one, and have the surprise "I'm a girl?" be a fun a cute thing. Given how he loves to write things in ways where you as a reader have to interpate things your own way, it might very well be what you mentioned regarding being trans or growing up so fast you don't have a chance to get used to your body. Just like you have plenty of situations where Raphtalia is acting clearly out of jealousy, but Naofumi doesn't see that or misunderstands a situation completely. Or why daddy dragon doesn't wanna tell his daughter he's now alive again, because he sees what a strong and independent your woman she's become, one who has the balls to on plenty of occasions stand up to Naofumi. And by revealing himself to be alive at that point would risk her development, he decides to stay quiet.
The one thing I always loved about Keel though, something you didn't mention in the video (not that it's super important), is how she's as ruthless as Naofumi regarding trade and being a merchant. Always found that kinda funny, how she was almost as good as Naofumi in trading, and if memory serves, he even talks about her learning the trading skills way faster then he did in his inner monologue.
Her always being so cheerfull, being able to bringing the smiles to the faces of everyone, and that puppy form always helping with that. And the "Shield Bubba" or "Bubba", actually cute. I mean, it tells you something that it's the only character in the entire story that can get away with calling Naofumi something and him not getting pissy or annoyed. Sure, might not be the biggest fan at first, but I always got the sense that if she would have called him Naofumi out of the blue one day, he'd feel awkward. And I'm pretty sure, if anyone ells tried calling him bubba, their slave crest would activate. Okay, bit of an excarnation, but you get my point. In terms of combat, she's not much of a fight, she's more on the sidelines, and I would also call her a supporting cast character, but for a supporting cast character, she plays such an important roll. If she wasn't three the story would defiantly be missing something. It's hard to explain exactly what it is she brings to the story, for me at least, but she's an important part indeed.
Thanks again for a lovely video. Sorry for my long winded comments, I just have such a love for this series and it's clear you do to. Guess I just wanna share my passion when I have the chance, even if it is just in a CZcams comment section. :-)
Wow I love this series. Thank you for these videos.
love listening to your vids n.n great way to soak in some lovey lore an backstory
Glad you like them!
Keel is basically a tomboy.
I'm not shocked if she does turn into a bombshell once she's leveled up though.
Thanks!
Really looking forward to a video all about naoufumi's party members other than raphtalia and filo
"Before people get all Twitter about it." I laughed unreasonably hard at this.
For me personally, it's not Naofumi's highest priority on what gender his parties members are or not, his primary concern after all was raising them to be people who can fend off the Waves easily.
I just love your outfit, great video still!
Thank you so much!
That word i want to spoil it put a smile on my face 😊
As always excellent interpretation and conveying of an explanation. Thanks for all the extra insight you provide to us ☺️
Glad you enjoyed it!
You mean besides trying to worm in Trans bull shit? No, a Excellent Interpretation would have not included that. Seek Help
@@kyero8724 lol... Amazing people that troll. Must be a blessing to not understand the words that were provided. Hopefully you enjoy your weekend...lol
@@bozeknows "Amazing people that troll" ...... what? Basic Grammar for 100 please. What they don't teach proper sentence structure at Twitter Academy? You can recite all gender pronouns but not a sentence?
@@kyero8724 lol... Awe... Look at you go... Keep up the good work ... One day to you will have a life...
i remember i bump on this channel from jobless reincarnation videos (that i still havnt started watching), now yt recommended shield hero
I'm excited for the Sadeena video, as the Whale Sisters are probably my second favorite side party members (Fohl being favorite non-"core" cast member of Naofumi/Raphtalia/Filo). Her obsession with Naofumi is both cringe, adorable, and hysterical and make some of my favorite and least favorite scenes in the entire series. You and AniNews are my Shield Hero LN sources and I AM HERE FOR IT!
I like the innocence angle, personally. Of course, I only recently started studying Japanese and have not even read ahead yet in English, therefore, I am not sure if I would feel differently if I knew how words were used. I just think that is a expressed trait of rapidly aged Demi humans. They are adult in some ways, but very much children in other ways. I say this as someone who was naive and a late bloomer. I was probably very childish in similar ways, even without any help from supernatural aging.
Great video by the way. I love all your content and always look forward to another video.
"It will grow!"
- Keel
5:30 Of course...
keel as a puppy would be great when someone try's to hug her only for her to be like.. yo please dont do that. i just have this idea in my mind of some random people being shocked that the puppy just talked to them
Keel just seems like a typical tomboy in anime. Anime tend to have characters male or female who they try to trick you on looks alone that they could be the opposite gender, and then you find out what gender they are, and they end up going by their real gender once you find out. I think I heard somewhere what Keel was suppose to be male, and a minor character, but because Keel was going to be similar to another character, they change Keel to female so Keel wouldn't conflict with the other character, but I could just read that wrong somewhere. Also when their Trans Anime seems to just let you know their trans and move on (Which I prefer over western media, since Western media they shove it in your face every chance they get, like if they don't keep telling you, you might forget they were trans)
I can't help but wonder if Keel gets cases of the zoomies in the village while she's in her puppy form.
Also remembered to subscribe this time because I love the info and depth to your videos! Also it's cool to see another Sadeena fan.
She kinda does - she runs around in circles and yaps when she's excited! And thank you!
@@NatalieXHunter Ah so that's what that was ha ha!
Motoyasu saw through Keel's silly ignorance. After reading Reprise of the Spear Hero, Motoyasu's insanity makes him best boy. Keel in this arc can only be understood by Motoyasu while in her therianthrope form. 😆
Motoyasu can die in a ditch. He literally became the Spear Hero because he was a playboy who got stabbed when his multiple girlfriends found out about each other, and the first thing he does with his second chance at life, for MONTHS, immediately after having just been MURDERED, is simp so hard for Bitch that he becomes her main tool for oppression. And even after he finds out she was just using him, *he stays with her* because he will do literally anything for a shot of cleavage! At this point, I'm hoping he makes a play on Fitoria just so Big Birb has a legit reason to eat him.
Thank you be much
If I recall his slave contracts usually have one or two settings primarily that they cannot lie to him and I think that they cannot attack come or the 2 seconds that he picks but it's been awhile since I've read the earlier light novels
thank you for this video
Felix will be proud of Keel
This I guess shows how authors can change their mind on things about characters. This could mean that for example Sylphy could have been a boy instead or Fitts too. Also I guess part of the break other than working on reprise of the spear hero is also figuring out how to work on the most recent novels of shield hero too
Crepe tree of keerberus ? i totaly forgot in wn about that trauma .
I've fallen for one of Japan's traps (or in this case, reverse traps) again; dammit anime, how do you keep making me fall for this?
Now I'm off to slay a thunder powered my little pony reject, and a pickpocketing, poison spewing, camouflaging elder dragon from generations ultimate.
I hope you do a sort of a video introductions regarding Naofumi's future "slaves" like Fohl, Atla, Sadeena etc.
Yes, I will - some of them I might do all in one video though as some of them I don't think justify a whole video (like Wyndia, Rat, Imiya, who are all relevant but don't have a whole video's worth of storylines).
The Orca Sisters, S'yne and Atla. Lots of interesting characters still to be introduced.
I really love your videos. Have you ever watched Yona of The Dawn? I would really love your insight on the series. Maybe one day we'll get a season 2. It's one of my favorites.
I have - it was so good but it's one of those I feel weird recommending to people because it stopped at such an unsatisfying point and then season 2 has yet to be whispered of! I should really read the manga - thank you for reminding me about the series, been meaning to read it ever since I watched it a few years ago!
@@NatalieXHunter Of course! From what I’ve read of the manga it’s very good. Who knows maybe with Crunchyroll buying Funimation we might see some thing Regarding a season two. A girl can dream! Yona of the dawn and Kamisama Kiss Are two of my favorite animes that I really wish they would finish.
Natalie,
I recommend Earl and Fairy, it isn't talked about much, but it is such a great show, in my opinion.
Keel Is way too precious
You have a point. Since demi-human growing-up equates to leveling-up, the puberty life stage and all that comes with it doesn't really effect them.
Raphtalia had a serious attitude before levelling-up doesn't change in terms of personality later, which Keel is the opposite of. Plus, the info about Keel being a girl without know so isn't really a problem for me. I actually like tomboys, and even if they're trans that's still fine with me.
For some information: I don't the monster speci that they affaid is a Cerberus-type. I don't know if it's the authors and the translates faults, but since the monster in the flashback has 2-heads then it should be a orthrus-type monster, as cerberus-types has 3-heads.
Well, maybe in their world Cerberus has two heads, idk! But yeah, I called it a Cerberus because it was in the novels, though I'm not sure the novels specified how many heads it had, actually, so who knows at what point between author, translator and anime adaptation it became a mistake!
@@NatalieXHunter As someone who owns the JP imports, I hope I could eventually tell you once I'm fully fluent. I don't own English Light Novels or English Manga due to how bad the quality disparity is, and the ink is too light in American copies... If I ever had video editing software. I would make a HARD COMPARISON between the two and why to import vs. English release.
Okay, wow, you weren't kidding with that title.
As you were explaining all the different abilities of demihumans, I started wondering if it was just a clickbait kinda title, since these were things one could easily guess from watching the anime, but then you hit me with Keel being a girl I was like "okay, that title earns itself".
However, it was a few minutes after watching this that something you said about the Slave Crests and how they work clicked and suddenly makes something else make way more sense.
When I watched your video about whether the other heroes actually get better and you mentioned Whore being able to manipulate them all, I was kinda confused how she pulled it off and even had the confidence to try considering how piss weak she was at the end of season 1.
Her Slave Crests.
If the Slave Crest boasts one's states and allows them to level up faster, it would make sense Whore gained enough strength to feel confident enough to go about manipulating the other heroes as much as she does in the late arcs, but her double Slave Crest has allowed to get much stronger, faster.
Granted, she'd more than likely still lose in a one on one fight with Raphtalia, since Whore is the kind of person who would only train when she wants to, whereas Naofumi and co train pretty much daily, but it does explain why, after getting revealed in front of the kingdom and stripped of her title as Royalty, she could be confident enough to try something with such short-term larger benefits
Actually, the slave crest she has probably doesn't have that effect - it's a specific thing Naofumi has, where he unlocked slave and monster master skills in his shield (by his shield absorbing some of Raphtalia's hair, some of the ink used for slave contracts, and some of Filo's shell, IIRC). So, it applies to people who are Naofumi's slaves, not to slaves in general. Bitch didn't have a slave contract with Naofumi, only with the queen and Motoyasu. Bitch managed to get hers pretty much disabled so was acting freely.
@@NatalieXHunter oh.
Then I've no idea where Whore gets her confidence to do what she does to the heroes.
Like, that kind of confidence borders on in denial and utter stupidity
Keel is keel in my opinion great character and overall very loveable
I really wanted to see more of Keel in Season 2.
In the end of the WN, Keel's entire bloodline becomes the guardians of the "sacret" crépe-tree, which Naofumi created during his mad scientist-phase.
Keel is generally a huge sweet-tooth that would even eat her beloved crepes off the floor.
LOL, not sure that will happen in the LN (though it could, as they do have the bioplants even without the mad scientist arc - think they just switched a lot of the stuff they got through that arc to Rat and Holn's involvement), but it would be super cute! She does still love crepes and eat them off the floor (which was supposed to be a punishment but she didn't think so) in the LN lol!
So the mad scientist-phase is exclusive to the Web Novel?
YAY THATS MY BEST BOI (he’s sooooo cute like whyyyy)
Well I guess she kinda forgot to put her lol 😂 still not sure what gender they’ll stick with tho
Yes. Sadina video please
NEW VIDEO :D
Ok the Keel reveal was fucking funny as shit ngl
so keel is basically everyone childhood friend from komi san can't communicate (referring to that character visual trait)
Najimi! Najimi cracks me up, ngl.
IT'S A REVERSE TRAP!
all sorts of cute monsters ... and Filo... (Ha!)
im sure someone already made the "its a trap" joke so ill leave it at that, so i was going to ask this in the last video but totally forgot about it, the web novel is finished right? there are a lot of diferences? im asking because i was thinking on why you are not using the we novel info in this videos and limited yourself to the light novel, just curious, thanks for the video Natalie, grate work
Yeah, the web novel is totally different and the author has said to regard them as different canons, so I don't treat the WN as spoilers for the LNs/anime (Shield Hero is different from most other series that started as WNs in this respect).
@@NatalieXHunter oh wow, good to know that you cant go for the wn once you finish the translated ln volumes if you want to follow the same story, thanks for answering
From about volume 16 it's all LN exclusive stuff anyway, so yeah, you definitely can't switch over to the WN to finish it like MT. You can read the full web novel, but it is only going to give you the story from the web novel, which starts the same but ends up in all different places.
Have to say I was not expecting Keel to be a Girl. Also this is going to cause Harem Haters to go into overdrive. I think she is just a Tomboy type who didnt understand and was a way for the Author to explore what it would be like to suddenly Grow-up like this. Its just a fun and unique way to explore it. Thanks for the info Natalie. Just got my first Shield Hero LN thanks to your Vids helping me decide I want to read about what is left out of the Anime, keep up the great work.
This certainly explains why Motoiyatsu treats Keel like a girl in his spinoff manga.
He only noticed she was a girl, because she look like a pig from his POV. And WE all know why~
Haha yeah, I bet if someone read the Spear Hero spin off before getting to this part in the LNs they'd wonder for sure why Keel was a pig...
Well it feels like they are already entering Glass’s world. I would think that they would end it after the spirit tortoise fight but I guess not. Feels like they might adapt up to volume 9 for this season. I don’t mind too many of the changes since changes are bound to happen. Just sucks how some of the other cardinal heroes moments may have been cut. Although seems like there is some hate for this season although that is probably due to the result that Naofumi got justice after being betrayed. I am kind of understanding the world and game mechanics better and I do think that maybe rewatching both seasons together might help better appreciate and understand it. The low rating for the series are probably from some of the disgruntled source material readers too
Nice video and btw is the Author of Shield Hero a woman?
Their gender is unknown, they keep their identity a secret. The people who say it's definitely a woman are likely misinformed, by the fact the mangaka who does the manga adaptation is a woman. Personally I think they're a man due to a couple of small details, but I could definitely be wrong.
@@NatalieXHunter okay thank you and have a good day or good night
5:48 NatalieXHunter, well as someone who owns and read a bit of the original language of Rise of the shield hero... It was hinted at HEAVILY through she would constantly switch with speech patterns that wound hint at her even further being a girl. Mainly she would often phrase oni-chan ( brother ) more affectionately, and often would sneak in わ ( Wa )、の ( No ) in her speech would is often indictive of feminine speech. They're characters who do break that rule like Kizuna where she refers to herself as "Ore", but it was clear SOMETHING IS OFF. Another detail I find is sort of left out of translation... I don't own English copies, でも。。。 The odd use of 兄ちゃん ( It's written with Katakana in the Novel ) as a way to express affection. I find Kiel's tomboyishness endearing, when she was eating the crepe for being a lil' shit during the brainwashing arc was hilarious as it wasn't supposed to be good, but she didn't give a crap! Hell Naofumi originally thought she was going grow into a "美少年” AKA (Beautiful Young Boy ) or can be translated Feminine young boy. I don't really buy English Light Novels due to being dramatically worse service, quality, and well... Heavy distrust of localization companies like Seven Seas and Yen Press who HAVE CENSORED SERIES BEFORE, and hell found their censorship in a Manga before.
Main thing I'm wondering about Keel is if she'll level up in the future and get older looking like Raphtalia.
I think that’s how Keel’s gender was revealed in novels 😅
@@Norinia yeah along with the fact they go for a swim
No Keel becomes a Puppy
Sadeena top tier waifu
All hail the algorithm.
Woah I had no idea she was a girl I usably pick up on those things.
What if for the English dub they have sadeena/natia (the killer whale demihuman) get voiced by shylily, since her v-tuber model is also based off a killer whale
I just got t(e novels lol im the wird type that doesnt feel spoiled by spoilers i get hyped spoilers act like hype material for me makes me want see the full detila 9f how it plays out
Funny how few days ago a friend of mine who is anime only said to me how this anime feels very harem like as naufumi get only female on his team and many female characters outside the party seems to fall for him . Well at that time I thought about keel and I partially denied that as i presumed she was a male, well after this video I feel he might have been right.
Your volume was a bit loud in this video compared to normal I believe. Possibly I am remembering wrong because its only slight.
Not sure if you did something different.
I used the same settings as ever, but there can always be some natural variance between videos depending if I was sitting closer to the mic or speaking a bit louder. People's voices vary even throughout the day.
@@NatalieXHunter I always try to bring that stuff up in case equipment issues exist since the sooner its noted the easier it is to fix in my mind.
Its overcautious yes. But I do think better safe than sorry.
But by end the audio (more than just voice the back ground music also) returned to normal so it could of been just my ears.
So That’s why in „reprise of the Spears hero” Motoyasu is dressing Keel as a girl. I was curious what was is about…
I don't think Keel is trans at all, she was just very ignorant at the start and got into a misunderstanding, but since she doesn't know how to "behave" like a woman she prefers to stay in beast form. Then again it's not like that will stop twitter since they don't use logic and facts, i can already see the headlines "Shield hero enslaves innocent trans kid" "anime promotes transphobia", etc, etc.
Very good video, i was wondering what happened to Keel after the anime events since she kinda disapeared.
Do you intend to make a video for every (relevant) character of the show? there is some characters i would like to learn more about their future, Like Melty or some of the people in glass' world
I'll do a lot of them, but some I may do all in one (like I'm thinking of doing a video with just, all the waifus, because some characters like Ratotille, Imiya and Wyndia are relevant enough to talk about but I don't think really justify a whole video. I'll probably also do some in groups, like L'Arc and Therese for instance).
@@NatalieXHunter I see, well, ok, i will be looking foward to those, thanks
(At 4:35) That's not her. That's her little sister. The one you're thinking of wielded a staff, not katana.
She's in the picture too, at the front. But it was the best picture of what the killer whale therianthropes looked like.
@@NatalieXHunter Oh, you're talking about the one on the bottom panel, aren't you? Looks like _I_ need to pay more attention on the details.
That's Rat's real name? I thought it was Ratatouille. Guess I am like Shield Bro
LOL yeah it's hard not to misread it, but it's Ratotille.
In the Web Novel the author actually explains why she chose for Keel to be a girl. Simply because there just wasn't anything special about Keel in the grand scheme of things and the author thought she was boring. So she made her a girl to introduce a new character arc in a way that doesn't break the canon of the story. Although the LN doesn't follow the WN, the reasoning behind the change wouldn't differ.
So no Keel was never originally intended to be a girl. Although that doesn't disprove the fact that she's not supposed to be a "trans" character. But it really doesn't fit the arcs or reasoning behind the change in the story so it's a bit of a stretch to make that connection.
Yukimura from haganai didn't realize she was a girl either.
"Keel's big surprise" sounds like the perfect Shield Hero Doujin title, I'd be surprised if it didn't already exist.
Haha well, I wasn't thinking of it that way when I titled the video but yeah, I expect that does exist!
can you pleasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssse finish jobless oblige ?
Darn, I'd thought Keel would make a reasonable counterpart to Raphtalia and an alternate to her affections, since they are effectively the same age, which I see as the major issue with Raphtalia/Naofumi
From what I’ve read sadeena follows the path of badassery
Get this dog a crepe tree
For the algorithm!
Thanks to WN end game events I permanently think of Keel a specific way. I doubt will be relevant in the LN thanks to various changes. If this ends up as a spoiler in future vol then sorry.
She is the Guardian of the Creepes tree that doubles as guardian of Naofumis village way down the road. As she is the last of this generations residence to die of old age while living in the village and she became completely obsessed with the Creepe tree that Insane Naofumi made on a whim to help feed the villages residences. It ended big enough you could call it Yggdrasil if it was in another story.
LOL the weird food trees do exist in the LN, so it may happen.
@@NatalieXHunter I hope so. I admit that theWN ending was handled weird; like They wanted to just cut the story off... no explanation of things after final conflict at all kind of cut off. Because a series of special chapters were used instead. In those extra we learn of events... 500 years later? A number of years required so Filo was then Fitorias age when we first met her. With the time travel arc you would know better than me since I have not reached there in the LN yet. From Filo we learn of what happened to Melmarc and Naofumiland (one of these days I will remember his areas correct name) and other people and places that Filo could know of.
Thanks to events Naofumi and Raphtalia become Omnipresent, and able to craft avatars like you would make your DnD character by controlling amount of memory and capable life span but would remain connected to all of them so those avatars memories and experiences could be their own... and since they could go anywhere in the multiverse to set this up in a universe (here a Naofumi and There a Naofumi) its my theory that WN cannon is the literal root of the other cannons.
That level of open end is as appreciated by me as cursed out at. Define spoiler when a separate source may in fact be the same source because the moment in the story where it would come to light is only for the most part the end of the other cannon sources. If intended that is a brilliant Evil Scientist play by the Author.
As I recall, the LN kind of spoiled us to this much earlier. If I remember right, the count who took care of Keel for a while shortly after her rescue had to stifle a chuckle while saying he'd take care of Keel-"kun" (-kun is an honorific typically used for boys, as opposed to -chan which is more commonly used for girls).
I didn't notice that - I started to suspect it when Naofumi was describing Keel as being attractive in the same way as a boyish girl though...
I do remember reading that the author did initially write and intend for Keel to be male, however a female character he was writing down the line turned out really similar to keel so he just combined the characters
When they time travelled did their levels reset ?
No, that only happens when they go to different worlds they don't yet have a level in.
Do you have a video that covers the costume girl being totally useless?
lol, no, I only have an anime only video about her. But she'll have a rare useful moment in the next episode.
Does Fitoria get to see her shield hero again? 🥲
I don't think she would be trans cause she was confused/told wrong about her sexuality
Ayyy
I believe that the author said in an interview that they retconned Keels sex because of overlap with another male character. at least according to the wiki.
Yeah, I saw that too but I can't think which male character it was (also idk if Keel was a girl in the WN, so it may be that the author did that back in the WN and due to changes to the canon for the LN it no longer applies anyway that there is a male character similar to Keel).
Thinking about it, it's probably Ruftmila. They're not entirely similar in personality but they're both quite innocent and childlike and have Raphtalia as a kind of big sis figure, and they're both demihumans.
If memory serves wasn't Keel not able to grow physically with her levels due to being a different type of demihuman from a different world?
No, it's more that Raphtalia grows faster than the others because she's from a particular race. Keel grows normally for demihumans, but Raphtalia got older looking and faster because of her race.
Wait, so the Author of Shield Hero IS ACTUALLY WRITING Reprise of Spear Hero?
I thought Reprise was a fan work because of how Japan's laws are with derivative works.
When i was reading the manga i was like FINALLY the common isekai trope of the main mc getting a party with only women its over
Can you make videos about clasaroom of the elite?
The anime's new season is about be released and you could cover like cut contents or just cover light novel.
Trust me You'll get good views!
I haven't read it yet and I still need to finish Overlord ready for next season, but if I have a chance to read COTE before the new season I may consider it. I normally only cover stuff I've read rather than stuff I'm anime only on.
An important rule for young characters in anime and manga for me at least is the eyes. Boys usually have more of an angler/sharper eye shape with smaller irises. Compared to girls who usually have a rounder eye shape and larger irises.
Yeah, that is usually a thing with how people draw male and female characters differently in a manga style. Didn't really help when people were just reading the novels though!
@@NatalieXHunter True, oh so true, especially in older animes where the eyes were the biggest most detailed thing on the face beside the over the top hair they had.
I forgot all about her.
You forgot the puppy? Awwwww
Tom-Boy, in the best way ✌️🥰
At this point, Naofumi should just call that Party+ contract
Well, there are different skills that apply to party members and stuff like that that he doesn't have yet - because the people who get the benefits from his slave master skill have to have an actual slave crest, it makes sense that he still calls it what it is. He *could* after all lie to them and use the slave crest to actually treat them as slaves, after all (though he doesn't), so it makes sense that he tells them what they're getting into. Plus, I mean, a lot of the people in the village he does actually have to buy, because they're already being sold as slaves.
@@NatalieXHunter Ohhh- Makes sense!
For someone who's oblivious towards women, due to how the first woman he trusted screwed him over, he seems to have a lot more in his party than the Spear Hero did.
Me 😱
To be perfectly honest when the whole keel gender reveal thing happened my initial response was to mutter out loud " what the f***." then immediately think to myself oh sure just genderbend one of the few male characters in the Shield Hero's party. Like Natalie said she basically became comic relief after that point anyway so it didn't really matter but still when I was reading it the whole situation just kind of felt weird and pointless.
Now Natalie does have a good point here, that I didn't really think about at the time. The fact that Keel was suffering from a type of early age gender dysphoria. A condition that was Amplified by the rapid aging that Demi humans in the Shield Heroes world go through (a part of the World building but doesn't make absolutely any f****** sense, if you think about it and has a lot of implications that goes completely ignored, at least from what I've read.) a condition Which by the way is far more common than you might think. The data can vary wildly depending on how you crunch the numbers but somewhere around 40 to 60% of kids (in our world) will suffer from some type of gender dysphoria before they reach adulthood. So I'm not going to call keel's "Ark" unrealistic or anything like that, and you could probably convince me that it helps highlight some of the struggles that Demi humans in that world might go through. but if I'm being honest keel kind of become something of a nothing character, at least in my opinion.
Though Full disclaimer I'm not a big fan of the shield hero light novels, I like the anime and I haven't got around to reading the manga. But when I was reading the light novels shortly after watching the first season of the anime, I found myself not liking the light novels all that much. I have many reasons for that I don't want to get into here, but I just wanted to say this for the sake of transparity.That's some of my bias against the light novels might slip into this little opinion piece.
Can nafomi have 1 male teammate
I love spoilers :-) Works for me anytime 😀
Surprise waifu. Simple as that.
Is a waifu REALLY a surprise in this series though, lol! I'm going to make a video listing all the waifus we haven't seen yet I reckon...
@@NatalieXHunter well. In this case, yes. Because we all thought she was a boy. Not even she noticed until magical puberty arrived... Which, combined with Raphtalia's assumption of kisses leading to pregnancy makes me have some serious questions about how education worked in that specific village.
Yeah, I guess it can be explained as their parents never expected them to ever have to go and level up fast at a young age, so thought they'd just get to grow up normally and learn that stuff with time. It's kind of funny though.