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I didn't get through the first episode before turning it off in disgust.

Wow, that’s a heck of a reaction. It clearly doesn’t have the same animation and budget behind it, that’s obvious. So it capitalised on a great first season by releasing something a bit more... standard shounen, doesn’t make it dogshit, just less world-shattering.

That being said I’m now gonna bitch hypocritically about Rising of the Shield Hero. Isekai seem to come in two discrete categories. 1. The protagonist is the best, and they are given insane power from the beginning with or 2. The protagonist is just as strong as or less strong than others in the world, and have to use their wits, or game the system in order to get ahead.
I really, really like the second one, a la Log Horizon. I am very slow to enjoy the former, a la sword art online, but I can get into them happily.
I find really, really distasteful when they pretend to be one and then switch to another. Shield Hero started with levels of adversity depressing enough to chase off all of the fairycatchers, but now it’s gotten so bright that the mushroom farmers like me are finding it difficult to persist. Suddenly he’s amazing at everything, and the convoluted manual smithing he’s been doing from the beginning has turned out to be the best way to do things and blah blah.
It’s getting to me.

I’ve heard that the latest season has some of the most contrived shounen in it, so I haven’t checked too much out. Any recommendations would be awesome

I think Eldar who die on a craftworld get absorbed into circuit, no stone required.
Couldn't be sure though.

Yeah, freezing dudes in place would have been much more useful back when they had the autocannon.

Also I thought it was just a cracked lens on first pass but I think that sergeant might have had blood shoot from his eye which can't have felt great.

My favourite dystopian novel is about a girl who is the chosen one, who's very plain but gorgeous, has two hot white dudes in love with her, but one is six inches tall and the other is a god, and is so clumsy, but incredibly sensible, and a mean swing with a frying pan. Also she's a witch.

Doesn't make it any less awesome. It's pratchett

Natural causes?

Is it really so grimdark for the average pleb that they cant have homemade moonshine or purchase champagne?

Three guardsmen sitting in a trench and a daemonette calls over the wall 'Hey boys, I got what you want, and I got it right here right now, all you need.'
One looks at the other two and says 'You know what the commissar said. No matter how hungry you get, no eating daemons'

Random gripe, but i’ve had the “one character gets wounded, two characters have a deeper relationship” pop up twice for Zhang fe. First time he gets maimed, now he gets lame. He has literally never been hurt in combat but his stats are degrading through sheer relentless popups.