Trivia / The Rising of the Shield Hero

• Creator Backlash: Faye Mata liked working on the English dub as the voice of Malty, but she admitted the character was her toughest role to this day, and expressed concern that people would forever see her as the character despite being nothing like her. She did however clarify that she enjoyed being able to play the character.
• Creator Couple: In the English dub, Katelyn Gault voiced Mirelia Q. Melromarc and her husband Kyle McCarley was the ADR writer.
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• Creator's Pest: Among the detractors of Malty/Myne is her own English voice actress, Faye Mata, who shares the fandom's hatred for the character.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Kiel, a female Demi-Human, is voiced by the male Emilio Rafael Treviño.
• Follow the Leader: Following the web novel's premiere, several other web novels such as Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest copied the starting premise: multiple characters in an isekai, with the protagonist being the weakest and betrayed as a result.
• The Other Darrin:
  • None of the actors from the 2017 drama CD reprised their roles for the anime, which was released three years later. For example, Naofumi, voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki in the drama CD, is now voiced by Kaito Ishikawa.
  • Due to Billy Kametz's colon cancer diagnosis in early 2022, Stephen Fu voiced Naofumi for the second season's English dub. Due to Billy’s subsequent death, this recasting will be permanent.
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• Playing Against Type: Sarah Emi Bridcutt, who has often played heroic characters, plays Malty both in the anime and on stage.
• Relationship Voice Actor: A lot.
  • Naofumi, Raphtalia, Melty and Rifana are Sakuta, Mai, Nodoka and Kotomi.
  • Melty and Malty are Kaguya and Yuzuru although their relationship is quite the opposite.
  • Naofumi and Raphtalia are Minatsuki and Lily and Fau and Emilia and Kageyama and Michimiya.
  • Melty and Elhart are Nanaka and Shinji
  • Naofumi and Melty are Arthur and Irina and Havia and Lady Vanderbilt and they're far from being lovers
    • Ren and Elhart are Freed and Kokabiel
  • Malty and Raphtalia are Chika and Naoko
  • Naofumi, Melty and Filo are Takeo, Shino and Sherry
  • Raphtalia, Ren and Filo are Asagi, Kira and Nagisa
  • Ren, L'Arc and Therese are Inosuke, Yahaba and Shinobu. Replace Ren with Naofumi and you've got Topher, Beatrice, and Claude.
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  • Melty and Therese are Hatsuho and Claris.
  • in the Dub:
    • Naofumi , Raphtalia, Elhart (Imari Williams), Motoyasu, Ren (Alan Lee), Rishia and Malty are Josuke Higashikata, young Polnareff, Hol Horse, D'Arby the Younger, Terunosuke Miyamoto, Reimi Sugimoto, Jolyne Cujoh and Yukako Yamagishi.
    • Naofumi, Raphtalia, Malty, Fitoria, Therese, Rifana, Rishia and Filo are young Wilhelm, Puck, Priscilla, Elsa, Crusch, Theresia, Beatrice and Rem.
    • Naofumi, Raphtalia, Malty, Fitoria, Therese, Rishia and Filo are Kyouya, Megumin, Aqua, Darkness, Luna, Chris and Wiz.
    • Raphtalia, Fitoria, Rishia, Therese and Malty are Itsuki, Yuriko, Mary, Yumeko and Yumemi. add Rifana and you've got Nico Yazawa, Kotori Minami, Umi Sonoda, Hannayo Koizumi, Erena Todou and Rin Hoshizora. In the Sequel/Spin-Off, Glass is Yoshino a.k.a. The Fallen Angel, Yohane.
    • Raphtalia, Fitoria, Itsuki, Rishia and Therese are Aladdin, Morgiana, Alibaba, Kogokyu, and Dunya.
    • Naofumi, Raphtalia, Itsuki, Glass, Rishia, Therese, Motoyasu, Fitoria and Rifana are White Blood Cell, Reguatory T Cell, B Cell, NK Cell, Sempai Red Blood Cell, young Commander T Cell, U-1110, Staphylococcus aureus, and Platelets.
    • Naofumi, Raphtalia, Rifana, Fitoria, Rishia and Aultcray Melromarc are Naoto Kurogane, Orie, Vatista, Noel Vermillion and Nu-13, Heart Aino, and Iron Tager respectively.
    • Naofumi, Mirelia (Katelyn Gault) and Raphtalia are Anai, Fenneko, and Retsuko.
    • L'Arc and Glass are Arashi and Botan. Add Raphtalia and you've got Melissa, Naomasa, and Thirteen.
    • Naofumi and Raphtalia are Ferdinand and Bernadetta, respectively. Add Malty as Petra and you get three of the eight Black Eagles. Meanwhile with the other houses, Rifana is Marianne while L'Arc is Yuri. Meanwhile, Aultcray Melromarc is busy being Nemesis.
    • Portuguese example: Kennosuke and Yukina/Ryu Yamada and Urara Shiraishi as respectively Naofumi and Raphtalia (Renan Alonso and Raissa Bueno).
• What Could Have Been:
  • Word of God is that chapter 356 was originally the ending of the story. Large numbers of fan complaints changed that.
  • The English dub was supposed to premiere on Funimation the same day the anime was broadcasted in Japan, but it took over a month to be released due to unknown reasons. The English dub did premiere on Crunchyroll on the same day as in Japan until episode 16, when a week was skipped and episodes 17 and 18 were released at the same time with no explanation. Starting with episode 19 the dub was delayed two weeks also with no explanation.
• The Wiki Rule: Here.