Sunday, March 8, 2020
BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense or Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu is a VRMMO Isekai which follows the story of Kaede Honjou.
She receives an invitation from her friend Risa Shiromine, and then begins playing the VRMMO game New World Online as the character Maple. Lacking knowledge of the game, she allocates all her status points to defense. As a result, her movements are slow, she cannot use magic, and even gets attacked by the rabbits. However, she obtains a skill called "Absolute Defense" due to maxing out her vitality points, and a counter skill that kills in a single hit. A "mobile fortress style" novice with a poisonous skill that makes all attacks invalid and overrides all obstacles, she goes off to adventures, disregarding her irregularities. In terms of similarity to the Rising of the Shield Hero anime it's VERY SIMILAR but in terms of story it's really different.
The Rising of The Shield Hero anime revolves around the character Naofumi Iwatani who is transported into an Isekai world in which he is now know as one of the four cardinal heroes, him being the "hero of the shield" little does he know it has a massive downside and the life of a hero he imagined wouldn't even come to a beginning.
They're both amazing animes, are they similar? Yes. But they're unique in their own ways, so is BOFURI a Shield Hero rip off? Probably but no one cares as long as the story is good since all Isekai's are almost always the same.
