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The Rising of the Shield Hero, Volume 1

By: Aneko Yusagi
Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa
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Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Naofumi is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed. With no one to turn to, and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield. Now, Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world!

©2015 One Peace Books (P)2021 One Peace Books Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction
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Amazing world-building
Narrator lacked emotion, read the story, no more girl voices or sound-effects, disappointing

Great, but let down

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overall good (but maybe get a soundboard for sound effects), good plot, good characters, nice pace

overall good but....

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love the series, love the book, hate the narration. Female voices are terribly narrated. If this book had a male and female narrator it would be 5 star.

Great story with terrible narration

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Story 10/10 but please just do better female voice it’s so bad I considered not finishing the book but the story is really good

Please just get a female narrator or do a better female voice

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the narrator made this impossible to listen to, very highly recommend that the person narrating gets either a women voice actor to help or to use a voice editor because I honestly had to stop whenever a female character was being narrated.

Terrible narration

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I love the story. The women's voices are horrible. I'd much have preferred if they weren't voiced in different voices at all. I was very tempted to return this.

Women's voices

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