The official website and accounts for The Rising of the Shield Hero anime announced with a brand-new trailer and visual today that Season 4 will begin airing on Japanese television from July 9 at 21:00 JST . Crunchyroll previously confirmed that it will stream the new series. Chiai Fujikawa performs "Eien ni Ikkai no" ("Once in a Lifetime") for the ending song, which is previewed in the trailer below. The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 4 Trailer The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 4 Key Visual RELATED: The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 4 Anime Premieres in July 2025 Hitoshi Haga ( Made in Abyss assistant director) continues to direct The Rising of the Shield Hero for Season 4 at studio Kinema Citrus, with series composition by Keigo Koyanagi, character designs by Franziska van Wulfen, Sana Komatsu and Masahiro Suwa and music by Kevin Penkin ( Tower of God ). Aneko Yusagi and Seira Minami created the original light novels. Crunchyroll streams the first three seasons, and describes the overall series: Iwatani Naofumi, a run-of-the-mill otaku, finds a book in the library that summons him to another world. He is tasked with joining the sword, spear, and bow as one of the Four Cardinal Heroes and fighting the Waves of Catastrophe as the Shield Hero. Excited by the prospect of a grand adventure, Naofumi sets off with his party. However, merely a few days later, he is betrayed and loses all his money, dignity, and respect. Unable to trust anyone anymore, he employs a slave named Raphtalia and takes on the Waves and the world. But will he really find a way to overturn this desperate situation? Source: Press Release
