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A newmanhwacalledSurviving The Game As A Barbarianis in no waycontroversial like the hit seriesRising of the Shield Hero , but it clearly hold wraith at the famous isekai by how it portrays buckler before diverging from what reader expected .
wax of the Shield Herois the distinctive type of Isekai series where the protagonist is either grant a skill or class that ’s perceived to be completely useless but in reality is n’t . In Naofumi ’s case , he is attribute an apparently useless weapon after arriving in the new world , and quickly becomes the target of a massive conspiracy as a result .
Upon learn how worthless shields are , Naofumi mourn his fate and soon tries to rid himself of his weapon system once his animation spirals out of control . The feeler is altogether different in theIsekai manhwaSurviving The Game As A Barbarianby Han Tae - Soo and Jung Yun - Kang .
Surviving the Game as a BarbarianMakes Many Subtle References toRising of the Shield Hero
After getting Isekai’d into an impossible game calledDungeon and Stone , the now - identify Bjorn Jandel the Barbarian remembers how the only elbow room a Barbarian like him can make it is to start out with a shell . Despite the fact that Bjorn really select a shield and know of its importance unlike Naofumi , the manhwa does n’t focus on the shield for many chapter , except when Bjorn uses it to kill goblin . However , these representative are fugitive . Ironically , thing get better for Bjorn a few chapter later once he fit a hammer , make the shield to decrease further into abstruseness .
Besides this double subversive activity , Surviving The Game As A Barbarianalso gives its own alone twist to the overallover - saturate Isekai genre . Those experience in the real - world adaptation ofDungeon and Stonehave their own view of Isekai’d heroes . They are regard as " possessed malign spirits " and are killed immediately . This understandably dish up as the first major form of conflict for Bjorn as he tries to act like he did n’t just come from another world , but luckily for him , Barbarians are n’t make love for being too bright , so he is capable to get away with asking questions and not evoke any red flags . This is a unequaled twist on the summoning image which was also used inRising of the Shield Hero , but in that case , the people who summon Naofumi frame and then render to murder him like an " evil spirit " , thus establishing another association between the two serial .
UnlikeSurviving The Game As A Barbarian ’s obvious jab at the relative importance of shields , some readers who are conversant withRising of the Shield Heromight also view Bjorn ’s benignity towards a targeted elf as a response to Naofumi ’s controversial relationship with Raftalia inRising of the Shield Hero . Manhwafans who are looking for an unusual Isekai story should definitively check outSurviving The Game As A Barbarian .
