The 10-episode “KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!” from Natsume Akatsuki’s novel series of the same name animated by Studio Deen is the opposite of this season’s “Hai to Gensou no Grimgar” (or should I say GRIM GAR because it felt much deeper than Sword Art Online) because while Grimgar is more on drama, KonoSuba’s more on the comedy side of things.
“Michael Bay, please make it stop!”
The characters in the series are Kazuma Satou, Aqua, Lalatina Dustiness Ford (who is referred to as Darkness) and Megumin.
Kazuma is a NEET who died in a shock attack as he tries to save a girl from being hit by… a slow tractor. He died of a shock attack, and not by being hit by a… slow tractor. Sad life, bruh.
He woke up in a place that we don’t know where it was, and there he saw the goddess Aqua who gave him two options: Live in heaven and stay there or help them save a city from the Demon King. Kazuma’s a gamer, so he chose the latter. Aqua then granted him one person to join him in his journey, and so he picks… Aqua. Yes, she’s a goddess, but was that the best decision he ever did?
Of course not, as in that RPG world, he describes her as “useless.” Laughter ensues.
Then they met Megumin and Darkness. Megumin loves explosions so much we can safely say that this is Michael Bay’s estranged daughter in a parallel world. Michael Bay, please make it stop! No more!
Darkness is a knight who fails to accurately hit her enemies but has a high endurance rate and can take hits easily – in fact, she can take hits so easily that she will just simply enjoy being hit. Masochist.
For ten episodes, what I’ve enjoyed the most is the antics of the characters, especially the girls in Kazuma’s goofy harem of sorts… wait, I’ve actually enjoyed Megumin the most, as aside from being the estranged daughter of Michael Bay, she has a cute name and a physique to match it. (Heh.)
I’ve had a feeling that I’ve forgotten to take note of the production value of the show because it’s just so funny that I can easily shut off my brain and not bother with the details too much; but for once, I liked how they executed some of the punchlines (especially in the first episode where you can see Aqua wailing like it’s the end of her world and there comes the Pause screen).
Over-all, I am looking forward to the second season of the show. I was supposed to review this series the usual way (waiting for the series to really, really end), but noting that this might be the first and last review that I will do for this series, I had to stray away from my habit. If the second season will make me laugh more, then I can go and review the sequel as that. For now, let’s enjoy some explosions.
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