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Drutten
Mar 30, 2011
KonoSuba is like an RPG session where the heroes are supposed to go on a grand adventure and kill the Devil King, only everyone’s just goofing around and nobody really cares about the stupid main quest.

Grimgar, which is the most obvious comparison, is clearly the better show, but KonoSuba's way of using basically the same premise and filling it with alarmingly resourceful idiots is just hilarious. I've been cackling like a moron through the four episodes that have aired (as of this writing), and after each one I always end up looking forward to the next even more. So I think KonoSuba deserves a thread even if there are only three people watching the show.

What's it called? KonoSuba – God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!)
Where is it? Crunchyroll has it. Simulcasts on Wednesdays 7:35pm CET.
Who made it? Studio Deen.
How many episodes? 11.
Violence: No gore, just slapstick.
Fan service: Plenty of jiggly bits and naughty gags, as God intended.
Romance: None yet.


Kazuma

MC. Thief. Used to be a hopeless otaku, then he suffered a sudden and embarrassing death. In the afterlife he got to choose between going to heaven (which has no TV) or becoming an adventurer in a parallel world threatened by the Devil King. He chose the second option.

Notable achievements: In the third episode he learns the Steal skill, which he immediately puts to excellent use. He also put some points into Elemental Magic, so now he can fill a glass with water from halfway across the room, which is pretty much what he expected from something as lame as Elemental Magic.


Aqua

Arch Priest. Hasn't really healed anyone yet. Spends most of her skill points on useless party tricks.


Megumin

Crimson Demon Arch Wizard. Will spend all her skill points on Explosion Magic and NOTHING ELSE. On the one hand, her spells are like tactical nukes. On the other, she passes out for the rest of the day after casting one.


Darkness

Crusader. Tank and total masochist. Good hearted and very determined to take all the damage and abuse. Creeps Kazuma out on a daily basis.


Cabbage

The most dangerous encounter yet.


Dullahan

The Devil King’s general. Very annoyed with Megumin, who's been casting Explosion on his spooky castle every day to level up her skill.


Nothing groundbreaking, just solid fun, and that's about it!

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Drutten
Mar 30, 2011
A lot of things to love in the four episodes so far, but the standouts are the whole "kill five frogs" quest, how Kozuma's randomized Steal skill seems to be stuck on a perfect roll, and how, when they just got a really epic quest on their hands, Aqua just had to go and do something that wasn't a party trick and ruin everything by clearing it in five seconds.

Darkness creeping out Dullahan was also brilliant, as was the Explosion training montage. And in the next episode, it looks like the group will get their hands on a cursed sword!

Megumin is the best, though Darkness the Masochist Tank isn't far behind.

Tyberius
Oct 21, 2006

Finally a thread for this show, thanks!

I 2nd that this show has easily been the comedy of the season for me. By 4th episode I can't even pick a single favorite character, they're all great.

Alpha Kenny Juan
Apr 11, 2007

I am the third person watching this show. gently caress seriousness, lets play d&d and get drunk while playing.

Astro Ambulance
Dec 25, 2008

yeah its nice to have jsut a goofy show to watch sometimes

Kytrarewn
Jul 15, 2011

Solving mysteries in
Bb, F and D.

Tyberius posted:

Finally a thread for this show, thanks!

I 2nd that this show has easily been the comedy of the season for me. By 4th episode I can't even pick a single favorite character, they're all great.

I don't care about Aqua or Kazuma at all, but I find both Megumin and Darkness hilarious and ample reason to continue watching the show. Well, that's not entirely true. Kazuma's a pretty good tsukkomi I guess.

Hopefully, Aqua will eventually find a raison d'être .


Astro Ambulance posted:

yeah its nice to have jsut a goofy show to watch sometimes

Yeah. I'm much more fond of the "take amazing characters and throw them in a fishbowl, see what they do" shows like Kanojo ga Flag wo Orararetara, Noucome, Ore ga Twintails ni Narimasu, etc than they really deserve. And this is a pretty competent example of that general archetype.

Kytrarewn fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Feb 6, 2016

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

This show is pretty fun & funny but I feel like I'm going to get sick of Darkness' schtick soon :/

BurningDance
Apr 27, 2010
anybody who doesn't identify with megumin is a liar

madmac
Jun 22, 2010
I hope they continue giving Megumin a completely different long-rear end invocation for Explosion every episode.

Alpha Kenny Juan
Apr 11, 2007

Megumin best adventurer.

--

Also, I remember playing some game a long time ago that gave me access to all skills as long as I had the points for it. So, naturally, I decided to get the best spell first. I would grind for weeks until finally I had the best spell. Thought I would be unstoppable.

Then when I tried it I did above average damage at best because I did not have endgame stats. Also couldn't cast it many times to mp required. Made the game very hard on myself.

PirateDentist
Mar 28, 2006

Sailing The Seven Seas Searching For Scurvy

Thanks for the thread, hadn't come across this before. So far it's an excellent series. It hits the notes of a D&D party so well. "Welp I did my one spell, I'm out."

grrarg
Feb 14, 2011

Don't lose your head over it.
I am sad Grimgar gets so much more attention than this show. I suppose Grimgar is the "better" transported to a fantasy world show overall. KonoSuba is way more entertaining, and I find myself looking forward to it more than any other show currently airing.

Grimgar is like being forced to eat your vegetables. KonoSuba is a nice dessert every week.

darkgray
Dec 20, 2005

My best pose facing the morning sun!

grrarg posted:

I am sad Grimgar gets so much more attention than this show. I suppose Grimgar is the "better" transported to a fantasy world show overall. KonoSuba is way more entertaining, and I find myself looking forward to it more than any other show currently airing.

Grimgar is like being forced to eat your vegetables. KonoSuba is a nice dessert every week.

The KonoSuba novels are outselling the Grimgar novels by 3:1 since the anime season started, so you have many fine nakama, good sir.

Davincie
Jul 7, 2008


https://a.pomf.cat/rqrqfv.webm

AnacondaHL
Feb 15, 2009

I'm the lead trumpet player, playing loud and high is all I know how to do.

come on, where all the :frog: gifs at

Allarion
May 16, 2009

がんばルビ!

AnacondaHL posted:

come on, where all the :frog: gifs at

Tumblr only prioritizing butt gifs unfortunately.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

gero

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer

Allarion posted:

Tumblr only prioritizing butt gifs unfortunately.

SA must have fallen on hard times if we cannot make our own gifs.

Allarion
May 16, 2009

がんばルビ!

Mordaedil posted:

SA must have fallen on hard times if we cannot make our own gifs.

I check tumblr first before I try making my own GIFs, since I only acquired that skill last year. The better gif makers are watching other shows.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer

Allarion posted:

I check tumblr first before I try making my own GIFs, since I only acquired that skill last year. The better gif makers are watching other shows.

Not a criticism of your sourcing, just a sad note. I'm not one to talk though, I'm not even with it enough to know where the best uploaders are anymore.

Davincie
Jul 7, 2008

here's your homegrown frog porn

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

show is good and fun and silly

also the ED owns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4aH5Fg22s

:allears:

Drutten
Mar 30, 2011
The opening is pretty standard, but yeah, the ED is great. It's one of the few I sit through every time.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer
Will they actually ever leave the starting town?

Kaptain
Oct 5, 2014

Mordaedil posted:

Will they actually ever leave the starting town?

If by leave you mean "Stop using the town as Homebase" then no. Never.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer

Kaptain posted:

If by leave you mean "Stop using the town as Homebase" then no. Never.

Thanks, adjusting expectations thereafter.

AnacondaHL
Feb 15, 2009

I'm the lead trumpet player, playing loud and high is all I know how to do.



Reds
Jun 15, 2015

I sense someone talking about... GUNDAM!

grrarg posted:

I am sad Grimgar gets so much more attention than this show. I suppose Grimgar is the "better" transported to a fantasy world show overall. KonoSuba is way more entertaining, and I find myself looking forward to it more than any other show currently airing.

Grimgar is like being forced to eat your vegetables. KonoSuba is a nice dessert every week.

Well that's not very fair to either of them, one is very serious and the other is a comedy. Neither is "better" than the other because they have incompatible criteria.

Grimgar's my favourite this season but both managed to win my heart in the first two minutes, Grimgar with its botched goblin fight and Konosuba with making GBS threads on the standard reincarnation premise.

I was genuinely expecting a generic reincarnation story, so it was a great surprise. And Konosuba is much more popular than Grimgar, for better or worse.

Reds
Jun 15, 2015

I sense someone talking about... GUNDAM!

Mordaedil posted:

Not a criticism of your sourcing, just a sad note. I'm not one to talk though, I'm not even with it enough to know where the best uploaders are anymore.

We live in the future where it takes like ten seconds to make a webm for yourself, use this power wisely. Whoops that wasn't meant to be two posts oh well.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
I like it when there are wizards that have a little Lina Inverse in em.

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer

Reds posted:

We live in the future where it takes like ten seconds to make a webm for yourself, use this power wisely. Whoops that wasn't meant to be two posts oh well.
I guess I missed the bus on how to do this so easily as it takes me quite a bit of effort to re-render a video from a film-making program that can even read the files to convert to mp4s or gifs.

Shinjobi posted:

I like it when there are wizards that have a little Lina Inverse in em.
I noticed this as well, albeit I recall Lina Inverse often berating others for not being versatile enough, demonstrating her said versatility with a magic fishing hook using her own hair as line and using an inverse regeneration spell to make even small wounds hugely devastating to a group of trolls, rather than tossing fireballs left and right.

Then the show proceeds to throw fireballs left and right, so you know.

Reds
Jun 15, 2015

I sense someone talking about... GUNDAM!

Mordaedil posted:

I guess I missed the bus on how to do this so easily as it takes me quite a bit of effort to re-render a video from a film-making program that can even read the files to convert to mp4s or gifs.

I made this post on it, but the short version is that you should use this webm converter gui. Click and drag, select the part you want, then resize and choose to add subs/sound or not. Way more convenient than making gifs or messing around with a command line or some video editing program.

Like so.
https://jii.moe/4kdqrWV5g.webm

Reds fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Feb 10, 2016

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer
Thanks a bunch! Now I feel a little less old and outdated.

Reds
Jun 15, 2015

I sense someone talking about... GUNDAM!
Gifs always seemed like a hugely inconvenient pain to work with, I don't know how Tumblr does it with their absurd size restrictions. They can't post gifs that are too cyan or too magenta, for god's sake, how does that website even function. Assuming that absurd restriction is still there from when I heard about it years ago. Gifs are too clunky and aren't intended for clips of a show anyway.

Megumin seems to be easily the most popular girl, and I'm glad that she and Kazuma ended up being friends rather than their entire party merely tolerating each other.

Reds fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Feb 10, 2016

Alpha Kenny Juan
Apr 11, 2007

Thanks for sharing the webm effortpost! Was wondering how people were making webms so easily these days.

Reds posted:

Megumin seems to be easily the most popular girl, and I'm glad that she and Kazuma ended up being friends rather than their entire party merely tolerating each other.

Explosions bring everyone together and make everything better. :3:

Ka0
Sep 16, 2002

:siren: :siren: :siren:
AS A PROUD GAMERGATER THE ONLY THING I HATE MORE THAN WOMEN ARE GAYS AND TRANS PEOPLE
:siren: :siren: :siren:
Holy poo poo this show is funny.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Thread title made me look into this.


I want to walk the path of explosions with them. :)

Poil fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 10, 2016

Ka0
Sep 16, 2002

:siren: :siren: :siren:
AS A PROUD GAMERGATER THE ONLY THING I HATE MORE THAN WOMEN ARE GAYS AND TRANS PEOPLE
:siren: :siren: :siren:
I love how everyone except lazy dumb goddess is some form of incredible pervert. Is there a way to watch this completely? The subs I'm watching cut off at the end, maybe the raws are better?

Blhue
Apr 22, 2008

Fallen Rib

Ka0 posted:

I love how everyone except lazy dumb goddess is some form of incredible pervert. Is there a way to watch this completely? The subs I'm watching cut off at the end, maybe the raws are better?

http://www.crunchyroll.com/konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world ?

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Davincie
Jul 7, 2008

nothings cut off for me on crunchyroll, even the little thing after the ED is subbed

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